I've had this experience once as a teenager. I was lying in bed half-asleep, when this overwhelming feeling of fear came over me. I opened my eyes to see a black cloaked figure at the end of my bed looking at me. It was darker than darkness. It didn't have eyes but I could feel it watching me. I couldn't move or scream. I felt I was "scared stiff" or it had control of me...until it disappeared.

Also, just a few years ago, I was lying in bed with my husband. He said he saw a cloaked, hunched over, black figure walk across our room and stop by my side of the bed. He couldn't speak or move as he watched it. He said it bent over close to my face and I started making gasping and choking sounds in my sleep. That was when he was able to break through the hold it had on him and take a swing at it. It dissappeared. Immediately, I woke up with a feeling of intense sadness and negativity, for no reason. He asked me if I was OK...and told me what happened. I didn't see whatever it was but I sure felt the presence of it's emptiness and despair. I never want to feel that again.