You know, I had never in my life experienced an earthquake until I spent the summer in Tokyo.
I woke up in the middle of the night to a sort of swaying. I was being shaken in my bed, and felt like my room was swaying from side to side. Having never exprienced an earthquake before, I had absolutely no idea what was happening. I was half asleep (or perhaps more like 3/4 asleep), so I just put it off to a dream and fell back to sleep. Which is great, because if I'd been awake, there's no way I would've gone back to sleep afterward. I would have spent the whole night freaking out that my building was going to collapse.
The next day, I'd forgotten all about the experience. Then I heard someone say that there had been an earthquake the night before, and suddenly it all came back to me, and it hit me that I'd been in my first earthquake and hadn't even known it at the time.
It was just generally very strange.
The earthquake in question was 5.5 on the Richter scale.
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Date: 2009-03-30 08:43 pm (UTC)I woke up in the middle of the night to a sort of swaying. I was being shaken in my bed, and felt like my room was swaying from side to side. Having never exprienced an earthquake before, I had absolutely no idea what was happening. I was half asleep (or perhaps more like 3/4 asleep), so I just put it off to a dream and fell back to sleep. Which is great, because if I'd been awake, there's no way I would've gone back to sleep afterward. I would have spent the whole night freaking out that my building was going to collapse.
The next day, I'd forgotten all about the experience. Then I heard someone say that there had been an earthquake the night before, and suddenly it all came back to me, and it hit me that I'd been in my first earthquake and hadn't even known it at the time.
It was just generally very strange.
The earthquake in question was 5.5 on the Richter scale.