A Strange Night

You ever have one of those nights where just one weird thing after another just keeps happening? Yeah, that was my night two nights ago...

It was 2 A.M. I was happily frolicking through dreamland and enjoying some quality acid trippy dreams when I was suddenly stirred from my sleep by a noise. It was the most hellacious, loud, and obnoxious grinding noise I had ever heard. It was like a thousand fingernails were being dragged across the chalkboards they use in Hell. In truth, it probably wasn't that bad, but I was just interrupted from my REM cycle and everything sounds worse then. Rolling over onto my back, I thought that maybe I had been dreaming, but then the sound persisted. It finally registered that this this was my window opening, and a natural sense of paranoia washed over me. When I'm half-asleep, I have a problem keeping my thoughts from verbalizing themselves so the first thing I did was say out loud, "Holy sh**, someone's breaking in my room." In actuality, I think it came out more like, "Ho sheez, sum...break'n in...room." Because, again, I'm not the most spry person when I'm just waking up. Suddenly, I heard a girl's voice outside my window and (being the coherent and clever person I am) I yelled, "Who the hell is that?" She giggled and identified herself. It was a friend of mine from down the hall. They had gone out to a club and, coming in past curfew, wanted a window to sneak in. They had mistaken my window for my next-door-neighbors, Kasey. They apologized as I helped them crawl through the cramped window and I just waved them off and threw myself back into bed. The next afternoon, I saw both the girls and they once again apologized for interrupting my sleep. I told them that there was no harm done except in the fact that they truly frightened me and (if I was a more alert person) I might have hurt them in some way, not knowing who they were.

Also that night, I started sleepwalking. I woke up next to Jessica's bed (she wasn't there that night) and was taking off all the random junk piled on her bed for no apparent reason. Needless to say, I was confused. Nonetheless, I lumbered back to my side of the room and went back to sleep.

So yeah, that was my really strange night. It was definitely weird. And slightly disturbing.