The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/Creepy_Damage7776 on 2024-10-10 10:03:47.

This is not super serious and is mostly funny, but it’s become concerning now that it’s been occurring for two weeks. Every night, my routine is the same. I clean up the kitchen, go to the bathroom to get ready for bed, take off my makeup, and encounter The Mosquito.

I live in the desert and for most of my life, we didn’t have mosquitoes. Common sense considering it’s dry as all hell and our temperatures are currently in the upper nineties and hundred degrees Fahrenheit. But two weeks ago, as I was washing my face, I heard that little telltale bzzzzz-ing near my ear.

Okay, whatever, it’s one mosquito. I spend like five to seven minutes trying to locate it in my bathroom and then I kill it. I always make sure that it’s dead because I’ve been to tropical countries before and waking up with mosquito bites on my face is an absolute nope. I’m also a bit of a sadist, maybe, because I always inspect my work after it’s done. Checking the abdomen to see if there was blood in it, you know the drill. I haven’t gotten any mosquito bites, so maybe this one was just pathetic and I got it before it could get me. I go to bed, mosquito forgotten.

Until the same thing happens the next night. I’m washing my face and I think I hear a noise so I stop the water and listen. Lo and behold, another mosquito. At this point, it didn’t really weird me out too much. Crazy because it happened twice, but totally a possible coincidence. All the lights were off in the house except for the bathroom, so it made sense that the mosquito would follow me to the light source. It probably smelled me or however mosquitoes sense blood nearby.

And then it happened again! And then again! For Two Weeks. I just got out of the bathroom before I started this post and I was like, okay, this is starting to get weird.

The thing is, it’s only ever one mosquito. I have never seen two at the same time. It comes at the same time every single night (around 1-2 am, my get-ready-for-bed time). Every night, I shut off the two doors in the bathroom and spend a few minutes cornering it and killing it. Every single time, it’s dead. I confirm that it’s dead.

Tonight was weird in particular because there were multiple other lights on in the house at the time, before I went to turn them off. But it always targets the bathroom. Maybe because it’s moist, but I don’t know. Why doesn’t it go in there at any other time of the day? It’s literally only at night at the exact time that I’m in there. My brother hasn’t noticed it, and my sister hasn’t either. It’s not like the bathroom is absolutely dark; we have a small lamp in there that gives off light at all times. So it very well could go in there if it wanted water to lay its spawn or something.

It’s not laying eggs in the toilet because I’m a germ-fearing lad and I always keep the lid lowered until it’s needed. It doesn’t have any other sources of water in the house (aside from maybe the drain of the sink after I’ve finished using it) and I’ve checked to make sure.

I actually have no clue how one singular mosquito keeps showing up. I haven’t gotten any bites these past few weeks and my bedroom is right across from the bathroom where I sleep with my door open and no blanket. Unless these mosquitoes are breeding invalid children that lack the ability to consume human blood, I can’t see a reason how there would be an infinite mosquito population that sends in one lad after another has been compromised, but doesn’t draw blood.

Is the mosquito the Sisyphean subject? Or am I Sisyphus? We are each other’s infinite cycle of hell and I swear it’s respawning and heading straight for its death every time because it gets neuralyzed MIB-style right before it comes back to life.

In all seriousness, please help me come up with an explanation because I have zero clue whatsoever.