Blog Vulnerability: The Best Part of Wakin' Up...

...is hitting your head against the wall.  Hard.

Apparently, I was tossing around in my bed this morning, half-awake, eyes closed, avoiding imminent wakeage, and wasn't aware of my proximity to the wall.  All of a sudden, I turned my head to the right, and **WHAM.**  I concussed.  I think both the act of hitting my head against the wall as well as the reverberating sound of the thump awakened me.  To make myself feel better, I went back to sleep for juuust a little longer.  Sigh.  It's hard to be me.

Who does that?!  Anyone have any comparable or exceptional stories of waking up?

Comments

[kyledawn]

unfortunately, i often wake myself up by hitting my head or my arm on the wall. usually my head. when i lived in alex, i was always afraid that i would wake my neighbor in the middle of the night with the loud thump and the inevitable "what?! ow!" that followed.

[nicole]

In college, I was having a bad dream and I guess i was trashing around and punched myself in the face. I woke up real quick. btw, in my dream I was running away from NSYNC. Damn boy bands.

[Sammalamma]

I once woke up only to have slept on my arm long enough to lose all feeling. Seeing the arm without feeling it startled me and I jerked away from it only to actually hit myself in the face. Because I'm that cool.

[sanderai]

Sometimes, I sleep with books in my bed. One night I fell asleep on a book, drooled, it dried and then, when I woke up... the book was stuck to my lip. It made my lip bleed when I pulled it off.

There was also the night in San Antonio that a roach woke me up when it fell on my head. And also the night that my nose ring got attached to the lace pillowcase I was sleeping on...

:) I might have enough for a book on this topic.

[visco]

One time I woke up and didn't realize that my legs had fallen asleep, so when I lunged my body to get out of bed, only the top part succeeded and I rolled/flopped onto the floor. It was totally sweet. I laughed for a long time.