Wow Rocklobster... that was... that was an epic gravedig
. I didn't even REMEMBER posting in here
. (Attack of the zombie posts)
Onto other memories though. I do remember from about two years old having a rather traumatic experience with a floating eyeball in the mirror. I woke up and felt my feet burning (kind of like I was walking on the hot sidewalk outside in AZ during the summer). I instinctively knew that if something were hot that water would cool it down, so I went into the bathroom and climbed up on the counter and put my feet under the faucet and turned on the water to cool them.
However, something was off and caused me to look into the swinging mirror that is sitting right there. When I looked in I saw an eyeball over the toilet in the room behind me about 4-5 inches in diameter with a bright blue eye. It was just sitting there in space. I turned my head rapidly to see it, but upon doing so it was gone. I repeated the experiment until I was convinced that whatever I saw could only be seen in the mirror and not when I used my eyes directly.
I was terrified and don't remember what happened after that, however my sister claims today that she remembers me screaming as loud as I could and came from a couple of rooms over running to find me sitting on the counter with my feet in the sink. My mother later on that day went into my room and both of them remember it smelling like smoke (no one smokes in our house).
Ultimately it really freaked me out and a few years later it was one of my deciding pieces of personal evidence that convinced me to sleep on the downstairs couch for most of my childhood. My parents would have complained but my mother didn't want to go upstairs at night either
so she couldn't bring it to make her kids go up there O_o.
Nothing like that happens these days though. It was my most vivid childhood memory.