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

[OliveCrab]

A fire

The phonecall to tell me my best friend had died, we were in our early 20s.

Distant second was the fire alarm going off, a scoop the kids out of bed and run down to the door job. Fortunately a false alarm but very frightening at the time.

A gunfight happening in the house/garden over the back of ours.
(and I live in very suburban outer London!)

Nothing nearly as terrible as some of you poor folks on here :( I'm so sorry.

As for me, I usually wake myself up because I sleep walk and suffer from night terrors. So I scream bloody murder because I can see a demon in the corner or the floor is collapsing etc. I'm surprised DH still sleeps with me....

A thunderbolt hitting my house.

And an earwig crawling in my ear.

(not on the same night).

Steve Irwin shouting the odds about a crocodile in TV when I was about 11. 😂 My grandad enjoyed his show but bloody hell his hearing must have been going

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5044376-i-saw-a-stick-man-in-my-room?page=1

The cat eating a bird alive under the bed.

DD was about 3, walked into my room first thing in the morning. I was in a deep sleep and she was about a metre away. Took off her heavy, morning wee soaked nappie and flung it in the air. It landed and exploded on my face.

My friend screaming in a bed in a hut by a beach in Thailand. I switched the light on and she was covered in huge bedbugs crawling over her. Stuff of nightmares.

My abusive exH trying to have sex with me whilst I was asleep.

Pre-neutered cat sprayed me in the mouth..Sweet and pungent!

Parenting can be such a joy, can't it?!

My cat vomiting on the carpet right by my bed

A car accident at my front door, one man died, another in a life threatening condition

A bee stung me

Burst hot water bottle

Thought I'd wet the bed

My DD's puppy when I was looking after her. First the smell of watery diarrhoea, then the horrible realisation she'd trampled it all over my bedroom AND had been trying to eat it. In the middle of the night.

Foxes screaming in the early hours. I thought someone was being raped in my garden.

I'm so very sorry for your loss. 💐

A phone call to tell me my brother was in hospital and was unlikely to make it through the night

Oh god, that's hideous. I'm so sorry this happened to you. And I hope he's in prison now.

Shit! Then what happened?

A burglar smashing my window and then smashing up stuff in my kitchen, when I was living alone in a flat. I couldn't decide whether to just make a run for it out of the flat in my pyjamas or confront them. I didn't think that I could manage to sneak out of the flat and then unlock the communal front door in time, so decided to confront them, armed with a roll of...erm... Christmas wrapping paper. So I turned the lights on and yelled out. Turns out that there was no burglar, but I'd overloaded the kitchen wall cabinet with xmas booze. It had started to come off the wall, had tipped forward and one by one the bottles of spirits and wine were sliding out of the cupboard and crashing onto the floor.

The second worst time was when the cat woke me up by dropping a live mouse on my face.

The third worst time was having a hangover and my husband waking me up at around 7am for a shag.

Actually, number 2 and 3 are fairly interchangeable in terms of which was worse.

Actually, no thinking about it, it was actually hearing voices downstairs and then going down to find my husband collapsed on the lounge floor surrounded by paramedics, before he was rushed off to intensive care. He had sepsis, but had got up, managed to call for an ambulance and unlock the front door before collapsing on the floor. It was a scary old time. 3 weeks in intensive care on life support whilst I had a baby and small child, but thankfully he survived and we are all extremely lucky and grateful.

Cat puking on the bed

Reflux (I had inhaled it and couldn't breathe)

Mouse on my face