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what's the scariest thing that's ever woken you up during the middle of the night my wife standing over me with a knife whispering to herself that she needed to kill me that was a rough year whoa care to elaborate well the wife and I had been married roughly two years at the time about two months after we were married she started having problems mood swings anxiety irritability that sort of thing but we were working opposite schedules at the time so I was pretty irritable too well her anxiety got worse and started a beautiful friendship with paranoia eventually she wasn't able to work anymore she got to the point where she couldn't even leave the house most days she required more time and effort to care for things were pretty intense for a couple in their 20s we tried doctors but weren't getting much response from them mostly wait and see she kept getting worse and things got harder for us by this point I'd been forced to quit my job so that I could keep an eye on her full-time I went to college taking courses online so I could make sure she stayed safe student loans basically sustained us for a while dot we moved in with her mom and sister so that they could take turns watching over her so anyways after a couple of major depressive spouts some self-harm and a suicide attempt or two to spice things up the doctors decided they should be dosing her up they tried putting her on a bunch of different medications some made her numb some made her heart race so badly we ended up in the ER again one of the medications ended up making her extremely violent she lashed out at me by me scream insults and such a couple of times I had to physically restrain her to keep her from hurting me and I was the only one in the house that she listened to even in the slightest when her brain was misfiring as you can imagine I try to sleep when she sleeps usually I'm a really light sleeper and I wake up whenever she makes an unusual noise or rolls over on the bed but sometimes I have schoolwork do and the only time to finish it is while she's asleep so eventually I get a decent amount of sleep lag crawl into bed and sleep heavily then suddenly I'm awake there's something wrong the wife isn't in the bed next to me I realized that there's more light in the room than normal the door is slightly ajar and light is coming in from the hallway she's standing at the foot of the bed she's gotten a big kitchen net from somewhere we'd been locking up the sharp implements so at the time I don't know how she got it and she's mumbling very quietly to herself I strained my ears and she's arguing with herself about the merits of killing me versus leaving me alive they were nonsensical but mostly ran along the lines of he stops me from doing what I want hurting people and killing myself those were the cons and there's no one else I can talk to and that was pretty much the whole of her debate so you can imagine how I'm feeling at this point scared terrified and exhausted I've been dealing with such a high stress level for so long that I'd started hallucinating that she'd called for me when she hadn't and I'm just at the point where I turned into a 17 year old girl and I just can't even so I look at her and I tell her take my life if you want it's here is already I gave it to you when we got married and then I roll over and pretend to fall asleep of course I'm straining my ears for any sound to warn me I might lose my spleen but after a moment she crawls into bed puts the knife under her pillow and falls asleep once she starts snoring I carefully pulled the knife from under her pillow and returned it to one of the locked drawers in the kitchen then I take five minutes to shake like a leaf as the adrenaline wears off and then another ten to cry silently on the couch and then I crawled back into bed and wrapped my arms around her and fell asleep to this day she still doesn't remember it I stepped out of my bathroom to find my entire house lit up two EMTs and a sheriff's deputy in my living room they proceeded to try to tell me to come sit down stay calm relax and let them help me I was like WTF is going on why are you in my house apparently I had suffered a grand mal seizure in my sleep never having this happened before my wife called 9-1-1 i must have come out of the seizure got up walked into the bathroom to take a piss and had no idea it even happened while i was in the bathroom they arrived came in and my wife had turned all the lights on and I was oblivious to everything weirdest feeling ever would not do again I had a very similar experience although I was still ducked up when they told me I had a seizure and I remember staring back at them saying what the duck is a seizure I was up at my dad's cabin for the weekend and at around 1:00 we heard a huge crash on our porch it's a big wraparound porch that has two openings we forgot to lock one and then we heard a voice yelling duck duck duck really loud this mysterious stranger was now trying to pick the lock on our door to get in my dad gets his point four four Magnum and I get a baseball bat my sister little brother and stepmother all locked themselves in the Attic me and my dad went out and my dad yells at the person you have about ten seconds to get the duck off my property before I kill you then that's when we realize it's a 17 year old kid and he just collapses and starts crying