I'm sure many of you out there have had instances where an object has mysterious gone missing or has been replaced by something else entirely. In some cases this may just be forgetting where one put something or mistaking an object for something else, but sometimes ... just sometimes ... it could be something not as easy to dismiss.
On Wednesday, 15 March @ approx. 0200, I retired to bed. My friend followed a minute later, retiring on a mattress on the floor beside me. I laid on one side, facing the window with my head on the pillow, then turned the bedside lamp off so that it was almost pitch black. After that, we talked idly for ten minutes or so. It was at this point I moved my hand to adjust the pillow, only to discover that I couldn't grasp it. I must have laid there for twenty seconds trying to get a hold of my pillow - which I had my head on the entire time and hadn't shifted it - with no success.
With liberal cursing and confusion - much to the amusement of my friend - I turned on the bedside lamp and stared at my pillow in shock. It was in the precise position I had placed it upon getting into bed, only it was under the fitted sheet. Not only that, it had been placed in such a way that it looked as if great care had been taken in placing it there. There wasn't a single crease. This seemed impossible to me simply because the fitted sheet was tucked a fair way under the mattress and it would have taken considerable effort to slip a pillow under there - let alone in the dark - let alone with my head still on the pillow.
My friend burst in laughter at how disturbed I was by this, but confirmed for me that he had seen my head on the pillow when he entered the room - and the pillow was not underneath the fitted sheet. If I had've slipped the pillow under there myself without realising it, my friend would have asked me what on earth I was doing. The fact is, I didn't move for the whole ten minutes. To do something like that, it would have taken at least thirty seconds - perhaps twice as long to do in the dark. It seems that one instant it was there, and the next it was underneath - without me even realising it.
Although this seems like a glitch of sorts, it does certainly strike me as odd.
Further on this, seven or so hours later, I woke up to my friend - still lying on the mattress on the floor - kicking a glass of water over with his foot. This time, it was his turn to curse in confusion as he scrambled, half-asleep, to pick it up. He immediately accused me of moving it from near his head, where he normally leaves it to drink from during the night. I assured him I had done nothing. After that, he no longer laughed about my pillow incident.
We have been discussing OPs a great deal lately, perhaps this could be a factor? If so, why move such mundane objects around?
Does anyone else have any stories to share that involve relocating or disappearing objects?
On Wednesday, 15 March @ approx. 0200, I retired to bed. My friend followed a minute later, retiring on a mattress on the floor beside me. I laid on one side, facing the window with my head on the pillow, then turned the bedside lamp off so that it was almost pitch black. After that, we talked idly for ten minutes or so. It was at this point I moved my hand to adjust the pillow, only to discover that I couldn't grasp it. I must have laid there for twenty seconds trying to get a hold of my pillow - which I had my head on the entire time and hadn't shifted it - with no success.
With liberal cursing and confusion - much to the amusement of my friend - I turned on the bedside lamp and stared at my pillow in shock. It was in the precise position I had placed it upon getting into bed, only it was under the fitted sheet. Not only that, it had been placed in such a way that it looked as if great care had been taken in placing it there. There wasn't a single crease. This seemed impossible to me simply because the fitted sheet was tucked a fair way under the mattress and it would have taken considerable effort to slip a pillow under there - let alone in the dark - let alone with my head still on the pillow.
My friend burst in laughter at how disturbed I was by this, but confirmed for me that he had seen my head on the pillow when he entered the room - and the pillow was not underneath the fitted sheet. If I had've slipped the pillow under there myself without realising it, my friend would have asked me what on earth I was doing. The fact is, I didn't move for the whole ten minutes. To do something like that, it would have taken at least thirty seconds - perhaps twice as long to do in the dark. It seems that one instant it was there, and the next it was underneath - without me even realising it.
Although this seems like a glitch of sorts, it does certainly strike me as odd.
Further on this, seven or so hours later, I woke up to my friend - still lying on the mattress on the floor - kicking a glass of water over with his foot. This time, it was his turn to curse in confusion as he scrambled, half-asleep, to pick it up. He immediately accused me of moving it from near his head, where he normally leaves it to drink from during the night. I assured him I had done nothing. After that, he no longer laughed about my pillow incident.
We have been discussing OPs a great deal lately, perhaps this could be a factor? If so, why move such mundane objects around?
Does anyone else have any stories to share that involve relocating or disappearing objects?
