So I woke up around 3:45am when the phone rang one time. My eyes popped open and then it occurred to me that we haven’t had that kind of phone in years. :dubious:
I have dreamed that more than once. I’ve also dreamed that the alarm has gone off and I need to get up for work. Except it wasn’t even 3am yet.
Is this just another symptom of insomnia? Do you have dreams like this? What wakes you up?
The one where I’m about to pee. :eek:
I wake up every 90 minutes out of a dream every night. Well, the first 2 times I wake up I only get vague dreams, but after that my dreams get really intense.
I still occasionally wake up to a baby crying.
This is when you are awake to the reality you identify as- usually when shown your true self. Truly, to be succinct, this is when you contact your highest self in the void. I was a buddhist monk (it was challenging), and my education was in clinical psychology. I woke up to my sixteen year old self telling me that I was being prey when I was in a ward of a hospital due to having fallen prey to being a monk instead of working out my life issues. I guess for me, being my own psychologist made me resort to monkey business (most monks are just sexually obsessed, and longing for basic needs, mostly sexual if they are in monastery. I fuckin left that life and moved back home with my parents and sister, and my two dogs and two cats- I just own the big boy cat named after my middle name). Actually, most Bhuddist monks can barely function, and few get the point that they became monks because they were not cool with either standing their ground or becoming prey. Demonic is a theme, angelic is just disgusting, but devil isnt that bad- I opt for none of the above, I am an eternal.
In short, it is when you see what you want, but you most often do not get it because it would wake you up to more self-discovery, which would spin your wheel yet again. Most people do not like it spun. Spinning the wheel of dharma is another term for torture, imagine you are in the scene of The Nightmare Before Christmas where Sally is being pinned to a round table and tortured, only for Jack to save her from the Oogie Boogie man. Fuck torture.
Wha???
I think most of us have had a ‘bad’ dream or two.
The kind of garbage Mortimer has posted is just making fun of the OP.
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I occasionally wake with just a tag end of a dream; it’s nothing but a woman’s voice saying my name in a sort of inquiring one. She’s not really calling me, more like quietly asking me if I’m awake. It’s not frightening or even startling, but when it happens, I snap fully awake at once.
Oddly, her voice is not one I recognize from waking life at all.
Sometimes when I realize I’m in a dream, it wakes me up…or if it’s a nightmare and I realize I’m dreaming I’ve been able to wake myself on purpose.
When I suddenly become unable to move in the middle of an otherwise benign dream. Then I wake up to realize I’m on my stomach with my full weight on both my arms and they have gone to sleep. It usually causes brief panic because with my arms totally numb, I can’t use them as leverage to roll over off them and get the blood flowing again, and in half-awake daze, it’s hard to problem-solve an alternate sequence of movements to push myself onto my back. The first time it happened, I was convinced I’d be stuck like that forever.
I am a fitful sleeper, when I do sleep. Dreams of every kind have awakened me. The ones that scare me most won’t let me wake up. I mean it takes days to shake them!
One of the better wake-ups I’ve ever had was the time I literally laughed myself awake. For whatever reason my dream started playing bits of Monty Python’s “Funniest Joke in the World” sketch. I got to the part where the British Army was testing their weaponized version of the joke on a hapless test subject, played by Terry Jones as some slump-shouldered dullard with coke bottle glasses. It cracks me up when his face dissolves into just the stupidest expression you’ve ever seen and he just sort of collapses over like a sack of potatoes. Same reaction in my dream- I started laughing and woke myself up out of REM sleep.