Earlier this year, I took a nap after work around 5-6pm. I woke up in my pitch black room in sleep paralysis around 7.
When I woke up, I saw two huge black eyes over me and the outline of what looked like an insectoid. The eyes were blacker than the darkness of my room.
I (I think) internally screamed, and then looked over at my bedroom wall and saw what I can only describe as a symbol of a mantis. My room was dark as it could be, but the outline of the symbol and the figure over me was darker than that.
I was very alarmed for maybe ten second, and then I thought of Jesus and was basically let down like a feather. I was no longer in sleep paralysis by that point and was very calm and not alarmed at all by the experience I had just had. I still remembered it, but it almost felt like I was given anesthesia. I rolled over and thought “Hm, that was weird”
When I was a kid and I was trying falling asleep, I would always have a premonition of a very tall, lanky figure pacing from my bed to my bedroom door. It never alarmed me, and in fact helped me sleep. It makes me think of the mantis.
I also saw a UFO clear as day outside my window when I was young. It was very close to my house and massive. It was disc shaped and had many lights on it . I suspect I experienced lost time because I woke up feeling like I got hit by a truck and I don’t remember why I was awake as late as I was.
I’m not looking for answers, just giving my experiences.
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