EPTSo last night I was up late, something like up to roughly 1am. I was busy watching streams on TL, switching from SC2 to Dota2, and then I went to bed.
I laid down, and my brother was sleeping on his bed on the opposing side of the room, and it was absolutely pitch black.
I suddenly starting thinking about Capgras syndrome, which is basically a mental disorder that makes you think that everyone you know, the people surrounding you, are all fakes, meaning that the "real" ones have supposedly been replaced by imposters, possibly to kill you or to kidnap you. It could not get out of my head, and I found myself imagining my parents being fakes, and my brother lying almost right next to me being a fake. It clung onto my mind forever and I started panicking in the inside a little.
Then I remembered a scene from a movie I had just watched a few hours beforehand, Secret Sunshine (2007), where at one point Shin-Ae (Jeon Do-Youn), who has lost everything in her life, wakes up in the middle of the night and picks up the phone that's been ringing, and franticly begs the caller to allow her to hear the voice of her son one last time, because her son was kidnapped; yet her son has already died a few days ago and she is now losing her mind. The viewer doesn't hear what the supposed caller is saying, but Shin-Ae realises that something isn't right and hangs up in some sort of paranoid panic.
When I remembered that scene, I immediately started sweating. That scene was so perfectly acted out by Jeon Do-Youn that her schizophrenic fear was channelled straight into my heart, and somehow I started feeling the same kind of panic Shin-Ae did after hanging up.
At this point, I was desperately trying to forget all of this nonsense and I just wanted to fall asleep so that all of this could disappear. I closed my eyes.
And then suddenly, an enormous, ENORMOUS and POWERFUL shock ran through my body and I literally bounced at least 20 centimetres from my bed as my body was intensely contorted. I was as if 100 volts had ran through my sweaty body, and I had no idea what that was. I could barely feel my legs after that shock. I wasn't painful at all, it was just extremely strong and surprising. Like one of those little shivers when you're cold, but 10000x more powerful and intense.
I'd also like to note that I've been through a lot of stress recently, but I don't think that had a factor in whatever that shock was.
About an hour later, I fell asleep. I decided to write this blog entry simply to share this wierd incident that somewhat traumatised me.
