Psychological Stories

The sleep study required two nights in a soundproofed room. No phone, no windows, no contact with the outside. On the second night I realized I wasn't alone in the room.

I found a note under my windshield wiper. It said: "I saw what you did last night." I hadn't done anything last night. That was the first note. There were twelve more.

Tobias Erin Rogers never fit in anywhere. A sensory processing disorder that made the world too loud, too bright, too much — combined with a family falling apart in slow motion. Then his sister died.

My parents told me that the girl who lived in the mirror when I was little was just a phase. An imaginary friend. She wasn't imaginary. And she grew up too.

He took his skin off for me. He said it was the most intimate thing he could do — to show me everything he was without the part that the world usually sees.

I keep running into the same man. Different cities, different years, different contexts. Always the same man. He has never shown any sign of recognizing me. I think I am the only one who can see the pattern.

In 1983, a team of scientists attempted to contact God by systematically eliminating every sense from a human test subject. What the subject reported before losing the ability to speak was documented and immediately classified.