I was sleeping deeply at 2:30 this morning, and then someone screamed. Or maybe shrieked. It's hard to think about auditory nuance when you're asleep.
The light in the hall was on, and someone was whimpering on the floor close to my bedroom door. The dogs burst in, the neighborhood cat who was sleeping on my bed growled, and I heard my roommate yell something about a bat.
"A bat," I thought. "There's a bat?"
Something something bat; something something what do I do?
"It's not going to hurt you," I said, or mumbled, but clearly enough for her to hear me. "Go into your room and shut the door."
The dogs paraded out of my room, the cat slunk out from underneath the bed, my roommate closed my door. I fell back asleep without any trouble.
I don't think I had any dreams about bats.
Posted by thevieve at August 10, 2005 10:49 AM