Rude (?) awakenings
...I just don't get my cat.
You know that movie thing where you come awake screaming, that nobody ever actually does in real life? Well... I found out that I actually do it in real life under certain circumstances.
'Certain circumstances' involving being happily sound asleep circa 3:30 a.m., and then within the space of about 0.05 seconds experiencing:
1) SCRAMBLESCRAMBLESCRAMBLETHUDDDD as the cat tears in from the living room at a dead sprint and leaps onto me...
2) sticks a very cold and wet nose directly into my ear, and
3) purrs at the top of his kittycat lungs about 800x the usual volume (probably enhanced by the fact that he is not usually purring with his wet nose directly in my ear under ordinary circumstances).
...maybe he had a nightmare and wanted mommy to fix it? And it was really gratifying to have heard him purr that loudly once I'd managed to get my heart rate somewhere under three thousand beats a second? I dunno.
I hadn't personally been having a nightmare, but by the time I was awake enough to process what had happened I realized I was screaming in panic, at which point the cat galloped out into the living room again with his bizarre catly mission well accomplished.
*headdesk*
You know that movie thing where you come awake screaming, that nobody ever actually does in real life? Well... I found out that I actually do it in real life under certain circumstances.
'Certain circumstances' involving being happily sound asleep circa 3:30 a.m., and then within the space of about 0.05 seconds experiencing:
1) SCRAMBLESCRAMBLESCRAMBLETHUDDDD as the cat tears in from the living room at a dead sprint and leaps onto me...
2) sticks a very cold and wet nose directly into my ear, and
3) purrs at the top of his kittycat lungs about 800x the usual volume (probably enhanced by the fact that he is not usually purring with his wet nose directly in my ear under ordinary circumstances).
...maybe he had a nightmare and wanted mommy to fix it? And it was really gratifying to have heard him purr that loudly once I'd managed to get my heart rate somewhere under three thousand beats a second? I dunno.
I hadn't personally been having a nightmare, but by the time I was awake enough to process what had happened I realized I was screaming in panic, at which point the cat galloped out into the living room again with his bizarre catly mission well accomplished.
*headdesk*