Journal #7334

Longish journal incoming:

I'm back from Florida. Was very hot there, as usual. And while we didn't get to go to Kennedy Space Centre, we did see the space shuttle from where we were. I will upload a photo my brother took when I get access to his camera.
It was cool seeing it, and most of us went inside to watch the rest on the tv when we lost sight of it. My parents stayed outside though, and they heard the sonic boom. Apparently it was really loud, even though we were miles away.

On the way back I saw some really cool things out of the window of the plane, although I didn't have a camera. D:
As we were passing Kennedy Space Centre I saw a single massive cloud, really high up, with rain falling from it. It's difficult to describe, but it looked amazing, seeing the sunlight shimmering through the ribbon of rain underneath it.
The plane went up near the coast of the US and passed over the north Atlantic, but while we were about level with New York I saw a massive lightning storm in the distance. Big flashes of orange in the clouds miles away, surprisingly often, at least one every five seconds. Occasionally a big bolt would arc out of, then back into the clouds, lasting a few seconds. Some of them must have been at least a mile long.

We got back yesterday, and I fell asleep as soon as I got home. As I woke up at about 2-3am, I think I had a sleep paralysis experience, which has never happened before. I've hastily done some pictures to help illustrate it.This is the general layout to my room, I have a bedside table and a desk beside my bed, and a brown door leading to the hallway outside, and a white door leading to the bathroom.This is what it looked like when I woke up. The desk and the table had gone, and both doors had moved, and had switched colours. One corner of the room was too dark to see into. I could hear birds and other sounds through one wall, as if it were really thin. I could hear my mother outside the bedroom door talking to my cousins, who are about six years old. She was telling them I was asleep in there, and not to be too loud. After some conversation with them, I heard her tell them to go in. At this point a dark figure, down on all fours, lunged out of the darkness at me. I couldn't move and was panicking, but after a second or two the whole scene faded. It was odd, it wasn't like anything I had experienced before.