Gregor

Last night I awoke from an eerily realistic dream to see something that displeased me greatly: two rather large cockroaches crawling across my walls and floor. I have never seen cockroaches in my room before, and while I have known that they probably exist, I didn't like the fact that they had decided to use my room as a nighttime playground. To put this in context: I sleep on a mattress on the floor, with no blankets to speak of. The thought of going to bed only to discover a cockroach crawling up my leg was too much to think of. So naturally, I pulled out my headlamp and scared them under the bed frame (sans mattress that I use to hold my stuff...) in my room. I was too scared of the thought of being attacked by them to sleep, so I sat up with my headlamp and tracked the buggers across my floor and walls, listening to them explore the piles of clothes that I have piled up on my bed. My room was oppressively hot, but I couldn't bring myself to turn on the fan, which was altogether too near to the cockroaches for my liking, until I had sat watching them for twenty minutes. Once I turned the fan on, I decided I was being silly and obviously I opted to roll myself up in my fitted sheet like a sausage link, leaving no chance for the cockroaches to touch my skin. It was really quite hot under there, but I settled for sweating profusely rather than allowing cockroaches to attack. After awhile, I pulled my head out from under the sheet and, wishing I had a green man suit, decided I needed to keep my face uncovered for the sake of my breathing. I opted to turn on my headlamp and face it towards the cockroaches, believing that they wouldn't dare come near my face with the light on. I put my earphones in and cranked up some music, trying to ignore the sound of their dastardly little legs scrambling around my room. By this point it had been more than an hour and I settled into an uneasy sleep, only to wake up exhausted. I don't know if the cockroaches ever came near me. Maybe they found enough to do on my bed/playground. Regardless, I did not appreciate them moving in.


Turns out I have a fear of being touched by cockroaches.