The man in the TV

18F. I live alone in a one bedroom apartment. My bedroom is pretty big, but I’m kinda paranoid so I save my TV for the living room and have a monitor in my bed instead of a TV. On my computer I can only view the monitor or my second monitor, but with my tv I can view my monitor, tv, or both at the same time. (Sorry if that made no sense I don’t know how to explain it lol)<br><br>I’m a night owl and I go to bed at 2.30am and I usually fall asleep at 4ish. I was watching YouTube videos on my monitor and I had earbuds in, but the screen was bothering me. (Even though it’s pitch black in my room) So I turned my monitor off and I started watching my second monitor. The screen is much smaller so it’s not as much of a bother but it still bothered me so I turned that one off too. At this point I was pretty annoyed, so I decided to just view my tv instead. It’s a smart tv, so it’s connected to wifi and I’m able to watch YouTube videos on it just like my computer. <br><br>So I turn my earbuds off and turn on my tv. I’m scrolling through YouTube just finding random videos when I see a video from a channel called “Back to life 3”. I don’t know much about the channel, but I always thought it was a bunch of people sitting in a circle just talking about their day. Kind of like group therapy. I click on it and it turns out it’s a channel of five homeless men filming themselves doing their day to day activities. I’m intrigued, so I’m watching them do their day to day activities, like going to the bathroom and setting up their tents. I’m just watching them set up their tents and this man is showing his tent and he’s like “this is my home, my sanctuary. Nobody comes in here.” And he’s showing all the stuff he keeps in there, and I’m just watching the video thinking it’s normal. <br><br>The next morning, I wake up at 10am. I was feeling a bit off, so I checked my tv to see if I turned it off. It was off, so I figured that I must have turned it off while I was half asleep. I’m just standing in my room, half asleep, when I feel a cold breeze go past me. I got goosebumps from it and I’m thinking “That’s weird.” So I’m looking around my room, like where did the breeze come from, but there’s no windows open and my air con isn’t on. So I’m standing there thinking nothing of it, when I see the camping tent from the video I watched on youtube on my floor. <br><br>I’m thinking nothing of it. I thought maybe I bought it months ago and just forgot about it. I have no recollection of it at all. It was a little weird, but my brain was still half asleep so I just went about my day as normal. When I went to work, I told my coworker about my tent. She’s never seen me with a tent before, and she’s been camping with me multiple times and I’ve never had it. She’s asking me when I bought it and I’m saying I don’t know. So she’s like “let me look on your computer and see when you bought it.” <br><br>Lo and behold I bought the tent on January 6th. Of 2019!!!! I don’t even remember buying it. I know I used it multiple times since then, but I don’t remember buying it. My coworker told me to bring it to her house and she’ll have a look. I took it to her house and she pulled it out and it was in great condition. Even she agreed it was weird how I forgot about it. She’s like “either you’re a very good liar, or you really did forget about it.” I’m even thinking back on it and I don’t remember buying it. <br><br>I’ve heard of people buying things and not remembering it due to a condition, I think it’s called dissociative fugue? But I don’t know about that much. The only thing I’m thinking about is what the homeless man said. “This is my home, my sanctuary. Nobody comes in here.” And I’m thinking, did he come into my home? Into my tent? I’m just confused and I don’t know what to make of it. <br><br>I don’t know if it’s just my paranoia, but I feel really creeped out. I don’t even sleep in my room anymore, I just sleep on my couch in the living room because I don’t feel safe in my room. <br><br>I just don’t know what to make of it. <br><br>I know it’s not totally relevant to this sub, but I’m just looking for any kind of feedback or information. <br><br>I just want to say, please don’t roast me for this. I mean no harm at all. And I’m not saying that the man in the video is my stalker. I’m just telling the story how it is.