Unidentified Spirit?

Question

Years ago, I was going through a horribly painful divorce. It took every ounce of strength I had to wake up, open my eyes, and put my feet on the floor to start another day.

One night I had gone to bed and was in that twilight area between sleep and awake and it felt like I wasn't alone in the room.

I opened my eyes and there at the foot of my bed, standing very still was a woman. She was middle age, about 5 feet, wearing slacks and a blouse. I kept hearing in my mind, don't scream but the scream was already escaping me. I tried so hard not to scream but i did. I looked back and she was gone.

She seemed so serene and comforting, looking back on it. but she has never reappeared to me.

Also my roommate was a funeral director. We were never sure if this was maybe my spirit guide or someone who followed here home.

any insights? tia

Answer 1

It may have been your spirit guide.  I have seen an angel on the top of my stairs when I was very young...  She was beautiful and I knew that she wasn't going to hurt me.  I went to meet her, but as soon as I got to the top step she dissapeared.  I never saw her again either....

Answer 2

it could have been your spirit guide but another thing could be a comfort spirit.  i read in a book by syilvia browne a couple days ago that there is a spirit that comes to us when we need strength, peace, happiness, hope, and love in our lives.  she could have come to you to help you.i  was visited by mine two nights ago.  she, also beautiful and serene, made me realize someone like that could only want the best for me.

Answer 3

Honestly?  This sounds like a fairly typical hypnagogic hallucination to me.  Sometimes the brain "malfunctions" and begins dreaming while still partly conscious, creating hallucinations that are often accompanied by sleep paralysis.  The hallucination is often felt as a pressure on the chest or a presence in the room that sometimes makes itself visible to the person.

Some suspect that this is where the belief of succubi and the "Old Hag" came from in the past, and today is the source of some alien abduction stories.

In short, you probably just had an interesting hallucination.  See the sources below for more details.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

completely imagination

if you are having a bad time in your life you will experience stress depression anxiety

this feelings have a serious consequence on your health like '' hallucination ''

to me thats all it is because i had experienced something like that so it is complete hallucination

Answer 5

That was Maria she was just checking up on you.

Psi

Answer 6

In the transition phase between REM (rapid eye movement...the dream state) sleep and wakefulness (and vice-versa), you can have images from that state or from your thoughts  recently on your mind (the Conscious state)"imprinted" on your subconscious to the point  where you register that image in your Vision Center of the Cortex.....but that's the only place it is.  

What you have Described is totally normal.  It happens to a lot of people.

Answer 7

Since you say you were going to sleep it sounds like you were having a normal dream. Maybe your subconscious was looking for a comforting motherly non threatening image.

Answer 8

I too saw a woman at the foot of my bed, it was a completely white shadow with a glow, a shape appearing of a women's body. She came back, and I spoke to her saying for her to go away, she said many words, and it became comforting as her voice was beautiful, and my first thought at the time was she's an angel. So she had not come back till a month later. I have seen and spoke some with her, she is my spirit guide Erica.....it's been four years now, she don't come as much as she did, just to check in and let me know she is still with me, as she held my hand and turn me over as I was asleep....that was a week ago~

Spirit Guides are from another dimension, and it's hard to see details like features or clothes. Perhaps it was a ghost, or an angel.

I have seen others here as well, I work at a hospital, and perhaps they could of follow me home, especially because I did have one come up to me in the hospital, and days after that as I were heading to my truck to go home like many others, it was late October and there was a heavy frost on ever car there on all the windows....when I got to my truck every window was completely clear.....I was thinking that since spirits are energy that if one sat in my truck it would melt the frost.

Answer 9

Could have been an Angel watching over us. The Bible says we have guardian angels around us. They are there.

Answer 10

I know what you mean..I had a high school friend who's daddy was an undertaker too. I've wondered the same thing...if spirits followed him home..and maybe attached to me. I remember something happening in her house one time. This wasn't about ghosts..but it was strange..even though we laughed about it. We were sleeping in the attic..a bedroom (but were wide awake) Three times we both said the exact same thing at the same time..different things..right in a row. That probably doesn't have anything to do with ghosts..but it was weird. I know that I found out later that her mother had mental problems later...after her deceased mother appeared to her. It just surprised me that you said that..because it seemed so familiar to me.

Answer 11

Personally I do not trust any sightings when just barely awake. The mind is still trying to stay in sleep mode. Now if you become fully awake and a spirit is still there after you are wide awake then, it may be a visitation.

BB

Answer 12

you were in between sleeping and being awake and you had a dream about you being in a room with a scarry woman.  This freaked you out and made you scream. after you screamed you woke up and the scarry woman was gone