Experiences with ghosts in your home?

Hi!

Living in Japan for almost 2 years now and have never experienced anything paranormal and I'm also no real believer of such things.

But my Japanese friend (who has been living in foreign countries almost whole of her life) recently experienced the so-called ''Kana-shibari'' in her bed in the early morning.

Kana-shibari is, when your body is suddenly not able to move anymore.

Over that she also could not talk anymore, when the kana-shibari took place, so she couldn't even call her roommate for help.

Over all that she says, she even saw some children's (not one, more it seems) hands.

Did anyone have similar experiences?

What do you do in such cases?
Because she doesn't really have experience of living in Japan (though she is Japanese), she doesn't really know about Japanese ghosts.

And now it is also just interesting to see, whether there are foreigners, with such experiences?

I still think, that Japanese ghosts keep away from us, because they fear, we don't understand their Engrish... :p

Sleep Paralysis:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Ghosts are things from fairy tales and dreams.

Above poster is most probably right.
Sleep paralysis with a beginning of dream about some children is what happened.

Did anyone have similar experiences?

I feel immobile every morning. The very thought of getting up from bed and actually doing something paralysis me to the core of my bones. ^-^

I didn't believe in ghosts until the summer day when I visited an old cemetery in England..all of a sudden the air became chilly and I saw white shapes, like wisps of fog, surrounding me..
A friend was about 100 metres away, in the sunshine, and he said later that the area where I was, under old tree, darkened visibly..when I came towards him he said that I was white as chalk and shivering..

One of my uncle was a police detective in Europe. There was this castle that kept changing owners every few years. Apparently there were ghosts.
So my uncle and a couple of cops where hired to spend the night in that castle. Besides being used to seeing mutilated dead bodies they all had gone to war during WWII.

Anyway, everything was fine until the early hours of the morning when they all felt chilly, uneasy..they went all around the place and felt spooked, literally. it was worse than their fear during a war battle.

I was KanaShibaried, too!
And then a seiza-sitting lady smiled fo me and faded out,
so I tought "Oh, at last I watched oBake, I believe it..." and sleeped again.
When I waked up, I tought "Umm... I was half asleep then"(^-^;
Maybe because I knew KanaShibari is Sleep Paralysis.

Thanks a lot to everyone who answered until now!!

I didn't know about sleep paralysis (should have searched kana-shibari directly on wiki, huh? ^^;), but it seems a very possible answer.
And I'm glad, if it's this easy to explain.
Will save the money for an over-expensive "o-harai" (kind of exorcism).

Still... there are people out there, who really had ghost experiences, that are not so easily to explain. Thanks for sharing, Red frog and ajapaneseboy (though you "just" might have been sleep paralyzed ;)!

And thanks to Sea monster for making me laugh! :D

Am hoping for more stories an , anyone something to share?

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Buying bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscles
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."



Lyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?"
And he said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."
Yeah!

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!

Living in a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!