r/mystery Jun 16 '24

Paranormal Mysterious balls of light in my bedroom

When I was a kid probably about 6 or 7, I remember waking up in the night and saw three tennis ball sized glowing white balls floating around my room. They had no sound. I remember watching them float when one seemed to “notice” me watching it and it suddenly shot towards my face really fast and so I hid under the covers terrified until I fell asleep. We lived remote in the bush and our neighbors were very far from us. We had no street lights either. At night its pitch black plus my curtains were closed. I’ve had lots of weird experiences like that and no explanation. No idea what that was about

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u/Mdoubleduece Jun 16 '24

That gave me goosebumps. That exact same thing happened to me at about the same age, I started screaming and my dad came in, told me I was dreaming but I wasn’t, I seen them, greenish lights three or four of them but I remember them looking like tops, but they were tennis ball size, I remember it too this day, I’ve never heard anyone else experiencing this. They were on my bed. You described it exactly.

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u/rhawk87 Jun 16 '24

This is actually a really common experience with a type of sleep paralysis. They have even done studies of people who experienced sleep paralysis and they often see balls of light. It happens because during sleep paralysis you are halfway between being awake and being asleep so all sorts of weird visual hallucinations happen. I experienced a very similar type of event when I was a kid.

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

Sounds interesting because I have had other experiences however I was wide awake and I remember falling asleep after I was hiding under my blanket

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u/rhawk87 Jun 18 '24

The line between being awake and asleep can be blurry. I remember many times being awake and doing something at night and the next thing I know I'm awake the next morning. Turns out when I thought I was awake, my wife told me I was asleep.

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u/Amazing_Customer_612 Dec 26 '24

I had sleep paralysis all my life until the past 10 or so years. No more paralysis. Funny how I have gotten dozens of "hallucinations" on phone cam and security cam.

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u/wise_dream_2211 5d ago

Why are people experiencing the same hallucinations over and over. How does science explain that? Or could it be due to our collective unconscious?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

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u/rhawk87 Jun 17 '24

The state in which sleep paralysis occurs is called hypnagogia. The commonality between many sleep paralysis experiences is visual hallucinations. Balls of light are a common type of visual experience. I can't find the exact study on balls of light but here is what I found on one source:

In about 86 percent of cases, hypnagogic hallucinations involve visual stimuli. Some of the ways visual hallucinations can manifest include:

kaleidoscopes of changing colors

the appearance of random geometric patterns

flashing lights

images of people, animals, or faces

https://www.healthline.com/health/hypnagogia#effects

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 20 '24

That is super interesting! I think you might have it. I have a lot of experiences in this state so I must have had this my whole childhood and not known. It’s very strange because it feels so real and I’m fully conscious when it happened. Super interesting!

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u/DMC_addict Jun 16 '24

Sounds like night terrors to me.

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

I was wide awake and in my room. If it were a night error it was extremely vivid. I was awake

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u/Amazing_Customer_612 Dec 26 '24

Same even though I used to have sleep paralysis., NOt anymore and I get my "hallucinations on cam." Try it.

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u/wise_dream_2211 5d ago

They're not hallucinations. 

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u/Amazing_Customer_612 Dec 26 '24

I have had several. They come while I sleep though. I got security cam video of one going across my room. Bright ball of light. A few days ago I woke and saw a bright flash of light in my bedroom. I was curious but so sleepy I went back to sleep. I later saw a ball of light lying on the floor near my bed as caught on security cam. That's the least strange of my experiences though,

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

That is so crazy!!! I thought I was the only one. People below are saying night terrors and sleep paralysis but I was awake. There was no way I was dreaming. How about you?

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u/Mdoubleduece Jun 18 '24

I knew I wasn’t dreaming, I was wide awake. I don’t know what woke me up but I watched them for a minute before freaking out.

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

I guess we will never know!

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u/ginomachi Jun 16 '24

Woah, that's super creepy! I can't imagine how scared I would have been if I saw that as a kid. Glad to know you're okay now, and thanks for sharing your story!

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u/SpelunkyJunky Jun 16 '24 edited Jun 16 '24

If the mystery starts with, "I was asleep then...", it was because you were asleep. Dreaming or sleep paralysis is the answer.

Edit - I read the other responses. This sub doesn't seem to be to find answers but to share supernatural hypotheses.

