Magenta Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 “A false awakening is a vivid dream about awakening from sleep. After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing daily morning rituals such as cooking, cleaning and eating. The experience is sometimes called a double dream, or a dream within a dream.“ (from Wikipedia) So here is my story: I am asleep and I am dreaming. It is night and I am standing in my street and I am staring to the sky. Than I spot there huge, bright massive stars moving across night sky. As I focus on the star, it is a feeling like I am sucked in by a star, and I am going through some tunnel, and all kinds off colors are flickering around me. At that point I wake up and I am sitting in my bed in my room, it is dark in the room, and everything looks usual, except there are still color flicker before my eyes. So I am wondering why it didn't go away. I reach for light on bed table, but when I switch it on, it is still dark. At that point I realize I am still in a dream. I start panicking and start to think how to awake. So I start to scream, but it sounds so quiet, and I wanna force myself to get out of the bed, but I can't feel my legs. So when I finally wake up, I am normally lying in bed. What is horrible is that during that period I was totally lucid, and I was acting like when I am awake. I also experienced sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, flying in my dreams, and hypnagogia. So I am wondering if someone experienced something similar, and it is willing to share with others. This fields are not quite examined, as it is kinda hard to detect them and prove them with some solid evidence. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magenta Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Sometimes when I am dreaming I realize it is a dream and I force myself to wake up. And sometimes I just go with the dream and then make things happen in the dream that I want to happen. This is lucid dreaming. Experienced myself: I remember saying, well if this is a dream, it means I can do anything, it means I can fly. So just kinda throw myself on my back in the air, and I was levitating, that was pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Dreams are just too frikkin' weird to explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzepfvr Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Sometimes when my alarm goes off I reach over to turn it off. The first 5 minutes of the alarm is a silent light flashing on and off. But I can't turn it off. I press the button and it still flashes. I pound it on the night stand and it still keeps flashing. I reach down to unplug it and the damn thing keeps on flashing its constant alarm. I am feeling frustrated and do not understand why the damn thing will not stop flashing. Then the ringer goes off and I awake from my sleep and understand that I was dreaming that I was waking up but in reality I was not awake but still just dreaming. This has happen to me a couple of times now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetredwine Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 (edited) Dreams are probably more important than we realize. The fellow that started this fascinating website in 1997 Dream Doctor Your Personal Dream Interpreter amassed the largest database of dreams in the world but passed away on May 8th Radio’s ‘Dream Doctor’ in a Nightmare Illness I wish I could have spoken with him, especially because my dreams have been absolutely ridiculous lately. Charles McPhee (49 at death) sought to legitimize dream interpretation, a field of study that he said had strayed from its roots in the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung Edited July 8, 2011 by sweetredwine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzzoso Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I love sleeping, therefore, I love dreaming. Of course I do not remember every dream I have ever had. Sometimes the dreams I do happen to remember, when I wake up, I often think that they would make a good basis for a movie plot. The plot itself, not the dialogue. Of course, after a few hours of being completely awake, I usually forget the dream that I think would make a good movie plot. That, in itself, I think is pretty strange. Other times, I have also realized that I am dreaming and I have tried to direct that dream in my favor, which is rather difficult because (1) I am sleeping, and (2), I am dreaming and somehow aware of both of these things and still able to manipulate my own dreams. This, of course for me is very rare, however, I think I have done it more than a couple of dozen times that I can (somewhat) remember. I have also been in the middle of a good or bad dream, had to wake up to take a piss remembering what I was just dreaming about, and fallen right back to sleep and actually resumed my dream right where I left off before I awoke to urinate in the middle of the night. This is why I say I love to dream. Anything can happen. I know that I must not be the only one who has had these exact thing I have said happen to me. If they have happened to me, then I am sure they have happened to many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouillon Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 The scariest thing that's ever happened to me was around the time I was concerned that I might be possessed by demons. (In retrospect, I don't think I was. It was probably the fault of my psycho faux-Born Again Christian ex-wife, who told me I was.) Anyway, one night I was sure I'd woken up, but I could hear whispering voices in my head and felt a heavy weight on my chest and couldn't move. So I decided this was the demons at work, and I told them to 'Get out of my body'. And then I heard a cackling demonic voice say 'NO' - after which the pressure lessened, the voices stopped, and I got up. Never happened again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouillon Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I think the demons are just resting, because you are defiantly possessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 The scariest thing that's ever happened to me was around the time I was concerned that I might be possessed by demons. (In retrospect, I don't think I was. It was probably the fault of my psycho faux-Born Again Christian ex-wife, who told me I was.) Anyway, one night I was sure I'd woken up, but I could hear whispering voices in my head and felt a heavy weight on my chest and couldn't move. So I decided this was the demons at work, and I told them to 'Get out of my body'. And then I heard a cackling demonic voice say 'NO' - after which the pressure lessened, the voices stopped, and I got up. Never happened again. That sounds like a classic case of sleep paralysis with the pressure on the chest and "evil" presence... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis Basically your dreaming while still awake(or having woken up), the "cutout" that stops you moving in your sleep is still in effect and your still having dreamlike elements appear but within the real world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 I've experienced incidences of dreaming while partially awake. Since being diagnosed with sleep apnea in 2008 I now use a CPAP machine. Ever since I started using the CPAP those occurrences have stopped. Same thing for the dreams (nightmares) I used to have of drowning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzepfvr Posted October 13, 2011 Share Posted October 13, 2011 I woke up this morning to the silent flashing of my alarm, as I do every morning. But the snooze bar wouldn't work. It just kept flashing. I tried to switch it off several times, but it just kept flashing. Frustrated, I got out of bed and went to turn the wall switch off that the clock is plugged into. Still that incessant flashing kept on. I gave up and left the hubby to deal with it and went in to take my shower. But as I stepped into the water I realized that the flashing was still there and that I was still deaming. I finally woke up before the ringer went off. I have had this senario several times before, but never as far as taking my shower before realizing I was still dreaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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