What is the worst thing that has ever woken you up?

[OliveCrab]

A fire

Lighthearted but gross:
A rat climbing up my curtains (as a child).

Dog vomiting
Child vomiting

Actually my (ex) uni boyfriend after a night out turning his head in bed and projectile vomiting all over me

Extremely sad:
Phone call from hospital telling me I needed to go in for my Dad as he had vomited fresh blood. He died that morning after we'd got there.

@underused that must have been awful x sending hugs x

Mine is nowhere near as bad as some of these but a mirror on the wall next to my bed fell onto me

Child sharing my bed vomiting over me. DH pissing the bed, loudly enough that the piss pouring through the mattress onto the floor made me thinking there was a leak pouring from the ceiling. Houseguest screaming for help in their sleep. These were on different nights thankfully.

@honeyfox ewwww!!!!

Woke up to the bed shaking due to an earthquake when I was pregnant......my sons dad asked if I was in labour 😳😳
Woken up many times to the cat or my sons puking.....worse bit was then stepping in it 🤢🥴

A ceiling came down on my bed during 1987 storms. I woke up spitting put plaster chunks & could see the sky through the massive hole in roof. Went down stairs, opened front door & the army was outside on the street: surreal
Otherwise, my Dd with Autism peeling my eyelids back / nose to nose: intense. Waking (dozing in hospital chair) to find Ds had been moved to high needs ward (& nobody told me ..)

the smell of my partners fart was so strong it woke me up

Stung on the face by a wasp

Squirrel ran across me. I thought it was a rat at the time!

A domestic abuser kicking in the door of the basement flat at 2am. I was on the first floor (Victorian terrace) and lived alone.

Oh and we were once firebombed by animal rights people in the middle of the night when I was a teenager. The person they were after no longer lived with us and we had a dog in the house - collateral damage I suppose in the realm of animal rights 🙄. Didn't sleep well for years after.

This reminds me of the time the painting that was hanging above me bed for years fell off in the middle of the night. Luckily the bed frame caught most of the momentum but it still hit me on the face.

Carbon monoxide monitor went off, in my rush I fell down the stairs and sprained my ankle! Blinking thing wasn't going off it had just decided to enter it's death throws at 3am (it was designed to self destructed at 5 years old!)

A dream where my dad was shouting at me ‘it’s 517am! You don’t even have to check but it is!!!’ It woke me with a start and I felt scared , looked at the time and when I saw it was 517 I couldn’t get back to sleep. My DB called me at 620 am to let me know our dad had passed away at around 615 am. He had been unwell for a while but wasn’t expected to die that soon. Im not sure what the significance of 517 am was though ?

Dog being sick. It’s amazing how loud that is in the middle of the night.

I once went on a very rough 18-30s holiday with a friend to help her get over a breakup. We were woken up many times that week by the couple next door rowing. We still quote what they were arguing about to each other. It was like a pair of 8 year olds

A car screeching round the corner our house is on at high speed and then crashing into the house opposite! Was a drunk driver during lockdown - amazing he survived!

The dog sick noise is enough to wake me from the deepest slumber! As soon as I hear that rumbling, gagging noise I am STRAIGHT out of the bed and directing him to the en-suite so he can vomit on the tiles instead of the carpet!

An unknown man knocking on my window offering a BJ.

I was young and single. Police assumed it was a boyfriend. A boyfriend who had crossed three gardens and some high walls to get to my window.

A heart attack.

Pregnant, the bed next to the window. A huge cracking sound and something braking off a wall, finally something fell next to me. It was the curtain with the whole curtain rail suddenly falling - the screws somehow found the curtain very heavy for its size. It made so much noise that my husband thought someone is breaking in and went and in his sleep automatically opened the front door and said to the night air: who are you

Burglar smashing my patio door with a hammer at 2 am…glass everywhere and dog in bed with my daughter.

I woke up in the night feeling like I'd been burned. There was a big fang mark on my arm about a cm across. The house I was staying in had both rats and giant spiders at the time

That's actually brilliant 😁

Just thinking as well rats don't have fangs

DS who was having paranoid delusions, insisting we had to leave the house immediately because "they" were coming to kill us.