a few years back i played “zelda” for the first time.
well i got right into it and played all hours into the night one time… and woke up in the middle of the night saying to my bf “we’ve got to get off of this island” sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at the floor like it was water.
a month ago after i had a four hour tattoo session, i was a bit shaken and tired. in the middle of the night for no apparent reason i “fought” with the lamp on the nightstand, trying to pick it up i guess… well all i ended up with was the lampshade because it popped off into my hands. i brought it out onto the kitchen and threw it down on the floor, and kicked it across the room.
later i woke up to go to the bathroom and tripped over the lampshade wondering “what the hell is this doing here?”
When I lived in Pittsburgh, I had a dream where, at its end, I was suddenly swarmed by a mass of red bugs that started crawling all over me. I woke up, and I thought the sensation of the sheets on my body were the bugs. I bolted out of bed, screaming, and was frantically brushing the imaginary bugs off of me. Poor Wolfie woke up, alarmed and saying, “What is it? What’s wrong?” and then I realized that I’d been dreaming previously. Yup. I went back to sleep uneventfully after that, until he reminded me of what happened later the next day. I felt pretty ridiculous.
Another time, I woke up to find that I was sleeping sideways on my bed, which meant that my feet and upper body were well clear of the actual mattress. I didn’t realize this until I leaned back a little bit as if to stretch out; I ended up sliding off the bed and hit the floor pretty hard.
Finally, there was a night in college where I woke up at around 12:30 AM. I don’t know what I was thinking (well, the point is that I wasn’t), but I put on my shoes and my backpack, then opened the door to my room and stepped into the hall. I stopped and squinted in the sudden light. “Wow,” I said in a puzzled, slow voice. “It’s really bright out here.” Of course, my floormates, who were still up, were looking at me. One said, “Fox, what are you doing?” I thought about it for a second, then said, “I… don’t know. I’m really confused right now.” With that, I went back into my room, shut the door, and got back in bed. I never heard the end of that one!
Once I woke up at around midnight. I thought it was 8 AM and started playing with my dog and running around my house. I went downstairs to get breakfast and assumed that all the clocks in the kitchen were wrong. I started playing with my dog some more, and my dad yelled out for me to go to sleep. That was embarrassing.
So i was taking a nap, someone/sth wakes me up and i get up Iike right away! instantly! my mother and sister were in the room, i look at my mother and ask her a question… At least i was trying to… God, my words made no sense or whatsoever!!!haha! I posed the same “question” like 2-3 times until i stopped trying since i realized I couldn’t even make sense… No need to mention my mom and sis were looking at me all statled and confused like “what the hell are you talking about?!”. Then they just ignored me thinking it was the i-just-woke-up effect…
loooooooool
edit: i didn’t know there was actually a name for this!
Well, one morning I thought I cold stand up and pee - like guys can. I think I did it in a dream, and I was convinced that it will work. It went fine in the dream!
When I stood right in front of the toilet, I started thinking. It was a silly idea, but I could take a shower, if something went wrong. But I sat down. If it worked, why haven’t we done it everytime?
For some reason every time I experience sleep inertia I end up talking about fruit! I remember when I was a kid once my brother was trying to wake me up and I mumbled something about a “ticklish watermelon.” Don’t ask.
That happends to me a lot… It’s so annying!
One time I dreamt there was these kids, and they said to me: “If you want to play with us, you need to turn off that alarm clock.” I woke up, and turned it off. I can remember we went to a tennis court, and the rest of the dream was all black. They fooled me!
Good thing for me that I now have 3 alarm clocks, and 4 if I really need it.
I remember one time I had to wake up early to go to the chiropractor. So i got dressed, and when I got there he made a comment about my shirt. I looked at it and realized that it was on backwards and inside out
I think a couple times I’ve woken up from a dream, just as realistic as RL… on a few occasions I’ve been close to saying/doing things I would only get away with in a dream, and it would have some serious consequences… I had to think carefully if I was really asleep sometimes. Other then that… I’m a pretty good “waker-upper”, besides the odd jumbling of sentences occasionally.
One time I woke up and threw a frisbee at my roommate who was snoring before I realized what was going on. Lesson learned - don’t keep frisbees next to your bed.
i have thought i had a false awakening when i woke up for real cause i read they can happen 3-4 times befor really waking up, i was convinced i was dreaming and tried to poke my finger to go through myself, it hurt
when i was younger i had unpleasent things. i was sure i was awake, i would get up and get mauled by a raptor, everymorning, i was pinned against the wardrobe and my dad was calling up the stairs, as he does every morning, but he didn’t hear the dinosoar. i would then fall over and open my eyes crying my eyes out, whether i was awake or not i dont know, but i was always by the wardrobe…
Well, there was this time in a lucid dream when a DC started to bug me…man, he was really annoying and didn’t let me enjoy my dream. When trying to ignore him or talking with him didn’t work i started yelling, cursing etc…!! in the end and right before i woke up i was making a ‘gesture’ to him so i woke up doing that to the wall! i was so pissed…!
A few days ago, I woke up at about 12:00 am and thought my alarm had gone off.
I went downstairs and got ready for the day, glancing at the clock occasionally, but not noticing what time it really was. After I was done getting dressed, I looked at the clock, reality checked, and then went back to sleep.
On the plus side, it felt like I got 4 more hours of sleep!
I never heard the end of that one!
