Time to get real... So what's happening?
The list....
Light repetitive tapping on my foot while sleeping.
Slight momentary glint of the dim flashlight in the bedroom.
Hearing my name faintly called in the middle of the night.
Feeling as if Shelly was wake, looking over me as I slept.
Hearing a noise in the other room.
Suddenly feeling a coolness in the air.
Felt a little faint tickle on the cheek.
A faint vague vision of something on the edge of my peripheral vision.
Awake at 4:13 am... this is not the first time... exactly 4:13 am.
Now, individually, all things things happen occasionally over time, simply as life goes on. To happen all in the same night, quite the coincidence.
The situation....
Sleeping, I felt a light repetitive tapping on my foot four times, as if Shelly was waking me up... only she was fast asleep.
Looking around I saw a slight momentary glint of a light , like from a weak flashlight, but again, Shelly was fast asleep... and the room is completely darkened out.
Later, semi awake... heard a couple of faint noises in the other room... Shelly was fast asleep... brushed it off as nothing.
Once again, awaken, thought I heard Shelly call my name in the middle of the night... I called her name... no answer. Asked if she was okay... no answer. Tapped her lightly on her back, called her name, are you okay? I woke her up, she was sleeping and okay, despite sounding a bit annoyed at me waking her.
Later, the feeling that Shelly was standing at my bed side, watching me sleep, as if to wake me... but she was fast asleep on her side of the bed.
There was a sudden coolness or light chill in the room. Can't explain it, the a/c was pushed up a had not come on.
Semi asleep, felt a faint little tickle on my cheek, as if touched, or kissed.
Twice, there was a faint, very vague vision, or sense of something on the very edge of my peripheral vision... but when turning to look, nothing was there.
Laid awake for what seemed like hours, think about all this. All of these things had happened in the past, individually, but never all in the same night.
An odd questioning feeling seemed to occupy my mind about all these things... unexplained at best. Not afraid, not even concerned... but just thinking about all these things and if it was simply waking from a dream or my imagination. It all seemed too real... but inexplicable.
Best solution was to just get up.
So here I sit, in the middle of the night. 4 hours and 13 minutes after midnight. That seems to hold some significance 4:13 a.m. Thinking... wondering... contemplating the possibilities no matter how unlikely... attempting to clear my mind with rational thoughts that seemed inapplicable to the experience.
Still wondering. I want to go back to sleep... but I'm wide awake as if there is some unknown purpose to it all. Everything is normal... everything is okay. And almost everything is rational except for the fleeting sense of it all. If I had not gotten up, and had gone back to bed, I'm sure it all would have been a faint remembrance of a dream that quickly faded away from memory after waking up.
Perhaps it's all in anticipation of the upcoming Halloween season. You know, its not just a one day thing. The air gets cooler, the nights get darker, the shadows at dusk as darkness approaches become numerous and more active... or is it simply your imagination... or something more?
Is it my imagination simply playing a trick on me, or some other form of sensory perception? What things occupy the mind and senses when in a state of semi sleep and reduced consciousness and awareness of the natural world around us?
Time for a coffee... quietly waiting for the first sight of a dawn, as night time fades to light. Where in the light of day, those things of the night can not be seen or sensed.
Y'all have a good morning. You probably won't remember much if anything of last night, unaware of things of the night, that were all around you, while you lay sleeping.
