An Australian man is lucky to be alive after a car crashed into his house in Melbourne's outer east suburb and landed on the bed in which he had been sleeping moments before.

Demitrios Bisbelis got out of bed briefly to use his computer in another room, when a car came crashing through his bedroom.

Bisbelis told reporters that he had initially thought it had been an earthquake: "I'm quite lucky I'm alive because I'm normally in bed at this time of the night."

Police said that a car driven by a 52-year-old hit a median strip on the road, became airborne and ploughed through a fence before crashing into the house.

Adele McMannis from the State Emergency Service said that damage was also caused to the house next door when the car crashed through a fence.

The driver and a male passenger, also 52, suffered minor injuries. They were taken to Melbourne's Frankston Hospital in a stable condition, an ambulance spokesperson said.