I had...well, what I've come to accept as some sort of paranormal experience. I was like thirteen or fourteen when this happened, it was just after we had moved into our current house. At the time, my room had only an old tv, a small dresser, and a twin size matress (WHICH I BARELY FIT ON BACK THEN BEING NEARLY SIX FUCKING FEET TALL). So my room was pretty fuckin empty, and I HATE empty spaces, so it made me pretty paranoid to sleep in there. It always felt like something was hiding or something even though there wasnt really anything to hide behind, I dunno it was just a weird feeling. But anyway, I remember this one night I was asleep, and I heard this noise like someone was walking around nearby. Of course, i opened my eyes and looked around. I saw this shadowy figure dart out of the room out of the corner of my eye, which kinda freaked me out I guess. I got up and went out into the hall to see where it went, but obviously I didnt find anything. So I went back to bed.
A couple nights later, I was woken up again by a noise, but this time it was the sound of breathing. My room was normally dead quiet so it was pretty easy to hear even the quietest of sounds. So, of course, I woke up and looked around. I saw this weird-looking shadow thing standing near my door, it was just dressed in like a jacket and some pants, but I couldn't really make out much else (couldnt even figure out the gender cuz the thing was so fuckin thin and stringy). It was just staring at me, I think. I couldn't really see, I just assumed. Anyway, I started panicking when I saw it, and it just looked at me calmly for a few seconds. Then it put up a finger too it's mouth, making this "shush" motion, like it wanted me to stay quiet, which wasnt really a problem since I was SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND. But anyway, I noticed it had these really fucking long fingers, it was freaky as hell. And then it just turned and left my room without doing anything else. Needless to say, I was too freaked out to get up and to paranoid to sleep for the rest of that night. Or the next night. Or the night after that. Or any night following. THIS IS WHEN MY INSOMNIA STARTED.
This next one was...pretty recent. It was this past December, about two years after the other two. So my room was nice and cozy and filled with stuff by now, so I was pretty happy and a lot less paranoid. so this one night was a rare night where I would actually get sleep, which I fully took advantage of by sleeping like a fucking log. So anyway, in the middle of the night, you guessed it, something wakes me up. But this time it wasn't a noise, it was a SENSATION. I felt something hitting my face, like really warm air. So it kinda just gently lulled me back into a groggy awakeness, but man did my eyes fly the fuck open when I saw what was in front of me. So I opened my eyes and saw the shadow thing from before, standing over me, with it's head just inches away from mine, breathing on me. I could not move, I could not talk, I couldn't even fucking blink I was so terrified. even in the dark, I noticed something very interesting about it's face. It didn't have one. It was just a blank fucking space of black void, it looked so unnatural and freaky. It moved it's hand up to my face, and it slid one of it's finger across my cheek. It felt like it was cutting into my cheek, which is about when I realized that those "fingers" it had were claws. so it did this for a while, "staring" at me and cut-stroking my cheek, and then something weird happened. It spoke. Or, well, it whispered. In this oddly gentle female voice, it whispered "Go back to sleep." Suddenly I felt this odd fatigue come over me, and I just went back to sleep. I woke up the next morning really groggy and feeling very ill, and I attributed the thing as just a bad dream or something along those lines. So I got dressed and such and as per my usual routine, my last stop was the bathroom. that's when I realized that whatever I had seen and felt HADNT been a dream. When I looked in the mirror, I saw three neat little scars right across my left cheek.
I never told anyone about this thing. I figured no one would ever believe me.