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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August 21st, 2008 at 12:27 am
I get it the odd time, but not as often as that.
Smack on ur face, that’s just too funny!! You couldn’t make it up man!!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Don’t worry about it. I knew a guy that had that and he lived for months after.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Freaky arm boy will destroy us all!
Burn him!!!
I have heard that the “not my arm” feeling is used by sailors to get that someone-else-is-touching-me feeling when they’re at sea.
y’know on their private time…
Palm and her sisters…
Read it in FHM. I have never been a sailor.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
Ah, I experience that, but not too often. I absolutely hate the feeling of having a numb arm!
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Just be glad it’s your arm and not your dick.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Mike : Good to know others get it sometimes too, and yeah, it was pretty funny in a ridiculous and embarrassing way.
Primal : Aw, you’re so comforting.
Scoby : Justifying your knowledge of this by saying you read it in FHM does not make you cool.
Lucas : I’m not a big fan. Haven’t seen you on here before, welcome
Anonymous : Why so secretive? Thanks for putting things in perspective.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The sleeping on the arm thing I’m always doing it (not intentionally), mainly as I sleep on my chest I only notice when the alarm goes off in the morning and I cant turn it off as this uncontrollable thing just knocks everything off the bedside locker…
Aaron
September 5th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I want you to be inside of me
October 7th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Just stumbled upon this thread doing a search. I don’t actually think that this is a circulation thing. I think if it were, there would be clotting issues. I think it’s actually a compression of the nerves. I could be wrong… but I think that feeling of circulation going back to normal is just a release of the nerves, not blood going back into the arm. Settled blood, I would think, would have negative effects.