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April 2007 - Page 1
Paralyzing Yellow
by Danica
I live in Darwin, Australia and have had many strange things happen, but this one was the most recent, most unique and most strong.
I do have a tendency to stay up late, and on this night in 2005 my new flatmate and I were sitting on the floor of her room chatting, getting to know each other. She had moved in in July, and although it was now August we hadn't socialized much together until recently. The room she had rented out used to be my room, but the landlord had installed better air conditioning in the other room, so I had switched. It is a plain weatherboard home and the room has two large, louvered windows on opposite walls and an old ratty air conditioner that was trying its best to defeat the heat that always seems to get worse at night when it's still than in the day when the sun beats down.
Despite the lateness, there were many noises all around us as per usual in the tropics, curlews calling, cicadas, palm berries falling on the roof etc., not to mention the racket of the air conditioner. I also had a Siamese cat that couldn't keep away from us all and was sitting next to me on the floor.
It all happened very suddenly. First the hairs on my neck prickled and we both stopped talking and listened. Silence drowned out all the other natural night sounds and the air conditioner noise seemed to double, magnified perhaps by the eerie silence. Then the cat got up and arched every hair on his body, standing up just like ours. He stalked a few steps to be directly between us two girls and paced slowly in a circle in front of us, making a strange, low sound. At the same time, the room became a thick yellow; I don't know how else to describe it, like you could cut a slice out of it, and an overwhelming heaviness came over the both of us. I saw my flatmate actually bow over a little as I felt I did too, but involuntarily.
For a few minutes we couldn't talk or move and only sat with the yellow heaviness in silence watching the cat go round and round. Even breathing was like being in a sauna, yet it was not that hot. Then a movement of air came through from left to right and the heaviness was alleviated quite quickly. We still sat, and after another minute the air returned to normal. The cat's hair went down and he settled back by my leg. We looked up at each other. I realized the noises came back also. Although all the louvers were tightly closed, the curtain on the right swayed a little. We looked again straight in each other's completely freaked out faces and I said, "Did that just happen... really?" She replied, "Yes, it did... really."
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