For context I am quite afraid of bugs or rather things that can crawl on me. I mostly just have to deal with arachnophobia, but other creepy crawly things also do the trick. I am posting this because I've now had two instances where I've felt something crawling on me I've whipped it off my body in a panic AND heard something hit the floor or the wall. Now my issue is both of these instances were in limited light so if I'm being honest I'm not all to sure they were both bugs. And in an even more awful note after the initial response of freeze I would turn the lights on immediately and quickly vacate the room to go and fetch my mom... but as we come back to my newly brightened room there was no trace of any bugs anywhere. Nothing crawling or hiding under stuff. Literally no trace at all. But I felt something and I heard something. So I've come to two conclusions: one the bugs that are crawling on me are just really really fast or I'm in some sort of deluded confirmation bias that these bugs are out to crawl all over me durning the night. As much as I hate for someone to confirm there are bugs living in my room I hate the idea that I'm delusional more. So please offer any insight you can it would be much appreciated.
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