Don't worry, it's just a hypnogogic hallucination. I get them all the time, usually a black form that hovers above my bed and stares down at me. What happens is that your body and brain are in the transition between wakefulness and sleep, producing often disturbing waking dreams.
The likelihood of getting them will go down if you sleep regularly, reduce your stress levels and sleep on your side. Or at least that's what my doctor told me.
Health-cares.net wrote:
"Hypnagogic hallucination is episodes of seeing and hearing things as one is falling asleep. These dreams can be frightening and can often cause a sudden jerk and arousal just before sleep onset...they are usually quite vivid, and often involve vision. The visual hallucinations usually consist of simple forms – colored circles or parts of objects – that are constant or changing in size. People may also see the image of an animal or a person, and are more often in color. Auditory hallucinations are also common, but other senses are seldom involved. Hypnagogic hallucinations are dreams that intrude on wakefulness, which can cause visual, auditory, or touchable sensations. They occur between waking and sleeping, usually at the onset of sleep."
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?Evil? No. Cursed?! No. COATED IN CHOCOLATE?! Perhaps. At one time. But NO LONGER.?