Now I should explain one thing: I do have a known record of sleep walking, and I have also woke myself with "outbursts" in the past but I have never had more than a sore toe or shin the next day to rember it by. This was an unprecidented event in nearly every way. And it was rather scary.
When I "woke" I was standing in my kitchen in the dark and my entire body felt like pain. I could tell I was screaming or yelling because I could feel my throat vibrating but I didn't hear anything. I tried to raise my arms up to feel my face but my arms hurt so bad when I did that I dropped them down and my entire body kind of followed them to the floor.
Now I am in a sort of upright fetal position on the floor and I feel a warm liquid on one of my hands. Blood right? Well I can't see since there are no lights on so I bring my other hand up to my nose to see if I have a bloody nose. Nothing there and yet the blood keeps dripping on to my hand. I try my nose again and again there is nothing there. I dont feel anything running down my face so i figure im alright in the head wound department. WTF.
So I stand up. As I stand up pain erupts from my knees, both of them at the same time. Ignoring that pain for the moment I am finally standing and the fluid is still dripping. Through feel I deduct that my chest is fine and free of wetness so I bring my hand up and as I pass my chin finally discover the source, the font du blood.Now I finally decide to move; Bee line for the bathroom. on come the lights. I look in the mirror and what do I see? Blood, lots of blood coming from my chin. Ouch. I flex my jaw and find that it is about as stiff as can be and more blood comes out when I do so I make quick business of washing my face and eventually the flow tapers off.
By now I am semi-conscious and the pain has reduced itself to three areas; my chin (obviously), the front of my arms/chest, and my knees. I look down at my knees; both are flaming red on the front and appear to have some nasty rug-burn. My arms cause quite a bit of pain when I move them so I painfully remove my shirt and discover some very nasty bruises and scrapes. My left thumb-toe also felt broken and had a blood stain on it.My brain tells my body that it is very tired and that everythign else seems okay so I lope back to my bed, replace covers onto matress, and collapse until my alarm wakes me up at 6:30.
Okay, now I completely remember everything I have just recounted. I also know that I consumed one alcoholic beverage, one half of one pizza, no OTC drugs, no prescription drugs, and no illegal drugs before going to bed last night. No furniture has been displaced other than perhaps my desk chair (on wheels) rolling around at some point. When I got home this morning I discovered more blood on the floor of my "living room" that might slightly resemble a pattern. At some point my chair rolled through some of the drops and made cute little trails to where the chair was when I woke up.About the only solution I have come up with is that these are all related to me violently falling down at some point before I was conscious and while in a different room from waking. When I left my bed it was very quickly because all sheets/blankets where strewn from bed to doorway. I possibly stubbed my toe in/during the falling process as there has not been any further pain from my foot. Logically I fell in my bedroom at some point since I have skinned/burned knees and that is the only room with carpeting. When I fell I had my arms out at least a little and they took the brunt of the fall after catching something with my shoulders. The scratches on my left side match up but I cant match them with anything in the room. The triangular scab/scar on my chin at least indicates it happened in the fall...thankfully ruling out something self inflicted.
So...What the hell happened to me last night? I know this may sound like a riddle or joke but all of this happened to me within the last 24 hours. The only riddle is how/what/why? It made for a rather amsuing story at work, but initially it was kinda scary. Who knows...
-G :)
PS- I took the pictures this morning and the pictures dont do the pain justice.
