Has this ever happened to you?
June 27, 2007 - 7:09 pm 9 Comments
~ I woke up in the middle of the night to the baby crying, and as I got out of bed with my eyes still closed and half asleep, I fell over.
Both my legs were asleep.
In my delusional state of mind I thought to myself, “I must lay here, otherwise I’ll drop the baby.” So there I laid on the floor for who knows how long, until I realized that if I could get up and walk into the baby’s room, I most likely wouldn’t suddenly fall over and drop him.
Weird, I don’t know how I was sleeping to cause both my legs to fall asleep, has that ever happened to you?
June 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Not quite that, but I have had sleep paralysis before. I would wake up, fully alert to my surroundings but completely unable to move. Very disturbing.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Read that link. That sounds so scary!
“The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one’s normal vision.”
June 27th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
That’s never happened to me, but I do tend to think irrationally when I’m awakened to the sound of one of my kids crying.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
This made me laugh out loud. Literally. Not just like, LOL. Cuz everyone knows when you write LOL you don’t really mean you laughed out loud.
But I really did. Laugh out loud. Funny stuff, KD.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Funny. Dang funny.
I once woke up after sleeping on my arm all night, rolled over and thought that someone else’s arm was laying across my chest. I figured out it was mine after a few seconds but it kinda scared me. ( I was 13 i think)
June 28th, 2007 at 8:20 am
that is funny and sad all at the same time… the sleep deprivation we go through as new moms!!!
i have had one leg fall asleep and it caused me to fall flat on my face. but never both, that must be even more tricky!
ben has a really funny story of that happening to him- except he kept trying to get up, and kept falling, like 3 or 4 times until he decided to lay there and wait for his legs to be normal. it was in the middle of the night, too.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
ha ha ha! I am glad, fancypants, that you laughed out loud, not just the typed way either. (on a side note, when I type, ha ha ha, that means that I was laughing.)
Seth~ that would freak me out thinking someone else’s arm was on top of me! My arm has also fallen asleep, but I whacked myself in the face when I woke up.
Larissa, that is so funny that Ben kept trying to get up over and over again, that would’ve been funny to see.
June 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am
i’ve whacked myself a few times with my arm when it was asleep. and i’ve had dreams that the baby is rolling off the bed and woke up in a panic to find that the baby is comfortable in its own bed.
i remember stumbling into Haley’s room when she was a newborn and thinking, “I want Haley to go to a good college – RIGHT NOW!” new parent lack of sleep – you gotta love it. by the way, Haley goes to Baylor now. time flies.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
what scary dreams about the baby! I know, nights seem so long with a newborn. It feels like it will never end. And then you blink and they are two and sleeping through the night, and you blink again and they are 5… crazy.