Last night, sleeping alone as H is away. Went to sleep as usual taking a mild sleeping tablet. Off I doze zzzzz all good.
Woken by a disturbance in the room, some pretty loud crashings and banging close to the window, rustlings - like a cat play/trashing things.
Fine, I have a new kitten - so I wake up blearily and annoyed and click on the light. Curtain by the window is still swaying and moving from the disturbance. Bloody cat. Except, when I sit up I notice said kitten is still curled up asleep next to me.
Okaaay.... a breeze from the window must have disturbed some stuff and set the curtains going. So I cautiously go over. Window is closed.
So what happened?
I can think of a couple of possibilities:
That noise dream thing where you think you're woken by a noise by there isn't one (this doesn't explain curtain still moving when I turned light on, although would explain why the kitten wasn't disturbed by the noise)
It was the cat mucking around and when I woke it quickly got on the bed curled up and faked being asleep (I'm not convinced, normally at the first sign I'm awake the bloody thing wants to play attack - do cats fake it like this?)
It was a ghost. But they don't exist. The other day a lamp in the area fell off the desk, and I remembered that and called out today 'Is anyone there?', but of course no one was there so I felt daft and went downstairs to eat a bag of skittles.
Mice? We don't have mice as far as I'm aware. Small, relatively modern (1940s) mid terrace and if we had mice I think I would have heard/seen them.
Any thoughts? The curtain was definitely moving!
I spent the next hour too scared to close my eyes and it didn't help when my son started sleep talking in the other room!!