Dec 30 2007
Really, really, creepy
I need to preface this post with a couple of quick notes. First, I swear on my atheism, it’s entirely true. Secondly, I’m not the kind of person who would ever believe it, if I hadn’t seen it myself. That said, two nights ago the creepiest thing ever happened:
My girlfriend and I went to bed around midnight. I was pretty tired and I fell asleep quickly. In the middle of the night (right around 3 am) I was startled awake. I sat up a little and looked around and I saw my girlfriend walk out our bedroom door and head downstairs. At this point, I wasn’t scared or anything, but I was surprised since I’ve never seen her get up in the middle of the night (she’s a heavy sleeper). I thought about calling after her to see where she was going, but I didn’t want to talk since it was late and I wanted to fall back asleep (you know that feeling…). I started to lay back down when I looked over and realized that my girlfriend was actually laying right next to me. At this point I start to freak out a little because I clearly saw her get up and go down stairs. Possibilities start running through my head — is it an intruder ( no, I know it was her), did I fall back to sleep (no way, it just happened), am I having some kind of dream/hallucination (it was so real)?
In the midst of me running through a million poor explanations of how I could’ve seen what I just saw, she sits up next to me and says, “I’m going to go downstairs to get a drink.” Let me remind you, in the three years we’ve lived together, she has never once gotten up to get a drink in the middle of the night. I’ve never seen her do it. NOW, I’m freaking out. I tell her to stay in bed, but she immediately asks why. (What do I even say?) I told her that I thought I saw someone walk downstairs and that, see, she really should let me buy a gun to keep in our room. (What? I’m not going to give up an opportunity to convince her…). So now she’s scared, and I’m scared, except I can’t tell her what’s really terrifying me: that I just saw something completely unnatural.
I don’t believe in ghosts. I don’t believe in God, the Easter Bunny, leprechauns, Bigfoot, the holocaust (just kidding — Ahmadinejad joke), souls, the Loch Ness monster, or Magic Jesus. These things don’t exist. So what did I just see? Well, two days later I’m still not sure, and I spent the next two hours bathed in sweat trying to figure it out. The easiest explanation would be that I had some kind of dream or visual hallucination (which I’m not prone to) in which I thought I saw my girlfriend get up out of bed and go downstairs (which she NEVER does). That would be the easiest explanation. Although, what are the odds that the first time in the 1,000 nights we’ve spent together she gets up out of bed for a glass of water, is the same night I hallucinate and see her doing just that, only seconds before. That is a coincidence that is just too hard to believe in. It’s not just that it happened on the same night. It happened just seconds apart.
So here’s what I think happened. I think I saw her intentions. Visually. We understand a mere fraction of how the mind works, and somehow there must be a way to transmit thoughts, that we just haven’t figured out. I don’t know. But I was scared. I’m still a little scared.
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