The Devil Speaks

I was pretty tired last month and ended up napping on the couch quite a bit... Unfortunately the living room is the second most active room in the house, our bedroom being the most.
Most activity happens in the early evening and during the night so I figured an afternoon nap would be fine... I was very wrong!

Being a bit tired in the afternoon isn't unusual for me, however this particular afternoon was unlike any other, I was overwhelmingly tired to the point I literally could not keep my eyes open, so I laid back on the couch hoping that I would feel better after a nap.

Almost as soon as I closed my eyes I felt like the room was spinning and I was overcome by the scent of flowers (I was alone in the house and not wearing any perfume), then suddenly it seemed as though I was in a dream or a trance, everything was quiet and calm and everything was clear.

That is when I heard a voice that gave me chills, loudly and authoritarian it said "Give Me those!"
My initial reaction was to say no and I did just that. I said NO, not in my head but out loud like I was speaking to someone in the room with me.

The calm and quiet immediately became chaotic, it sounded like I was surrounded by white noise, the room was spinning so fast I grabbed hold of the couch and there were colors of light swirling around me like the inside of a rave.
Whatever the voice was clearly was not pleased and it started speaking in a language I have never heard before, rhythmic almost as if it were chanting the same words over and over again.

This went on for what felt like forever before I audibly yelled "Whatever it is you want you are not getting it" then just as suddenly as it started everything stopped, like time had stood still for a second before everything was back to normal and I sat up from the couch gasping for air.

Unlike every other time I have heard something speak to me, I was not afraid, I was unnaturally calm despite feeling like the air had been sucked from my lungs. The scent of flowers lingered in the air for quite a long time afterwards and if not for that scent I would have questioned if it had actually happened or if it was all a dream.

My dog, who never leaves my side was laying on the floor sleeping during this event, right up until I yelled, then she woke up growling, fur standing up and a very confused look on her face. She looked around the room then did a quick round about the house checking everything before she came back whimpering as she climbed up into my lap.

I no longer felt tired in the same way I had felt earlier, I was still a bit sleepy but the kind of sleepy that you have when you first wake up. I spent the rest of my day questioning what the hell had happened, what the voice meant by "those" and how I was going to explain what happened to my husband, if I even could explain it.

About an hour after the event I decided that I had to do something to stop this from happening again, so I did the only thing I could think of. I poured salt and vinegar into a large cup, placed it in the middle of the room and prayed my ass off that whatever was in my house would leave.
I cannot tell if it was the glass of salt and vinegar or my praying that helped but I haven't smelt the flowers since. I left the cup of salt and vinegar out for weeks, partly because I wanted it to work and partly because it made me laugh when I told my husband what it was, the look on his face was priceless.

Ruckus

Do you ever get that uneasy feeling as though you aren't alone when you know for a fact that you are? This feeling is common for me, more often than not I feel like someone else is in the room with me when there is no one else in the house. 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm really, never alone, and sometimes I wonder if I'm just going crazy. 

Unusual things happen to me quite a bit, like this morning when I was sleeping on couch. I was woken up suddenly by a very loud, raspy voice yelling "RUCKUS" into my left ear. I literally gasped for air and jolted up looking around for someone that wasn't there.
I felt extremely dizzy, as if I hadn't taken a breath in a long time or like I had been spinning around for hours and my ear felt like it was too big, almost as though something was inside of it stretching it out.

When I gasped and jumped up I immediately noticed that my dog was hiding in the hallway and refused to come into the living room until I stumbled my way to the washroom, then she followed me back into the room. 

Ruckus seems like a very strange word to yell at someone, unless you are announcing that you are going to cause a ruckus. I may have misheard, maybe it yelled something more sinister or comical but I don't think that I misheard. 

My first thought was "what a strange word to yell" and now I'm left questioning if it was announcing that it was planning to cause a ruckus, or if it was trying to order me to cause a ruckus, or maybe it just thought it would be funny to wake someone up using such an odd word and there is no meaning behind it.