This experience occurred in mid-2023 while living out of state in an isolated location. I was going through some seasonal depression due to the lack of sun and super long winters. I keep my vibrational energy pretty high and at the time was meditating regularly. I am one to believe that lower vibrations like "evil" entities and the lower elemental energies cannot harm you mentally or physically if one keeps their own vibration high enough. I've been open spiritually with an open mind since around 2010. I have experienced contact with ETs doing CE-5. I believe in the astral realms, the soul, and that we are spiritual light beings living a human experience.

One day I was sleeping way too late into the evening. It started to be a common pattern for at least a couple months if not more off and on. So this one particular day I remember sleeping until around 4 or 5pm. I was completely sober, no weed or psychedelics. It felt like I may have been experiencing mild sleep paralysis. I know I was already starting to wake up slowly, but was forcing myself to stay in bed anyway. What happened next made me fully wake up in an instant. I'm a back sleeper, so I was flat on my back with my head on the pillow when I suddenly felt these hands with what felt like long fingers gently go to the back of my ears. It was kind of like a gentle nudge to wake my ass up. To this day I really do think "they" thought I was visiting the astral for way too long. When we dream, I believe we go to a "real" place, and it is not a figment of our imagination.

As soon as I felt those hands come behind me and touch my head close to my ears, I jolted right up without hesitation. I was initially like, "wtf??!", but not afraid. I was more mad about being woken up in such a way. Afterwards, I told my wife about it and we both channeled in meditation. We did not pick up any uneasy dark energies. I had a feeling it may have been one of my spirit guides. My wife who is more experienced with channeling and connecting also did not pick up any lower or dark energies. She was able to connect deeper and find it was in fact a spirit guide waking me up because I was simply visiting the astral longer than I should have. This was the only "ghostly" experience I had that involved touch. I wasn't supposed to feel their touch at all, so they felt bad because they didn't have the intention of scaring anyone.