You will just not believe what the hell just happened to me. it is now 8:57 am here. in 8:51, I was awoken by a huge, massive, emormous, gargantic, explosion. Well, you know how it goes in israel - one big boom and everyone thinks we're being attacked/suicide bombed/the usual get-killed-for-no-reason ritual. but this - this was so MASSIVE. I literally woke up FULL of adrenalin, kicked everything nearby to get my eyeglasses, took one look at the window and started running to the safe shelter. I was like WHAAAAAAAT. I almost literally took my mom in my hands down the stairs. we assumed Iran attacked.

You will probably do not understand what I am talking about. that noise - I heard some gunshots from like 2-3 meters away without ear protections. I heard quite a lot of reaaally high volume music, the one that you feel your heart bumped against your chest to the beat. but that - it was LOUD. and it came from nowhere. no sight of a dead crowd/smoking sinagogue/aftermath of a terror attack, at least not from my window.

horrifying.

and then.. tarararararra *builds tension*. it started raining ...twas like the sky frekin broke open. you really had to be there to understand; Israel is at Summer; we don't have any rain at summer. so..guess it was all just the boom after the lightning. must've been a FREAAAKKIN HUGGGGGGE lightning. wow, I don't think I can explain it to you, just how big that stuff was. I literally JUMPED from my bed, in my boxers, running to the shelter; and the war alarm wasn't even going off!. I've never faced anything like this before. was like being in the eye of a tornado. or something, I'm tellin ya.

Forces of nature, I bow to you. and pee my pants metaphorically.

Lol that took a nice turn for the better. Suddenly waking up forces us to try to interpret what's going on around us, despite our dazed state. I know that more than my fair share of times I have been confused upon waking up. But usually it's not anything that dramatic, usually it's just something like me mistaking my roommate's alarm clock for my own and being like "Well, better get up and start getting ready for class" in my mind, or looking at the clock and mistakenly thinking that I've slept in. Usually it only takes me a few second to catch on, though.

Also thunderstorms can be awesome.

Yeah, my brain is mush when I wake up. Mistaking alarm clocks, it sucks...

Back when both me and my brother went to HS and shared a room, he just set his alarm clock alarm, but the outlet was behind my bed. And his alarm clock was like a borderline industrial one, so the alarm was loud when it went off, but it was even louder when he accidentally set the radio alarm. His alarm was really complicated to turn off if you hurried it, so I just shoved my hand down between my mattress and the wall to unplug his clock as sound-barrier-breaking talk radio echoed thru our room.

Cut to October 2011 when I'm the only one getting up and having an alarm clock, and I happen to accidentally set it on radio. The next morning I pretty much jerked my head into a wall from the sudden burst of country music , and proceeded to cut open all of my finger tips clawing my way down between my mattress and the wall to the unused outlet, only to realize it was my alarm.

I'm not sure why I didn't mention this when it happened (my fingers probably were too sore to type much that day). If there's a lesson from this story, it's that I need a potato-powered alarm clock, so if it's doing something wrong, I can just throw the ******* potato against the wall and solve my problem.

lol @ potato powaz.

uh this was not the wake-up confusion; whenever I wake up panicingly I'm full of adrenalie and am fully aware of anything that is going on, I'm not confused at all. it happened to me a lot - if a dog was screaming in pain having pulled a muscle or something; or if my (disabled) father fell on the ground and cracked his head and mom's screaming, etc etc. this was not something alike; this noise was so extreme, I ran in my boxers and nearly lifted my mom in the air to the war shelter. It was really an undescribable noise.

the wierd thing is that it's almost the hottest time of the summer here; there was this BOOM, then it rained for like 5 minutes, and that's it. even while it WAS raining, the weather was still at 34 degrees celcius and well..this was a really wierd day.

Thanks for being friendly to other religions.

Huh, reminds me of when I was walking near the local airport, saw a small plane come down really low, and it crashed in the road. Couldn't get out of the area since the bridges out of the airport were all blocked up.

I forgot you lived in Israel. After reading that, I feel really worried for you...

lol, don't feel that way, we've been bombed and attacked from wayy before I was born without reason, we're used to it

Lol, can you imagine if that happened where I live in London?