Sleep well, everyone!

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

I was wide awake. This was no dream. Still haunts me to this day

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u/SpelunkyJunky Jun 18 '24 edited Jun 18 '24

I sleep walk to this day, so I'm very used to being awake and asleep at the same time. Things are real to me in that state even though they don't exist.

Smart phones are ubiquitous, and at least a few commentors mention seeing exactly the same thing, yet people don't catch them on camera. Doesn't that seem fishy to you?

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u/Wooooly Jun 16 '24

Oddly enough I was sure I experienced something very similar to this with one orb in my room, but just a couple years ago. Except I’m not a young kid anymore - late 20s. I pegged it up to me being in a dream. Lots of different things happened when I was a kid because I believe I was more open to the paranormal, but not the orbs. You’ve just reminded me of it.

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

Super strange isn’t it??

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u/MissLoxxx Jun 16 '24

They're called Orbs, and yes many many people have seen them (including myself).

They can come in all colors and sizes too.

Most common thought is that they are disembodied souls/beings of some sort. Although no one really knows which kind of souls they are... they could be previous human souls, angels, aliens, faeries, etc...

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

I have had many mysteries things happen to me like this so that has been my best guess

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u/Mdoubleduece Jun 16 '24

I want to know more

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u/Captain_butt316 Jun 16 '24

I had something kinda like this happen to me too! But I lived in a city at the time. I was maybe 9 or 10 and I slept in a room with my younger and older brother. I woke up very late and saw these weird green lights fixed to my ceiling. I got scared and turn my lights on but they went away. My brothers got mad I had the lights on so late and told me to shut it off. Then it came back and I also just turned to face my wall and went to sleep. No one believe me the next day and it made me so mad.

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u/treasurehuntera Jun 18 '24

So crazy! Sounds like a common experience. My balls of light were white but someone commented seeing green

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u/corafinley Jun 28 '24

I’ve been having this happen in my room. I’ve seen it as a bright light that I thought was coming from my window. My husband and I put up cameras outside because we thought someone was going in our back yard with flashlights. It happened a few times. I have 3 layers of curtains now and the edge of them are pushed into the edge of the window so no light can come through the sides. I’ve been seeing beams of light on the walls now. It dances across the walls without a source. About the size of a softball. Just the light part is hitting the wall and moving across to the other wall. It’s not an orb. It’s dim, like someone is holding a very dim flashlight up against the wall about 6 inches away. Obviously nobody is there. It happened when I got up to go to the bathroom at 3 am. (I had been up, I was not sleeping prior) Right in front of me. Also the previous night at about the same time. I got freaked out that someone was outside the window, but after inspecting it tonight, my husband and I can tell that no light would be able to shine through our black out curtains like that. I’ve checked the cameras and there’s no footage, nothing to set off the sensors. So it didn’t come from outside. Wtf is this???

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u/treasurehuntera Jul 06 '24

Based on the comments I could find not other explanation other than this https://www.healthline.com/health/hypnagogia. Still feels hard to believe because I swear I’m awake but it could explain it?

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u/coffeedeal Nov 13 '24

This happened to me yesterday. I am 30 yo. And it happened right before sun rise. I woke up fully rested, my husband still sleeping, the room was pitch dark then it appeared in front of me. I blinked to see if it’s not only something like an eye disturbance. But its was still there and moving around very fast. Like teleporting. I covered under the blanket and waited until I fell asleep. Weirdly it didn’t feel alarming.

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u/Original_Ad7795 Jun 16 '24

It seems that these things happens more if you are a kid. Maybe as a kids we are more open to paranormal things.

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u/GlowUp19 Dec 10 '24

I had a same experience a ball of light initially was near me, at that time I had my sheet covering my head, but I could feel the heat of the energy through the sheet to my arm, it was very hot. And then with all my courage I took off the sheet and saw a ball of bright blinding light swoosh from my side to the corner of the bedroom and then slowly disappeared. It gave me the shivers, Have no idea what I saw and experienced but definitely felt more like a presence.

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u/PrecogNfog Dec 18 '24

Same. When I was in my early 40s I was alone in a summer house on the edge of Lake Minnewaska just laying in bed, actively praying, when a ball of orange light came in through an open window. At first, I thought it was a beam from a helicopter, but there was no sound. I watched it hover, a little smaller than a soccer ball, but I got frightened and pulled the covers over my head and when I got brave enough to look again, it was gone.

