Last night was the first night in a while where I have felt really disturbed in my sleep, and actually awoke about 8 times in the night, and on 3 of those occasions I felt the need to walk around my house to make sure it was safe and secure.
The first time I was woken by what I thought was someone talking ? for all I know it could of been someone walking past the house or in fact someone being in my garden, as lately the area I live in has suffered some unrest in that people's sheds have been been broken into, as well as theft from cars. The time was around 12:45, and even though it's October, the weather is mild here and people are still visiting the local town, so it's not unusual for people to walk home at that time of night. I did walk around the house and look out the windows just to make sure, but everything seemed OK, so I went back to bed.
The second time I awoke, which was around 3:10am I swear my eye caught a dark shadow figure stood to the left side of the bed, this actually woke me up with a little bit of a shock. It was really odd as I sleep on the right side of the bed, and normally lay looking to the right, but on this occasion I awoke looking to the left, I did a double take as I sat up. I then got out of the bed on the right side, and as I turned around there was nothing, so I put it down to little more than myself being 1/2 asleep.
As I was up I decided to go to the bathroom, and when I opened the bedroom door I was greeted by one of the dogs toys placed near my door. I remember walking past it and thinking it was a little odd, you know the feeling when you just feel unsettled, well it was that kind of a feeling.
I did a quick check around the house and again returned to bed.
It wasn't until this morning when I woke up that I realized that the toy hadn't been there the first time I woke up, and the door was pushed shut. Max (my dog) was in fact asleep all the time in the bedroom..
