Yes!!! I have a reoccurring nightmare where I'm back in school and realize near the end of the semester there's a class I've completely forgotten to attend since about week 1.
How do you know you're not dreaming?
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Yes!!! I have a reoccurring nightmare where I'm back in school and realize near the end of the semester there's a class I've completely forgotten to attend since about week 1.
I often hear a soft tapping above me on the ceiling--slow but rhythmic--right before I fall asleep. It's always slightly to my left and it's occurred since I was 12 years old, no matter what house or apartment I live in.
sounds like a type of sleep paralysis. I've had it before where I've "awakened" twice in a dream or been trying to wake myself up but not quite to that extent. That's some Inception-type **** there!
No, but I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating me.
Yeah, variations on that school dream is really a popular one. I saw some psychologist once say that this dream and others like it is how the brain copes with stress, or the brain causes dreams like this as some sort of training on how to deal with stress...
school ones, tornadoes/natural disasters, or teeth falling out are usually my "I'm stressed" dreams.
I rarely remember my dreams, and usually the main ones that are noticeable to me are little mini dreams while I'm falling asleep. Like I'm thinking about something, and then I think something nonsensical, and know that I'm about out.
However, I did have a dream the other night that I was in bed and had to get up, and I really didn't want to. So when I woke up and realized it was in the middle of the night, I was happy as hell.
However, I did have a dream the other night that I was in bed and had to get up, and I really didn't want to. So when I woke up and realized it was in the middle of the night, I was happy as hell.
I have this one all the time, both for high school and college. For college it's always I forgot about a Physics class and had to go beg my final project partners to let me participate, then wing the final exam. For high school it's normally I forgot to take an english or chem class, and I have to go back to school as my current self. Same with some of my college ones, I forgot to take 2 classes before graduation and have to go back another semester.
I am an extremely lucid dreamer, I remember everything and can often create and control my dreams. I have all sorts of crazy stories.
But related to the OP, I have that happen a lot too where I'll wake up multiple times within the dream.
It's very rare when I can't wake myself up because I have such control over them, but once in awhile (like Friday night) I'll know I'm in the dream and can't escape so I'll yell for my wife. While doing it I can picture myself in bed screaming "babe wake me up" at the top of my lungs, she hears it as a mildly audible version of that which is terribly mumbled, like I'm doing it with my mouth closed.
But related to the OP, I have that happen a lot too where I'll wake up multiple times within the dream.
It's very rare when I can't wake myself up because I have such control over them, but once in awhile (like Friday night) I'll know I'm in the dream and can't escape so I'll yell for my wife. While doing it I can picture myself in bed screaming "babe wake me up" at the top of my lungs, she hears it as a mildly audible version of that which is terribly mumbled, like I'm doing it with my mouth closed.
I fall into this category as well...kinda the exact opposite of the OP. I don't have lucid dreams as often as I did when I was younger though, which is unfortunate. When I was a teenager, there were even a few occasions where I was able to continue a dream from where I previously left off. Those were fun.
I still continue a dream where it previously left off, except when I overthink it and really really want to, then it fails. Speaking of lucid dreaming as a teenager, I could always put myself into sexytime situations, however I'd always wake up right before the girl got naked.
I don't like remembering dreams much. I have had two ambulance rides in my life and both I had dreams about (towns in correct and conversations after that happened) before them. I have had other deja vu real life from dreams also and all stunk.
Recently I had a really bad migraine so I took some of my wife's percocet from after childbirth before heading to bed. I was laying in bed vividly dreaming. It went on for what I felt like was a long time. It wasn't until my wife turned on the hallway lights that I realized I wasn't dreaming at all. I had my eyes open the entire time and was just really enjoying the Percocet. We dumped them the next day because I could totally see how opiod addictions get started.
I have the college class dream a lot. I figure its penance for partying/being too hung over for class and ditching. Hey C's get degrees.
This one is similar, but not scary like losing my kids.
I recently had a dream that I was panicked in because I had to poop really bad but there was no place to go where there weren't people and every stall I found was occupied. I eventually dreamt that I crapped myself and woke up, or so I thought I did. I woke in my dream to crapping in my bed. Ended up I woke again (for real) and ran to the bathroom checking my underwear the whole way. Luckily nothing happened in real life, I didn't even need to go. I did, however, sit down on the toilet just to be sure.
I recently had a dream that I was panicked in because I had to poop really bad but there was no place to go where there weren't people and every stall I found was occupied. I eventually dreamt that I crapped myself and woke up, or so I thought I did. I woke in my dream to crapping in my bed. Ended up I woke again (for real) and ran to the bathroom checking my underwear the whole way. Luckily nothing happened in real life, I didn't even need to go. I did, however, sit down on the toilet just to be sure.
One of my friend's son has sleep terrors once in a while where he will scream for his dad to help him. He did this one-night camping that something or something was after him. His dad got to him and woke him up telling him he was dreaming. The kid sat up, looked straight at him, and then turned to the window and pointed into the empty darkness saying, "there they are" and then laid back down and went to sleep. The kid never remembered any of this happening, but it was super creepy.
