Momentary People in My Bedroom Ron AI
I See People
When my eyelids struggle open,
From what may have been sleep.
I often see clearly strange people,
That should make my skin creep.
But they flash by my eyes,
Very quickly and then are gone.
They pose no threat to me,
Or the dream I had been on.
Instead, they are in full color,
In contemporary, ordinary attire.
They pose no threat whatsoever,
Illicit my curiosity, not ire.
Some of them are younger,
and some of them, middle-age,
But none of them are old ghosts,
Quickly gone like a turned page.
Some of them move quickly,
Across my large bedroom.
Others appear close to me,
Like my caregivers in the room.
These images are totally new,
Don't fit the traditional ghost view.
Instead, they are non-threatening,
Appear infrequently, few.
I'll leave it to your own conclusions,
If you see them, too.
While I will fade from the page,
Turn it without comment, you always do.
Copyright 2026 © Ronald W. Hull
5/15/26
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At 83 and with interrupted sleep all night long to ask to be turned to avoid pressure sores, if I get up early like I did that morning, I tend to doze off in the afternoon or evening…mostly, a sign of age rather than anything else.
I hadn't seen any people for some time, but as I opened my eyes directly above me, about 5 inches from my face was a middle-aged white woman with dark hair to her shoulders. She wasn't beautiful but had the look of a rugged woods person with a flannel red shirt. She nodded her head up and down, as to affirm that I wasn't dead, and disappeared. The most common phrase that I see when finding obituaries of old friends and acquaintances is, “She/he died peacefully in sleep."
I think my vision of her was my affirmation that I was still alive.
Ron
Rebecca
As for your experience, one which I have never had, you are probably somewhere in-between, a kind of half sleep which might account for what the mind is creating, not as in a dream where we do see people, but in a kind of half-awake dreaminess where, as you said, you feel no fear of them. Most interesting.