Rude Awakening
So last night I went to bed before Chris leiny got home from work. I had to be up at 4:45 am to get to work at 6:45am. Chris was not the source of my sudden wakefulness. When he got home he was very quiet and was sitting at his computer doing whatever when I awoke. I noticed the light was on and came to just long enough to smile sleepily at him say hello and roll over and go back to sleep.
The way our room is set up our bed is against the window, in fact the windowsill is perfectly level with the top of the bed so it's like the bed extends a few extra inches. My side of the bed is under the window that the AC unit is in so literally my head is inches from that while I sleep. Well during the storms last night there was one particularly loud thunder crash. In my state of half sleep this startled the heck out of me. The sound seemed so close to my head that I was afraid for my safety. I scrabbled backwards from the window almost immediately to the amused laughter of Chris who was still awake at his desk. I came to my senses quickly and realized what had happened and kind of lay there panting with the left over adrenalin and laughing at my own foolishness.
I finally managed to get back to sleep but only after calming my nerves down. I'm prone to vivid dreams and can actually be startle out of sleep by silly things. This is only one example.
The way our room is set up our bed is against the window, in fact the windowsill is perfectly level with the top of the bed so it's like the bed extends a few extra inches. My side of the bed is under the window that the AC unit is in so literally my head is inches from that while I sleep. Well during the storms last night there was one particularly loud thunder crash. In my state of half sleep this startled the heck out of me. The sound seemed so close to my head that I was afraid for my safety. I scrabbled backwards from the window almost immediately to the amused laughter of Chris who was still awake at his desk. I came to my senses quickly and realized what had happened and kind of lay there panting with the left over adrenalin and laughing at my own foolishness.
I finally managed to get back to sleep but only after calming my nerves down. I'm prone to vivid dreams and can actually be startle out of sleep by silly things. This is only one example.