[Sundae]

Well described, Pico. It's that violent.

Clod, I've never had anyone witness it.
I've jerked awake, but my partner has stayed sleeping, so I've never known.
So it's always made me laugh the idea that if you have a bad dream or you jerk awake you immediately sit up in bed because it's tv/ film shorthand for a disturbed mind.

I've woken enough people with my nightmares to know that my flavour of them does not match tv/ film at all! No sitting up in bed. No screaming. No mumbling of words or tossing and turning. Just a low "nh-nh-nh" noise getting louder and louder. In the nightmare I am trying to scream and find myself unable, as the horror approaches me.

And, no- if you heard it you would not confuse it with a sex noise!
Eventually I wake myself up.
In the distant past I was woken up by the person I had just woken up,, if you get what I mean. These days I wake up Mum in the room next door, she thinks "Nightmare" and goes back to sleep.