<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

I was getting a cup of water at three in the morning.

We have a jug of filtered tap water on the counter, beside the sink. If someone just uses a cup to drink water, we'll leave the cup next to this jug. There were maybe four cups on the counter this particular night.

Being lazy as I am, I don't bother to turn on the light as I enter the kitchen and I grab the nearest cup. I grab the jug and fill the cup with a decent amount of water.

I am dead thirsty and am chugging down the liquid until something unpleasently hairy enters my mouth and I can feel multiple insect leg-like, root-like, thin stringy things attached to a big chunk of something else on my tongue.

I instinctively spit out whatever was in my mouth along with some water into the sink. I still remember how paralyzed I was wondering if it had been a centipede.

I am deathly afraid of any insects (including 'pretty' ones that everyone else seems to love and think are harmless, e.g. butterflies, ladybugs, inchworms, etc)and I was frozen for approximately 30 seconds just because I was *so* scared that it could have been a centipede since they are common in my household at 3am.

After a few seconds, I taste a bitter/dirt-ish aftertaste. My mom uses ginseng and ginger a lot to make herbal teas so it would make sense if what I had in my mouth was ginger but why would it be in one of the cups ........ *shudder*

I had been debating whether I should turn on the lights afterwards but decided against it because I just didn't even want to know due to the possibility that it was a centipede. I just ran to my room and cried to my kitten.
<bot>: Drank water from a cup with either a centipede or a piece of ginseng in it in the dark. I'm deathly afraid of insects.