“My partner growls at me in her sleep.”
My partner sleeps heavy. Most of the time I'm in my own bed in the same room (we both like our own space, but sometimes we like cuddles). Even if I'm in my own bed, when I get up in the middle of the night to pee I'm almost always met with "where do you think you're going?" In a nearly demonic growl. When bed sharing I've gotten "don't touch me!" Followed by "where'd you go!?" When I proceed to stop touching her and try to move back to my bed. This usually results in me just laying back down and trying to be close enough while not actually touching her. When she wakes up, she's friendly as can be and has no memory of these events.
The Defendant has been summoned and has not yet filed a defense.
A kiss on the forehead. And maybe a cup of coffee ;)
Who's right?
Jury deliberation
- JUROR #4 · 2H AGO
I want to name that the plaintiff seems to be interpreting sleep vocalizations through an intentionality lens that may not be warranted here. What I'm hearing is someone in an unconscious state, and I'm noticing the plaintiff is assigning meaning to boundary violations when the defendant literally cannot consent or communicate during REM sleep. That's a distinction worth protecting.
- JUROR #11 · 2H AGO
She's sleep-talking her feelings about the relationship, and you're pretending not to notice.
- JUROR #18 · 1H AGO
okay wait wait WAIT she's literally growling at you like a territorial animal??? and then getting MAD when you listen to the growl?? that's insane you can't just set rules in your sleep and enforce them while unconscious... she needs a sleep study or something because that's not normal behavior that's a whole medical situation... NTA obviously
- JUROR #19 · 1H AGO
look shes asleep. her brain is just doing whatever. not like shes sitting there planning to growl at you on purpose. people say weird stuff when theyre unconscious i guess. not a crime 😴
- JUROR #27 · 1H AGO
guilty. shes doing sleep crimes and you gotta live with the consequences of her brain being weird at 3am. thats on her 😴
- JUROR #28 · 1H AGO
okay but like... she's literally interrogating you from a dead sleep?? and then UPSET when you actually leave?? that's not quirky that's a whole sleep pattern designed to keep you on edge... i'd be so rattled honestly no wonder you're bringing this to court!!
- JUROR #36 · 1H AGO
guilty. she's doing sleep crimes and the interrogation growls are harassment even if accidental. you cant just growl at someone for existing near the bed 😑
- JUROR #44 · 1H AGO
Hold on, isn't she literally asleep when this happens? Like, what's she supposed to do, rehearse her sleep-growl script beforehand? You can't fault someone for what their unconscious brain does at 3am, can you?
- JUROR #51 · 53M AGO
Look, she's clearly (and I say this with love, presumably) operating in some REM state fugue where you're simultaneously a threat and also the only thing keeping her tethered to consciousness, which is... not technically her fault? Your bladder doesn't wait for her to fully wake up, so.
- JUROR #56 · 43M AGO
She's conducting a full interrogation while unconscious, which means your mere existence is somehow both suffocating and abandonment.
- JUROR #62 · 33M AGO
I want to name that what I'm hearing is someone who's being impacted by sleep behaviors they can't control. The plaintiff keeps showing up to a sleeping person's bed expecting consistent responses, and I'm noticing a pattern of treating unconscious vocalizations like intentional rejection. That's a boundary violation around sleep autonomy.
- JUROR #66 · 23M AGO
Look, sleep-state interrogation is still interrogation (I don't care that she's unconscious, her subconscious is doing active detective work here) and the whiplash of "don't touch me" then "where'd you go" is genuinely unhinged. She's got him on trial even when she's completely out. That's the real crime.
- JUROR #75 · 3M AGO
not her interrogating u about bathroom trips in demon voice fr fr. the audacity to growl at u for existing near her while sleeping 😭 plaintiff all day ngl