Not recognizing my nightgown

(Chapter 9 The Fog in my book)

Picture this! Imagine getting ready for bed and you open your bureau drawer. You see different nightgowns and you find one that you want to wear. The problem is this nightgown doesn't look familiar to you. This happened to me the other night.

It is as if I am looking in another person's drawer because I'm wondering, “Whose things are these?” The feeling of not recognizing your own nightgown, yet you know it must be yours. It is a very strange feeling and one that I wish I didn't have.

When I put the nightgown on, I looked at myself in the full-length mirror in my bedroom, hoping to recognize it, but it just was not familiar to me. I did decide to wear this nightgown. I think that by the time, I woke up the next morning, it was familiar to me.

I also know that something like this happened before when I washed some of my bras. I had recently bought some new ones, so I think that is why I didn't recognize the bras as mine.

The next day when I was talking to my Mom on the phone, I told her how I was feeling. She said that she was sorry that this happened to me. I think that by the time I woke up in the morning, the nightgown was familiar to me. The only explanation for why this happened is the "fog" must have rolled in.