Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To be so freaked out

58 replies

WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 09:52

My bedroom curtains are about a cm too short to be wide enough for the window so I put a peg on them in the night to keep them together because I can't sleep when light gets in so wouldn't have forgot to close them.

In the middle of the night DP got up to go to the bathroom and I heard him as i'm a really light sleeper, while he was in the bathroom I turned over to face the window and the curtains were wide open (my window is about 7ft wide so couldn't have blown open that far, plus the windows were closed so there was no wind)

I asked him when he came back from the bathroom why he'd opened them and he was adamant he hadn't touched them, he assumed that I'd done it. I said that he must have done it on the way to the bathroom and forgot as he was half asleep but he says he was wide awake and would have known if he'd done it. I didn't sleep for the rest of the night cos it really freaked me out, if he's adamant that he didn't do it and I definitely didn't do it then who did?! Blush
The only other person in the house is DS who's in his cot in his own room, he's 7 months.
Confused
AIBU to be really freaked out?!

OP posts:
FarFromAnyRoad · 09/04/2015 11:53

Like Worra says - one of you did it in your sleep. If there's nothing else disturbed and nothing missing then that's the only possible answer. Unless this is one in a series of woo incidents is it?

FarFromAnyRoad · 09/04/2015 11:55

Incidentally - I woke the other morning to find my glasses stuffed down the side of my bed. I have no recollection of handling them at all between that time and taking them off, setting them down and turning off the light. Weird shit happens sometimes OP, but it's always explicable.

Dr0pThePirate · 09/04/2015 12:09

Wibbly

One morning I walked into the kitchen to find a big wooden spoon that I never use (always helpfully rammed right to the back of my utensil drawer) lying in the middle of the floor.

This was about four/five years ago now. To this day I have no idea how it got there. I didn't put it there and neither did DP. It never happened again.

The point of my story is that while at first I was confused and a little spooked this quickly became a really boring incident that didn't warrant bring up again. A mystery yes but a super dull one. I'm sure in time you'll realise your curtain issue is the same.

Incidentally when I first read your post and you said "I turned over to face the window and the curtains were wide open" I thought you meant You turned over to a face in the window and the curtains were wide open!

Be glad thats not what happened otherwise you'd be spending today shopping for a new mattress! Grin

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 12:19

FarFrom.... No other incidents thank god!

Dr0pthepirate...paahahaha! That made me giggle.

OP posts:
madreloco · 09/04/2015 12:21

Why on earth would you be freaked out? What do you imagine happened then, please do tell us all?

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 12:22

I have no idea!Blush

OP posts:
madreloco · 09/04/2015 12:27

Well then you're just being silly. Obviously one of you opened the curtains, either accidentally or while partially asleep. This is a non-event.

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 12:35

No need to be so rude Hmm

OP posts:
madreloco · 09/04/2015 12:37

I'm not being rude. You're freaking out about...well you don't even know what. You asked are you being unreasonable and the answer is yes, of course you are.

TywysogesGymraeg · 09/04/2015 13:15

OP - if this kind of non-incident freaks you out, you've had a sheltered life!

One of you opened the curtains, without remembering that you did it.

Or

You never closed the curtains in the first place.

There is no such thing as ghosts, so that is not an option.

It's very unlikely a burgular broke in specifically to open your curtains and not steal anything.

That is all.

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 13:17

I don't believe it was a ghost, although I do believe ghosts exist

OP posts:
TywysogesGymraeg · 09/04/2015 13:30

Then, if it wasn't a ghost, and it wasn't you nor DP, how DO you explain it?

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 13:34

I don't know, that's why I was freaked out, because I couldn't explain it. Confused

OP posts:
Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 13:35

By the way, wyt ti'n siarad Gymraeg? Smile

OP posts:
Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 13:36

By the way, wyt ti'n siarad Gymraeg? Smile

OP posts:
NeedAScarfForMyGiraffe · 09/04/2015 13:44

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

PinkParsnips · 09/04/2015 13:47

Maybe one of you sleep walks?!
I used to, and often went round in the night opening cupboards including emptying my friend's mums underwear drawer while she was laid in bed Grin

I had something happen to me the other day, I was in on my own and was hunting everywhere for the parent part of the baby monitor as toddler DD likes to hide it.
I moved all the cushions off the sofa on to the floor and it wasn't there, looked in a few more places, turned round and it was right there in plain view on the sofa! Very weird but I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for these things! Grin

madreloco · 09/04/2015 13:52

But you could explain it, you just chose to ignore the obvious explanations in favour of vague woo-ness.

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 14:01

Well it definitely freaked me out that's for sure, especially when I know for sure that I closed the curtains and both of us are 100% adamant we never opened them

OP posts:
madreloco · 09/04/2015 14:06

Ok fine. Its not at all likely that one of you opened them without realising or remembering, and totes for sure that you have a poltergeist with nothing better to do than mess with curtains.
That what you wanted?

Original poster
WibblyWobblyHead · 09/04/2015 14:09

Are you just trying to create an argument? Hmm

OP posts:
Booboostoo · 09/04/2015 14:11

The peg is possessed. It unclip per itself and will come to life tomorrow night and try to peg your nose shut.

madreloco · 09/04/2015 14:15

I'm just wondering what you expected here. You asked aibu, people are saying yes. They asked what you think happened, you have no idea. You dismiss all sensible answers but provide no alternatives.
It's just all a bit pointless, isn't it? I mean, your curtains were closed, then they were opened. Haven't you got anything else to think about?

shewept · 09/04/2015 14:24

You either

Didn't close them, but believe you did. This happens all the time. You remember doing something you do often, even though you haven't. I forgot to lock the door a fee days ago, but can remember locking it. Because I do all the time. Dh was inside and insists I didn't as he didn't hear the lock. Very noisy crap door

One of you slept walked

One of you got up half a sleep and doesn't remember.

The peg wasn't pegged on and slid off the other one.

Mildly odd incident - yes

Something to be freaked out by - no.

In the nicest possible way yabu.

Silvercatowner · 09/04/2015 14:30

Is your house built on an Indian burial ground??