Sorry if it doesn't seem like this post has any sort of set point or theme, if it looks more like me rambling, but I'm just looking for someone who can "resonate" with me.
Lately, I feel as though my life suddenly had it's switch flipped and suddenly everything is being seen from a different angle, or tone. What do I mean by this? I've never been the type of person that gets frightened, sure, a movie will scare me, a jumpscare aswell, but I will usually laugh and brush it off, that is to say - I've never gotten scared past the point of entertainment, or triviality, that is until a couple of weeks ago.
I know this will sound like I'm trolling or this is a dumb story intro, but yeah, I was masturbating. It was like 2AM at this point, and I was out of my room to go get something to drink - That's when I heard someone whisper to my right ear, there was no denying it too, it wasn't a "Oh if I listen in closely it might be a neighbour or a tv or a noise that passes off as whispering". No, this was clearly a voice, a female's voice, and it was so fucking in my ear it might aswell had been inside my head. I couldn't make out what the voice said, but just the fact of some whisper on my ear was enough to make me shit my pants. I roamed my house for so fucking long, trying to find the source of the noise, then outside, then my brother's room and my parent's - Nothing was on, no one was awake, and no neighbours were doing anything. Nothing like this had ever happened to me, so as you might be able to figure, I was fucking distressed. I went to sleep holding a bat that night.
Ever since then, it's like my life had switched genre, I find myself constantly getting scared, at night I hear noises that frighten me to the point of me being unable to move. I constantly check behind me throughout the day because I swear someone is standing there, and I've been sleeping with a knife under my bed because I'm terrified at the idea of someone being there while I sleep, that combined with a bunch of other shit I'll do out of sheer paranoia that I've never felt before.
Anyone had an experience like this? Am I just being a fucking retard?