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Sep. 15th, 2009 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAnyone else here ever have hypnagogic hallucinations? They're sensory weirdness that happens right around the edges of sleep, I think mostly just as you're about to fall asleep. I used to think I hadn't hallucinated even in periods of high fever since the age of five, but I got a sharp reminder the other night that this was not, in fact, the case. Well, maybe not sharp, exactly, but...
Okay. When I still lived with my parents, before I got my Jersey City apartment, I would occasionally have a distressing moment right around the edge of sleep in which I would think that I'd seen a mouse running up the other side of my curtains and hanging on somewhere higher up. I never saw the mouse itself, just the lump moving upwards along the curtain. For a couple of minutes afterwards I would be fully awake, or close to it, and completely certain that there was in fact a mouse in there- even though we'd never had mice in my parents' house and I had no reason to believe that they'd come into the house in the first place. For all that this was one mouse, and not a particularly large one at that, it was still a terrifying prospect. Always. Fortunately there was a relatively easy way to protect myself. I usually snapped out of it as I was either tying a knot in my curtains or tying the cord for my blinds around the midpoint of the curtains. The mouse couldn't get past that.
Haven't had my brain pull that one on me in years, possibly because in Jersey City my bedroom was next to... a blank wall. I had blinds rather than curtains for most of my time there. Got curtains here in Hoboken, though, and the other night I caught myself thinking 'why aren't my cats reacting? Where is my curtain tieback? I must-' and then snapped awake.
Ruddy brain.
Okay. When I still lived with my parents, before I got my Jersey City apartment, I would occasionally have a distressing moment right around the edge of sleep in which I would think that I'd seen a mouse running up the other side of my curtains and hanging on somewhere higher up. I never saw the mouse itself, just the lump moving upwards along the curtain. For a couple of minutes afterwards I would be fully awake, or close to it, and completely certain that there was in fact a mouse in there- even though we'd never had mice in my parents' house and I had no reason to believe that they'd come into the house in the first place. For all that this was one mouse, and not a particularly large one at that, it was still a terrifying prospect. Always. Fortunately there was a relatively easy way to protect myself. I usually snapped out of it as I was either tying a knot in my curtains or tying the cord for my blinds around the midpoint of the curtains. The mouse couldn't get past that.
Haven't had my brain pull that one on me in years, possibly because in Jersey City my bedroom was next to... a blank wall. I had blinds rather than curtains for most of my time there. Got curtains here in Hoboken, though, and the other night I caught myself thinking 'why aren't my cats reacting? Where is my curtain tieback? I must-' and then snapped awake.
Ruddy brain.
