Who Is The Hat Man In Your Dreams?

Suddenly all around the world, there have been reports of people experiencing the same terrifying dreams of the ‘Hat Man’ in their sleep.

The vision described in various reports is virtually the same everywhere. The question is in everybody’s mind, who is the Hat Man?

Sleep Demon or Real?

It’s two in the morning and you’re woken up by a loud thud in your room. You try to get up but realize you’re paralyzed and can’t move.

Only then in the corner of your eyes, you look and notice a six feet tall dark entity wearing a hat standing by your door.

You’re panicking you try to scream for help. The best you can do is a small whimper and wait for the moment when the night terror ends.

The figure suddenly appears right in front of you and you notice the tall man is dressed in all black with glowing eyes.

You feel something pressing on your chest and feel being choked by someone. Then you see the hat man hovering above you.

You’re certain that this is your end and then suddenly you wake up from your night terror and realize it is just a dream.

You might later think to yourself that the hat man is just a simple sleep paralysis demon. Well, you might be wrong. Apparently, people from all around the world have encountered him and all share a similar story.

Hat Man Characteristics

There is a blog dedicated to people from all around the world writing about their experiences with the hat man.

Going through all the reports from various blogs, books, forums, chat rooms, and interviews, we would try to decipher a few common aspects of the hat man you see in your dreams.

The Hat Man is a dark entity sometimes called an Intruder.

He is mostly featureless.

He wears a hat.

When people encounter him in their sleep, they feel paralyzed, unable to move or speak.

He is mostly observing you from a distance.

There’s a crushing sense of breathlessness in some cases as if something evil is pressing on their chests.

People can move or come out of their paralyzed state when he’s gone.

Hat Man in Various Cultures

If you study the existence of the hat man across different cultures, you would probably find it absolutely fascinating. Because what you read is the same core experience, but it varies with every cultural overlay.

This demonic entity has inspired various stories, art, and myths across cultures and history. Like in Assyria and Babylon, there was an evil spirit who was said to leap upon unsuspecting victims as they slept.

A Greek doctor wrote of an entity that visited his patients at night and pressed upon their chests during the ancient period.

Similar entities appear in folk tales and myths told from the Arctic to Japan, to Newfoundland. And for most of history, no one knew why.

By the late 20th century, the science of sleep evolved to offer another explanation: It’s called sleep paralysis. We have already done an in-depth explanation of sleep paralysis in our previous blogs.

Theories

A number of religions, cultures, and belief systems describe what are known as shades of shadowy spiritual beings or supernatural entities which take the shape of the entity people are scared of.

It was a real challenge for the scientific community to explain why some of these strange visions seem to crop up time and time again.

Of course, people who see things like the Hat Man aren’t crazy or lying. That fear, and that vision, is real. But the explanation has a lot more reasoning than just ghosts. Some ufologists believe hat man could be an alien species observing people.

People describe an entity watching either from a doorway, closet or a corner of a room as most accounts say observation is all that happens strengthening ufology’s claims.

Some people have even claimed to also see him during the daytime when they are wide awake and going about their usual chores.

Still, other accounts state they experience seeing shadow men during, after, or before a major trauma or traumatic event. This connection to Hatman would seem to suggest a spiritual or emotion-driven aspect.

Still, there isn’t a consensus on whether these entities are harmless, evil, bad omen, or something else entirely.

Supernatural vs Science

Freddy Krueger (Enrique Guzman Egas/Unsplash)

Even if we believe what Science has to say, the question looming is that if it’s sleep paralysis, how and why do so many people experience the same thing?

It’s actually unbelievable yet fascinating, in terms of cultural variations that you take individuals across different geographic locations, and yet the dreams are so eerily similar.

According to psychologists, sleep paralysis visions are shaped by cultural influences the dreamer may not even be consciously aware of. For example, that man in the hat looks an awful lot like a figure we’ve come to associate with horror. Can you guess?

Seeing The Hat Man and sleep-related stuff, the first thing that might come to our mind is Freddy Krueger and the Nightmare on Elm Street films. In fact, the movie was actually directly inspired by sleep paralysis incidents during that period.

This fear that you can be attacked when you’re asleep; that’s when you’re most vulnerable. And the entity that bears a similar resemblance, the hat of Freddy Krueger.

But there’s another twist. Some people who saw the hat man hasn’t even seen the movie or know about Freddy Krueger’s existence.

It’s still never understood why all those hallucinations are so similar and there’s still no definitive answer for why some people see these shadowy visitors.

Conclusion

So far it’s split into two theories, one claiming the hat man is a real entity observing over people and the other claiming that it’s just our imagination which comes as a sleep paralysis demon.

If you go with the studies, no evil entity lurks in the corners of our rooms at night. The Hat Man is possibly in our minds, and we shouldn’t let our fear take over us in our dreams.

But there’s always a what if? What if the hat man is real and is not an imagination?

So, have you seen the hat man in your dreams? Definitely tell us about it in the comments.