So here goes -- this is from an experience I had about seven years or so ago. My husband, to this day, thinks I was dreaming, but I know 100%, that I was not dreaming. Here goes...

This happened in June/July of 2004.

It was late at night, or very early morning when I felt this 'vise-like' grip encase my brain. I was paralyzed, though my 'brain' was sizzling with energy (on the outside, if that makes sense?) And I heard this voice (inside my head) - metallic& grating, like more than one voice, but not, and very deep (almost like the sound of the alien signal that Jodi Foster listens to in the movie Contact??) say:

"You will..." (and I think it was about to give me 'instructions')

And then at this time, like a flash, I thought - cripes, if only I can move, or wake my husband up, I would be able to break free!

So I calmly, though insistently, tried to force myself to speak my husband's name... three times, each time a little louder in my head - trying to force it to come out of my mouth... as in: michael.... Michael.... MICHAEL.

On the third time, the presence left me abruptly, and there was a sharp/staticky 'zap' to my head, and then my entire body felt like it was on fire or covered with red hot needles. This lasted for quite awhile -- a couple of minutes at least.

I was left feeling that the presence was a metallic / reptilian one, and I also know that on the third time I tried to say my husband's name, I woke, completely awake/aware and in control of my limbs (though they were on fire). I somehow knew that it wanted to tell me what to 'do' and that I would have to obey... and my first thought was what if it commanded me to kill my kids? I couldn't let that happen.

I was spooked, and it took me awhile to fall back asleep. I didn't wake my husband at that time but told him about it in the morning. He laughed it off, told me I was dreaming, and had been watching too many episodes of the X-files (I hadn't watched any, by the way).

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Comments? Was this the beginning of an OBE? What was the voice I heard? I was alarmed, but not panicky, during the whole episode... and I had been completely and totally asleep before the event took place. This was not an 'on the verge of sleep' experience.

But sometimes when I lay down I can feel the 'spiral' when I close my eyes. And other times I have been able to feel as if I am so big, bigger than the universe, and then I will collapse down, down, down and feel so small, tinier than the tiniest speck of sand. That happened alot in my early twenties, though not since then. But the spiral/swirl feeling happened again just a few days ago. (I have been meditating more because I am trying to be open to messages / visions from my guides. I was having them regularly earlier this year, and then in April they all but stopped.)