Sleep paralysis
happened to me while sleeping on a particularly shitty pull-out sofa bed.

Woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't move anything except my eyes. There appeared to be a bright light outside the window and a rushing sound akin to a train pulling into a station. After about maybe 30 seconds of this I went back to sleep again but it was pretty scary at the time.

If my IQ was significantly lower (i.e. if I were American) I probably would have sworn I was being abducted by aliens.

I also used to get sleep apnoea from that bed. That's where you wake up unable to breathe because your throat has closed up while you're asleep. It's a terrifying sensation as you try to suck air into your lungs but nothing's going in. Guess that's what it feels like to be suffocated to death.

Sleepwalking I've only ever done once, after a particularly heavy session on the bolivian marching powder. Apparently I got out of bed with my then girlfriend, walked into the living room where my friend was sleeping on our sofa bed, and proceeded to piss all over the tv. I awoke sat back on the edge of my bed with my girlfriend looking at me with a mixture of pity and disgust.

Her exact words, "well at least you didn't do it in the bed"

And of that I was quite proud.
(pmsc, Sat 25 Aug 2007, 15:42, Reply)