we don't know what to do and my dad tries to calm down him down while still holding the gun at him I go and call the cops they come and get him apparently this kid was in a car crash about six miles down the road that killed his best fiend and his girlfriend and he was just trying to find help I guess what happened is they were driving back down from their camping trip when they were driving down this really narrow road they rounded a corner and a deer jumped out so they swerved to avoid it but careened off of a cliff and I to a river the driver and one of the passengers were unconscious and the kid on our porch was relatively okay he was able to get out of the car as water was getting in hielo the other two were right behind him when they weren't he tried to save them but he couldn't as and watched his friend and girlfriend drown right in front of him I don't know where he is today but if you're somehow reading this buddy I am really sorry we were about to shoot you and I am so very sorry for what happened to you and I hope you were okay I'll try and find the news article but this was about six years ago in a small mountain town so it may be hard-headed typos due to idiotic phone corrections add it to okay I'm getting an absurd amount of hate towards us pointing a gun at the kid so let me ask you this what it wasn't some shell-shocked kid what if it was a home intruder who had a weapon and we didn't and he subsequently murdered us all next so you are all telling me that if you lived in a very very isolated location miles away from any form of civilization lived in the heart of the forest where a large number of dangers including bears and mountain lions were where if there was a home intruder you were alone as your next closest neighbor is probably five miles down the road you wouldn't have a gun and if you were in this isolated location and someone stumbles onto your porch and tries to pick the lock of your damn house you wouldn't pull a gun on them if your answer is yes to any of these scenarios you are a total ducting idiot a cold lifeless hand falling flat on my face took me a second or two to realized at my own hand that I had been laying on it was cold and numb from the elbow down I woke up once in my hands and feet were completely numb I remember biting them to make sure and when they started coming to they got the tickly feeling you get when you're sleeping limb wakes up except it hurt really bad and I started throwing my hands against the wall I later concluded I had cancer because Google when I was 18 I was in a house fire since then I've been terrified of fire this story takes place roughly a year later when I was 19 and had just moved into my own apartment as an incomplete quadriplegic this was a huge deal it was around 2:00 a.m. and I'm dead asleep I suddenly wake up to my dog howling and the fire alarm blaring I am ducking terrified I'm also only wearing underwear I throw on a shirt get into my chair as quickly as possible and head to the exit this is when I realize how docked I am I'm in the 8th floor with no way down I'd taken so long getting into my chair there's no one around I just started sobbing uncontrollably I feel a tap and see my two male neighbors standing over me they ask if they can help in I stammered yes without hesitation one picks me up out of my chair and the other grabs my dog's collar I forgot her least in my panic they carried me down eight flights of steps and held me outside in the 50 to 60 degree cold until they somehow found a chair for me they also got a blanket from somewhere to cover me up with they consoled me calmed my dog after we were allowed back in one went upstairs and brought my chair back down they walked me to my door and told me to come to them if I ever needed anything they moved shortly after but that experience is one that will always stay with me obligatory top comment womp gold edit this is my highest rated comment and thanks to whoever gilded me glad you all enjoyed it I hope they know how much they affected me and now many others with their kindness second edit to clear any confusion I was next to the fire exit / stairwell when they found me they were on their way out and that's when they saw me and helped I woke once to a strange high-pitched trilling sound and bright lights beaming through my window for a second I seriously thought I was about to be abducted by aliens then I realized it was a tow doing it's mating call in the front yard and car parked on the street with the headlights on I once woke at 5 a.m. to someone whisper shouting if that's a thing my name I thought maybe my dream had thrown me off or something but I was still pretty freaked out then I heard it again just when I was just about to drift off to sleep again turns out my dad had been out with his drinking buddies and was locked out of the house I woke up at about 3 a.m. to the back door opening I was in a panic and couldn't hear properly / my bf snoring I thought I could hear quiet footsteps then I heard the lounge room door open and all this noise I tried to wake my boyfriend up quietly by nudging him and shaking him but that goose wouldn't wake up I knew I had to get up myself and look I dialed ooo in my phone ready to hit dial as soon as I saw someone and quietly opened the bedroom door the lounge room door was only open a a little bit I turned my phone light on ready to bust some chops and kick the