I woke up out of a dead sleep last night, reached up to my face, and pulled a tick off of my eyebrow. It was weird. How the hell did I do that? I have found ticks on me twice before in bed in the pitch dark, but those were before I fell asleep. I don't know whether to be comforted by the fact that I have enough awareness to feel them, or to be totally creeped out. I certainly didn't just fall right back asleep.

If you grab a little bug off of yourself and it doesn't squish, but rather becomes flat between your fingers, you might have a tick. To kill it, drop it in alcohol or microwave it in a little water. I keep a mini Mason jar of alcohol next to my bed. It is quite a sight.