3.4.02 – monsters, inc.

there’s a radiator right next to the futon that is my bed right now. warm temperatures meant that the radiator was relatively inactive for the first week i was living here, so i kinda forgot about it. one night i had these terrible dreams in which something in my room was making this horrible, heavy breathing sound. clamp your teeth together, pull your lips back, and draw your breath in in several sharp bursts, and then let it rumble out in a sort of throaty growl, alternating with a snake-like hiss. that’s what it sounded like. i woke up from the dream, but the heavy breathing kept going on, right behind my head. i slowly realized that the sound was coming from the radiator, but in my sleepy state, having that sound in my room was still threatening. “no wonder kids are scared of the monster under the bed,” i thought to myself. “the monster is right here in the room with me, only he lives under the radiator, not the bed.” even still, getting up to go to the bathroom i half expected something to reach out and grab my ankle from under the futon, and i had to shove the closet door closed as i passed by. when mari stayed over here this weekend she confirmed that the radiator was indeed scary. i’m typing this in the living room now, but i can hear the radiator panting away back there. eek!