What would you do when you wake up finding a thief in your room?

i think i will be freezen in fear.i always be scary of the dark.so if i wake up in the middle of the night, i couldnt scream loudly,or call the cops, or fight with them....i really hope that never happens to me !

depends... if someone's around, I'll scream my heart out... if the light switch is close-by, I'll on it and probably throw the blanket over the thief and run for it.

I would keep pretending to be asleep there is no knowing what weapons he may have with him and I would think my life is more important then any material possessions I may have.

Laydee, I really won't know what I will do - either freeze in fear or scream my head off. If I scream, the thief will either be frightened off, or whack me into senselessness! It's indeed a frightening thought!

I really don't know what to do, other than pray for him to get out of the house the soonest.

If Ill find a thief in the middle of my deep sleep, I will probably try to move as if Im still asleep. So that the theif will have a little fear to be caught. If he was not distracted I will wait until he went out and then I try to chase him. hehehe

This is a horrible experience, I think. Hopefully I can try to stay calm and pretend to sleep at that time. So that at least I may be safe since the thief will think I am sleeping. And then I will try to be sneaky to call the police. I love China

I don't know how I am going to react. I don't know if I will freeze up. Will my dog bark? Will my dog be enough of a distraction for me to get up and fight back? Will I be able to grab something and use it as a weapon? Use it as a shield? Will it be effective? Unless someone has been in this sort of situation, they cannot really say what they would do; only describe how they would like to handle the situation should it occur. I lie in bed some nights thinking about the possibility of someone breaking in. Usually it occurs after I hear an odd sound, and hear my dog lift her head up (I can hear her tags rattle as they fall due to their weight v. the collar's weight). I'd like to think that, should this situation occur, I'd do some damage. My phone is within reaching distance and it does make a good projectile (I've had it fall on my head from the dressers height and it left a decent bruise). If I could land a good hit with the phone, the guy might be distracted enough for me to get to something better. I could probably gather a few things on the way out of my room; a book (another projectile), a side-table (good for breaking over someone's head); etc. My ultimate goal would be to get to a place where I could have enough time to call the police and report the incident. As the thief would already be in my room upon my waking, it would be hard to get past him otherwise.

I never really had a thief in my room but i had one on our yard and i was able to neutralized him. I will be doing the same whenever i find one in my room. I sneakily grab a anything that can be used as a weapon. Since the incident in our yard, i always keep something like a screwdriver or an ROTC rifle in my room just in case. I will surprise him from behind then i would hurt him so bad enough that he won't be able to hurt me back. It's a matter of survival you know.

I am actualy waiting for that time to come. I have a double edged sword that hangs next to bed, I always wondered how easy it really is to be-head someone. Ok maybe not taking it that far, but I sure would be funny to chase someone out of my house swinging a sword in my birthday suit.

I would not know what to do. I know it would be scary. I would let him take what he wanted in the house as long as he didnt touch me or my kids.

I am sure that I will cry out loudly.Then the thief sees me .I don't dare to image what will happen.

In such a unusual situation,i must have been scared then ask somebody for help.But the first reaction once see the thief must be a big outcry~

Well, I would use the knife under my pillow (Precisely for this situation), or grab my guitar and hit them in the head. As a last ditch effort I would probably grab random stuff and try to beat the tar out of them. Hopefully one of my parents would hear the commotion and call the cops.

Actually, I would congratulate him! It would be a major miracle for a robber to get to my bedroom! First, he would have to come through the dachshund's room, and by the time he would get in the house there would be puddles and poop on the floor. I just switched from carpet to linoleum so if he stepped in either he would fall flat on his butt. If he got through the dachshund's room there is a board across the doorway to the rest of the house, and sure as there are little green apples he would fall over that. By then my foster dog would be up and checking things out, and she weighs 75 pounds and takes a dim view of strangers. If he got past the foster dog, then he could contend with the four cats either tripping him or attacking him. That doesn't even go into the rest of the booby traps that were unintentionally set in the house. I think as soon as he saw the foster dog he would turn tail and run as she is part lab and part pit bull! If he did finally manage to get to my room, I would clobber the daylights out of him for making so much noise and waking me up! He wouldn't win!!!

That is a very scary thought. We just got a email message from our home owners association stating that a house down the street had been burglarized while the homeowner was home. I was so scared that I couldn't fall asleep and when I finally did I had a nightmare that the men where in my house. I think I would faint if I found someone in my house...

That's a situation I hope I never find myself in. I guess know one really knows how they would react if they were to find a stranger loitering in their bedroom! I guess two things would happen, there would either be tremendous fear and you wouldn't do anything or, the adrenaline would start to kick in and they you would try and take some kind of action, teach this person a lesson as it were! Like I said though, that's a tough situation to be in, I personally don't know how I would react until something like that actually happened. Andrew

I'll find something that can hurt him (hit him hard). Maybe a vase or a lampshade! Then I'll scream! HAHA! Happy MyLotting!

iF I found a thief in my room ,i will say :be careful ,i'm a thief too .don't make noise or we will wake up the host. and then i will think a lot .how to do next.but first the thief don't konw who i'am

I'd be surprised if a thief made it all the way into my bedroom without me waking up - but if he/she did, i'd probably batter the fool senseless. If was to wake up with them breaking into another part of the house, I would pull out the trusty shotgun. I started polishing it the day my daughter was born - for would-be suitors... guess it can work wonders on a theif as well...