Two summers ago I was woken by my blackout blind rattling. I thought a breeze had come up in the night so stumbled out of bed, reached under the blind and shut the window without switching on the light. The blind continued to rattle so I put on the light and let the blind up ..... and was attacked by a bat which frightened the life out of me. It kept swooping at me and first instinct was to run out onto the landing and shut the door. My heart was pounding to such a degree that I thought I was going to have an asthma or heart attack. I couldn't get my breath.
Then I realised that I had shut the windows so the bat couldn't get out now, and had to pluck up my courage to go back into the room to open them. The bat kept swooping at me and I was having to flap one arm to fight it off while struggling to get the window open .... then ran onto the landing again.
Meanwhile the bat just kept swooping round and round. I stood on the landing for 20 mins, occasionally peeping round the door, and still it wouldn't leave. Then suddenly all went quiet. I cautiously opened the bedroom door - nothing. Thought "Thank God" and closed the window.
As I closed it, the bat suddenly appeared from nowhere (possibly it was hanging in my dressinggown which is a dark colour and good camouflage) and began attacking me again.
I was terrified, and still traumatised 2 years later, so I close all my windows at dusk, which has been a nightmare in this recent heatwave, but the Bat Society say there's a roost near here and I'm afraid of one coming back again. The thought that it was swooping round my bed while I was asleep is too horrendous.