door open there stood my dog totally stunned he had a shortbread cookie in his mouth and a rip plastic bag with more cookies at his feet he clearly did not expect to be caught on his snack run TL DR my dog is the Cookie Monster headed for those who may be wondering this is the culprit well it was about eight months ago about 2:40 a.m. I was sleeping in my bed when I heard a loud bang in my kitchen unaware of what it was I got up and wasn't sure of anything I get my gun from my safe and walk out I then hear a huge rattle of pans and plates falling on the floor I was really freaking out my blood was pumping so hard and it was so bad I was starting to get a headache for a creep out of my hallway it's pitch black I look in the kitchen poking my head in I see two strong glowing eyes staring at me so ducking scary man at rustled my jimmies so hard I booked it back in my room and popped open the window and hopped the duck out cause I don't got time to deal with that bull duck I was ducking scared I was on my phone about to dial nine-one-one when I remembered that I bought a ducking cat like a month ago and it ran away and came back that night needless to say I saved a nice pair of undies from being slaughtered by my fatal bowel movement of Terror I knew I shouldn't have bought a ducking cat freakin cats man I actually love cats partly for the reason they just don't give a single duck what did you do afterwards but a dog somebody trying to break in I was living alone at the time in a little studio flat in the city center it was about 3:00 a.m. and I was woken up by some crashing sounds in the hallway and then somebody started kicking hard at my bedroom door fortunately my door at the time was a pretty hefty fire door with a good strong lock so I had enough time to call the police before he did any damage to it I was living pretty close to the police station so they turned up fast with dogs and caught him still inside the building as it turned out the guy was absolutely wasted and looking for somewhere to sleep and from the outside my place still looked like the empty nightclub that used to be before it was converted into flats so my guess is he thought it would be empty rather than actually attempting to rob slash attack anyone living there I was still very shaken up by it at the time last night's rocket attack and siren I live in Israel with my pregnant wife and two-year-old edit well I wasn't expecting this comment to blow up normally whenever I mention anything about Israel it gets down voted immediately thank you everyone for the kind wishes and concern to be honest it's not that bad here in terms of casualties or Rockets other parts of the country not to mention Gaza have it much worse but it's still scary getting woken up in the middle of the night by a loud alarm and having less than a minute to get my wife son and dog in our safe room we then wait for the loud explosions before moving back to our bedrooms I hope it ends soon the older I get the more I realize that most people are manipulated by their governments into this conflict Hamas needs money best way to get it is to attack Israel and in Israel the various government players are always looking for more votes / power I work in the same building as many Palestinians and Israelis and there is absolutely no tension from either group toward the other and no bad wishes it's said that a few [ __ ] can cause so much damage to so many good people sorry for the rant thanks again for all your kind words woke up from a dream about a man who climbs in Windows and watches people sleep to see someone sitting on the chair next to the bed I was sleeping in then actually woke up and if this happened at my grandparents house when I was in high school or middle school and since then I've had at least one other dream like this at their house I was staying in a different room that is attached to the attic and someone came through the door in the middle of the night I'm not sure if I placed emphasis on the creep factor of that room because of the attic and the rumors that the previous owners mother-in-law left and died in the attic or if that house is just ducked up double that if my grandmother had one of these dreams - only it was death telling her to come she apparently did not go I woke up to a cockroach that had crawled into my ear I duck you not excruciating pain tried to flush it out with water no luck I had to lie there for six hours before mom took me to hospital while it moved around scratched my eardrum and fluttered its wings that sound is terrifying when it comes from in your ear my ear was bruised from how hard I was pushing in an attempt to stop it moving they first tried to blast it out with a high-pressure little hose which hurt like abbien didn't work so then they poured oil into my ear to drown it then sucked the goose out with a little vacuum I'm sorry you had to go through this but mostly I'm sorry I had to realize this is a real possibility in life husband running into the bedroom choking something about the way his footsteps were pounding and woke me up instantly he swallowed one of those easy swallow tylenols ironically enough and it caught in his throat I asked if he was okay and he violently shook his head no so I went from a sleep to Heimlich in about two seconds a really terrible way to be woken up as specially since he said the last time it happened he has a constricted esophagus