...at 3:30 in the morning. I'm in bed, and there's something like egg shells all over me, and something soft and big. It's pitch black, and I can't see a thing. What the Hell is going on?

I reach up and turn on the wall-mounted lamp the hangs above my bed. What sounds like a blowtorch starts, and the element of the bulb begins burning a nice, hot white. Going from pitch black to absolute white blinds me, and I stumble blindly across my room to the light switch.

A quick survey of my bed confirms my drowsy suspicions - the bulb in my lamp is broken open - the big soft thing was the lamp shade. Fearful of my bed catching fire from the dying embers showering off of the exposed element, I run over and unplug the lamp. The element dies, and quiets.

Best as I can figure, sometime during the one hour I had slept, I had, in my sleep, knocked my lamp (it was hanging over me, mounted on the wall) and showered myself with glass. I was also apparently oblivious to this, and slept right through it.

So...yeah. Quite possibly the most confusing thing that's happened to me when I woke up that didn't involve alcohol.

and thats why little kiddos, don't sleep with a bedside lamp, or hanging one for that matter

and thats why little kiddos, don't use electricity. it'll kill you one day in your sleep.

Good times. That moment when you first wake up can make for some interesting occurances. I had a poster on my wall that freaked me out a couple of times when I woke up in the middle of the night.

That's it then. I'm sleeping outside, for fear of knocking over my lamp.

Alcohol was actually my theory from the moment I saw the subject, until I read this last line.

It's the first time I've actually gone blind. That was kinda scary for a few moments.

The nice thing about it is that I came out completely unharmed. Despite sleeping on a bed full of broken bulb bits, I didn't have a single cut on me.

I once went blind after trying to beat the world's record for most ingested nickels.

My dad told me this while we were on holiday in Spain. The night before, he'd felt something sitting on...a very sensitive area, while he'd been trying to sleep. He reached down without looking, picked up what he said felt like a piece of cardboard, and dropped it over the side of his bed. He lay awake for a while,wondering what it had been, so he turned on the bedside lamp and looked at the floor. What did he see?


A scorpion.

My 13 year old cousin is notorious for being a complete idiot when he first wakes up. I swear, if you wake him up during sleep, he will not know who he is, who you are, where he is, and even possibly what speicies he is. It's mindboogling. I can kick this kid in the head like 40 times and he just grunts and turns over. Saying something like "Dont' let the toast run away" or something hilarious. I could wake him up tonight, and claim its Christmas morning and he'll jump out of bed and run to find the tree. Hes that bad.

That's exactly how my girlfriend is. It's kind of funny, but mostly annoying when you have to wait for them to come to their senses.

A perfect opportunity to take advantage of her

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