GPX | 1,369 Posted September 1, 2021 Share Posted September 1, 2021 Something random, which happened to me just now. My morning alarm buzzer (on mobile) went off, I tap the snooze button, it still made alarm noise. After tapping it several times, I wondered why it’s not yet silenced? Then I woke up and realized...I was only dreaming of waking up and tapping on the mobile! Then I tapped it, for real this time. Snooze mode now in operation! Then here I am talking about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,723 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 Yeah, sometimes I'll enter a state where I can hear myself snoring, where I'm half awake and half asleep 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,707 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 You ever know your dreaming and are trying to wake yourself up, but you can’t wake yourself up? So the whole dream is about you attempting to wake yourself up while you are consciously aware that you are asleep.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted September 2, 2021 Author Share Posted September 2, 2021 7 hours ago, phart010 said: You ever know your dreaming and are trying to wake yourself up, but you can’t wake yourself up? So the whole dream is about you attempting to wake yourself up while you are consciously aware that you are asleep.. I may have had that kind of dream before, not sure. However, I do recall on some occasions during the dream, I might be thinking “nah this can’t be real” (in a reality-based dream). So I kinda figured it was a dream during the dream, and often I would then wake up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Count | 526 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I have been told by my partner that I've been sleepwalking lately. I'll get up and just stand there or open the closet door or stand in the bathroom. I don't know what the hell that means. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriGuy82 | 765 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 24 minutes ago, The Count said: I have been told by my partner that I've been sleepwalking lately. I'll get up and just stand there or open the closet door or stand in the bathroom. I don't know what the hell that means. Don't ever wake a sleep walker! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 I also sleepwalk. Wake up fairly often not where I fell asleep. I also have horrible night terrors and only sleep a few hours a night. Been dealing with this for most of my life though. I’d say I’m pretty used to it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,733 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 960 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 49 minutes ago, Richardhead said: I also sleepwalk. Wake up fairly often not where I fell asleep. I also have horrible night terrors and only sleep a few hours a night. Been dealing with this for most of my life though. I’d say I’m pretty used to it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,707 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 3 hours ago, Richardhead said: I also sleepwalk. Wake up fairly often not where I fell asleep. I also have horrible night terrors and only sleep a few hours a night. Been dealing with this for most of my life though. I’d say I’m pretty used to it. Wow can you get used to night terrors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 2 hours ago, phart010 said: Wow can you get used to night terrors? Kinda sorta. I’ve had them since I was a little kid. Years of therapy taught me many ways to “deal” with them. Unfortunately part of dealing with them is a lot of lost sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostLevel83 | 85 Posted September 2, 2021 Share Posted September 2, 2021 So… super drunk? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,520 Editorials Team · Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 I sleepwalked as a kid. Once I was running in the woods in my dream. Woke up... and I had run off into the woods 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 22 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said: I sleepwalked as a kid. Once I was running in the woods in my dream. Woke up... and I had run off into the woods Furthest I've ever made it is to my front porch. Door had to have been unlocked because I have never gone out with the door locked. Woken up by the door many times though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,520 Editorials Team · Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 36 minutes ago, Richardhead said: Furthest I've ever made it is to my front porch. Door had to have been unlocked because I have never gone out with the door locked. Woken up by the door many times though. I made it partway down the street once before my dad caught me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 18 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said: I made it partway down the street once before my dad caught me. That shot scares me. I am very OCD aboot checking my door lock before I go to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alder | 243 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Never really sleepwalked, but your title makes me think of that weird state you can be in where you're falling asleep but not quite there. The fuzzy line between conscious and unconscious. I remember in my early teens pulling all-nighters at friends' places, falling asleep, sugar/caffeine crash after a night of games - the wind-down can sometimes spark some weird creative thoughts. Steve Wozniak has a good story about that that he likes to tell in interviews.. when he was working on Super Breakout at Atari he was sleep-deprived and had an idea to cycle bits in a simple chip to simulate wavelengths of color. Ultimately that led to the Apple II producing color output for cheap, without any fancy or expensive calculations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid | 424 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 I've been several layers deep in a dream within a dream and have had several false awakenings before becoming conscious 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Shortly after starting shift work, I had several instances of sleep paralysis. Very odd feeling... I was fully awake mentally (could hear and understand everything going on around me) but couldn't move or open my eyes, hence the 'paralysis' part. Only lasted a minute or two but extremely odd not being able to move even though you are thinking about it as normal. Definitely a much more coherent feeling then trying to wake yourself up in a dream. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriGuy82 | 765 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 (edited) 17 hours ago, Andy_Bogomil said: Shortly after starting shift work, I had several instances of sleep paralysis. Very odd feeling... I was fully awake mentally (could hear and understand everything going on around me) but couldn't move or open my eyes, hence the 'paralysis' part. Only lasted a minute or two but extremely odd not being able to move even though you are thinking about it as normal. Definitely a much more coherent feeling then trying to wake yourself up in a dream. Yeah I've had that on many occasions. I try to get momentum and move my body but I can't. Then I just give up and fall back to sleep. It's a pretty messed up feeling. When I was a kid I woke up during surgery, it was similar. Edited September 7, 2021 by BriGuy82 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BriGuy82 | 765 Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 (edited) Double post, yikes. Edited September 7, 2021 by BriGuy82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPX | 1,369 Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 I remember writing a fictional story in high school about the last thing I saw was a banana before I went to bed. Then during the sleep, I dreamt everything about bananas! Wonder if that’s ever happened to anyone here, seeing something during the day and then dreaming about it later at night? I don’t recall any of such dreams for myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,707 Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 On 9/6/2021 at 5:40 AM, Andy_Bogomil said: Shortly after starting shift work, I had several instances of sleep paralysis. Very odd feeling... I was fully awake mentally (could hear and understand everything going on around me) but couldn't move or open my eyes, hence the 'paralysis' part. Only lasted a minute or two but extremely odd not being able to move even though you are thinking about it as normal. Definitely a much more coherent feeling then trying to wake yourself up in a dream. When I was a teenager I was getting into meditation. It was supposed to be calming, and introspective. On several occasions it landed me into a state of sleep paralysis which was actually quite terrifying. Needless to say I gave up on meditation and haven’t had any issues with that type of paralysis since. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody98 | 1,535 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 On 9/1/2021 at 11:26 PM, fcgamer said: Yeah, sometimes I'll enter a state where I can hear myself snoring, where I'm half awake and half asleep Once, my husband woke me up with his snoring. I was irritated because I was sick and hadn't gotten to sleep until late. Then I woke up enough to realize he'd been at work hours ago, and the snoring that woke me up was my own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 59 minutes ago, phart010 said: When I was a teenager I was getting into meditation. It was supposed to be calming, and introspective. On several occasions it landed me into a state of sleep paralysis which was actually quite terrifying. Needless to say I gave up on meditation and haven’t had any issues with that type of paralysis since. Crazy.. it is a very uncomfortable feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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