Nightmare... - one drop of water

Nightmare...

I got horrified last night.

After supper, I felt very sleepy and my head was so dizzy that I had to give up my reading. So I walked into my room, got on my bed and fell into slumber in what was like half a minute. That was around 8.00pm. When I woke up from my first two and a half hours of sleep at 10.30pm all lights were off and needless to say that every family member had gone to sleep. Even the potted gardenia and those lousy cockroaches. *yike*

I went into the bathroom to get my teeth brushed and my face cleaned up. Then I went back into my room, hoping I could just keep on sleeping until sun light shines on me. But I was wrong. My mind had become sharply clear like a newly polished plate. I was nowhere near as fatigued as two hours and forty minutes before and there was no way that I slept for another six stright hours. So I put on the mp3 earphones and listened to some hideous call-in programmes in which troubled men and women are allowed to make enquiries about their unsatisfying sex life. *Ahem*

About one and a half hours later, I killed the radio and finally decided to sleep. So I fell asleep again. But it was from this moment on that the nightmare had been on.

You know perfectly well that you were lying in bed and your eyes were shut. But the thing was, for some reason you were scared and you could even see your every move--struggling to wake yourself up by raising your eyelids, trying your best to scream out but totally in vain, etc.-- which was the dreadful bit. In an illusion, I even felt that I rose from my pillow and then gradually lied down with my head pointing to the opposite end of the bed. I remember clearly that there was a moment I did manage to have my eyes open but couldn't move my body. In short, it was not strictly a nightmare in which your adversary chases you with a sword swinging in hand or anything. It was more like a self-induced hypnosis.

I can't recall the critical moment when I woke myself up. I just remember sitting still on bed to strighten myself up and walking to swith on the light. I turned on my mobile phone to see it was 3.05am. The rest of the night I slept with the light on.

It still makes my hairs on my back stand on end as I am typing and looking back on the horrible subconscious state that occured to me last night. You never know why it happens to you and I doubt the most achieved psychiatrists have any idea. Perhaps I shouldn't have listened to those wretched men on the call-in...

EDIT: According to the symptoms, I think I just had sleep paralysis. Many thanks to emmm for the knowledge.

22.5.06 19:44

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(24.5.06 16:57)
hey mikez, that sounds like sleep paralysis. You could google it, here's the wikipedia - clicky.

(24.5.06 17:14)
ah...I thought you just taught me the accurate expression. Thanks!