Jun 26, 2016, 1:01 AM

@wanderer I've had the very mundane version somewhat often, probably because I just never have slept very well over my life; it really is pretty mundane. The first few times I can recall it happening? Were very scary -- and so I can see how some folks might attribute more alarming things to the wake-up lag effect and would be terrified by it.

The other, uh... yeeeeeeeah, we'll just say the house I grew up in was special. ๐Ÿ˜„ (Not actually my house, but my grandmother's house; she lived next door and babysat me when I was tiny and then I moved in there as a teen, etc.) Lots of weird things went down there with stunning frequency, enough that a lot of things that would flip out my friends never really phased me since I grew up with it.

I tend to be reasonably good at sending bad things packing off to somewhere else. (Ironic, considering how bad at it I am on games!) No real idea why, and there are some times I'm pretty dubious, but I've had friends ask me to come tell things to go away for them, and I see precisely zero harm in it even if it's one of the situations in which I am somewhat skeptical of what they're telling me. (Even if it's the placebo effect in those instances? That can still help them out. I'm OK with this.)

But needless to say, that isn't the kind of thing you do for very long without pissing something nasty off enough to sneak in and whallop you one. ๐Ÿ˜• I'd apparently noped the house long enough that it happened. (I woke up after the 'this was different' with finger bruises on my wrists, the ward ripped off my door and physically broken, and aching like I'd been stretched on the rack. It was not fun.) I would have been real happy convincing myself that one was a dream or something else, but nope; I kinda count myself lucky it only ever happened the once, really. Was definitely a different thing than the medical stuff people describe as the body is trying to shake off REM sleep.