from stomach acid scarring so he's prone to choking while eating his ex-wife had been unable to do it and he had passed out you expect some big heroic adrenalin wave to come sweeping over you and empower you to magically save your spouse but I was just terrified on swearing I also thought I did it incorrectly because it wasn't a neat little - he like in the movies he bent over violently throwing up do I still do it do I stop what do I do but he was coughing and could speak told me to call 911 911 opry assured me that if he was coughing he was getting air and to encourage him to keep coughing then she let me off the line which in my state of hysteria I took to mean that no one was coming the paramedics and firemen showed up and filled my kitchen while I stupidly stood there in half an ID with a blankie wrapped around me and they took him off in an ambulance the capsule apparently melted on the way to the ER but I'll never forget the horrible sound it made rattling with wrongness in his throat as he would grab and pinched at his neck after the tornado in Joplin Missouri in 2011 we were left without power for several days our home was only slightly damaged so we were able to stay there my daughter had just turned 11 at the time and was sleeping on a pallet next to our bed because she didn't want to sleep in her room by herself with no electricity she had been in a bathroom of her aunt's house during the tornado and that bathroom was literally and I mean literally how it's meant to be used the only place in the house left standing anyway this was to night later the three of us and our three dogs were all asleep in the room and I woke up to my daughter screaming that the house was on fire sure enough flames were coming from the master bathroom small flames but flames I got up and ran to the garage to get our fire extinguisher but it was pitch black with no power I had to go back in get my phone and go back out to find it by this time my wife and daughter had gathered up her two French bulldogs and gone outside but we couldn't find the pitbull puppy my daughter had gotten from us for her birthday we couldn't find the cat either so I went back into the bathroom but the flames were too much already for our fire extinguisher so I decided it wasn't worth it to die of smoke inhalation so I bailed we called 911 times but emerge agency personnel was so spread thin with the tornado that it took about 20 minutes for anyone to get there we sat in the road and watched our house burn total loss my daughter was in the heart of the Joplin tornado in two days later watched her house burn TL DR woke up at 2:00 a.m. to flames from our master bathroom watched house burn edit a word and a two thanks for the kind words everyone unfortunately the puppy and the cat both were lost in the fire due to smoke inhalation the cat was found whole but the dogs surely passed before she felt any pain and my family has had better luck since then we had good insurance so we were able to get back on our feet pretty quickly and at 3 we had a candle burning in the bathroom for light we think the cat pushed open the door and there were towels hanging on the backside insurance steamed at a negligent fire which it was but they still paid in full they dropped us like a bad habit right afterward though I was 10 years old and out camping with my Girl Scout Troop out by Catalina Island and we were sleeping in our sleeping bags outside I fell asleep with my hand outside of the bag and I woke up sometime later feeling something crawling around on the back of my hand there was a full moon out and I looked over and saw a ginormous potato bug on my hand I wanted to scream but I didn't want to wake everyone up so I flung my hand away from myself to get rid of the bug and then spent the rest of the night with a zipper of my sleeping bag pulled shut and the opening at the top closed up worst night of my ten-year-old life for those of you don't know what a potato bug is it's this ugly thing my family was staying at this haunted hotel in Savannah GA it was an old hospital during the Civil War or something like that and my brother and I were sharing a bed the first night I woke up to him smashed up against the headboard no noise and movement at all when I asked him what he was doing he said he was afraid to move because he wasn't entirely sure if he was dead or paralyzed then he woke up to this enormous pressure and was pushed up against the headboard freaked me out and I refused to share a bed with him again out of fear of another ghosts attack the next night I was sleeping with my sister and she rolled over on me I kept trying to push her off when I noticed she wasn't anywhere near my side of the bed almost peed my pants and then watched TV until the Sun came up because duck ghosts TL DR ghosts are real and scary I'm 21 now and until about a month ago I went 20 years of my life not knowing if ghosts were real I would have absolutely loved to keep it that way too but so much for that a few weeks ago I was at an old lake house with a ton of friends me and one other guy claimed two single beds in one of the bedrooms apparently this house belonged to one of my friend's grandparents who had both died in that house at the foot of my bed up on the wall was this odd painting of a young woman no idea who it was of anyways I kept trying to sleep but kept hearing a weird breathing sound coming from the