[djmcmath]

Maybe not quite so exciting as phone and stereo games, but periodically stuff in my apartment moves on it's own. One that stands out: my room-mate and I had just finished watching a movie. He applied the remote to power down all the home entertainment gear, and we sat there in silence for a moment, thinking "Wow, great movie." Then the doorstop vibrated. You know, the little springy doorstop doodads, made out of a single steel spring? The kind that if you tap with your finger, will make a buzzing noise as they vibrate? We had no pets at the time, and both of us were 10 feet away when it happened. There were no objects nearby, and no reasonable explanation inside the realm of normal physics. Wierd.

Oh, and my other story -- this one is just strange, but no physical consequences. I woke up one morning at perhaps 2am with the definite sensation that I wasn't alone in the room. I lived alone at the time, so that was a bit of a shocker to me. Worse, it wasn't just a "there's someone in the room" feeling, but the sensation that it was someone really huge, and dark, and hairy, with big teeth and red eyes. No, I'm not making this up. Before I could really come up with a reasonable response, I felt like someone was on top of me -- not physically touching me, but like doing a pushup position over me, just holding position inches from my face. I could practically smell its breath. I was overwhelmed by a feeling of abject terror; I have never been so afraid in my life. The feeling eventually passed, but I didn't sleep again until sometime after the sun came up.

Does that count?


Dan