Don’t know and just wondering..

For the longest time now, I have woken up in the middle of the night and been afraid. At first it started that I thought something had been in my room and I look around trying to see where it’s hiding. Now a days when it happens i wake up scared saying they’ve been here… When I stay at friends I find myself thinking can they find me..
My mother told me years ago about being woken up by something in her room… A light orb… She was a religious woman and said she was unable to sleep as it had come into the room a few times, she thought herself crazy. She said that she prayed and said God if this is not of you please make it stop.. she said it never happened again.. Or that knew about…
Now back to me.. This frightens me.. My boyfriend and I go on skype all the time as he is from the states and I live in Canada. He said he heard something in my room.. I feel crazy and don’t know if anything is happening to me but needed to ask if anyone has had that same feeling?