The trial of a husband accused of murdering his wife as they slept in a camper van has heard he killed her while he dreamt she was an intruder.
The prosecution said that at 0349 the next morning, Mr Thomas made a 999 call, which was later played to the court, in which he said he had killed his wife because he had mistaken her for an intruder in a dream.
He said he had dreamt he was fighting one of the boy racers.
The prosecution said the defendant had told the 999 operator: "I woke up fighting one of those boys but it wasn't a boy, it was Christine."
In police interviews, Mr Thomas repeated what he had told the 999 operator - that he had dreamt of a man crawling across the bed, putting him in a headlock, then waking to find his wife dead.
A guy I used to date would have dreams like that, sort of. He damn near killed me one night. If I hadn't been strong enough to knock him off of me, thereby forcing him to release his grip on my throat, he would have killed me.
I've had this happen a few times as well...Though I never tried to murder or strangle anyone.
One morning I was dreaming that a nuclear bomb had exploded and at the exact time I was dreaming the bomb going of lightning and very loud thunder woke me up.I was running around the house in a panic looking out the windows for about 5 minutes until I realized what had happened.
In my case, I don't think he was *trying* to kill me. I think he just wasn't able to realize how much strength he was putting into his grip on my throat. When I knocked him off of me, he landed in the floor next to the bed and woke up. He was just confused, mumbled something, climbed back in bed and went to sleep.
The worst one I get is when I dream I'm paralyzed.the first time that happened I thought I died and went straight to hell.
It could be BS, but I've heard of this before.I used to suffer from this problem so I sympathize with this man who killed his wife while dreaming. I suffered from what I used to call 'waking dreams' for many years. It would happen in an in between state where I would incorporate my sleeping environment and whoever was in it, and hallucinate, seeing things that weren't there. The worst thing I ever did was knock down a pram with our newborn son swaddled in it, who tumbled out, fortunately unhurt. I was having a dream that there was an evil entity in the pram. Really scary!
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Man killed wife 'during a dream'
Well you did end up in Minnesota.....
I dreamed I was floating once. I woke myself up landing hard on the bed.
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