It was around 4:40 am, when something totally unexpected awakened me, and many throughout the Midwest as well. It was none other than a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. It was really weird, I mean, no one would have imagined that the cause of their bed shaking was a damn earthquake.
This probably happens to a lot of people, when you are sleeping and having either a dream or a nightmare, and you suddenly wake up from a noise or whatever, and due to being still half sleep, you relate your dream you were having to what whatever is going on in reality. That happened to me this morning. I couldn’t tell if the shaking was in my dream or what.
The worse came when I realized I wasn’t dreaming. I was still half sleep, but knew that all the vibration was no dream. At first I only noticed the bed shaking, and that’s when I got like really scared. In my crazy mind, I somehow thought that the bed was shaking due to an evil spirit tormenting me, like in the movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I was incredibly afraid, I probably turned pale white then.
Then I woke up a bit more and then after hearing the window shaking, I concluded the whole house was shaking! Silly thoughts started to come to my head. One was that an asteroid has hit some place on Earth. I know, crazy. Anyway, to make the story short, I soon realized it was a fucking earthquake and went back to bed shortly after.
Weird day it has been here in St. Louis. The rain is not helping either. Imagine if there was an earthquake and a tornado at the same time! The end of the world is coming!
