bed bugs
If I see a bug in my house, I can’t sleep at night. I mummify myself in my blankets so nothing can get in (even if it’s already sweltering in my room), then wake up throughout the night to crawling sensations all over my skin. Also any piece of lint or fuzz immediately starts to look a spider.
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Way back in college I was forced to stay in some pretty depressing digs. In at least one of them I was sleeping on a futon, very low to the ground. I would wake up with a tickly-crawly sensation on my skin. The first time this happened, I slapped at it. That morning, I woke up with a large crushed roach stuck to my upper arm. The next night, you bet I imagined tickly-crawly sensations – but none of them were real. I lost so much sleep. Several weeks later I was recovered from the experience. Then one night I felt a tickly-crawly sensation again. This time, I gently lifted my arm and looked at it in the streetlight coming in from the window. It was a giant roach. This time, I cupped the living roach in my hand, where it struggled against my curled fingers– and I flung it hard across the room. Then I went back to sleep. This “gently cup and fling” practice came in handy several more times in my life. Once, it was a lizard.
Haha! kudos to you, i have this exact same fear with some minor differences. If i see any kind of bug in my room that I can’t identify as harmless, i cannot sleep until it’s DEAD! oh gosh, i have spent hours late at night hunting just to sleep easy. I woke my parents up one time at midnight because i was knocking things over in my hunt for the unidentified crawler. happy hunting you neurotic sonummabitch
there was a spider the size of a pencil eraser on my pillow one time. i didn’t sleep well for two or three days.
hmm, i do the same…but it is my fault, because i simply refuse to kill anything.
pencil erasers are the erasers on pencils?
if so…that’s super tiny, miss!
i sometimes have terrible bug dreams which result in the all over crawling sensation, this is what i do, if you jump up and get in the shower (i take cold ones in this case cause it kind of numbs you) and go back to bed still kind of soaking wet, you feel so much better. i know it sounds psycho, but hey, whatever gets you through the night!!!
I tried to ignore the “bug feeling”, then swatted at my leg to realize it was a spider the size of a half-dollar. I will never think “oh, it’s just an itch”, again.
My dad was bitten by a brown recluse spider when I was a kid, and all I remember was my mom digging out the infection/necroses with a bundle of cotton swabs. She had to dig way into the wound with two or three at a time. Ever since, I have been deathly afraid of spiders, and did the “buritto-blankets” thing for most of my life. When I moved to the mountains, I couldn’t cover my head any more because of the thinner oxygen, but thankfully, there are fewer bugs up here. It did take a few weeks to get a good night’s sleep, though.
woah, aslong as you don’t collect the pieces of lint and then take them to the doctor in a jar going like ‘ see, these bugs, infesting my house ! ‘ … cause that’s called delusional parasitosis.
Ironically, there are thousands and thousands of microscopic “bugs” even inside your mummified cocoon of blankets.
I did that every night growing up after moving into the basement bedroom of my house because there were spiders EVERYWHERE! Most recently, I found evidence of a mouse in my studio apartment 2 weeks ago and since then I will wake up 5+ times a night thinking I can hear it.