DP fidgets in his sleep when he's stressed. It turns into wailing and waving about like a demented daddylonglegs when he's overloaded.
He'd fallen asleep sprawled across the bed with his clothes and shoes on. No problem, he's had a few rough nights, I thought, I'll just get in upside down. Vaguely stirred in my sleep, thought 'dreaming again' and went straight back off. In deep, deep sleep, I was woken by his shoe heel slamming into my face.
I have a history of an ex and previously, a parent who would wait until I was asleep before switching on the light, screaming and dragging me out of bed. I went mental.
I screamed, I cried, I punched him repeatedly and rolled him overmshoved and slapped at him until he fell off the bed with a crash. And then curled up in a sobbing ball. To the sound of his snoring on the floor.
When he woke up, bright and breezy in the morning, wanting to tell me about a dream he'd had, I turned to look at him. Half of my face was black and blue - my turning slightly had accidentally prevented him from stamping my nose into mush, but the state of me made it pretty clear that his funny dream of getting his wellies stuck in the mud wasn't quite what happened.
He slept on a blanket on the floor for a month.
If he starts calling out when asleep now, I'm up and out before the arms and legs get involved.
The scariest one was either simple sleep paralysis or the stalky ex breaking into my old flat and standing over me to freak me out before walking away as I was so deep asleep that I was paralysed. I still don't know for sure which it was.
And then I wonder why I don't sleep properly...