Weird and Scary Night

Last night my next door neighbor had a crazy ridiculous fit where he was throwing things,  kicking the wall, all while he slept.  It happened at about 1:30 in the morning and was quite scary.  I didn’t say a word.  I tried to keep quiet because it was off the hook nuts! All I kept thinking was, “…goodness I hope he doesn’t have a gun.”  It was pretty clear he was having some weird nightmare – I don’t know if he was sleep walking or what, but he kept kicking the walls and you could hear stuff falling off the shelves.  At some point I thought maybe I was the one dreaming. Maybe I’m the one having the nightmare?  I went to kitchen, drank a little water and got back in bed.  I blew it off and just assumed it was my own sleepy bad dream instead.

A little while later, it happened again.  I was totally freaked out!  What the hell?  Should I call the police? Should I knock on the wall and wake him up?  I was frozen.  Not sure exactly what to do – I went back into the kitchen and sat at the table listening for more of his crazy mumbling and weird violence. So surreal.

The worst part of it is I knew he was sleeping. In between I could hear him snore and breathe deeply and I kept thinking, “I so have to move some place with lots of land and trees and no one near me…”. Then I thought, I’d be scared of what’s in the woods, what’s in the dark?   And then on the nights I am alone,  I’d be afraid that there was no one around to help – what if no one was around in this spacious, foresty place and something happened?

Goodness.  What a scary night.

At some point he stopped.  I don’t know why he stopped, but I found my way over to the couch and fell back asleep only to wake this morning with a horrible, horrible pain in my neck.  My next door neighbor has woken up and started his morning as if nothing even happened…. I bet he thinks we had a little earthquake or something and that’s why his stuff is on the floor. Ugghhh!

I wonder if I should tell him?

What a weird and scary night.