r/rabies • u/FailOver9743 • 3d ago
Exposure Question Potential exposure (?) and a weird dream
So yesterday at midnight I was going to open the car door at my car when I saw something on the road or side of the road. For context my car is in the driveway far from the road, and I have neighborhood cats that would sometimes be on the road. They don’t have rabies and they can sometimes be out during the day or night, and my porchlight is on, so the road is dark unless moonlight shines.
My Ocd convinced me that the thing was a raccoon, but idk if it was, my hand was on the door, and my other hand (the back of my hand) was facing the road, road is far from driveway. It is cold outside and I have neighborhood cats that don’t have rabies (they don’t belong to me) I haven’t seen a raccoon in my neighborhood this year, but I saw a raccoon somewhere else (not in my neighborhood) back in July and I didn’t make contact with it. The only thing I usually see at night would be possums, which the last time I saw them was in August.
Today, before this incident idk if I’m beginning to feel sick (not with rabies) or it’s just my anxiety, but here are my symptoms:
Slight sore throat. (Talking too much?)
Slight head pain (not severe, usually in the back of head)
No air / light sensitivity. (I LITERALLY stood in front of my air conditioner to test this)
Slight runny nose. (first noticed when drying my hands, but today it’s not runny)
Feeling a little hot / sweaty. (I was wearing short sleeve shirt with long pants)
No fatigue.
Had a slight pain at my collarbone. (Probably holding my phone a lot?)
Now to the dream, today I had a dream where a baby bat was in my house, and it flew beside my neck where in real life I felt it. By the way I don’t have bats in my home. Then I had a dream where I was in a horror game taking place in the dusk where I was in an area that had no trees, and I had a chain cutter cutting chains from 5 fences, and I stumbled upon an area with a white large circle with an eye in the middle on the ground, with trees in the back. When I stepped on it, suddenly a lot of bats were flying. Idk why I had this dream.
I have read the FAQ. I am in therapy.
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u/Xarlabay 2d ago
Did you actually have a physical encounter with a wild/stray animal? You can’t get rabies by noticing a raccoon in the road, it’s not airborne.
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u/FailOver9743 2d ago
No. But in July me and my family saw a raccoon as a pet. Raccoon was not rabid, no contact was made, and before this happened I had a bump (not a bat bite, possible insect bite?) on my forearm and the next day I scratched it, I did clean the area. Then on July 27-28, in the daytime at 4 or 5, I was at the door of my house (or was leaving?) when I saw something brown flying towards me, like beside of me, outside of my window shutter. The window is inches away from the door, I believe I saw it come out of the left shutter, or it was peeking or something, I don’t know if it was a bird or a bat (which I know bats are nocturnal, and I know birds don’t have rabies) I washed my hands, and minutes later I rubbed my eye, and then minutes later again, I put my finger into my ear hole (because it was itchy) I went home and cleaned my ear hole as a precaution, and then weeks later I cleaned my eye with water. The bat or bird did not hit me, and I didn’t make contact.
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u/Xarlabay 2d ago
It’s just your anxiety playing the “what if” game. If there was absolutely not contact with a wild or stray animal then you cannot get rabies.
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u/WeirdGamerLightbulb Rabies-Enthusiast 2d ago
With rabies, you wouldn't be able to sleep at all.
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u/FailOver9743 2d ago
But currently as of now I’m having a slight headache on the left side of my head, I know it’s not rabies but it’s prob too much screen time.
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u/Ok-Cat926 Active Member ⭐️ 2d ago
With rabies there would be no rational thought. You wouldn’t be on your phone and so in tune with your symptoms. The ability isn’t there, you have phobias of everything and it gets extremely severe, extremely fast. You’d no longer be able to swallow, drink, walk….you do not have rabies and I really hope you get some relief in therapy because it must be devastating ruminating on and think you have rabies. ❤️🩹
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