I had a dream that someone was chasing me, pulling my hair. I was running away - to no avail - and getting more panicked, until I reached over my shoulder and threw a punch. At that moment I woke up and realized I had just punched my poor cat, Louie, in the head. He had his front feet in my hair doing that flexing thing. Luckily for Lou, he’s a bruiser, and his head is a chunk of cement. He looked at me like I’d gone insane and very disdainfully rearranged himself on the floor next to the bed. Where he sat. Staring. We’re now in couples counciling.
I crochet (not much recently, sadly). Anyway, one year I was crocheting an afghan for my dad - worked on it every night - really involved. One night I woke up - I was sitting up in bed, facing the headboard, pillow in my left hand. I had been crocheting in my sleep , with the pillow as the afghan. The only reason I woke up is that I had dropped the imaginary hook.
Susan
I lived at home for one year of college. I intentionally set up my schedule so that most all of my classes were in the afternoon or at least late morning so I could stay up late. My mother didn’t like this and so would come into my bedroom before she left for work (about 6 am) to “tell me something that just couldn’t wait.” For a while this worked and she messed up a lot of days by making it so I couldn’t get back to sleep. After half a dozen times though I just stopped waking up and answered her in my sleep. I’ll never know half of what she told me. Most of it was stupid crap she thought up just to wake me up. Every once in a while she would come home and say, “Did you get the milk?” and I would have no idea what she was talking about.
Oh man, I have a million of these. Here’s the most recent occurrence:
Right before I fell asleep, I checked the alarm clock to see what time it was set for. It showed 6:45. As soon as I fell asleep, I had a dream. In the dream, I checked the alarm time just like I had done while awake, and it said “6:45” and then the display changed to “BRING” and then “FOOD”. My wife had set the alarm so I figured it was a reminder message she had somehow put on the alarm clock. My wife woke up early the next morning and the following conversation took place while I was still mostly asleep:
Wife: “What does the clock say?”
Dil: “Bring food.”
Wife: “What??? What does the clock say???”
Dil: “It says BRING FOOD, ok? I don’t know why.”
Wife: “You’re not making any sense! Will you look at the clock and tell me what it says?”
Dil: “I told you! It says BRING FOOD! You put in on there! Why do you keep bugging me?”
After stumbling to the shower and finally fully waking up, I remembered the half-asleep conversation we had had and started laughing hysterically. Of course, I immediately told my wife about my dream and she got a kick out of it.
I still have no idea what “bring food” means.
I probably shouldn’t post this, but this morning I had a terrible dream that my husband and I were fighting about sex. He was criticizing me in front of my sister, accusing me of being cold to him, really hurtful stuff, and I was screaming and crying. Next thing I knew, we were in bed and he was trying to spoon with me. I was so mad, I tried to kick him to get his legs away from mine. When I woke I, I realized he’d already left for work and I was kicking my cat who was curled up behind me knees. :o
My mom told me once that I had been sleepwalking. In it, I had marched into my sisters (formerly my) room, and turned the light on. I then proceeded to yell a few times “I need a book! I gotta read a book!” I was laughing really hard by the time she finished that story.
Also, sometimes I’ll wake up and find all my sheets are totally across my room. I’m really interested in seeing what I did.
I get the kinda dreams where someone tosses a ball to me, and here it comes, slowly, slowly, closer, closer, and when it hits me, I jerk awake. Anyone else get that?
Ok sorry I am cheating, this isn’t a post but it won’t get me to the second page of the oh so excellent thread! Maybe if I reply to it and it takes me to my post it will get me there…
Please go on weird dreamers !