I knew my apartment was haunted, but it was always very benign, seeing a shadow person walking into the bathroom and having groups of push-pins or puddles of water on the floor. I just assumed they wanted acknowledgement, so I said Hi when I knew someone was around. I was very okay with spirits around, it seemed natural.
But one night, I had gone to bed at the normal time and was in the middle of my night-time routine. I had finished a twenty minute session of yoga Nidra, and was relaxing before prayer. Then I could feel someone else in the room. I opened my eyes and at the foot of my bed stood an ancient spectre of of a woman. I will NEVER be able to get her face out of my memory. She was hunched over, wearing a grey wool blanket over her shoulders. Her hair was salt & pepper and unkempt. Her face was that of a metis woman, her cheekbones were high and her nose flat. Beneath her blanket were small beings, like stick men almost, moving at supersonic speed around her. She didn’t speak a single word. she raised her hand from inside the blanket and touched my big toe on my right foot. It felt like a million volts of electricity went into me and I bounced off the bed at least a foot in the air and came down hard enough to break my bed.
Then it was absolutely dead still, and my cat came in and jumped on my bed to cuddle and I thought “What the Holy Frack was that !!!” It was dark, 8:30 ish, but The lights outside my window were strong, and I know what I saw. I was not dreaming, I was not in a hypnopompic dream state, and the strongest thing in my body was chai tea. Other than the shock, surprise and complete bewilderment of what had just happened, I cuddled up with my kitty and went to sleep eventually.
The next morning I woke to a swollen aching foot that felt as though someone had sliced open the bottom with a blade, it was agonizing and the emergency room doctor said it looked like it was going to burst. There is more, but I’m just so glad to tell someone because no one I know would ever believe me, but it’s absolutely true.