Another Sleepless Night....

I really have turned into a 'darpok'. Little out-of-the-order things leave me shaken. And of all the hours and minutes that the clock can show, it has to be the night time for all the unexpected things to occur.

Like, two people living on the same house in front of mine died in a span of 15 days, last month and my sleep was shattered by the shocked scream of their relatives. Death is ok, we all have to face that someday but what unnerves me the most is the scream-that spine chilling, creepy, shrill scream of the women of the house. That's one of the reasons, i can't sleep till 5 in the morning for the past 1 month.

What happened today was that, at 2-25 am, i felt sleepy (after a long time) so decided to surrender myself to this bliss. Not even 5 mins has passed after i closed my eyes, that i heard the sound of running footsteps from the flat below mine followed by a shrill scream. I, at first, thought that it must be some cat fight going on..but it sounded so eerie and so loud. My dad stormed down to my balcony and we figured out that the aunty who lives below us is screaming her lungs out. It was like she has seen a ghost for real or her would-be murderer (SCREAM style) is in front of her.
My dad went to her place to see what was wrong and found out that the old man who lived there (her husband) had fallen off the bed and he was so deep in his sleep that he haven' reacted to that fall. But he eventually woke up to her screams. She was still screaming and sobbing when we left her.
And i have lost all my sleep for tonight, because if i do try to go to sleep now, her screams will surely touch my dreams.
I can't imagine, since when have I gone so vulnerable and weak. And why all these have to happen to me only?