I am writing this in reference to what I believe was an attack on me by a ghost. When I was young, about 7 or 8, I stayed home from school one day. My family lived in a house in Holbrook, Massachusetts and this is where the aforementioned occurred. My father was in the military and as such my family often moved around from state to state. During my youth, I probably have attended at least 6 schools and have lived in even more houses. This particular house in MA, was the only place that this occurred and it only happened one time. Like I said before, I stayed home from school that day. I remember going into my parents room as they were getting ready for work and falling asleep in their waterbed. After everyone had gone, I was awaken because I felt a sense of danger. As I woke up, I remember my heart racing and I grabbed for the padded rails on the side of the bed. I then saw a grey figure above me and I started to feel that it was very hard to breath (I don't have asthma or any allergies or other medical problems). I was very scared and I struggled with the figure although I couldn't feel it physically or even see myself struggling. I knew that I was putting up a fight though. Within a few seconds, the grey mist disappeared and I could breathe again. I jumped out of the bed and ran into the living  room and sat their all day until my parents came home. I told them  what had happened and they told me it was just my imagination. This is what I started to believe myself. I knew that I wasn't dreaming because I grabbed the beds side rails and felt them and knew I was awake, the only other explanations were my imagination or I was attacked by a very fast grey person, or what I believe now, that I was attacked by a ghost or spirit. I didn't have invisible friends growing up and I was never an outcast type of person. I am and have always been a normal healthy reasonable person who does not have an overactive imagination. That was the only time and the only place that anything like that had ever happened to me, I have never seen a ghost since and I have never had an unexplained thing happen to me. This has been the only unreasonable, unexplainable thing to ever happen to me. I am now 21 and in college getting decent grades. I have a lot of friends from all walks of life and I would not consider  myself to be mentally troubled. I think about what happened every now and then but  it doesn't scare me as much as it did when I was younger. I just wish I knew why the ghost wanted to hurt me.