Spirit Lights?

I saw this on Facebook recently, and after thinking about it, I decided to write about an occurrence in my house, a few years back.  Was it a visitor?  I am not sure, I do know I was not dreaming...

What I saw that night, are very much like the lights shown in this photograph?  The ones I saw were blue, a very vivid blue...almost dancing and not in round shapes, more like strings of light.

I was asleep and had my dog Rocky with me.  I lost him in October, and miss his company every single day…still…

He was our sleeping buddy.  Hubby was offshore and I was in a deep sleep, but Rocky’s barking woke me up.  I opened my eyes and immediately saw the blue lights in the hallway.  I was frozen in fear and amazement...I watched Rocky, he saw them too.  I blinked my eyes and tried to make sure I was indeed awake, I was.  Like a child,…I closed my eyes and willed myself to NOT look again…I don’t know how much time when by, I am sure it was only seconds.  When I got the nerve to look once more, they were gone.  He was calm and I was not…I had to find a reason for the lights.  

Our upstairs has two bedrooms with a small hallway in between.  I told myself there was someone at the house next door, and the lights reflected.  Actually, our neighbors had an older son who was in trouble a good bit, so I thought the Sherriff must have brought him home…and the blue lights were from the car.  Hahaha, I thought it sounded reasonable.  I ran to the bedroom and found the shade (black-out blind) down.  So now what?  Of course my sleep was interrupted and I do think I just got up and stayed up.  I thought about the lights and I told myself, rather calmly that I was pretty sure it was a spirit.  To this day I believe it was.  Steve’s mother passed away not to long after that.  But certainly if someone was coming to see her, they wouldn’t come to Louisiana.  And I haven’t heard of spirit leaving the physical body, prior to death?  I hope it was someone who loved me and just wanted to say hello.  I have never ‘felt’ anything in this home.  A wackadoo, NOW sister-in-law…told me she was psychic and said she felt spirits in our house.  But can I tell you, she is c.r.a.z.y…and I wouldn’t believe anything that came from her mouth.  Our house was at the time filled with antiques and old photographs still have some, so maybe the spirit was attached to them.  I kind of like the feeling of [something] visiting me.

I would love to hear, if you have a story similar.