From: bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu (Bil Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
Subject: I dreamed a dream...or was it?
Date: 28 Jan 93 04:14:47 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I had what was what I think was an incredible dream last night.  In my dream,
I was in a house in the woods, on vacation or something of that sort.  I
didn't recognize the house, and I was with someone I didn't know.  He  was a
dark haired male about my age (28).  We were in the livingroom or kitchen
late at night when we heard sounds outside like someone trying to break into
the front door in the livingroom.  We quickly turned off the lights (why, I
don't know) and I crouched down on the kitchen floor while he went into the
other room to see if he could see anything outside.  At this point, I looked
outside through the uncurtained window of the back door to suddenly see a
youngish short-blonde haired man illuminated suddenly by what seemed to be
a lit match in his hands - just a small flame in his fingers.  This lasted
only a brief second - long enough for me to see him, and that is all.

The next thing that I recall was not being able to see anything, and feeling
like a black shroud was being put over my head.  I couldn't breathe and
began to panic from the suffocation.  I reached out my right hand and touched 
someone's hand, the much cooler fingers entwining about mine, and squezing
gently as if to say, "Everything is OK".  Then I felt a slight pain I knew
was a puncture wound accompanied by warm breath on the left side of my neck.
I felt my heart beating very quickly and felt the suction and slightly warm,
wet sensation on my neck.  I immediately calmed down, thinking "this is it!"
and heard my heart rate slow down as I felt my blood being drained.  I then
drifted into a kind of euphoria in which I felt very safe and relaxed. 

Suddenly I woke up to find myself laying in bed, with my hand tingling from
the sudden contact with cool air, as if someone had indeed been holding
my hand and had just let it go.  My neck also tingled, as I realized what I had
just dreamt.  Afraid to open my eyes, I felt my neck, which was warm, 
but not wounded (although it still tingled in the morning when I finally
got up, and still does now - There are no visible marks).  I just pulled
the covers up and went back to sleep, wondering if it was really a dream.

The most incredible part of this event was the VERY vivid sensations I
felt during it.  It wasn't at all like I expected it to be - how I often
imagined it would be.  My dreames aren't usually this vivid.  The other
strange thing is that I felt that I woke up when I panicked from being
suffocated by the shroud - just before the contact with the hand that
calmed me once again.  I felt that I was awake during the "attack".  Also,
the sensations of the cool air on my hand and the tingling on my neck were
immediately noticable when I woke up (again?!).  This is strange as it
usually takes me a while to wake up unless I am physically or audibly
jarred from my sleep.  I also wouldn't notice any sensations such as a 
headache or stomach ache for about 10 minutes after I woke up.

Has anyone else ever had anything like this happen to them?

I can't wait to go to sleep again tonight.  Perhaps it will happen again...

BG

Awaiting...