I hate to get out of bed at night, and every sound I hear, I instantly think we have an invader. My husband did almost the same thing as yours! But he knows that if it's a noise that has woken me up, I will not move, so instead of giving me a flashlight, he keeps one of those industrial ones by his side and when I pester him to wake up, he flashes it on, and we can see half our house without moving.dios4vida wrote:
I'm 27 and married and still sometimes have problems getting out of bed at night to use the restroom or something. My husband bought me a little flashlight so that I can see and make sure I'm safe.
In a similar thread - I can't look in the mirror at night for fear of seeing something large and dangerous creeping up behind me. If I don't have my little Flashlight of Safety I will stare at my feet as I walk past the mirror and wash my hands so that I don't accidentally see the Untold Terror in the mirror. (hmm...I need to write a story about that!)
As for the Hitler thing, my monsters have always been very realistic - at least in body if not in context. One of the terrors I thought I saw in my mirror at night once was a schizophrenic student who had a breakdown outside of my class every day for a week. (I didn't know she was schizophrenic at the time and just thought she was a danger to my class.) While lying frozen in bed for hours one night, I convinced myself that I'd done something to her, and she had tracked me down somehow using the college's online system to kill me. And she just happened to not wake our 55-pound dog on her way in.