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#1 2005-05-15 21:18:23
- Palomar
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
*Just for the heck of it. Which one is worst?
A few years ago my husband elbowed me in the eye, hard. Ouch. Was afraid for a bruise (and what people might think "really" happened...)
But I really do dislike those "falling/stumbling" dreams when the legs respond by kicking/twitching and you wake up feeling mildly panicky. That's my vote.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#2 2005-05-16 00:04:50
- MarsDog
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
My dog used to run in his sleep, all 4 feet, while lying on his side.
If you disturbed him, he growled, as if protecting his food.
But then, he could play an air powered keyboard organ.
A simple tune for a hot dog (no mustard).
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#3 2005-05-16 01:25:20
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
Cindy:-
But I really do dislike those "falling/stumbling" dreams when the legs respond by kicking/twitching and you wake up feeling mildly panicky. That's my vote.
Yep, me too! A very unpleasant fright in the night. 
[It gets my vote.]
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#4 2005-05-16 07:14:43
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
I'm of the opinion that it's not so much how you wake up as what immediately follows. Waking from a vivid nightmare at home isn't very disconcerting at all. Waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, a beach for example, can be quite jarring. The eyes open and the checklist runs through in a nanosecond, where am I? How did I get here? Do I know her? What the hell happened? :laugh: Then memory catches up and everything's okay.
:hm: You know, just as an example.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#5 2005-05-16 07:25:37
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
Once, in college, I was in a deep sleep about 4:00 am when a garbage truck accidentally dropped a full size metal dumpster just outside my window.
I turned towards the window and looked straight into a streetlight.
For a brief instant I thought Chicago had gotten nuked.
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#6 2005-05-16 09:30:41
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
5 years ago bought myself a new alarm clock. A baby ben. I thought its alarm was quite similar to the staff alarm at work and it should wake me up.
Oh yes it did.
It went off when I had set it for and I apparently jumped up still mostly asleep and ran at full speed straight into the wall.
And as I write this my wife is currently in tears of laughter as she remembers it well.
Chan eil mi aig a bheil ùidh ann an gleidheadh an status quo; Tha mi airson cur às e.
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#7 2005-05-16 10:05:10
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
It went off when I had set it for and I apparently jumped up still mostly asleep and ran at full speed straight into the wall.
:laugh:
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#8 2005-05-16 10:58:41
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Re: Rude Awakenings - (which is worst?)
5 years ago bought myself a new alarm clock. A baby ben. I thought its alarm was quite similar to the staff alarm at work and it should wake me up.
Oh yes it did.
It went off when I had set it for and I apparently jumped up still mostly asleep and ran at full speed straight into the wall.
And as I write this my wife is currently in tears of laughter as she remembers it well.
*Wow...that was truly a rude awakening. Yipes. Certainly can't help wondering if you got a bloody nose because of it. :-\
My worst awakening was my husband's first grand-mal seizure, around 2:15 a.m. We'd been married 3 years. He woke me up making what sounded like chuckling noises; I smiled, figuring he was laughing in his sleep (though he hadn't ever done that before), and started drifting back off into sleep.
Then the actual seizing started -- rather violent, too. Took a year off my life at least. I'd never witnessed a seizure before.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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