I dreamt that I was sleeping!

[propita]

I've been really sleepy lately--my doctor increased my thyroid meds to speed up my metabolism (I'm hypothyroidic), but they haven't taken effect yet.

Anyway, in my dream, I'm in school taking a test...and I fall asleep! I wake up too late to finish it.

Now, I just graduated, so I'm not in school anymore--but what's REALLY weird is that right then, I realized that I was actually sleeping, and dreaming.

It's not the first time I've been aware I'm sleeping WHILE I'm dreaming, but it's the first time the dream was ABOUT sleeping!

Way too surreal.

 

[mimic]

I once had a dream that I had insomnia. At one point during this dream the smoke detector started to do its low battery beep thing, so I got up and put duct tape over the speaker part to muffle it. The only reason I knew this was a dream after the fact and not real was because the smoke detector had no duct tape on it and wasn't beeping the next morning.

 

[WillsBabe]

One morning several years ago I woke up. Except I didn't know I'd woken up. I lay, rigid, unmoving for minutes on end while one part of my brain was debating with the other part as to whether I was awake or asleep. It wasn't like it was me wondering this, but like I was an observer to two other people having a dialogue. Even all these years later I still consider it to be the most surreal, freakish thing that's happened to me. Including all the stuff I did in the 80's...

 

[Capn Flukie]

Ever since I was a little kid, I've been aware of when I'm dreaming. I was about eight years old and I dreamt Dracula was walking on the electric wires that spanned across the street coming for me, I told myself its only a dream and I woke up. Sometimes when a dream contradicts something I know to be true, the logic lets me know, just a dream, don't worry.

 

[Jetfire]

I had a dream that I woke up and went through my normal day until strange things started to happen then I realized I was dreaming and woke up.

I had a dream I won the lottery...I want this one to come true...ofcourse I forgot the numbers by the time I woke up.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Stupid fourth wall breaking dreams.

I've had some weird dreams before, but I can't say I've dreamed about dreaming.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've dreamed a lot about getting up, waking up, getting washed, going to work, then finding something was not right. I dream about them a lot, especially in those moments in the morning when you wake up in your normal time, then go back to sleep, then wake up again.

 

[nevermore]

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Anyway, in my dream, I'm in school taking a test...and I fall asleep! I wake up too late to finish it.

I used to have the dream about falling asleep in class all the time. Sometimes in class which is just way too meta.

 

[RoJoHen]

I once dreamt an entire day. It was a pretty lame day, but it was very realistic. I dreamt that I woke up, did my usual morning thing, went to work, came home, had dinner, etc...

Then I woke up and was pissed because I felt like I had wasted so much time on a day that ended up not being real.

 

[Rarewolf]

I occassionally dream I am trying to get to sleep. I know I am dreaming cause it ain't my bed!

 

[Commander Rabbit]

Yeah, dreaming about sleeping does feel kind of surreal. My version: I dreamt a couple times that I woke up, when I was really still asleep.

 

[auntiehill]

I've been really sleepy lately--my doctor increased my thyroid meds to speed up my metabolism (I'm hypothyroidic), but they haven't taken effect yet.

Anyway, in my dream, I'm in school taking a test...and I fall asleep! I wake up too late to finish it.

Now, I just graduated, so I'm not in school anymore--but what's REALLY weird is that right then, I realized that I was actually sleeping, and dreaming.

It's not the first time I've been aware I'm sleeping WHILE I'm dreaming, but it's the first time the dream was ABOUT sleeping!

Way too surreal.

I'm on thyroid meds, too. My thyroid went kaput a year or two ago. It seems to take about a week for me to really notice the difference whenever meds are adjusted.

Are you sure you're allowing enough time for the pills to be absorbed? My doctor always tells me to wait an hour before eating or taking any other pills.

It *can* affect your sleep cycle, and therefore your dreams. I've had a few dreams where I was aware that I was sleeping, and it IS always a bit of a strange sensation.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yeah, dreaming about sleeping does feel kind of surreal. My version: I dreamt a couple times that I woke up, when I was really still asleep.

Yeah, I've done that. Pissed me off. My dreams are ripping off TV shows and movies.

 

[Lindley]

The big one for me is when I wake up briefly, but then instead of actually getting up and getting ready, I mentally do so. It feels fairly real....but later I realize I'm actually still in bed and usually running late by that point.

I'm not sure I can call it a dream, exactly, because I'm conciously in charge of what I do. But it's a dream's first cousin, at least.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have only had one time in my entire life where I dreamed "lucid". I don't know why I did it, either. All other times I dream, I don't realize I'm dreaming. It was just that one time when I did.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Not really on topic, but my favorite dream was that I was flying (ala Superman) over London trying to find Kate Bush.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I had another dream last night about the TrekBBS. I dreamed that someone had started a Fawlty Towers avatar contest.

Not really on topic, but my favorite dream was that I was flying (ala Superman) over London trying to find Kate Bush.

I'm guessing that at those heights the experience must have been wuthering.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I had another dream last night about the TrekBBS. I dreamed that someone had started a Fawlty Towers avatar contest.

Not really on topic, but my favorite dream was that I was flying (ala Superman) over London trying to find Kate Bush.

I'm guessing that at those heights the experience must have been wuthering.

And then I dreamt of sheep.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I had another dream last night about the TrekBBS. I dreamed that someone had started a Fawlty Towers avatar contest.

Not really on topic, but my favorite dream was that I was flying (ala Superman) over London trying to find Kate Bush.

I'm guessing that at those heights the experience must have been wuthering.

And then I dreamt of sheep.

Were they running up that hill as well?

 

[WillsBabe]

The big one for me is when I wake up briefly, but then instead of actually getting up and getting ready, I mentally do so. It feels fairly real....but later I realize I'm actually still in bed and usually running late by that point.

I'm not sure I can call it a dream, exactly, because I'm conciously in charge of what I do. But it's a dream's first cousin, at least.

When I was at university, I lost count of the number of lectures I missed that way. I haven't done it for a long, long time, but I used to do that all the time. Two, three alarm clocks couldn't wake me, but I was dreaming and thought that I was up and about.