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This is fairly simple, perhaps even silly, but it was a really weird experience for me last night - or shall I say, this early morning.

Basically, I had some very odd and slightly creepy dream about gently blinking red and blue lights in pitch-black darkness, and something very peculiar to do with a bed and some other people which I won't go into details about.

Then I woke up, feeling strange, and instantly I realised Melvins' song "Night Goat" was playing in my head. For no apparent reason, I became really nervous. I couldn't get back to sleep, I felt a bit odd, and when I got up and went to the toilet, I was looking anxiously in every dark corner, expecting something to jump out at me. And this is my own house, where nothing truly freaky has ever happened. It was all my own mind.

The strangest thing was the Melvins connection. I'd never thought of that song as particularly creepy before, but for some reason, after having a weird dream and waking up in the dark at around 4.30 AM, that "night goat" track popped into my head, and everything about it was suddenly really eerie and nightmarish in a creeping, sinister kinda way, like being alone in a dark field at midnight or something and there's this demonic monster out to get you, but you don't know where it is. You do know that it's some twisted malformation of a goat with bloodshot pupil-less eyes, a mangled face and an evil expression. Yeah, the "night goat". Worst of all, the actual song has a really spooky sound, and I could hear that plus other Melvins' songs from that same album in my head for a good 20 minutes after waking up.

Sound laughable? Maybe. But I swear, those Melvins songs going round in my head after a weird dream was genuinely scary.

Any thoughts on this?

And has anyone else had a similar experience? You know, having a slightly creepy (but not terrifying) dream, waking up and suddenly finding you're not able to stop a song going round and round in your mind, and the song creeps you out big time?

I have experienced a couple of weird sightings, UFO and paranormal, but since I can't explain them or necessarily feel that they were in fact genuine, I won't elaborate on them and they were not necessarily scary.

However, something that petrified me, has been my own mind malfunctioning three times now since 2006. I have done some research on this and found it to be something called Derealiztion.

Each time this has happened I have been under a fair amount of stress. The very first time I recall it happening was when my Grandfather died in January 2006 and I was the only one of my family to be able to travel to Germany from the U.S. to his funeral. (I had family scattered all over the globe and my mom had been in the hospital) I arrived in Germany and went and stayed with a relative, all day I was fighting jet lag and went wandering around the city of Stuttgart to stay awake. That night I went to sleep relatively quickly and awoke out of a solid sleep within 10 - 15 minutes after going down.

Then I didn't know where I was upon waking for at least a minute, then sheer unexplained terror ran all over my body and everything felt strange and otherworldly. I kept seeing a dead tree with empty dead branches on the back of my eyelids. It took me 2 hours to talk myself out of this state of mind. Everything was very very desolate and alien. My heart raced and I thought I was going to die. I ended up breathing into a bag to relieve the stress of hyperventilating (something I learned later was not even the correct procedure) The feeling of terror and general feelings of out of place hung with me the rest of the next day. I was not in full control of mind for at least 2 hours that night. I never talked about this before now. No drugs nor alcohol were involved and I am other wise healthy and non depressed, with a pretty positive outlook on things.

Then it happened to me two other times, both times I was ill, once with a bad flu later in 2006 and one time with Mosquito born encephalitis in the summer of 2011. Each time the onset was awaking out of the early stages of sleep. It's the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. The last time it happened I called a good friend of mine to help me talk myself out of this mental state. I didn’t want to wake my GF or our son and freak them out. Each time there is this dark illusion of dead branches and a veil of darkness across everything and repeating phrases ran through my mind. It literally takes me a couple of days to fully recover back to a positive state of mind after it happens. I hope that it doesn’t ever happen again. I know it sounds mundane, but it was truely terrifying especially the thought of not being able to get back to reality.

Check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derealization