[VYholden]

The other morning I was lying in bed, drowsing about and thinking about getting up. It was that state of mind where you find yourself flipping between being perfectly awake and nodding instantly back into dreamland.

Well after drowsing a bit into my pillow, I was woken up by the most irritating noise... that is to say, I was startled awake. A very loud, chirpy beep went off directly in my left ear. DIRECTLY. Like that's exactly where it originated from. This was pretty puzzling as the sound is what woke me up and was thus unmistakeable as the waking catalyst, but there's no waking explanation for what caused it. The smoke alarm would be too distant, or would still chirp. The clock alarm has a soft, continuous beeping, and it was not set. It was also not directly underneath my pillow. I was not so deeply asleep as to be confused by the sound; it really is like the darn thing just went off in my ear and snapped me out of my daydream. Nothing under my pillow or in the near vicinity to explain the source of the beep other than to suppose it was an astral noise.

My experience in haunted locales is that the earthbound spirits have a bit of limited access to RTZ objects and can use them to the effect of, making noises with them that your astral hearing can pick up on, which takes less energy than affecting them in the physical realm. I was once similarly woken by a roll of coins being dropped on the floor by a friendly ghost waking me up in the afternoon to go to my lab, and when waking found no coins on the floor. My current house is not haunted, but I wouldn't put it past a bit of astral wildlife to have flung that stupid beep at me to have a bit of fun. It was LOUD.