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May 4, 2018

Crawling

I few nights ago, I woke from a really scary nightmare.

I don’t remember the dream at all, which is a shame, because judging from my reaction to it, it would have made an excellent premise for a fright film.  At any rate, I woke very suddenly, with my heart pounding and my eyes wide with terror.

Plus, my scalp was crawling.  As in: all the muscles in my scalp (and apparently there are a lot of them) were involved in a tug-of-war to try to decide where my new hairline was going to be.

My scalp crawled.  I always thought that was a metaphor!

My scalp has never crawled before, and I hope it never does again.

After a while my scalp calmed down, along with the rest of me, and I rolled over, went back to sleep, and promptly forget whatever had caused the fright.

So, how many of your scalps have crawled?  Or any other parts of you?  I can’t remember experiencing a sensation quite like this before.

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