teknical
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Hello all. I'm curious about others' experiences with waking nightmares. While they're anything but frequent (two times in the past 20 years), they have been very rousing and concerning.
A short time ago I was quite sound asleep when I bolted out of bed and had the idea that I was to commit extreme and immediate violence on my chair (under the idea that it was a human threat, in my bedroom). I vocalized, probably rather loudly, and within an instant I regained my sense of reality. At that instant I was standing next to the chair, made awake. I then flipped the lights on and saw that there was no threat. I can't remember any noise that would've alerted me to danger. I had not yet actually struck the chair, as I was on the verge of it. The chair was about four feet from the foot of the bed.
Afterwards, I was rather shaken up and my adrenaline was gushing. I don't remember the nightmare, but it must've been very extreme. My body used so much force to get out of bed, my sheets were halfway across the room.
I always have a knife/flashlight under the pillow and just recently my AR under the bed, but my instincts still said to use fists against the threat. Hopefully, pulling the charging handle, flipping the safety, and pulling the trigger would be too complicated an action to occur while asleep, even with increasing familiarity with the weapon.
This concerns me greatly, being that a fist or knife has nowhere near the impact that a negligent discharge has in a firearm.
It seems strange that with humans spending hours per day in the dreamworld, there isn't much discussion about clashes with reality pertaining to firearms.
Please share your experiences with unreal perceived threats, specifically involving a firearm, and any issues that surround this strange behavior.
Thanks.
Edit: Poll subject to read, "Have you had waking nightmares in your lifetime?"
A short time ago I was quite sound asleep when I bolted out of bed and had the idea that I was to commit extreme and immediate violence on my chair (under the idea that it was a human threat, in my bedroom). I vocalized, probably rather loudly, and within an instant I regained my sense of reality. At that instant I was standing next to the chair, made awake. I then flipped the lights on and saw that there was no threat. I can't remember any noise that would've alerted me to danger. I had not yet actually struck the chair, as I was on the verge of it. The chair was about four feet from the foot of the bed.
Afterwards, I was rather shaken up and my adrenaline was gushing. I don't remember the nightmare, but it must've been very extreme. My body used so much force to get out of bed, my sheets were halfway across the room.
I always have a knife/flashlight under the pillow and just recently my AR under the bed, but my instincts still said to use fists against the threat. Hopefully, pulling the charging handle, flipping the safety, and pulling the trigger would be too complicated an action to occur while asleep, even with increasing familiarity with the weapon.
This concerns me greatly, being that a fist or knife has nowhere near the impact that a negligent discharge has in a firearm.
It seems strange that with humans spending hours per day in the dreamworld, there isn't much discussion about clashes with reality pertaining to firearms.
Please share your experiences with unreal perceived threats, specifically involving a firearm, and any issues that surround this strange behavior.
Thanks.
Edit: Poll subject to read, "Have you had waking nightmares in your lifetime?"
Purdy weird 
