I'm always afraid one of these days it won't be a hallucination. Eeep.

[kungfuwaynewho]

Sleep paralysis incident this weekend!  I woke up, and for the first time since I was a kid, had my eyes open.  (It was unpleasant.)  First, I heard what sounded like a cabinet door in the kitchen slam shut.  Then someone running down the hallway toward my room.  Then a light went on and off.  Then...silence.

My absolute first thought was, of course, that there was a demon.  I mean, could that have been more Paranormal Activity?  Then I figured it was my brother doing who-knows-what, but when I asked him the next day he insisted he never got out of bed.  I checked with everyone else, even though I figured no one else would be running around the house.  The only alternative was sleep paralysis.

Which is kinda weird, since I never actually felt paralyzed.  That, coupled with my second visual hallucination in my entire life (the first and previously only one being when I was five, and I woke up to a little girl's face a few inches from mine, staring at me), still has me wondering just a bit if it actually was sleep paralysis, but I can't think of what else it would be.  Brrr.  I do not need to be seeing lights go on and off in the middle of the night.  No thank you, brain.

Barring a miracle, I think we can safely say that I will not be finishing my NaScreeWriMo in November.  I will still be finishing the script, and I'll still post the pages as I go, but that ship has sailed.  Ah well.

Comments

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

:D Really, it's not that bad or anything; not anymore. Last night it was like, "A demon! My brother... Maybe a poltergeist. Ah well." And then I rolled over and went back to sleep.

I really only post the stories because (a) I hope they're interesting to read, because I think they're kinda weird and fun, and (b) to keep a log for myself. It actually tends to track really well with my stress level. When I'm on an even keel, I'll have an odd incident once every month or two. When I start getting stressed, it might be more like once or twice a week. The last time I had a period like that, in grad school, it actually was realizing that I was having incidents all the time that made me realize that I was stressed out, and needed to make some changes in my life. Which is kinda weird? IDK.

But yeah, it's no big. You're still in the lead on My Life Sucks, kiddo. ;)

[nhpw.livejournal.com]

They are kind of interesting to read. That was my first thought, actually... like, "Woah, that's freaky weird... and fascinating." But I didn't want you to be like - Um, no, it sucks and it's awful and how could you say such a thing? So I'm glad you said that, because now I don't have to feel bad for thinking what I did.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, no. Even the times when it was a really, really horrible incident that ruined my night's sleep and freaked me out for nights to come (someone's broken into my apartment and they're going to kill me and now they're leaning over me and they're sitting on the bed and they're tugging on my shirt collar oh God oh God I'm going to die), I still relished telling the story. Like I just did, LOL.