Had a really weird dream last night.

[Sean Hollyman]

It's hard to explain. I couldn't tell whether I was awake or asleep. It was like, I was dreaming, about being awake, trying to sleep. It was horrible, like being stuck in limbo.

Have you ever experienced anything like this?

 

[Antitonic]

Sounds almost like sleep paralysis to me.

In which case, no, I've not had the "pleasure". I've heard it can be pretty trippy, though.

 

[GWarface]

Yeah must be sleep paralysis..

Tried it once, cant say it was fun...

 

[Watchmacallit]

I once had a dream that I woke up in my mates bath tub and moved back to the couch to sleep...I woke up in the morning to find out that I'd been sleep walking lol.

Sleep Paralysis occurs when you wake while in REM sleep. Those that suffer this disorder normally dream while awake and are unable to move because of the paralysis effect of REM sleep.

 

[Hiikuro]

Yes, I loved it.

I was lying in bed, but I had my eyes open and tried to get up into a sitting position. I saw that I didn't move, but my sense of vision and the position of my body felt like it moved. I looked at my plants sitting in the other end of the room which looked like a hybrid of dream and reality. And, as far as I remember, I had a sensation of always falling back into my lying state. Unfortunately, I didn't get any notable hallucinations.

Though, my cognitive capacity was severely limited at the time, so I'm not exactly sure what really happened.

 

[Ghengis John]

I've never experienced sleep paralysis though I have been told I would sleep walk in my youth (small child) and there was one notable case where I slept-walked(?) in my teens.

The dream that woke me up this morning: Some rich blonde girl came home to her mansion (at once an old elaborate estate and a mc-mansion) with a car full of puppies and small cats. Her father disapproved. He made her agree to a series of conditions. They could not enter his lounge, they would stay out of his chair, he didn't want their hair on his clothes, he would not under any circumstances take care of them or show them any affection what so ever, that was her job. Flash to one week later, he's asleep in his chair with a cat on his lap and he's got his hand on it's back. I woke up thinking: I wonder what the cat's up to?

 

[Fetzenfisch]

creepy shit. especially because i fell asleep at work and mustnt be caught doing so. so it was extra trippy when i had the feeling someone is standing next to me.

 

[rokkolpo]

Have experienced that, it's not necessarily sleep paralysis as everyone here puts it.

Just dreaming about trying to sleep is different than being awake and hallucinating (which comes from sleep paralysis, or to another extent a ''night terror'')
But yeah, great confusion and major fun for me.

 

[ArtemusClydeFrog]

Dude that sounds really unpleasant. But if you're pretty sure you were actually asleep and not awake and paralyzed it's probably just been a bad dream.

One of my friends had a dream that he woke up and went downstairs to get ready to go to school. Then his mom stabbed him as he entered the bathroom, and he woke up - or so he thinks, but it's still a dream. This time, no one's in the bathroom, but his sister kills him with an axe as he enters the kitchen. Then he wakes up again - but it's still part of the dream.
This went on and on for like 12 times, each time he got a little further before getting killed by something or someone. When I met him at school that morning he thought everyone was gonna jump him because he wasn't sure it wasn't still part of the dream and that he could get killed anytime.

Dreams can be some nasty stuff.

 

[Serving UpSmiles]

It's hard to explain. I couldn't tell whether I was awake or asleep. It was like, I was dreaming, about being awake, trying to sleep. It was horrible, like being stuck in limbo.

Have you ever experienced anything like this?

You might have been lucid dreaming, yeah it's scary it feels like a nightmare where you can't move.

 

[monkey-skitz 91]

It's hard to explain. I couldn't tell whether I was awake or asleep. It was like, I was dreaming, about being awake, trying to sleep. It was horrible, like being stuck in limbo.

Have you ever experienced anything like this?

i dreamt that i was asleep, then woke up, and dozily scratched my nuts. only for my crotch to pull my hand in, and then my arm, and them up to my shoulder. then i woke up, and my arm was where i dreamt it was, and my arm felt dead too.

weirdest shit EVER.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

sleep paralysis for the absolute LOSE. Horrifyingly evil period of sleep/conciousness/paralysis/failure

 

[TheIronRuler]

Never had such a thing.
I have vivid R rated dreams. Not mush sex, but more in the direction of grim environments, chase sequences and popping someone's eyeballs with your hands. I love every moment of it.
I think that I had one of the happiest moments in my life at a dream, felt like the first time I kissed the girl I'm with. My life was saved (in a dream) and I hugged the soldier that saved my life. I've never thoought of it, but could it be that if I had died there, I would have really died, like in Catherine?
Nah.
Regardless, let me put my crowbar under my pillow.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

So is that what it was? Sleep Paralysis?


Damn that shit was horrible.

 

[Loner Jo Jo]

I've had something similar happen, where I had a very mundane dream where I had woken up, talked to my mom, brushed my teeth, gone through my morning routine. Suddenly, my alarm clock woke me up and I realized I had just dreamed all of that.

I couldn't imagine dreaming about being awake trying to sleep. It must have been frustrating, but I feel there is a Xzibit joke in there somewhere.

I don't think it was sleep paralysis though. I've experienced that once in my life, and even though I wasn't hallucinating, it was still terrifying. OP didn't make mention of any panic, just confusion, so I think he was just dreaming.

 

[Salizer]

I had a dream, many years ago, where I knew I was asleep so I tried to wake up, but everytime I thought I woke up, I realized after some time(By the surroundings), that I still was in the dream.
Think I tried to wake up 3-5 times before actually waking up.(...Inception)

Really weird feeling when you know you are asleep but cannot wake up

 

[Bunnymarn]

A dream about trying to sleep? Sounds quite dull...

All my dreams recently have had me with full consciousness of what's going on - I'm a part of the dreams, just they're incredibly surreal. It's quite interesting, really. My dream that I had this morning in actual time went for 30mins, but lasted for at least a week in the dream. Was an impressive dream.

 

[kittii-chan 300]

I dreamt of an entire school day where every lesson had a test i couldnt do. i woke up on the bell and had to go through it all again...

 

[Magicduck]

Yeah, I get sleep paralysis alot more frequently then I'd like, so much so that I know when I've got it and attempt to wake myself up. There was this one time though when I had it in which I thought I was waking up but I was actually still asleep, this happened like 3 times before I *actually* woke up, was some trippy shit. Was absolutely horrible though the first time I had it though, being conscious but not being able to move/communicate/do anything is pretty much my idea of hell.

 

[Shinsei-J]

Wow I get the same thing and having lived with chronic fatigue for years I just figured it was that. That feeling of limbo is scary and I know how you feel but good to know its not just me.