This past Fall I was sleeping alone because my boyfriend wanted to stay up a little longer to watch a show. As I am sleeping I am overcome by the feeling someone is walking towards me. It was so strange because I was sleeping, so how did this "feeling" wake me? But, I remember waking up but not opening my eyes yet.
I then felt the person coming closer to me. Of course, I assumed it was my boyfriend. Maybe he was coming to give me a kiss goodnight since he was walking on my side of the bed. I finally opened my eyes and there was this woman with long, flowing, white hair. She was wearing white, I think a dress. I don't remember seeing eyes, just darkness where they should be. She just stood there looking at me and me at her. I was so scared that I was frozen. After a few seconds of staring at her, I closed my eyes very tight for a few seconds and reluctantly opened them again and she was gone. It took me a long time to finally get out of bed but when I did, I went to the living room and there sat my boyfriend, watching TV still. I didn't say anything to him because I know he doesn't believe in anything related to the supernatural and would have made fun of me. I went back to bed.
A couple nights later my boyfriend woke me very abruptly from my sleep and was asking me if I was ok. I was so confused, I was sleeping. I asked him what he was talking about and he said I was yelling, "No, go away, leave me alone." I had woken him and when he had looked over at me a white figure was hovering over me, face-to-face with me. Knowing how much he believes that ghosts and spirits are bogus, this really freaked me out.
After that, I would catch glimpses of her every few days. She didn't seem to have any intent on hurting or scaring me but she was always just watching me. I would lay in bed and read and she would appear at the end of the bed. It made me very nervous, so one day I said out loud to her, "Please leave me alone, you are scaring me." I never saw her again.
Since then I see ghosts randomly. After the woman there was a little boy. He would just run through rooms I was in and up and down the stairs.
Now I am having a different experience. When I am in a room of my home the floors around me will creak as if someone is walking towards me or around me but now, I do not see them. I only hear them walking. What changed and why all of a sudden am I seeing these ghosts?
I was pregnant with my 3rd child, before I became aware of 'the other side'. I still don't know, for sure, if it was that, or just being in the right place, at the right time.
As Javelina stated, if you were not born with this ability, maybe, you 'grew into it'...maybe I did too!
Your 'visitors' don't sound threatening, why not just learn to live with them, as I did?
You say your boyfriend makes jokes about the paranormal? Sometimes, jocularity hides a nervous soul...
Thank you for sharing; I wish you well.