You know when you fall asleep on your arm and…

You wake up and it’s all numb and weird? I’m getting that all the freakin’ time lately.

How do you manage to fall asleep on your arm like that in the first place?

It’s really strange when you wake up and you’re all dazed and confused, and don’t know what’s going on, and have to try fix your arm which feels completely seperate to your body and totally out of control.

One night I woke up and I had a particularly bad case of this, on my left arm. I used my other hand to raise the arm up and try get the circulation going. What happened next is something I’m glad nobody else saw.

I picked up the numb arm, and it was completely out of my control and heavier than I’d expected, in my dazed state. It escaped my gripped and flopped into my face, hitting me square on the nose. Even though nobody else could have seen this, I actually felt embarrassed, as it must have looked utterly ridiculous. Try imagine doing that. I actually laughed at the time, after I’d overcome the initial surprise of smacking myself in the face.

Another time I fell asleep on my arm and made it numb, and this intergrated into my dream. In the dream we were about to sit down to dinner (I have some wild dreams!) and I just couldn’t feel comfortable. My family were asking me what was wrong, I tell them “my circulation’s not right, something’s wrong”. So to remedy this I proceeded to jog around the dinner table, trying to get the blood flowing again. Alas, it didn’t work, and I woke up and realised I’d been sleeping on my arm the whole time and had to pick it up and hold it up and feel the blood trickle back into normal flow.

I’m not sure if I like this thing. It’s annoying to get woken at night, but it’s also quite a strange sensation and pretty cool to feel the blood trickling back into normal circulation.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who gets this?

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