Hysterical!

Last night, after listening to one of my daughters yell at her sister in her sleep (this lasted for about an hour, off and on) I finally fell asleep around 1:30. A little bit before 3:00 I was abruptly awakened by my husband, screaming out as loud as he could 'ONE!!!!!!!!!'. Not only was it done at an extremely loud volume (the word was bouncing off of the walls and my ears were ringing), but it was also done in a short, staccato form. I about jumped out of my skin!!!! As a general rule, James does not talk (or scream) in his sleep. I reached over and asked him if he was okay. I got absolutely no response. I laid there for a second and then burst in to laughter! I could not stop laughing!!!! All of a sudden I heard James laughing as well. He had yelled so loudly he woke himself up. He has been helping to run a pre-academy for people trying out for his team. I figured that he was dreaming about what he had done that day and was counting out for them while he was working out. Turns out he was actually yelling at his brother in his dream and said 'WES!'. We laughed for a bit and then I thanked him for making sure I would not be able to sleep for another hour or two. He then reminded me of something that happened when we were first married.

I have a lot of nightmares and one of those is a recurring one of a gigantic spider coming down from the ceiling on to my face. The problem is that I don't realize it is a dream. I am absolutely positive that it is real. When this happens I start screaming and pull my blanket over my head in a sweeping motion and then put it up in the air to catch the spider and fling the blanket to the floor. I then jump up from the bed just in case I missed the spider and quickly turn on the lights and have to check all over the place to make sure there are no creepy crawlies around. Imagine how thrilled my missionary companions were at night! lol

So, back to my story. We had been married a couple of weeks and I had neglected to inform James that I talk in my sleep (he had found out by the time this story unfolded) or that I have many nightmares, my spider one included. We were sleeping and I had the dream and responded in the same fashion that I just wrote about. He thought someone had broken in to our house and was getting ready to attack! He jumped out of bed and ran to the living room to do whatever damage he needed to to fend of the attacker......never mind that his side of the bed was closer to the door than I was and I had not left my side of the room. If someone had broken in and I was screaming because they were attacking me wouldn't they have been in our room? He was tired and wasn't thinking. Once he realized that I was dreaming and someone was not trying to kill me he tried to show me that there were no spiders around. He was not thrilled about being woken up that way, but has gotten used to it. By the way, how would you have liked to be our neighbors in our apartment complex with the thin walls?! haha

Last night, after we finished laughing (it took me a while. I kept thinking about it and would start to laugh again) he told me that he was just getting even. I guess it worked!