Did you ever sleep with someone who had a nightmare in the middle of the night then screams and scares the $hit out of you?

No, but I was the person having the nightmare. My ex (after his heart slowed down) just held me til I fell back asleep.

Yeah, I actually got hit during the night a couple times because he was having a bad dream. He was moving around and hit me once on the face and another time the chest. Both times he woke up really fast and said sorry and cuddled with me. awww Did this happen to you recently Mr M?

Yes, several times. Worse than that, my ex-husband (a world class sleep-walker/talker) actually punched me in his sleep. Twice. The second time, he woke up mid-swing and yelled “Oh shit!”, at which point I sat bolt upright in bed… just in time to receive the punch right between my eyes!

@augustlan talk about getting beat up in bed! jeesh.

This one guy always had nightmares he would wake up out of nowhere and cover my head and tell me to get away from the walls. Another time(this actually happened many times) he started sleep talking and he’d say ” adri wake me up please baby please wake me up” it was scary. He constantly has these crazy dreams and he tells me there’s demons and all kinds of crazy stuff in them. He’ll even see things when the room is pitch black.

Haha when my mother was having my younger sister I was only five so I had to stay with my grandma. We were sleeping in her bed and I had a dream I was fighting with my older brother and I socked her right in the center of her face.

@babiturtle36 , yes it did. And when she screamed, my immediate reaction was that I let out a yell! I think I scared myself more!

Yeah, my wife does this.

It starts out as a gurgled mumble and builds to a frantic wail. Scares the hell out of me.

Luckily it happens very infrequently.

A couple of times my husband would talk in his sleep in some other dream language. Sometimes he’d get loud, but it was more like loud talking than screaming. He’d open his eyes and sit up a minute or so before actually waking up.

The first time that happened I didn’t know what to do, and I was pretty freaked out by it. Then I started “talking” back to him and he’d wake up more calmly and be less bothered by it when he did wake up. Then I’d rub his back as he went back to sleep. It hasn’t happened in a long time, now.

My husband has done all sorts of weird things in his sleep. One time I woke up to find him standing in the bed flailing his arms toward the celing. When I asked what he was doing he said he was putting the babies under the bed. Another time he walked out the front door. One of my sons is very active in his sleep too. Once when he was a kid he tried climbing out his window while sound asleep.

Yes! My husband used to be really bad at it. It always scared the crap out of me.
Once, he woke up and started shaking me (I had been injured recently and had needed a tetanus shot, so my arm was completely swollen and i could barely move it) He was telling me I was about to hit my head on the end table, but he was flipping out about it. He was half asleep still though.
Oh, and one time one of our cats came bursting into our bedroom with a bag wrapped around it. All we saw was a quick moving white thing, he began screaming like a little girl and “protecting” me and the baby. It was quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

@casheroo—That second story is one of the cutest things I’ve ever heard. D’awwww! XD

Well I wasn’t in the same bed but my older brother used to have night terrors which is 10 times worse than a nightmare. It would be like 3 in the morning and he would scream as if someone was murdering him and then just start running and if you tried to calm him down he would start screaming at you. I just used to pretend I didnt hear him so someone else would try to calm him down because it scared the crap out of me. He grew out of it finally.