Losing Your Mind
 

So I have an ant problem at my house and I woke up last night thinking "oh my god, there's an ant on my ear." So I tried to kill it, but couldn't get it. It went in too deep for me to reach. I started wondering whether there was really an ant in my ear at all or if I was just going crazy.

All of the sudden my ear starts crackling really loudly(you know, like what happens when you tap a microphone). It was really painful and scary so I went to go put ear drops in my ear and see if that would help. Finally, I did get the ant out of my ear and killed it. But that was one of the most disturbing events of my life because of the fact that I felt like I was going crazy. I had just woken up so I was still not all there and I remember feeling like I was dead and there were bugs crawling around inside of me and nothing I could do about it.

It got me wondering what your creepiest experiences have been. Has anyone else ever felt like they were going crazy or had something strange happen when they were still half asleep?

I had a june bug in my right ear once. I went psycho and had to go to the hospital. It had torn my eardrum in an attempt to get farther into my head. Took them nearly an hour to get it out.

My ear has never been the same since, and it's been roughly eight years since it happened.

The doctors at the hospital said they've had a tone of patients they thought were completely insane until they checked their ears and found bugs in them. Once removed, the people were perfectly normal, although really freaked out and paranoid about any bugs they saw.

It's a pretty normal thing to go insane when there's something in your ear.

Ouch, that sounds really painful Cricket. June bugs are pretty big. My mom said that once a june bug flew into her ear too and the people with her had to get it out, but she only knows about it from stories. She was too young to remember. Yours sounds like it went in deeper than hers though. I didnt even know until recently that bugs could go that far into ears. If I ever have to be around June bugs in the future...I think I'll plug my ears up.

Nowadays I get revenge upon the June bug race by catching them and feeding them to my rats. They love the buggy little treats, and sadistically pleasing to watch them damn bugs get eaten alive by cute furry little rodents.

If you think spiders have too many legs, what to you think of millipedes?

Also, that reminded me of the time there was this fucking huge spider in my room (it was the size of a young mouse) and it kept crawling on the wall next to my bed, then diving into the corner by the floor every time I tried to kill it.

It nearly matched my bedding, which only made me more terrified of it. I slept on the couch for three days until my boyfriend came over. He laughed at the idea that I'd been chased out of my room by a spider, and thought I was being over-dramatic about the whole thing.

Then he saw the spider and he himself ran out of my room and panicked. I laughed at him because he'd been laughing at me, and then he went back into my room and killed the stupid ass spider.

He hasn't laughed at me for running from a spider since.

Also, after three days without sleep, you're legally insane within the United States.

Kukon- We have them in Illinois, but for some reason they don't like to hang around my house. They like to hang around campgrounds here though.

Fabby- Eww, I'm glad you didn't know what it was until you pulled it out. I'm starting to feel lucky it was just an ant in my ear.

Arkeyla- Wow. You have to wonder what the spider was doing that close to your face. That's terrible, but I'm impressed that you had the courage to squish it yourself. I would have had to run for my mom xD.

Cricket- The size of a mouse?! Believe me, I would have been chased out of the room too. That's way too big for a spider. They're already creepy enough as they are.

I'm arachnophobic. @[email protected]

I've woken up in the middle of the night with my bedroom light on, only to find a huge spider dangling less that a foot right above my left eye. I reached for my Harry Potter book, opened it, pushed it upwards, and slammed it shut.

Now on page 373 of Order of the Phoenix there's a giant splotch on the page where I killed the quarter-sized spider. It was all black and hairy and evil... -Shudders-

My boyfriend isn't arachnophobic, and even that mouse-sized spider scared the crap out of him.