AIBU to sleep with the light on now

[Theaccidentalthief]

So first off disclaimer that I've been reading the thread on here recently about glitches in the matrix which freaked me out a little!

I have just been sat bfing my 5 month old in the dark on the side of our bed. We have a next to me crib so there is a small gap where my bedside table is and then the crib begins. As I sleep naked I was using a Muslin to catch milk leaking from my other boob (sorry tmi!). Anyway I felt a tugging sensation and the Muslin was pulled from the bed and onto the floor where I could see the outline of it slither under the crib. I have never been so scared in my entire life. Especially when I plucked up the courage to have a quick glance down and saw two eyes staring back at me 😱😱😱😱 after a few seconds I realised my ddog has clearly escaped his bed and was now under the crib licking said muslin (🤢 straight in the wash don't worry!).

Anyway I now feel a bit of a tit but I'm still considering sleeping with the lights on! Ddog is firmly back in his bed 😂😂

Anyone else got any similar stories of being freaked out only to find out it was something daft? Please no actual scary ones as baby is heading off to sleep and I do want to sleep too 😂😂

You’ve never experienced terror until one of your posters has s l o w l y fallen off the wall

I can still hear that scrape as the corner edges it’s way down....

@stargazer2030 mine always come round to my side of the bed even though DH is closer to the door. Last time, I shrieked, DH woke up and shrieked, poor DS was waking me because he didn’t feel well :(

Reminds me actually when he was a toddler and had only recently gone into beds. I woke up to go to the toilet one night, was edging my way round the pitch-black room when my foot hit something solid. And warm. But slightly yielding.

I nearly barfed in fear until I realised it was a small child who had made a little nest on the floor by my bed.

@stargazer2030 I used to do this when I had nightmares as a kid, I’d always go to the side where my dad was and just stand there shivering and willing him to wake up. The reason: I felt bad for waking my parents up, so just hoped they’d wake up by themselves

The creepiest thing my baby currently does is a random laugh during the night that sounds a bit like a goat... (even that I find pretty cute 🤦🏻‍♀️)

Not looking forward to awaking tomorrow children staring at me 😂 why are kids in horror movies that extra bit creepy?!

I don't really do being scared, I'm always looking for the practical explanation, don't believe in ghosts, happily watch/ read anything and then go mooching around the pitch black countryside at night. Doesn't bother me at all that we live in a secluded rural house whether dp is here or not.

One night years ago dp was away so just me and young dc. I woke up to the sound of someone trying to kick the back door in, which did scare the daylights out of me. More so because the dog wasn't making any noise, very out of character, even though it was loud enough to wake dc.

I looked from an upstairs window and discovered our very angry small pony pawing away at the door. She only ever got treats from inside the kitchen door, and having escaped from the field was fuming she couldn't get in and her waiting staff weren't attending to her.

Many years ago, the house we lived in then had windows which opened straight out onto one of the paddocks.

It was a bungalow, and in the dead of night I was woken by a white face opening the curtains with its teeth..... the fucking goat was determined to come in! I screamed, it screamed, I jumped out of bed and it jumped back off the window ledge!

Oh lord the phantom pony and Goulish goat have made me laugh 😂 dh is away on business now for a week... I'll be very carefully making sure the dog is in his own bed each night 😜

In reality I'll probably letting him sleep on the bottom of the bed to protect me 😂

I’m not easily scared, but I regularly scare my poor boyfriend.

I sleep walk quite a lot, I get out of bed and walk to the bottom of the bed, I then neatly fold over one corner of the duvet. Once that’s done I just stand staring at whoevers in the bed. If said person wakes up I slowly walk over to them, when he doesn’t scream his head off I just climb over him and get back in bed.

Always a bit weird having to warn someone about that the first time they stop over!

Finished wrapping presents at 2am the other night and was laying on the carpet with the lights on the lowest dim when out the corner of my eye caught the most gigantic spider was crawling towards me and fast at that🤢 chucked daughters bumbo over it and made my 5 year old son push it into the hallway the next morning ready for dad when he got home😂

We have issues with birds.. not that they’re getting in now but that one out there is out to give us a heart attack .

While getting the new roof fitted I woke up at like 2/3am to a thud and a very clear but quiet (so hard to understand) male voice outside my window.. now this would’ve been normal n rational if we weren’t upstairs.. I’m thinking there’s a burglar climbing the scaffolding to get in through the loft.. I wake (I thought I did) dp, he tells me it’s the cat (yes the cat speaks English apparently) and to go back to bloody sleep.. I didn’t as obviously the crazed burglar was outside having his midnight chat before he came in! I eventually peaked out the window like right I need to see this I need to know.. bastarding bird had knocked over a small battery powered radio on the boards outside the window and must’ve set it off.. couldn’t open the window far enough to get it to turn it off either.

Then one of the roofers fell in to our room, wasn’t hurt thankfully and we weren’t in so neither were we. But obviously it left a hole for a few days until they repaired it. DP woke up shrieking like a school girl.. I’m opening my eyes thinking he’s gone mad.. there was a bird flying around the room. Casually landing on the bed frame between dp’s paranoid ranting.. We let it out the window the cat didn’t even budge.

That was definitely karma for him ignoring my “burglar”

Probably just as well the ghoulish pony made me laugh too, as I then had to go and check it was just her out, blearily check all the fencing and nail on the slip rail she'd removed and limbo'd under. And then in the attractive combo of pjs, wellies and coat, break up the cheerful kitchen party of dc and pony and return them to their correct abodes.

Y'see it's just like the glamour of Jilly Cooper here.

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We moved house this year and getting used to the different layout and different noises when sleeping has caused me a couple of frights. The first one was waking up and seeing a very tall shadowy figure in the corner of the bedroom. It turned out it was DH's dressing gown hanging up beside the bedroom door (with the layout in the old house I couldn't see anything like that from the bed.) DH wasn't too amused at my lamp going on so I could see what/who it was because I sure as hell wasn't getting out of bed to check.

The other thing was constantly hearing footsteps which sounded like they were coming from above us. Our new house is semi-detached and we have a large floored loft. Thanks to many posts on MN I was convinced there must have been someone up there but DH finally solved it. When we moved in at first there was no-one next door, when the new neighbours moved in about a month after us was when the noises started, and rather than it being them in the loft (we double checked, it's all secure and no-one is getting through without decent demolition), it was their DC stomping up and down the wooden stairs. Even though the stairs aren't near our shared wall the noise carried and somehow sounded like it was above us. DH only realised what it was when he'd been cleaning out the car on the driveway and heard them stomping down before leaving and I'd heard the same noises while sitting in the living room.

We've all settled in now so hopefully no more weird sights or noises.