Tabs -- you're golden, I thought it was pretty funny, when I got around to reading your post.
People have made fun of me for far more serious things than this. Heck, I have a hard time taking this even halfway seriously...
FWIW, I'm still not convinced that mine was a night terror. It wasn't distinctly dreamlike. I'm actually relatively familiar with the symptoms of those -- I've had several room-mates who had similar sleep problems. This was different, in ways that are hard to describe. It was more like a person than that. There was hatred on this thing's foul breath. (No tabs, it wasn't your breath, I'd recognize your coffee-breath anywhere!) Several other times in that apartment, and a few times in two other places I lived, I had similar experiences. No crawling shoelaces, no dancing pants, just this big dark hairy thing with the hatred and fear. Sometimes he'd lurk nearby, sometimes he'd sit at my desk, leisurely in his surroundings. The my hyper-religious spiritual warfare friends immediately jumped on the "It's a demon" routine, and explained the exorcism routines. I ignored them for quite some time, then finally broke down because I needed some sleep. Whether my psyche finally gave up on it, or decided that praying out loud through my apartment before bed each night was somehow worthwhile, or because there really was a collection of angels standing around fending off evil, my little exorcism actually worked.
(shrug) But no physical consequences, either way. Has anybody heard any halfway reasonable explanations for these things? Mine can be written off as a trick of the mind. My friends' night terrors can be written off as a sleep problem. But hearing distinct voices at coincidental times, seeing objects move, multiple people hearing the same sounds from a phone -- those aren't just tricks of the mind. Any thoughts?
Dan