opposite side of the room opposite side of where the other guy was sleeping to eventually I ignored it and almost fell asleep right before I was out I swear it says if someone grabbed the end of my bed and just shook it back and forth violently for a full couple of seconds I have never gotten such bad chills I looked around the room in the dark but didn't see anything but for the life of me I could not even peek at that painting on the wall even if I looked out of my peripheral vision I swear I could see the young woman looking at me I got the weirdest creepiest most evil vibe coming off that thing somebody did not want to be sleeping in that bed also I stayed awake in the living room until the Sun came up TL dr. Marrs Flavio is ducking right ghosts are real and scary as duck I was put on celexa when I was a kid the weirdest dream I had of that was seeing all these different kids experiencing the worst possible death there was one kid who was statue holding a hatchet fell on him and the hatchet nailed his skull then another kid rolled out of bed and through a trapdoor and as the door closed it poured this liquid which was lighter fluid and the casket erupted in flames and the kid is screaming then another kid was flying on this weird glider and fell out as he is fooling a jet flies by and he get caught in the engine and the engine spews out the blood I had different versions of this kind of dream to where I could not sleep for five days I would go to school looking like the undead it scared the hell out of me was on vacation with my family and I was about seven to eight years old woke up one night because of these weird gagging noises my brother was in the bed beside the mattress which I slept on so I told him to cut the duct and go to sleep he didn't stop so I turned on the light and saw he was choking to death on his own vomit scared ductless I ran and woke up my parents we rushed out of the door and got in the car as he was lifeless luckily we saw a cop car and yelled at them while speeding on the highway and we tailed them to the ER after they understood it was serious stuck my brother lived and we found out that he had had an epileptic seizure for the first time ever which combined with overeating had caused him to almost choke to death he lived but holy duck I still think about if I had not woken up and we had not spotted that cop car we were in a small town in Spain so we didn't know where the ER was so many coincidences damn this is kind of relevant but it's 4:00 a.m. right now I'm about to go to sleep and I hear a jingling like keys or something more sinister I live in the city and there is a lot of foot traffic in front of my house they're usually not at 4:00 a.m. I sit in my front room with the window open and this is a slightly sketch part of town and combined with the topic of this thread I start to get a little nervous I look out a crease of my window waiting to see who walks by when suddenly I see a German Shepherd he or she just walked into the backyard of my neighbor's house it's currently unoccupied this is the second time I've seen this dog wandering around without an owner I'm not sure what to do I'm going to go outside now and see if I the dog is still around for a few days over the weekend I was visiting family down in Denver it's not usually a bad area but around 12 o'clock at night I was sleeping on the couch when I was woken up to an extremely loud banging outside I stood up and listened after a few more seconds of banging I heard the front door to the apartment complex I was in slam open we were on the ground floor all I heard after that was a bunch of people yell get down get down I could hear cops knocking on people's doors for about 15 minutes afterwards nothing bad happened to me or my family but I was chatting with the manager of the apartments then next morning and learned the man that I had normally talked to once or twice had shot his girlfriend in the head and killed her it was crazy and I'll never forget the poignant sense knowing that this seemingly regular guy had snapped so easily news source for anyone interested the sound of my mother sobbing and screaming for help granted it wasn't actually the middle of the night it was like 7:30 a.m. but I woke up from a dead sleep and had bolted halfway down the hall before I even really registered what it was I was hearing all I knew was that she sounded hysterical and she was screaming the word help over and over thinking back on it now I specifically remember hearing Emmie helped me please and just Hemme help help me in just my name alone over and over turned out she had slipped and fallen in the backyard and thought she'd broken her ankle because of how terrible the pain was it was raining and cold outside and it was only she and I in the house so there was no one else there to help her I sprinted down a flight of stairs and out into the backyard at top speed in fact I crashed through the back door so quickly that it slammed on to the outside wall of the house and rebounded hard enough to nearly shut itself again to this day that's one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me period the sound of my mother crying for help she turned out to be fine by the way it was one of those injuries where it hurts and swells really bad when it happens but turns out not to be a break just a bad sprain you

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