Sleeping veteran takes cover

I didn’t think a whole lot about having PTSD until my wife started telling me stories about things I did at night while I was asleep.

•  She told me about times I might wake up and say something related to the war— giving people orders or something.
•  Or times I might feel anxious and start looking around the room, as if I sensed an enemy approaching.

They say your mind does a lot of sorting and figuring things out while you’re unconscious, so maybe that’s what my brain was doing.

The episode that stands out the most to me is the time I grabbed her, pulled her across my body and tossed her into the floor beside me, and then jumped on top of her as I pulled the mattress over the two of us.

The way she explained it— I don’t remember any of it— is that I kept telling her we had to take cover. I was trying to protect her.