I sometimes do something weird if I wake up in the middle of the night. For some reason, I’ll think that my alarm has gone off and that it’s time to start getting ready for the day. I’ll turn on the light, and start to prepare myself for the new day - and then look at my clock and see that it says 3 AM or something, and realize how foolish I’ve been.
This doesn’t happen every day, but often enough that you’d think I’d stop doing it.
Anyone else ever had that happen to them?
No but I’ll share similar weirdness I experienced this week.
On Monday I moved into a new home. Now, I normally don’t use an alarm clock, but since I’m so exhausted, and things are stressful at work, I thought I’d go ahead and dig mine out of the box it was in and set it up. Several times this week I’ve been wakened by various noises, and checked the clock to see if it was time to get up yet. There it was, glowing blue numbers and all, and I distinctly remember seeing that it was 5:24am when I woke up yesterday.
Except it wasn’t there. This morning, I was emptying a box and I found the alarm clock. 
:eek: I actually had to walk to the bedroom and look at the spot where I thought it was sitting. Nope, nothing. I had been waking up on my own, on time, the whole week, and only dreamed I had set up/seen the clock.
:smack:
My sister once woke up and came storming into the Living Room. She saw me watching TV and started grousing at her for not waking her up, 'cause it was after 8:00 and she was going to be late for work. I pointed to the TV. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was on (first run; yeah, I’m old). It was 8pm, not 8am. She still thought I was tricking her.
I wake up during most nights, I seem to have two periods of sleep instead of a single uninterrupted one! Sometimes I’ll read a book or watch something on my laptop, most times I just ponder life for a while then doze back to sleep.
What’s really disappointing is waking up in the morning and thinking it’s the mid-night wake up. Nope, time to get up, lazy. 
It’s happened to me occasionally (usually when sleeping a lot through sickness or exhaustion) that I’ll fall asleep in the middle of the day for several hours, and not know whether it’s AM or PM.
I’ve read that people actually used to cmmonly sleep in two periods like that.
I hate when the alarm goes off, I get up and get ready and just as I am about to walk out the door I wake up and realize it all was a dream.
One time when I was out downtown, my mother went to bed and went to sleep. She had a dream that I phoned her and asked to be picked up at the bus station, so she woke up and drove to the bus station. When I didn’t show up, she went home. Later on, I did arrive at the bus station, and so I phoned my mom to pick me up. She got mad :mad:, but picked me up anyway.
It’s weird how some dreams can be so real that you don’t really realize it was a dream until later.
Google ‘segmented sleep’ it is actually not all that uncommon.
And back when I worked security third shift, I lived in a bunker. Well actually the back half of a cement block duplex under a bunch of evergreens, and the bedroom windows were these narrow clerestory type [thin horizontal windows up near the ceiling] and it was normally fairly dark and I used blackout curtains to make it even darker. More than once I woke up a couple hours early for work and paniced because I thought I had slept through my shift.
OMG! I never heard of this but I totally do it! I sleep about 4 hours at night and take a hard nap for another 4 hours sometime during the day. People tell me all the time that would make them so groggy, but it’s when I feel the most alert and rested.
The best feeling in the world is waking up, looking at the clock, realizing you are LATE FOR WORK! and then realizing this is your day off. 
I used to do it all the time when I was a kid. Seemed to stop at adulthood.
I’d typically wake up, turn on all the lights and start getting dressed. About halfway through I’d just fall back asleep, then awaken the next morning, wondering why the lights were on and why I was wearing socks and a pair of pants only one leg on.
These days, my scumbag brain will make me wake up an hour before the alarm - and I feel alert and fine. But there’s still another hour until I have to wake up for work so I go back to sleep. After that “bonus” hour I wake up and it’s brutal - I’m groggy, sleepy, tired, etc. for the whole morning. The hell, brain?! You were fine just an hour ago!
I’ve started waking up in the middle of the night and I feel like I need to stretch my legs, but getting up and doing stretches doesn’t help. My legs feel funny when I’m awake and sitting down sometimes too, which is really annoying. It sounds silly, but I’m going to try sleeping with my head at the foot of the bed. I did that last year when I started having trouble sleeping and it helped for whatever reason.
There are times when I wake up, look at the clock, and have no idea whether it’s a.m. or p.m. At certain times of the year I can look out the window, and can’t tell whether it’s dawn or dusk. I really need to get a 24-hour clock.
Not quite the same thing, but when I have a “fast turnaround” at work, ie finish at 22.35, start the next shift at 06.45, I quite often DREAM it’s time to get up, and get up in my dream, then wake up and see I’ve got another couple of hours to sleep.
Posted this in the monthly pit thread.
A couple of weeks ago I woke up at 6:08am and freaked out. My alarm should have gone off at 6am. Jumped out of bed, ran to the shower. While I’m waiting for it to get warm (I’m at the far end of the building from the boilers), it suddenly occurred to me. Wait, yesterday was Easter. I don’t remember it happening. Did…is it?.. OH FUCK.
Yup, it was Easter Sunday.
I had been absolutely convinced it was Monday. Heck, the feeling was so strong that as I went back to bed, I had to tell myself that if it was Monday after all, I’d just be late for work.
Back when I was a kid I had a paper route that required me getting up at 5 a.m. One day I fell asleep right after getting home from school for some reason. I happened to wake up and glance at the clock to see that it was almost 6:00. Shit! I was late!
I hustled downstairs to find the rest of the family sitting in the living room watching the evening news. I nonchalantly walked to the kitchen, got a drink of water, then went back upstairs.
I never did tell them.
mmm
Waking up in the night can be a happy time or a grumpy time, depending on how long I have left to sleep. If I wake up, look at the clock and see that I have an hour or more before the alarm goes off, my brain celebrates - Woo hoo! More time to sleep! If, however, there is less than an hour before alarm time, my brain goes straight to gripe mode - For Pete’s sake, 47 minutes until I gotta be up and I’m awake. This sucks! Either way, I go back to sleep, just with a completely different mindset.
The best is when I wake up feeling like I have slept all night, only to see I’ve only been asleep for an hour or so and still have most of my sleepy time ahead of me. I loves me some sleepy time!
I have done that once in memory. I woke up, turned off my alarm, took a shower, dressed and was making my toast when I realized it was dark out. Not even 2:00 am to be exact.