So after my last post here, I feel like I can share this encounter I had when I was just a kid with you without being judged. I was maybe 8-9 years old. Me and my little sister ( 2y younger) shared room, and had a bunk bed. Me being the oldest I had the top bed. One night I woke up, it was dark but the bed faced the window so I could see the street lamps outside, giving the room some light. And I saw, sitting by my feet, staring at me, some black figure. Almost childlike in appearance, but with glowing eyes. Glowing black. It looked like it was made of darkness. I don’t know how to describe it. I was so confused and scared, just a feeling of ice running through my spine. It tilted it’s head, and then smiled at me. And suddenly, my sister starts to scream her lungs out. With that thing sitting by the stairs in the bunk bed, I just jumped down from the top bed. Fortune for me, we had a lot of stuffed toys On the floor I landed on. I grabbed my sister and just bolted out of the room. Our parents just thought it was a nightmare, of course. I had trouble sleeping for weeks after that. I asked my sister about it like ten years afterwards. Her response was that she had a nightmare where I got hurt by the “starless” and after that I started to hurt others, and she remembered it because I woke her up by picking her up and run out of the room. She was of course confused why I would do that, when normally when she had a nightmare I would just lay down in the same bed as her, curled up together until she fell asleep again. She has no memory of screaming. But I remember it as she was already sitting up in her bed when I landed on the floor. What the *** was that thing? Any theories?