I need your opinions.

[maghion]

I woke up at around 7 am during a thunderstorm that mostly woke me up. I don't have a bed so I sleep on a air mattress on the floor. I was still a bit tired so I tried returning to sleep. I was laying there just about to doze off when something I can't explain happened. Out of nowhere, I panicked and jumped up, running across the apartment screaming on top of my lunges. I ended up on the kitchen floor. I was aware I was screaming, running, so it wasnt a sleepwalk. I don't know why I was, it just happened. I couldn't control myself until I was on the kitchen floor. It coincided with a large thunder boom, and I am not really sure if I freaked out over that because normally, I don't get scared over thunderstorms. This has never happened before. My mother came out after she heard my screams. She could not explained what just happened. When I calmed down and looked at the time, about an hour has elapsed. If it has been that long, then I am thinking I was half asleep and freaked out. I really think I just though I got struck by lighting and freaked out, I have no idea. What do you guys think?

[Somniloquist]

Something similar happened to me once. I had just woken up and was only half conscious, and for some reason I suddenly thought there was a giant spider on me. I lunged out of bed and crashed into the floor and spent the next 20 or 30 seconds jumping around in tangled sheets and struggling to remember where the light switch was. I don't know at what point the brain's logic center turns off/on during sleep... maybe we were just in a phase where the logic center was off but paralysis hadn't kicked in yet, so being startled by lightning or spiders set us off before we could figure out what happened.