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I came back from school very tried last night, I forgot all about eating anything to sleep even though I told my husband that I was famished and before I knew it I was asleep and gone into a deep sleep, it's always like this whenever I go to school and come back home, it is always like I have driven a truck full of cement the whole day and when I get back home I sometimes just head straight to bed, a foodie like me even for gets food to forget about food when nature calls.
And then midnight came, making that familiar midnight trek to the bathroom to heed nature's call. Still half-asleep, I flipped on the light switch and barely opened my groggy eyes - just enough to handle my business. As I washed my hands, some subtle movement in my peripheral vision made me glance up.
That's when I saw it - a towering, mysterious dark figure projected on the wall. My shadow. Though logically I knew it was just my silhoutte, something about the angle and late hour lent an eerie vibe. My heart began to race as what should have been an innocuous bathroom shadow now took on a creepy, almost sinister appearance to my sleep-addled brain.
What happened next was instinctual but admittedly ridiculous. I let out a rather embarrassing frightened yelp and literally jumped back from the sink. My panicked brain interpreted that menacing shadow as an intruder and wanted no part of it! Fight or flight kicked into high gear despite the fact that the "intruder" was simply swaying in time with my own movements.
After a few seconds of shocked fear, reality set back in. I slowly crept back towards the sink as it dawned on me that I had quite literally just been scared silly by my own shadow. I couldn't help but laugh at myself. The combination of darkness and lingering sleepiness had turned an everyday object my shadow -l into some nightmarish specter. What can I say, those horror movies I watched earlier were clearly still playing tricks on my subconscious!
In the comforting light of day, I know how silly it was to be frightened by a mere shadow. But late at night, the mind can play tricks.
Mehn it was a scary night itgiufh I was gone, I already was having thoughts about I would attack and I was in a way thinking about my kids and was thanking God that they were not around in the house
I may be laughing now, but in those panicked moments I was ready to go into full defense mode against myself well, as in I was scared like hell, So fair warning if you see me looking wary wandering to the bathroom late at night. Who knows what innocent household item might set off my imagination next?
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We are sometimes scared when experiencing such but as humans we have no choice to showcase the fear.
If I were anywhere near, I'd have asked you to go and eat. It's the hunger, plus fatigue 😂
Those scares happen to a lot of us. You weren't fully awake so your mind went with the game. Sorry.
yeah, I also thought it was because I was hungry too, imagine how I ran from myself hehe
Lol... I clearly understand this. Hehe, it happens when we are really stressed out sometimes. We get to freak out at things because we weren't calm to check, lol.
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I think we've all been there. Our minds play tricks on us like that. Seeing things that aren't really there. Something to spook you some more; what if your shadow moved and tried to reach out to you through the darkness? Hehe?