If I Ever Die in my Sleep...

You'll know why.

So last night I dreamt that my house was on fire. Only it didn't look like my house; it resembled the house in the counter-strike map, cs_house. We ran out of the house, but I realized I had to go back in to contain the fire.

So in I ran, and I broke the glass of the fire extinguisher casing, took out the fire extinguisher, and extinguished some fire on the stairs. Then I started looking for the M4A1 Carbine automatic rifle, because I was supposed to "load" it with caskets of fire-extinguisher chemical, just in case I had to defend myself. While looking for my M4A1, however, I became sidetracked.

Downstairs, in a sort of gym, there was an evil girl, about 15 years old, sitting in a chair and hypnotizing a boy of equal age who was standing. I drew my pistol at the evil girl and said "Freeze!" only to have her turn her face and begin her hypnotic powers on me.

Suddenly my point of view shifted; I was now reading the back-cover summary of a book (I had been living the story of the book). I read that the hypnotic girl is impossible to overcome, because she is "irresistible; you know you want her!" My point of view shifted back to the real-world situation, and I found myself again face to face with the evil girl. I noted that she was kind of ugly, and way younger than me; I definitely did not "want" her. However, since I was powerless under her hypnotic stare, I could to nothing.

Then, my heartbeat seemed to increase to the ludicrous rate of 8 times per second. I was familiar with this common "sleep terror" occurrence, so I willed myself -- with all the mental energy I could summon -- to awaken. After about 10 seconds, I woke up (halfway, not fully) and my heart rate returned to normal.

Since I was still very tired, and not even technically awake, I allowed myself to drift back to sleep -- only to be confronted with the same situation/dream that I was in earlier: the "irresistible" hypnotist. Again, I had to force myself to wake up. This oscillating cycle repeated itself for a number of times.

On the final occurrence, I felt, in addition to an increase in heart rate, my entire body spasm for about 5 seconds. My eyes were open during the "seizure," but I could not perform voluntary movements. I became very frightened and thought I might die, but the escape process was relatively straightforward just like before: I mentally willed myself to wake up, and I did.

At this point, I decided that extra sleep was not worth the risk of death, and promptly launched myself out of bed.