This has only just happened, and I honestly don't know how to feel about it.
I've always felt sensitive to paranormal or otherworldly things, but I don't think I've fully developed that sense to the point where I can control or understand what I'm seeing, feeling, or hearing. I feel like there's a subconscious block that I'm not ready to remove yet. Even so, I still experience things from time to time.
What I've just experienced is something I can't explain, and I'm wondering if anyone else has had something similar happen or might know what it could be.
It's about 2:00 a.m., and I'm sitting on my bed watching TV. Out of the corner of my right eye, I noticed something move before disappearing over the edge of my bedside table. I only became aware of it because it moved. The strange part was that it felt as though it had been watching me for a long time before that. The absence of its presence felt incredibly loud, it's difficult to describe, but that's the closest way I can explain it.
It was about the size of a cat and appeared completely black, it felt like the absence of light apart from the slightest hint of something lighter on it. I didn't get a proper look because, by the time I turned my head, it had already disappeared.
My first thought was that it was our family cat standing with his front paws on the bedside table, so I immediately checked under the bed, around the room, and everywhere nearby. There was nothing there, and my cat wasn't even inside.
The part that confused me the most was that I also heard it. As it lowered itself—or whatever it was—from the bedside table, I heard a soft thud as it touched the floor. It sounded almost exactly like a cat quietly jumping down from a low ledge.
I do feel a little uneasy now, but I think that's more because the experience was so unfamiliar and because the idea of something seemingly watching me is unsettling. Strangely, though, I don't get a malicious or threatening feeling from whatever it was. If anything, it feels more curious than anything else.
When paranormal things happen I get very dizzy, like vertigo and the spinning has just started to happen. I can also hear a very faint sound coming from the direction of where I saw it but there is nothing there. It sounds like the slight movement of a small creature getting comfortable on blankets.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have any thoughts on what this could have been?