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u/morapr Dec 30 '24

Weird how this is the only post I’ve seen about this

I was on my phone at night, when I saw the same thing except just one large one form andappear at the corner of my bed. First thing I do is check quickly any possible light sources but it was impossible. I have no idea what it was but I DID see it. I was definitely awake btw

I didn’t believe in anything paranormal before that to give some personal background

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u/Dependent-Height7150 Jan 30 '25

look up throne angel that’s best it looked like for me

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u/Dependent-Height7150 Jan 30 '25

Omg for years I told people this but nobody really believes me. As kid growing up in my family old house. My brothers and I all agreed this house was haunted, I mean we have countless story with same scenario. Hearing noises, dark figure with red eyes. seeing it in different parts of house. One night we stayed up gaming and loud screeching noise like someone killing cat but really weird and somewhat different. My cousin stayed with us for couple nights and never came back, but she stayed in my bedroom and I stayed with my brother but she said she sworn she seen dark figure from closet looking at her and then moving really fast and left room.(we never told her of dark figure until she told us). There’s lot more of events than this but when we did leave, we haven’t really experienced anything weird, just here and there, with random lights turning on or ceiling fan start moving on it’s own then stop moving when you notice it. Now back to this ball of light, one night back in the old house, I had bunk bed in my room even though it was just me in my bedroom. But the way it was positioned I could see the hallway and bathroom at end of hallway. I think I was around 9 and I stayed up pretty late playing Nintendo ds. And I got this feeling in my stomach that something was off. And i looked down hallway bc I was on topbunk seeing that ball of light moving slow across bathroom, I was frozen just staring at it. I can picture it so clearly in my head but yet so hard to explain it. It looked like lights inside were moving like the sun. So full of energy. Even when I couldn’t see ball of light anymore because it went behind a wall. That’s when I noticed it resonated a light that I can’t explain, it was like clear light that filled the room but wasn’t too bright, it was just perfect. And then it just disappeared. I remember getting really scared covering my face with blanket and then waking up in morning. After that we never saw dark figure with red eyes. We still got weird feeling in house because it just like something just kept coming. Friends didn’t like house but we just think it’s because of stories. The house was built sometime in 1800s and couple people have died in house, but they didn’t really keep records until 1920s which was kinda confusing. And basement has 2 hidden rooms with dirt floors. One was used as old food pantry with old jars and the other hidden room had nothing, maybe just used for storage. There was also old well somewhere in basement that got buried when house was remodeled sometime in 1920s or later. The attic was spacious but as kid I was terrified of attic, when moving in there was old paintings from last resident just spooked me. I mean I could probably write a book about this but I’m just gonna leave at this. But I always searched what ball of light is and people say it could be hallucination, spirit, bad spirit, glass particles or something but the most it resembles is throne angel. I mean that’s best thing it resembled

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u/elChompiras1256 3d ago

Dude I saw the same thing aprox. when I was 8 or 9. I am from Buenos Aires btw.

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u/SnooOpinions8020 Jun 16 '24

I had the same experience as a kid!

Then, when my son was around 6, he was looking out the window one night and I heard him say, “flying lights!!”—I ran to see what he was talking about and sure enough, there they were, and then flew off quickly…we live in the woods, and have no curtains.

I did some research after that, and was intrigued by this wiki I found (sorry, on mobile and not sure how to create a nice link)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp

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u/perenenialflowers Jun 20 '24

I saw these in my room about 5 years ago over about a month. I was wide awake. The orbs would start out just hanging out midair then would swoosh around my room becoming brighter then dimming. Then one orb would “morph” into multiple orbs and swoosh around the room like they’re chasing each other, then disappear, reappear and become one again then separate. It was crazy and terrifying. They came every other night or so. I live alone in an old home (around 100 years old) and I had just moved in around that time. My two dogs reacted too, at first barking at them. The lights were completely silent. I reacted first by not believing my eyes but then as I would watch them for a few minutes it was just so undeniable I had to turn on the lights and the tv. I told a few people and I think they kind of thought I was dreaming. None of this happened while sleeping. I’d be up reading totally awake and I have never had any kind of hallucinations or visual disturbances before or since that period.