>be me browsing /x/ trying to think of the spookiest thing that's happened to me
>remember the time i saw dark figure in my room
>wtf?
>this happened when I was 10 or 11
>no experience with night terrors or sleep paralysis
>slept with lights off like normal kid
>one night, wake up early in the AM for no reason
>i think i heard a noise and got scared
>fall back asleep
>wake up again, this time bundled up under covers
>stick head out, not expecting to see anything
>a fucking figure silhouetted in the moonlight shining through my bedroom window
>oshit.jpg
>not paralyzed or half asleep so try to sneak back under the covers as sneaky as possible
>i can't stress enough how awake i was, there was no paralysis or dream involved, my heart was beating at full speed and i was very fucking awake
>the figure appears to possibly be looking out the window for the moment
>it's about 5 feet tall, and is definitely a human outline
>terrified, i cower under my blankets for what seems like an eternity
>peek out again, but don't stick head out
>it's still fucking there
>now it's fucking facing me
>it doesn't see me/ doesn't react
>try to convince my eyes that it's the outline of a hoodie or someting on a chair
>can't see it
>peek out several other times and it's still there
>somehow fall back asleep
>when i wake up, i try to find a possible source of the shadowy figure
>find none
>think that it had to have been a person, probably my mom
>ask my mom if she had been in my room in the middle of the night for some reason
>she says no
>ask everyone who was in the house and none of them were in my room
>can't find any possible source for the figure
>sleep with my lights on for the next 6 years
>i still make sure i have a lightswitch within stealth reach of my bed
>nothing like it has happened since
well, what in the fuck was the figure?
any ideas?