Perambulator wrote:
I was asleep last night and had a strange dream. Aren't dreams always strange? Just before I woke up I was looking at my sleeping body from outside of myself, there I was, eyes shut, legs spread over my double bed, my arms hugging its satin quilt. And a black shadow or a black shape shifted around my bed near towards my bedside chest of drawers. And it extended an arm and its hand reached under my armpit and started to tickle me. I'm sure it was a female ghost because the strange dream I had prior to this event was about my ex-girlfriend who I broke up with a year ago missing me. In the dream I was like a fly on the wall watching her life unfold without me. There she was, a lonely English teacher teaching teenage students considering seducting a young male student but in her heart wishing she could get back to me. Fear and desolation was etched on her face. I think the most rational explanation is a ghost of her past has developed a crush on me.
I don't know about the shadow and your interpretation of it. Dreaming often seems to me to be a way for the subconscious to clean itself out. Not knowing what your current, real-life relationship is with the ex-girlfriend, or her side of it, I couldn't say whether there was anything to what you surmise or whether it was just wishful thinking from your subconscious. I'm not trained in psychology, either, so my opinion is just that—an opinion.
The way you describe seeing your sleeping body from the outside, however, sounds like a possible textbook case of out-of-body experience, or astral projection. That has been known to happen during transition times between full wakefulness and deeper sleep.
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