Ever find yourself on the floor in the middle of the night? I have. Pretty often over the last couple years. I’m not simply falling out of bed. Oh no. This is a complete spaz out leaping, arms flailing, legs everywhere, hitting the nightstand and having bruises kind of thing. It hurts!
I’ve never been a sleep walker, talker, or anything until this started happening. At first, I was just sitting or standing up in the bed screaming, my husband calmly saying my name until I “came to”. Funny thing was, I couldn’t remember what I was dreaming about, and I frequently remember at least part of my dreams, and I couldn’t even remember making the decision to scream. I had to ask, was I screaming? It was freaky to be totally out of breath and wide eyed, but emotionless. I felt bad about scaring my husband to death. But at least now I knew I could really scream if I needed to.
After researching, I found out they are night terrors, different from nightmares which you can remember. They got worse. I was fighting him back, screaming, and waking up on the floor. Felt really stupid. Stuff I read suggested the spouse ask a completely random question to get the person out of it.
So, months go by relatively calm, although I started having an imaginary bug either on my pillow, on the sheets, or running up the wall. I think I was awake, knew it was my imagination, but had to turn the lamp on to make it go away. Crazy right? I talked with my docs and they agreed it was just a combination of stress and meds I’m on. I have had recent enough MRI’s so they weren’t suspecting anything major. I don’t do drugs, drink, or smoke anything. I am on quite a large handful of prescription meds, but nothing new or strange.
Time goes by and the bugs go away, but I’m on the floor again one night. No biggie. But then I started seeing things in the shapes in the dark, like a frightened kid! One night I thought there was a person sitting beside my husband’s side of the bed. Startled me so bad I shook him awake shouting his name and turned on the lamp and it was just the lamp on his nightstand. The same one that’s been there for 10 years.
I think it’s getting worse. Thursday night, I was on the floor again. But this time I remember exactly what I saw, and it’s still creeping me out days later. There were 2 things that looked like if you shrunk Chewbaca down to 2 feet tall (I know, it sounds funny), solid black fur, with no face, clumsily walking on the bed on top of my husband’s legs towards me, kind of like Gumby walking. I screamed and somehow backed out of bed butt first into my nightstand, turning the lamp on (it’s a touch light), and fell on the floor along with just about everything that was on my nightstand. I was panting, feet pedaling and looking around trying to figure out what was real because I think I could still see them for a moment with the lights on. I think that’s the first nightmare I’ve ever had that was about something happening while I was in bed, in the dark, beside my husband. It was confusing. I couldn’t tell nightmare from hallucination. I’m still not quite sure.
Now I have a bruise on my thigh, back, butt, and the back of my arm. Plus, I feel like a total crazy person! 
