Anyone ever have this disturbing experience, I have it quite often?
Someone wakes me up. I then fall immediately back to sleep. I then dream that I up and getting ready for the day, showering, shaving, etc.
Then, that someone returns and wakes me up again (usually annoyed that I am not up already).
Then, it is annoying getting ready for the day. It feels just like I just did it, and sucks to have to do it again.
Frequently. (This morning, in fact.) A lot of the time I can dream my way through most of the day, to where I’m just getting home from work when I finally wake up to realize that I’ve got to start it all over again, for real this time.
I live alone, by the way, so mine isn’t triggered by a person’s waking me up, as you describe, but by my alarm clock. I hadn’t realized the connection before, but now that I think about it I only have these dreams (or at least only remember them) when I fall asleep again immediately after waking up…
This is more of an IMHO than a General Question, so I’ll move it.
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This happens to me all the f’n time. I’ve even gotten as far as driving to work or I’m already at work.
Also sometimes I’ll tell myself ok five more minutes to snooze. Then I close my eyes for what seems like five minutes but when I wake up its thirty minutes later! SHIT I’M LATE FOR WORK AGAIN Is usauly what follows after that.
One of my most common dreams, actually. It really pisses me off when I wake up that I have to do all that over again.
No, but I’ve been woken up out of a dead sleep, had converstations with people, fallen back asleep, then when I wake up again, have no recollection of the conversation. This has happened more than once.
There were 2 big incidences because of this.
The first was when I was 20. I was living at home and my parents were out. I had laid down to take a nap and (this is what I was told happened) the phone rang. It was my grandmother telling me that my cousin was in the hospital. Afterwards, I fell back asleep and woke up when my parents got home. Later, they found out about my cousin and got on my case for “forgetting” to tell them about it. I had no recollection (and still have no recollection) of the conversation with my grandmother about it.
The second was the next year. I was over at my girlfriend’s house, again taking a nap. She says that she woke me up to tell me about a new job she just got hired for and that we talked about it for a good 10-15 minutes. I fell back asleep and later when I woke up, didn’t remember the conversation ever happening (Still don’t). She didn’t really get mad, but she still gives me shit about it.
I have had dreams where I had insomnia in them. Fun.
I also used to have (knock on wood, it’s been a while since I had this one) a recurring nightmare about my teeth falling out. Which is bad enough, except in the dream I would always think to myself “Oh crap, I used to have nightmares about this all the time AND NOW IT’S REALLY HAPPENING!”
I have dreamed that I have gotten up, walked to the bathroom, sat down on the bowl and am ready to let go when I realize that I am much too comfortable to be sitting on the hard, cold toilet.
One of these nights I’m going to embarrass myself.
AAAAAGGGH! That happens to me, much too often! It’s horrible!
I can do you all one better. Not only have I dreamt waking up, I’ve also had a dream where I was lying on my bed, dreaming. When I woke up from the dream inside a dream, I remember feeling relieved that it was just a dream and started about my normal routine–until all the craziness I dreamt about started to intrude into what I thought was reality.
You can imagine how disorienting it was when I finally woke up for real. In fact, I still get qualms when I think back to that episode–am I really typing this reply, or only dreaming it?
Happens to me occasionaly.
One time I dreamed I woke to my alarm. I pressed the off button, but it didn’t stop. I kept pressing the button, and banging on the thing, but it just wouldn’t shut up, and I was getting really frustrated…Then I woke up for real and shut the damn thing off.
I have dreams like that a lot, and I don’t really like it. It often goes on several times, like a dream in a dream in a dream, etc.
I’ve had dreams where I woke up and fed the cat, and then actually gotten up and NOT fed the poor cat because I “remembered” doing it already.
One big incident in Chez Del was when I dreamt I woke up, had a converation with the Better Half about how I would be working late that evening. When I got home that night for real, I was amazed that he was so cranky, and then indignant that he denied we had a conversation earlier that morning. Of course, I felt very nutty when I realized that the conversation never happened in reality.
I feel much better about myself now because I have done all of these things many times.
The dream that throws me off the most is when I wake up and start getting ready and then I realize that “that’s not my bed!” and “this is not my room!” and then I actually wake up from my real bed and realize that was just a dream.
Another one that’s really weird is when I wake up angry at my alarm clock. Not just annoyed that it’s going off, but angry at it like it is a person who is trying to annoy me. It takes me a while to wake up enough to realize that it’s an inanimate object I set to go off and then I feel foolish.
BigGirl, I one-up you. Embarassing admission time: I wet the bed until I was 11. I would occasionally dream that I needed to pee and was getting up to pee, and went to the bathroom to pee and, well, peed. Finally stopped it-- one night I had the same damn dream again and just before letting go, thought lucidly within my dream. “Oh, this is that same damn dream again, isn’t it?!” Woke up-- haven’t had the problem since.
I once dreamt (back in high school when I wore braces) that my braces all came out of my mouth in huge pieces and I had to go to the orthodontist to get them fixed and I was terrified cuz I thought he was going to totally yell at me. Then I “woke up”, but not really, I just thought I was awake, so really I had to wake up another time after that for real. That was a VERY bizarre deal…
Well, I don’t feel so strange anymore at all. Thanks for all the feed back… some funny ones in there.
Ooh, I have that one too. Except, while I remember the previous dreams, I never remember that they were dreams, so my reaction was “Oh crap, my teeth are falling out AGAIN!”
Oddly, I’ve never had any problems with my teeth: no cavities, no caps, even my wisdom teeth came in straight. I had braces, but only for six months, and didn’t need a retainer. So I don’t know what that’s all about.
Not only have I had loads of dreams like that (which always really annoy me as I have to go through the same routine twice, in effect), but also another weird type: a dream where I know I’m dreaming.
Sometimes I’ve been having a really stupid dream, and I am aware that it is a dream. The last time I got really pissed off in the dream, and told people in it that it was a waste of precious dreaming time - I thought that I may as well dream something more interesting or not dream at all - it changed then.
Other times, I’ve dreamt about famous people (not usually disgusting :)), and gone up to them in my dream and thanked them for turning up in it!
NOTE: too many uses of the word “dream” there for my liking, but can’t think how to rephrase. Damn! Used it again!
i just had a teeth falling out dream recently. it had been a while, maybe a few months (i think i had one at the beginning of summer). i get them every few years it seems. i think i remember when i looked it up before it has something to do with changes coming up, and as freaky as the feeling is in the dream it’s not a bad dream-sign. hmm i’m thinking about it now and i’m not sure if i get really freaked out about it when i’m in the dream… it seems i get more worked up when i wake up. maybe because i have this strange fear of falling while on stairs and knocking out teeth (which causes me to touch my teeth with tongue while holding the railing when i get nervous on stairs sometimes)
(i also just had the fun of insomnia in a dream for the first time. that was wacky!)
Oh, yeah, well beat this. I did this when I was 34. In bed with my husband. In his parents bed at their ski house. Which they were trying to sell. Furnished.