Considering we spend approximately one third of our lives sleeping, it’s no surprise that some weird things happen during that time. And every now and then, we wake up to see them.
Personally, I’m terrified of cockroaches and am still traumatised from the time I woke up to a cockroach climbing up my leg. That cockroach invaded my space when I couldn’t do anything about it, which still seems very rude and unnecessary.
But compared to my colleagues, I’ve had a very peaceful 26 years of sleep. Earlier this week, we started sharing stories of the creepiest ways we’ve ever been woken up, and I want to preface these stories by saying I don’t know how these people continue to sleep.
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They’re simply terrifying.
“We’d been robbed.” Sarah, 31.
“My mum shaking me in my partner’s holiday house asking for the address. While we’d all been sleeping, someone had cut open the fly screen near her bed and snatched her handbag. She needed to call the police. It took me a few minutes to work out what was going on.”
Spiders making a home. Meg, 23.
“One night I went to sleep only to wake a couple of hours later to a strange sensation. In the short time I’d been out, I realised a big spider had been weaving a web over my face and chest, I screamed like I was being murdered causing my dad to run in worried I was being attacked. I think the spider was more scared than I was.”
A man in the room. Natalie, 36.
“When I was in my dorm at uni, I woke up to noises coming from my desk. I looked over and saw a man with my laptop in his hand. I yelled and he quickly escaped out the window. It didn’t hit me until afterwards that someone had been in my room while I slept.”
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Big moths dive bombing my face in the dark. Occasionally one would ricochet down my neck and under the doona. Much flailing and panic followed.
I've told this story here before but I was once awoken by a tickling sensation on my left cheek. I sat bolt upright in bed and exclaimed in shock. Boyfriend inquired as to what was wrong and I told him that there had been something on my face. He told me that I had just been dreaming, so accepting that this was probably correct, I lay back down in bed. I immediately felt something tickling on my neck, so I sat back up and switched on the light. There was a cockroach on my pillow. The same cockroach that had been sitting ON MY BLOODY FACE!!
*shudder*