My former (kinda) girlfriend
was terrible for random outbursts in her sleep.

First time we fell asleep together, she punched me weakly four times in the night. Not too bad, I thought, it's a small bed, and she fidgets a little. No harm.

We shared a hotel room in Liverpool (Adelphi, if you're interested). I couldn't sleep for some reason, but she could. As I lay, drifting in and out of sleep, she shook me awake, and when I asked what was wrong, she punched me. Quite hard. I saw she was asleep, though, so ignored it.

A few minutes later, she shook me again, and mumbled something about "snowball", before telling me to "shave a wave". I moved further away from her in this double bed...

I also have this tendency myself to "jerk" suddenly, as I fall asleep. A leg, or an arm, or sometimes my neck, will just spazz out for a second, then stop.

This has caused me to:

kick a girlfriend in her sleep.
elbow people on my break at work.
And, most memorably,
knock over a guy's cup of tea on the train, spilling hot liquid all down him. He was not best pleased.
( Thinker, Fri 24 Aug 2007, 1:06, Reply)