I can't sleep.
Or maybe it is more accurate to say I can't go to bed.
I don't know why this is.
I know I have things to do tomorrow. Important things.
I have to be somewhere in less than 5 hours.
I read the net. I play games.
I check blogs.
Look at my stats.
But I resist crawling into my bed.
Sometimes I sleep on my couch rather than get in my bed.
I think I have a ghost in my bedroom. This isn't why I don't get in my bed, though. This is an old problem, something I've done for years and I've only lived here just over a year.
For awhile, I would sense movement in my big walk-in closet. Catch glimpses just out of the corner of my eye. Not anything threatening, just there. I have a friend who claims she is psychic, and I think she is telling the truth. She stayed here once to house-sit for me. When we were talking later she told me I wasn't alone in my room. I had not mentioned to her my own suspicions. My friend said it is a lady with orangey-red hair and she stays in my closet.
One week, things got really weird. One time I walked into my bedroom and the faucet for the bathroom sink was running. I know I didn't leave it on. The next day I went into my living room and my patio door was open and I know I hadn't left it open. A few days later, I was trying to nap. I was in that in-between state and felt someone sit on the bed beside me. I tried to wake up completely and then felt a hand rest on my hip. I sat up, then wide awake, and no one was there. But I felt the hand. I felt someone sit down.
The next night, I was just getting to sleep and my dog was in bed with me. Suddenly my dog yelped and jumped up and ran in circles on my bed. She was going to jump off and then froze, one foot in the air. She was staring straight ahead, shaking, afraid of something unseen. She wouldn't respond to my calling her name. She just stared straight ahead, and wouldn't move, wouldn't jump off the bed. I picked her up and went to the living room. We slept on the couch that night.
I know I need to get some sleep. I just don't want to go to bed.
"One two Freddy's coming for you..." :)
Maybe it's a friendly ghost?
Posted by: Lily | October 12, 2004 at 11:40 AM
oooo Freddy! Whatever it is, I've never really been afraid. Just kinda spooked that one night with my dog freaking out.
Posted by: Gale | October 12, 2004 at 11:04 PM
just ignore this a minute.
Posted by: Gale | October 12, 2004 at 11:59 PM
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Posted by: Gale | October 13, 2004 at 12:02 AM
So. This has followed you from one place to another? Ever think it's your bed that's haunted?
I do the insomnia thing, but I'm not haunted thank the stars (or the ghost managers who assign them to people).
Posted by: Kathy | October 14, 2004 at 05:05 AM
Now you've done it. I never thought of that before. For a long time, in different homes, had this thing about not wanting to sleep in my bed. Sometimes have gone weeks with sleeping on the couch. But always thought it was because having the tv helped distract me. Like when I get in my bed, I lay there thinking I should be asleep, and can't sleep. But on the couch, I watch tv til I just fall asleep. I sleep in my bed sometimes, when I'm really tired so I don't have to "fall asleep". I'm out.
But, this is an antique bed. It belonged to my grandparents. But they neither one had orangey red hair. I haven't always thought I had a ghost in my bedroom when I've lived other places. I did when I was young, but I didn't have this bed then. But now I'm feeling creepy about my bed.
Posted by: Gale | October 14, 2004 at 05:32 AM
Sorry.... Got a guest room you can move it to? Maybe it's just the mattress? The bedding?
I say if you've felt "unhaunted" in places where you've had your bed, it's not your bed. But I don't discount the creepy feeling you can get about places or things - I've had it before and can't shake it. Sometimes it fades, sometimes you have to change something. I'd start with some basic redecorating, or some "postive energy" mojo thing, an actual thing that feels protective and loving to you. If it's all in your head, that should work. If it's not, that still might work.
Whatever you do, I hope you figure it out. I have insomnia all the time, but part of it is just not getting my ass to bed. I'd hate it if that were compounded with a bad feeling about my bedroom or bed. You got my sympathies.
Posted by: Kathy | October 14, 2004 at 02:34 PM
I should do a cleansing ritual or something. I haven't done that in this house and I've been here a year. I've done it in other homes I've lived in. And then, yes, some nice decorating!
I think I'm naturally a night owl. If I could sleep from 2 or 3 a.m. til 10 a.m. each day, I would be very happy. For some reason, I just can't seem to sleep at 10 p.m. I don't think this is insomnia. Is it?
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