“Do you ever look at the ceiling and see stuff in the popcorn?”
“In the what?”
“The bumpy ceiling stuff is called a popcorn ceiling. So do you?”
“Um… no. Do you?”
“Yeah.”
“Like what kind of stuff.”
“Right there is a dog’s head and over there is a gingerbread man or woman maybe. I guess it’s like the constellations. Throw enough random points on something and people will start looking for familiar shapes.”
“I think I know what you mean. Like when you look into a room dark and you see a man standing there. Probably just a trick of the mind.”
“You saw someone in the house?”
“Yeah, no. It was probably just my imagination.”
“You turned on the light to check, right?”
“No, I just closed the door.”
“But what if there was someone there? What room did you see them in?”
“Your room.”