hmm, it seems some non physical being did want to get your attention Dood, I wonder why? sometimes they want to communicate that they are alive and hanging around, or it could be a ghost that moved on.
with the poking in the ribs I received, I remember forcing myself to sleep and I could hear what I thought was my own conscious, telling me this was wrong. I trained myself not to hear these thoughts. so that day, when I got poked awake was an especially insistent voice to get up. a couple of times. but I was getting so good at ignoring the mind, and that is why I got physically poked 

actually, I already knew about spirits at the time and though I was surprised, I had to chuckle later that I really was aided in this regard, bit of a shock nonetheless to be touched.

Welcome, hello back, and nice to meet you Lia.   Thank you for sharing your experiences here, the more of us that share our experiences and thoughts on these matters, the more "common place" and normal will such stuff become to a greater range of people.

welcome Lia. good to hear you have a helper with you.  (my opinion) I think Justin has a good point.