The man, who often suffers from sleep paralysis, decided to adjust the camera to capture what he was experiencing while sleeping. The camera captured something strange hovering above him.
Mike Pike often wakes up in the middle of the night, and upon awakening he experiences a state of "semi-wakefulness" - and still cannot move. On a number of occasions, Pike felt that he was not alone, and sometimes he noticed a strange, dark figure at his feet watching him.
“I am a rationalist and skeptic. I have never been interested in the paranormal, but after my experiment it turned out that it may actually exist,”said Pike.
One evening last week, Pike decided to put a camera in his bedroom to document what he experiences during his sleepless nights. Pike positioned the camera so the bed was visible and fell asleep with the light. The footage he filmed was shocking. In the video, around the 30th second, an eerie mist rises to the ceiling from Pike's bed.
“I looked at these footage over and over again, trying to come up with some logical explanation for what might have caused this ghost-like image, but nothing came to mind,” Pike said of the video. “I'm really starting to believe that I filmed something that I saw during my paralysis. It scares me so much that I can no longer sleep in my room."
Some scholars have argued that a state of sleep paralysis known as hypnagogia is what causes the visions of shadow people. In a state of hypnagogia, which is also called wakefulness during sleep, a person seems to be in a fairy-tale world, but at the same time is aware of reality. During this state, people experience feelings of fear, chest pressure, and visual images of dark beings.
Several studies have shown that a number of drugs, such as pseudoephedrine, can cause hallucinations. Pseudoephedrine is found in many allergy and cold medications. Many people who suffer from pet allergies have experienced hypnagogic states.