Sleep Silhouettes



Sleep Silhouettes are the name given to strange beings that have been reported to visit people at night. First described on 4chan's /x/ board, Sleep Silhouettes have been describes as being rounded and pillar-like in shape and in having large, torch-like eyes and long 'spaghetti arms'. They are also usually described as being tall, but they are largely amorphous and have been said to be able to change their height and arm length. Usually described as colourful, they were originally described as bright red but other colours have been reported. They have also been said to make odd breathing sounds and sometimes announce their presence with weird, musical sounds.

Sleep Silhouettes are always seen at night and as there name suggests, they seem to be connected to sleep. Most sightings involve someone repeatedly waking up in the night with an unexplainable but overwhelming feeling of dread or fear, to the extent of not being able to move. Until one night in which they somehow manage to overcome this feeling and turn to see the Sleep Silhouette besides their bed or in their room. Sleep Silhouettes are said to then vanish when spotted or sometimes try and approach the person who has spotted them. Sleep Silhouettes also seem fascinated by people and often try to touch them.

Sleep Silhouettes are usually seen by children around the ages of 10 to 12 although people have reported seeing them later on in life. Some people have only seen Sleep Silhouettes once whilst others say they are frequently visited by them. Sleep Silhouettes have also been seen by people who were awake beforehand and had not gone to sleep. Sightings always occur late at night however and are always accompanied by an unexplainable, paralysing fear. Sleep Silhouettes however have not yet been shown to be dangerous and flee if attacked or confronted.

Sightings are often dismissed as cases of sleep paralysis or night terrors, but this leaves numerous factors in the stories unexplained, such as the fact that the sleep silhouettes rarely attack someone and have been seen by people who weren't asleep. The most unnerving factor of all however is the fact that many people claim to have experienced and seen the exact same thing.

What the Sleep Silhouettes actually are remain a mystery, however it has been suggested that they may be some sort of extra terrestrial

Original Post
"I remember as a kid I would have great deal of trouble sleeping and would often wake up in the middle of night, unable to move and freezing. I would usually just try to get back to sleep despite the fact this was strange. Over time however these incident's would become more frequent and I would often wake up also being terrified for no apparent reason. My bed was against the wall and I always woke up facing the wall and occasionally during these incidents I thought I could hear heavy breathing behind me. I remember one incident I woke up and felt something pressing down on the mattress at the bottom of my bed but I decided it was just the cat or something and went back to sleep.

One night however I woke up during one of these incidents, freezing, frozen and terrified as usual and also convinced there was something besides my bed behind me. And I decided I was sick of having these episodes and so I tried to turn myself round to face the side of the bed where the unseen thing I was scared of was. I eventually somehow managed to get enough energy to move and sat up and faced the side of my bed and I saw what looked like a tall, rounded dark red, misty pillar with two headlight-like 'eyes'. It also had tentacle like spaghetti arm-things which reached the floor. I remember it put its arms forward and they seemed to melt into the wall opposite itself on the side of my bed and made this loud screeching noise (Like someone scratching a blackboard) and vanished.

After this I couldn't sleep for ages but once I did the episodes didn't happen that much and when they did I did not feel scared, just immobile and cold."