Hello everyone, I apologize if this isn't the right sub for this personal story. I've just been wanting to share it openly to see if anyone has any idea what could of happened.

Before I begin I must establish some background, this happened during my senior year of highschool so, about six or so years ago. I've always struggled and suffered with sleeping issues, Insomia, nightmares, lucid dreams and sleep paralysis. These things run throughout my family quite frequently.

Now onto what happened, due to my negative association with my own bed and by extension my bedroom as a whole, I would often sleep on a spare mattress in the middle of the living room.

This night was no different, until I would feel myself slowly slipping into consciousness but only due to an unusual feeling. That being my limp body being gently and slowly lifted up towards the ceiling, I distinctly recall the feeling of my long hair dangling below me.

Now, as I floated there above my bed. I would feel this overwhelming sense of danger, doom and plain evilness. My heart was beating intensely and my mind was racing but I couldn't move, I tried to scream and talk but I couldn't get anything out.

It felt like an eternity until some noise from the apartment would force whatever was going on to release me, I would feel myself hit my mattress before bouncing up petrified. The time was 3 something in the morning and it took me a couple hours to calm down,

I didn't sleep that night and for a week after I slept with the lights on.

What do you think happened to me?