# Anyone else have a hard time waking up from dreams?

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**Created:** [October 9, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-hard-time-waking-up-from-dreams/599054 "2011-10-09T04:12:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-have-a-hard-time-waking-up-from-dreams/599054/1 "2011-10-09T04:12:56Z")

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I’ve noticed that when I sleep in, longer than 7-8 hours, I start dreaming very heavily. I know that I am dreaming all night long, but I don’t remember any of them on an average night. But when I sleep longer than usual, I start having \<remembering\> seriously long, ongoing, colourful dreams that make it very hard to wake up. That is, I may rise to semi-consciousness but all I want to do is roll over and go back to them. They aren’t necessarily super-pleasant or anything, just so very engaging that reality doesn’t seem very real in comparison, and I just cannot seem to get out of them.

It’s to the point that on weekends I have my sweetie wake me up at specific times, NOT too long, before I start going off into dream-land, because otherwise I end up doing things like, oh, sleeping 14 hours straight and then STILL wanting to just go back to bed and to dreaming.

I’ve always wondered what causes this on a physical level, 'cause lord knows it’s hard for me to ever GET to sleep. It’s like once I’m there, I just can’t bear to give it up! 😛

Does this happen to anyone else, or know what is going on? It’s purely curiosity, 'cause it does seem kind of weird to me. On workdays, I have no problems getting up in the morning with the alarm; I’m bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I don’t do anything differently on the weekends regarding going to sleep, no booze or anything. I’m just wondering why the longer I sleep the more intense the dreams become.