<p>I know this is really weird and messed up but on random nights when I can’t fall asleep my mind wanders to the most random places and very few times I think to myself “the moment I shut my eyes and go to sleep my roommate can easily sneak out of his bed and strangle me with a rope”</p>
<p>I never think like this it’s so weird for me lol and don’t get me wrong my roommate is the nicest dude in our hall way</p>
<p>Something similar almost happened to someone I know, so it’s not THAT weird. </p>
<p>I was on a week long trip over the summer to become acquainted with incoming Freshmen in my school’s honors college - and we had to live in dormitories on an island; I was rooming with a girl who was very nice to me but when I was in bed, thinking, like you mentioned, I did fear that my roommate could easily smother me with a pillow while I was asleep.</p>
<p>I think intrusive “messed up” thoughts are more common than you think - I remember watching a neuroscience/psychology video on different scenarios where people think pretty awful things. A lot of times people realize that they could just mow down a pedestrian in a cross walk while they’re in the car. Or sometime people think about shoving people in front of a train in the subway as it pulls in (or they fear being shoved themselves.) Lots of terrible things; and many people report having such thoughts. While they’re not pleasant of course, they’re not abnormal either. </p>