Ari Ne'eman, 28, of Silver Spring, Md., said he was napping in the second train car when the crash jolted him awake.
The wildlife did mostly stay away: loud crashes jolted us awake once or twice but, collecting us for a dawn trek next day, Sachen said it was probably just giant squirrels or the resident lion-tailed macaques playing on the roof.
These were four Australians who claimed to have been caught in a terrible helicopter crash, from which they awoke to find their bodies inhabited by the spirit of 1970s supergroup Abba.
I'm not gonna push downers on anyone, so if you want to spend your crashing sugar junkie shakes awake instead of contentedly dribbling all the liquid out of your body in a benzo coma, so be it.
The Valley rolling its shoulders, ten thousand years, after the final ice receded, boulders sitting as terminal moraines, the chambers of the ancient volcano exposed in white-and-gray plugs, flakes weakened by freeze water and the sloughed granite crashing, the Domes shrugging awake.
It keeps you awake without the crash.
A good idea is to listen to Pandora, Songza, or something similar on your iPod, iPhone, computer, etc. Don't drink caffeine you will be awake and then crash in the middle of the night.
When Mr. Vachon awoke after the crash, he had a fractured leg.
The passenger, Jinban Seto, 40, a seamstress who lives in Washington Heights, said she awoke after the crash to find herself on the grass outside the bus.
And Russell Burris told how he became paraplegic shortly after finishing high school in 1990 when he crashed his car after being awake for the previous 36 hours.
