James, you had mentioned 3am, 3am is apparently the time when freaky paranormal shit occurs (and alien abductions), no one knows why, but something is up with that time of day...
One time, I had night time paralysis, and I thought I saw a huge black beetle on my back that was like a lifeforce sucker---as it apparently had a proboscis stuck in my back and was the reason for the paralysis...
Yrs later, the same thing happened, except it was a beetle that was devoid of any color--still huge, human sized...