Sleep is kinda weird sometimes. I thought I was weird all my life, but apparently things that happen to me happen to a lot.
First thing I get is a lot of A.S.P. (Awareness of Sleep Paralysis). Anyone else ever get this? It’s like you’re dreaming of yourself and suddenly you feel stiff as a board in your dream. And in your head it’s like this huge flux of energy. It’s not unpleasant…it’s actually pretty good feeling rather. Just very weird at first.
And then the weird stuff starts happening. Sometimes I’ll wake up…but not REALLY wake up, you know? Anyone else experience this or something like it? You’ll wake up…but your brain will still be sleeping and dreaming and so your senses will be kinda in both worlds. You’ll see your room and all, but also see dream images intertwined with it and hear weird noises and even be able to move…but it’s not really you moving…it’s just your sense of you moving in your dream. You ever have this? Where you thought you moved your arms or body but then really “woke up” fully and found you only imagined it.
Haha, some have to be reading this and thinking I’m nuts or on some really good drugs, but it really does happen. I’ve even been able to open my eyes and see this weird alternate reality of my room, which is filled with all these different colors and stuff.
This happens to be quite often. Another thing that happens is at certain times, I’m able to wake up and then go back to sleep and immediatly go back into the dream I was in. Like, R.E.M. sleep will come back as soon as I close my eyes. Again, I’ll experence that influx of power surging through my brain and then sorta slip into the dream state and then be able to open my eyes (cause I’ll still be half awake) and see that weird fused world I mentioned above.
I looked up this stuff on the net and I found that all of this is called hypnogongia or something like that…and it’s the state of being awake and asleep.
Also my dreams sometimes turn very lucid. I’m talking VERY. About once every two weeks or so I’ll be in a dream to the point where I’ll know I’m dreaming and then start “testing” things out in the dream world…knowing I’ll be waking up soon because of finding out it’s a dream. 
By testing, I’ll do things like feel how realistic things are and let me tell you…I can actually FEEL texture under my hands in my dreams. I’ve felt walls and countertops and actually FELT their cool surfaces under my hand…and woke up to remember how it felt under my hand. It’s freaky. Makes me wonder how long it will be before I know the difference between dreaming and reality. : /
I also remember my dreams almost every night. Rare is a night when I don’t remember at least one or two or the whole dream I’ve had during it.
So tell me I’m not the only one here.
Anyone ever have anything like this? Anyone in the same boat? Tell me about your sleeping happenings and dreams.