Do you ever feel the atmosphere shift and just get the feeling you’re being watched. This happens to me when I’m home alone sometime, especially at night. Sometimes it progresses more than others.

The other night, I heard a noise in my closet. I convinced myself someone snuck into my apartment while I went out to pick up mail and hid until I went to sleep. So I stayed up for 3+ hours huddled to one side of my bed watching my windows/door/closet waiting to basically be murdered. 

Sometimes I make up a story like their partners are watching through my window waiting to open the car door when they grab me or something just too much. This time, it’s like I knew it sounded like my overstuffed dressed drawer slipped but I couldn’t convince myself enough and my imagination continued to spin out of control until I slipped into sleep. The happens all the time and I can’t stop it. I plot where I’ll hide, how I’ll fight back, debate texting my family that I love them or to call 911 (which I usually hold back from doing).

Is this psychosis or just fear?