Once in a while I feel I tap into something that is not of a positive nature. I have had some bizarre things happen to me throughout my life. These kinds of occurrences don't happen often but when they do it stirs questions. Why? Imagination? Did I do something that caused it? Am I being tested?

I had this dream last night. It was so strange and I knew I was dreaming. I was in this old house and heard a strange noise at the top of the staircase. I went upstairs and there were only two rooms at the top of the stairs. The rooms were connected by an inside door and there was a door to the hallway from each room. I kept hearing this growling and scratching noise. I couldn't see anything but I could feel something all around me. Everything was spinning and I was so off center. So much so that I could not think clearly - so chaotic.

My cat (the one in the picture on my site) came running up the stairs and started hissing and growling and flew at this thing I couldn't see. I was then better able to focus and wanted to wake up but couldn't. I started to run down the stairs and realized I had left my cat in the room to fight all by himself. I went back to save him and then I woke up. I turned on my bedside lamp and sat up and noticed my cat was in the middle of the bed just staring at me.

I calmed down - it was just a bad dream - right? I turned off the light and went back to sleep. The dream picked up again exactly where it left off. Now, continuing the same dream is something that has happened to me maybe 2 other times in my life and they were a similar kind of dream. I was back in the dream standing in the doorway to one of the rooms and I could hear my cat and this thing fighting. The sound was horrible. It was as if there was a chase (my cat chasing the thing) from one room to the other. I felt my cat was more in danger than I was. Items were flying around the rooms, sliding across the floor and hitting the walls and I could feel this thing as it would fly by me. Again I woke up - thankfully. And again I turned on the lights and sat up in bed. I got up and walked around and everything seemed fine. I calmed down and went back to bed.

Here is where it gets really strange. I am not sure if I was asleep or awake (think I was more in an in-between state because I had full consciousness but I think my eyes were closed). I saw this thing in the darkness. It was a dark face and it had red glowing eyes and I could make out the shape of the face and a slit of a mouth. It was in front of my face, staring at me and I was staring back at it. The eyes were glowing, not bright but vivid red and had an aura of red haze around them. It did not touch me but I felt the same thing that I felt in the dream - creepy. I remember thinking "That's it!" I had had enough and decided it wasn't just a dream. I sat up and turned on the lights (again) and thought about what to do. I put a protective circle around my room and I just stilled and quieted myself. Then I turned off the lights and slept great the rest of the night.

When I woke up this morning I was a little surprised that I hadn't stayed up all night with every light in the house on while constantly looking over my shoulder. I have had many thoughts about why this happened. The funny thing is that I wrote about fear in my blog post yesterday. How I am not so afraid of everything anymore. So I wonder if we are ever tested? Was my fear and ability to handle the situation being tested? I really, in the depths of my being, do not feel like I was going to be harmed. I just think (if there really was something there) that it just wanted to scare me and then watch my reaction.

I was happy that my cat came to my rescue though and now I am off to sew him a cape with an SK appliquéd on it - "Super Kitty".