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Moe, "hag dreams" are really scary. I had one once where a hag was just crawling around my bed, waiting to pounce. Other times I have actually felt the pounce when she hit the bed. But, I am very alert and quick to respond so have not had any real problems getting rid of them.

I was having a good dream, things were ok, and the next, I see a statue of St-Joseph staring at me. It kinda scared me, but didn't, one minute, the room was well lite, the next, it was dimed, like a spirit of a dark shadow passed by and stayed. You know what I mean, positive homes, clear and bright, but negative homes, feels heavy and dim( that's the best way I can explain it). In this dream it felt heavy and dim. Anyway, the statue of St-Joseph was staring at me, has a beautiful smile on his face, and as soon as this shadow goes by, and the room dimed down a bit, I look at the statue, and it had an evil look, with this menacing grin. I guess it scared me, that I woke up. I really didn't like that look on St-Joseph, and being a religious statue, I couldn't beleive I would dream such a thing.
I tried to figure what this dream meant, but because of the religious statue of St-Joseph, I really didn't want to think about it.

Okay, this thread sparked my interest that I just had to sign up. Before I get to the dreams part I�ll fill in a few gaps. I�m a 29 year old female living in Indiana, USA. I can remember having paranormal experiences and what I refer to as �prediction� dreams as young as 8. Early teens a Ouija contact said I�d be a medium when I got older. Early 20�s I have rare occasions where I experience in 3�s that catch my attention to warn of a future incident (i.e. 3 fire trucks, 3 days in a row on way to work 3rd sighting had a fire at work, I knew when I saw the first one that I needed to be paying special attention). I�ve started doin some internet reading recently trying to find guidance on controlling/improving what I know I can do & some other �paranormal� stuff.
Now to the dreams. I�ve never really read up on this kind of subject so I was surprised when I saw this question
�When you say you are lucid, do you have any control over the dreams or are you just aware that you are dreaming?�
Aisling Dream Girl #382466 - 02/27/08 03:50 PM

As far as I can remember I�ve always had power over the choices I make in dreams and maybe 50 percent or better I know I�m dreaming, I�ve even had ones where people around me were in danger and I told them not to worry that I was having a dream and that I�ll be waking up soon at which point I proceed to stop what�s causing the danger to the others. I dream in color, I can remember smells, tastes and textures, I�ve even felt the moment of decapitation at exactly my eyebrow line in a car accident in one dream (I woke up as soon as I felt the top of my head depart and in awake state my whole head from eyebrow line up felt like your foot does when it falls asleep all tingly n stuff). I�ve been visited by Jesus in one dream and several times by my mother and grandma where at the end of family ones I always get to the reality part where we hug and cry and tell each other how much we miss each other. I�m lost on weather I�m an abnormal dreamer, do some people just sit back and watch their dream and have no part in choices or changing it, no use of 5 senses?

My second thing I had to comment on was to this part of an entry:

I can definitely say I've dreamt about my shadow (last night's dream included). One time I dreamt I was trying to open a locked door. Then I realized that something on the other side was too scary, and it was trying to get out. So I went from trying to open the door to trying to keep it closed. Then Dana Scully (from the x-files) showed up to help me. How clear could that be... a paranormal investigator coming to my rescue LOL!!!
Bella_Deanna #382729 - 02/27/08 11:21 PM

I�ve had one similar enough to that I had to read yours twice. It�s a dream that happens quite often. The tone is always the same but the location usually changes. It�s always indoors, there are generally people there who belong to that location but I approach a door to a room then check to make sure they�re not watching me at which point I mentally move the door open (can�t remember the term for it). I usually do it a few times for fun but when I go to another door of an emotionally �dark� room I try to open it with my mind but I�m battling something on the other side pushing it. I usually end up getting it open and going in where I can feel the thing wants to get back at me for intruding. I have something I have to get done in there though so I try to make it quick and usually make several trips (thinking if I don�t stay long it won�t get too mad). Each time out I end up forcefully having to pull the door closed again and by the time I�ve finished my task in that room I�ve successfully ticked off what was in there and it comes out of the room where I have to keep sending it back (again with mental powers). There were a coupla times in this dream on different nights that I was caught moving the door without touching it at which point I had to explain the whole I was dreaming thing and oh yeah there�s a ticked off ghost in that room that wants out cause I moved stuff around so I�m just holdin the door closed.

