Death By Flashlight.......Almost

Let me start by saying I am sick...sore throat and stuffy nose. Makes it hard to sleep. So...the other night I made several middle of the night trips to the bathroom to get a drink and what have you. On my third or fourth time out of bed, I decide I need some Tylenol, as my throat was REALLY hurting. I grab my flashlight that I keep by the bed, and start down the hall. (I didn't want to turn the hall light on, as it shines right in our room, and would wake hubby up) Keep in mind, I am sick, don't have my glasses on, and am very groggy. I get about 2/3 down the hallway, when what do I see??? A BLACK MOUSE!!! Eek! I took a step back, and instead of running into the closet, the thing just hunkered down. I was debating what to do.....should I wake hubby to take care of it? Sould I just "scare" it back into the closet it must have come out of? This whole time, it is still hunkering/cowering down, so, I decide I can at least "knock it out" with my trusty mag light. But wait, what if I miss, and it runs at me, or crawls up my leg?? I would surely scream, waking everybody up. But the mouse still was not running away as these thoughts run through my mind. So I decide to go ahead and use my handy weapon. As I start to raise my flashlight, the mouse is no longer in the direct light, and I can see that the mouse I was about to destroy was actually..........a small, 2-inch square, black box! Turns out, the way the light was shining on it, was making the shadow of the box blend in with the box, elongating the thing, and my movement of the light was making it appear as if it were moving. (hunkering down) Yeah....middle of the night adventures are great, aren't they? So, I left box where it was, and last night made another trip in the early a.m. for more Tylenol, and in no way did the box look like a mouse, it looked like a box with a shadow!