The man who cried wolf

[Marseeya]

This is funny, so I thought I'd share...

DH has sleep apnea and an REM disorder. When he's dreaming, he acts out the dream and when he wakes up, he believes he's still in the dream. Many times he'll wake up terrified and go running off to another part of the house, or he'll have entire conversations while he's still sleeping. It's so difficult to tell whether he's asleep or awake because he sounds so lucid.

One of his most frequent dreams is that spiders or bugs are crawling all over him and it usually freaks him out. Also, he'll dream that the walls are closing in on him and he'll get up and push at the walls.

Well, the other morning, he woke up babbling about there being bugs all over the wall and he was running his hands all over the wall, and I did my thing, trying to reassure him, and even turned the light on to prove there were no bugs. He got really frustrated trying to convince me and went downstairs to sleep. When the alarm finally went off, we went about our morning, but before he left for work, he tried to prove to me that there really had been bugs all over the wall.

So, I wouldn't listen and wouldn't listen and kept telling him it was only a dream, and I was actually getting kind of condescending about it. He kept trying to convince me otherwise. We actually ended up yelling at each other out of frustration!

It turned out, the dog must've gotten into an apple, because there was a gnawed apple on the floor at the head of our bed and little gnats on the wall around it! One of them went up his nose, which woke him up, and he turned on his little book light and the gnats scattered off the wall, so when I turned on the light they were all gone.

Poor hubby! At least he's forgiving (and reasonable) enough to understand why I couldn't believe him in the first place!

 

[Deb in IA]

 

[aprild]

Thats too funny!!!

 

[imsorry]

Nothing like a gnat up your nose!! Poor Guy!

 

[Marseeya]

I hate gnats! And this time of the year you've got to be so careful with fruit!

I have no idea how the dog ended up with one.

 

[SDFgirl]

Yowza! I hate when I wake up and "feel" that my dream was real...I can't imagine what that must be like for your DH!

 

[Cindyluwho]

OMG, my husband does that same thing! Especially about the bugs. He wakes up yelling "turn on the light, turn on the light, a giant spider feel off the ceiling", things like that! It's insane! He goes right back to sleep, never really wakes up and I'm wide awake, adrenaline pumping.

My favorite episode went something like this:
My husband sits straight up in bed, staring at the closet door. "LOOK!", he says.
I say, "Honey, what is it?"
"It's right there, look!"
By this time I realize he's asleep and ask, "What do you see?"
His reply, "Look at it! It's a Harley Davidson!"
He immediately falls back onto his pillow and is dead asleep.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

 

[minkydog]

My favorite episode went something like this:
My husband sits straight up in bed, staring at the closet door. "LOOK!", he says.
I say, "Honey, what is it?"
"It's right there, look!"
By this time I realize he's asleep and ask, "What do you see?"
His reply, "Look at it! It's a Harley Davidson!"
He immediately falls back onto his pillow and is dead asleep.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

This remeinds me of the time I had to call a doctor in the middle of the night about a patient who had fallen out of bed and was hurt. He was trying to give me orders but he kept getting distracted & falling asleep. Finally he blurted out,"Move the boxwoods!" and hung up. I ended up having to call another doctor because I couldn't get the man to make any sense.

 

[Marseeya]

OMG, my husband does that same thing! Especially about the bugs. He wakes up yelling "turn on the light, turn on the light, a giant spider feel off the ceiling", things like that! It's insane! He goes right back to sleep, never really wakes up and I'm wide awake, adrenaline pumping.

My favorite episode went something like this:
My husband sits straight up in bed, staring at the closet door. "LOOK!", he says.
I say, "Honey, what is it?"
"It's right there, look!"
By this time I realize he's asleep and ask, "What do you see?"
His reply, "Look at it! It's a Harley Davidson!"
He immediately falls back onto his pillow and is dead asleep.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

We're married to the same man!

Does your DH get worse with stress? Mine sure does -- I can tell when he's having a difficult time at work because of the lack of sleep.

This one time he freaked out and thought the bed was on fire! He was so scared, but he kept patting at me and -- get this -- blowing at me to blow the fire out. I'll never forget that.

 

[Cindyluwho]

I'm so glad it's not just my husband who does this weird stuff!