READERS TALES
GRIM (the 'Shadows')
(NOTE: This tale is by
the same author of
Third Eye Parts I,
II, III...and
has been REPOSTED.)
‘Grim’: Mobile, Alabama …
(year unsure).
When I was somewhere between the ages of 15-20 (memory is a bit hazy),
I was lying in bed with a
book. When I looked up, (because I almost had the feeling that someone
was in the room with me) I saw what looked to be a
Shadow-Ghost. This was only about 4 ft, away from the foot of my bed.
I was so scared; I didn’t know what to do! I wanted to scream, but I
couldn’t, and for some reason I also realized that I
couldn’t even move.
Prior to this I had been having a lot of nightmares. I had this dream I like
to call ‘the Church Dream’, because in it I see this
church, it is almost completely destroyed (by what, I don’t
know), it just looked raggedy, ‘condemned’ may be an even better word
used to describe the way in which it looked, more
like a shell of what was once a church. I remember
there was a lot of chanting, but it was more like vocalization, a lot of
different voices blending together; and what they
were saying to me was: “There is no salvation; there is
no forgiveness, no salvation … (and something else).”
There were a lot of otherworldly type of beings. This happened so long ago now
it is almost too difficult to recall; but I was
having a lot of really crazy nightmares, before I actually seeing
what I did.
Anyway, it happened, and it is something I don’t really have much of an
explanation for, because a lot of people want to say
it is ‘sleep paralysis’, but I know I was fully awake. This only
makes sense to me in the way of not having the ability to move. I am
not saying that they are wrong necessarily; however
what I am saying is that I know for certain I was definitely awake.
People say that you can be half awake I think, while still having a
nightmare. I don’t know if this is really true or
not, though it didn’t seem to be for me.
At some point I remember being able to pinch my arm, what I was trying to see
was if I was dreaming or not. I do know that it
scared me (whatever it was) either way, and if it is real,
who’s to say?
-Melissa Brume.
