Mind Playing Tricks

Why is it that I can normally sleep with the lights off until someone tells me a scary story? Seeing a scary movie on television doesn't usually bother me because I know it's fiction and I'm usually fascinated by the fact that many of these horror movie actors/actresses don't usually move beyond the B movie realm (I'm saying most because back in the day, many A list actors and actresses didn't do movies like that---the one famous person I know to survive those types of movies is Jamie Lee Curtis). Anyway, I digress.

The other night I was talking to a buddy of mine who for some reason started to talk about ghosts and whether or not he believed in them. I told him about a time during medical school when I was studying in an empty, but well lit area of the school that I could have sworn I saw something moving in the shadows. But what freaked me out was the fact that I looked over to a classmate studying in the same area and she must have seen what I thought to have seen. She had a frightened look on her face.I later found out that that the old morgue was in that section of the school. Or so someone said (I'm more apt to believe someone said it because of my classmates and my claims of seeing this figure). Anyway, I'm making a short story long.

I don't really see shadows or hear funny sounds unless I talk about this stuff. And that night i could hear the wind blow through the garden and against the house.

So after my buddy and I talked, I closed the blinds of my bedroom, the door from my bedroom to the bathroom, the main door of my bedroom and turned on the night light. I also turned off the television (which throws eerie lights off at night when you are spooked). I'm still a big fraidy cat.