For some reason, light switches are BAD NEWS in my dreams. It's been a consistent theme for all the many years I've had dreams and I have absolutely no idea why. Flick one innocent-looking switch and then ERRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTT!!!!! and everything goes very black and scrambled with some jagged dark-blue lines here and there like I got the ever-loving frick zapped out of me. I almost always wake up from this with a big "what the fudge oh come on, not THAT again." This has been going on since I was a young kid and it still goes on. The worst is when I'm in a really dark room and on impulse, I go for the switch without even thinking "watch out, it's a dream and you know what might..." too late.

The outright weirdest instance of this happening was when I was dreaming and it was actually an episode of the Flintstones, of all things. Fred goes up the stairs, gets to the top, and flicks a switch on the wall. And than THAT whole ERRRTT thing happens when it's so completely out of place for a Flintstones episode. Fred double-takes, falls down the stairs, hits the bottom with a very cartoonish-like THUD, and then that stupid canned laughter comes on. That ain't funny, that's freaky!