I woke up at 4:06 in the morning because my phone screen was glowing beside my bed.
At first I thought someone had messaged me, but when I picked it up, the Notes app was open. There was a sentence written there:
“I told you not to ignore the red door.”
I live alone. My phone was locked when I went to sleep. I do not sleepwalk, and I never use the Notes app at night.
The strange part is that I knew exactly what red door it meant.
A few weeks earlier, I had passed an old building on my way home. It had one bright red door, completely different from everything around it. For some reason, I stopped in front of it and felt like I should go inside, but I kept walking.
The next day, I went back to that street.
The building was there, but the red door was gone. It had been painted dark gray, and nobody nearby remembered it ever being red.
I still have the note on my phone. I have not deleted it because part of me is afraid that if I do, something else will try to remind me.