Here’s something I learned about my husband only after we got married: he has this recurring dream in which he’s swimming. Now, I’m no psychologist so I couldn’t even begin to tell you what kind of deeper meaning that dream has. What I can tell you is that this dream has often ruined many nights of sleep for me in the past few months. See, my husband not only dreams that he’s swimming but while he’s dreaming, he also makes the swimming motions with his arms. I don’t actually see this, I only know it because I’ll wake up in the middle of the night to a hard elbow jab to my jaw. I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly enjoy waking up to a punch in the face by my swimming husband at 3am. The worst part is that after this happens and I yell “OW!” (as loud as I can – just so he’ll wake up and feel bad) is that he’ll mumble an apology and go right back to sleep whereas I lie there wide awake, annoyed and with a sore jaw.
I wish that he would just stay in his imaginary swimming lane and stay out of mine but in the meantime, I’ve been contemplating sleeping with one of these on:
At least yours apologizes – mine pretends to still be asleep after I yelp!
I frequently get elbowed in the face as well. Or since he sleeps with his arms flung over his head like a monkey I will roll over to an elbow in the eye. Ugh.
I can’t throw any stones! I sleepwalk ALOT! Just the other day I called my husband in to get rid of a “Bunny” in our room…obviously no bunny…he just laughs now, but I am sure he wouldn’t like it if I started to elbow him while he slept!
I’d say handcuff the hubs to the headboard. No need to have to wear a mask!
Or… you could start kickboxing in your sleep.
The first night I spend with my now husband he punched me in the face, and didnt even wake up enough to apologize…
I know exactly what you are talking about. My husband must have been dreaming about soccer or something when he jammed his knee into my knee as hard as he could. It’s hard enough being startled away, but to be in pain too….UHG!
My husband twitches violently when he is falling asleep….I’ve been elbowed in the nose, cheek, spine, you name it. Now I scoot towards the bottom of the bed, on the edge, facing away from him, for my own protection!
when we first got married, we had a queen sized bed. this summer (after a year of that mess) we got a king sized bed. now we BOTH get a good night’s sleep instead of him flinging his legs and arms about and him hitting me in his sleep.
its worth the putting together of the bed.
I admit I’m at fault as well. I’ve elbowed my wife in the forehead, nose and eye before. Usually it’s when I’m trying to reposition myself right when she’s moving closer to me.
When I was in my teens, I dreamed I got punched in the face. The dream was so vivid that jerked my head hard enough to smack the headboard and jolt myself awake. I just KNEW somebody really punched me and not a dream. Hard time goin back to sleep.
My husband told me the other day that the night before, I had sat up in bed, whacked him in the crotch twice, and then fallen back asleep. I can vaguely remember being angry at him in a dream. Poor guy.
I feel your pain. My boyfriend has recurring baseball dreams, but it appears he might be the coach. He screams out directions about running to bases, home runs, etc. I dont know sports so I’m usually lost.
We also have another big problem…I have to walk by him to get to the bathroom for my middle of the night bathroom visit. Usually as I’m practically sleep walking by him he lunges at me and shouts “What the F**K!”…he’s questioning why someone is trying to quietly go by him because I guess it’s not nice to find someone standing over you if you sort of wake up, but hes giving me a heart attack because I’m barely awake as it is. Sometimes I end up shouting back at him just because my absolute terror causes me to react in anger…or something.
So now I try to loudly go by him so he knows its just me going pee. =)
Or, he may have read your blog and decided to exact a bit of revenge.