I have had all sorts of these dreams. I have seen past pets. Had momentary deja vue dreams, where I dream a snippet of something and it occurs up to 6 months later.

I have definitely had quite a few Hag dreams, one that sticks out tho is where I felt that the presence was definitely MALE. All I could see was a 4-5' shadow standing near the bed, while I lay there paralyzed and unable to speak. I think I even broke a sweat mentally telling myself to wake up and that it was just sleep paralysis.

A few times at my then boyfriends, now husbands, apartment I had the sensation of someone touching me or getting onto the bed. These were usually early morning and I had my back to the door, facing Donovan, so it wasn't him who sharply poked me in my shoulder blade or who came in and put a knee on the bed like they were leaning over us. Later that day I even asked D if someone had come in to talk to him or something. (I had rationalized the last one as one of his roommates in my foggy state) He looked at me funny with his cocked eyebrow and said no. Then I had to explain myself and asked if anyone else had had such an experience.

It had to of been that house because I never had an issue in his Apt in VA or our apt in SC and definitely not here in our house.

In the waking hours I experience what some people call the 'shadowmen' where you think you just saw someone out of the corner of your eye.

Often times at my parents house I would see my rabbit duck in under a piece of furniture (he passed in 01 at 7) In grade school I used to feel my cat nose bonk my ankle like she would in life, and it was still cold and wet.

I just wanted to thank Aisling Ireland for her ghost article. It is a good article. I have had some shadow looking people, in some of my dreams. They were scary at first, but I'm starting to figure out the dreams. One of the dreams I had, I was driving somewhere at night, and there was a shadow man next to me, in the passenger seat. He said "Do you think you can show me your place sometime". I just looked at him. then I woke up.

The "Hag dreams" you are talking about are a very common part of night terrors, which are different from nightmares. They usually include a crushing feeling and a dream of something sitting on the chest... usually monsters etc. There is also paralysis involved. I think a google search would probably bring up plenty of info on them.
I had a friend who had them very often, to the point of interfering with his daily life. They usually feel very real to the point the person is not sure if it is a dream or if it really happened.

Shortly after my Dad died, 23 years ago, he came to me in a dream. I knew I was dreaming, but I also knew I was talking to him.

He told me he couldn't come to me again because he only had a limited number of visits and he had to save the last one to visit my Mom on her birthday.

I never asked her about it because she was not a believer in such things and would have thought I was crazy. He also visited my daughter, his only granddaughter, in dreams. She was 8 when he died but they were very close and she still remembers the last dream because he told her he wouldn't come to her anymore because she didn't believe he was really there with her. It has bothered her all this time because she now knows he had really been there with her.

This is a very interesting dream in that it parallels a dream I after my grandfather died wherein he made some reference to my either having forgotten or not knowing all the things one had to do when one died. There was some kind of limitation thing he mentioned as well.

It makes me wonder if what really goes on when we die. Experiences like yours make me wonder if there is some kind of order that we don't know about, kind of like the stories of the white light that seem to share so much in common.

Lux,

Hello. I am new here as of today. I found a link to this site from google and I am very glad that I did. I think that I will be spending a lot of time here. =-)
Ok now to the question...first a little background. I only talked to my husbands father twice (once when I met him and once when he was in the hospital dying) and both of these were before we got married. We never had any deep and meaningful conversations. OK that said he appeared to me in a very disturbing dream last night. I don't remember too much of the rest of the dream, it was dark that is about it, when suddenly I saw a shape and got about a 2 second glimplse of him and then it was like he was blurred (you know when you see in movies that a space ship is coming out of warp speed or something and there is light coming from it?) and it was like he was trying to get my face, or get inside of me or something. I was freaked and trying to brush him away. He wouldn't leave and then I remember myself saying "What in Gods name is going on here"?! And suddenly he was gone. I was thanking God and Goddess and I woke up calling on angels and ancestors for protection for myself and my daughter.
Needless to say this dream has me quite freaked out. I would love an interpretation or just your thoughts.
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