I have experienced it several times in my life, always attributing it to a strange half-sleep/half-wakeful state. The most recent, though, I know I was awake because my husband got up for work, left the bedroom, I heard a crackling noise, saw the shadow figure, etc., but my husband heard the nois...
I would have thought it was just a dream I had, except that my husband heard the same noise (he had gotten up from work, I heard him get up and close the bedroom door, then the noise started -- crackling, like tissue paper being crinkled, getting louder and louder) and he heard it too... outside ...
I have experienced it several times in my life, always attributing it to a strange half-sleep/half-wakeful state. The most recent, though, I know I was awake because my husband got up for work, left the bedroom, I heard a crackling noise, saw the shadow figure, etc., but my husband heard the nois...