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There are certain hard rules, certain immutable laws in life. You will never have enough socks. You will run out of milk faster than you're drinking it. Random kitchen equipment will appear in your house without you going through the intermediate step of buying it, yet you can never find a whisk when you most need one. Cats will always demand to sit on your lap at the most awkward time. Some books and films are genius works of art that make the world a better place for existing, yet you're glad you never have to read or watch them ever again.
You can't look out of your kitchen or bathroom window in the night for fear of something looking back at you.
You can't dangle a foot over the edge of your bed and leave it like that. Don't believe me? Try it. Tonight, when you go to bed, stick your foot out just over the edge of the bed. Leave it covered if you like (cold feet are never conducive to sleep) and try to go to sleep. You won't be able to. Your foot will feel more and more exposed the longer you leave it dangling like that. You will start to feel like something is watching you and your foot. There's something there and it's going to grab your foot and you need to pull your foot up and onto the safety of the bed right now!
This is not a silly holdover from childhood, where monsters would eat you if you weren't completely cocooned in your blanket by the time your parents switched the light off. This is not a sign of some weird foot-related phobia*, either. Rather, it is a learned response.
You see, something does live under your bed.
( And it comes out after dark. )
You can't look out of your kitchen or bathroom window in the night for fear of something looking back at you.
You can't dangle a foot over the edge of your bed and leave it like that. Don't believe me? Try it. Tonight, when you go to bed, stick your foot out just over the edge of the bed. Leave it covered if you like (cold feet are never conducive to sleep) and try to go to sleep. You won't be able to. Your foot will feel more and more exposed the longer you leave it dangling like that. You will start to feel like something is watching you and your foot. There's something there and it's going to grab your foot and you need to pull your foot up and onto the safety of the bed right now!
This is not a silly holdover from childhood, where monsters would eat you if you weren't completely cocooned in your blanket by the time your parents switched the light off. This is not a sign of some weird foot-related phobia*, either. Rather, it is a learned response.
You see, something does live under your bed.
( And it comes out after dark. )
