Okay, so haven't been getting much sleep lately, being busy with only three weeks before I finish my degree. I came home from Uni this morning and decided to take a nap, and had this kind of weird... and (for me) creepy dream.
I'm not entirely sure that it actually counts as lucid; I knew I was in a dream and I wanted out, but I don't think I had much control over what happened...
I spam snooze a lot in the morning on my alarm (possibly worse than Alex [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/4080-More-Sleep]; I seem to sometimes hit snooze instinctively without being properly awake so the snooze seems to last for twenty or thirty minutes). During this time I find that I dream quite a lot in the ten minutes between alarms. I wonder if having the music playing (I don't often sleep with music playing; especially not earphones) was the driving reason behind this, keeping me in a weird state of sleep or something... Then again, maybe I'm just insane or something. =)
I know in movies and stories they have dreams waking up in dreams etc, and I suppose they had to get the idea from somewhere, but I haven't really heard of anything quite like this actually happening before. Has anyone else had an experience like this?
I lay down on my bed, leaving my earphones in with music playing quietly to cover the little bit of noise from my flatmate in the next room, pulled the hood of my jersey over my head to block out light a little (lying face down) and tried to sleep. I was kind of half asleep for a long time, but eventually must have actually drifted off to sleep properly...
I'm not sure if there was any beginning to this dream; if there is, I don't remember it. It's starting to blur now but I'll try to remember. I think the dream may have actually been more of a loop than it was recursion (inception was recursive), so I'll just start from the earliest I remember.
I'll keep it reasonably brief. I woke up, got up and went downstairs, but downstairs was somehow a bar instead my lounge. I think it was at this point that I realised I was dreaming, that something wasn't quite right. I started trying to wake up. I sort of could feel my sleeping body outside this dream, kind of blended together or something, but I couldn't move it. All the while, I still have my earphones in (in the dream) and Poor Twisted Me by Metallica is playing (kind of ironic). So I try to move my body outside of the dream to wake up. I wasn't getting very far so I kind of... strained my limbs, tried to push them really hard as if I was pushing/lifting something heavy. Eventually I managed to slowly wake up, but still feeling sluggish and dazed. I get up and stumble downstairs again, but that bar is still there instead of my lounge... I take my earphones out, but the music keeps playing. Now I realise something is wrong and start to panic a little. Again, I can sort of feel my sleeping body outside of the dream, with the dream and my sleeping body faded together, so I try to wake up. Again, I can't move my limbs and have to struggle like I did in the last dream before I can move and eventually wake up. As before, I wake up and stumble downstairs to find a bar where my lounge should be, then pull out my earphones only for Poor Twisted Me to keep playing (or maybe the bar and earphones are actually swapped in order, it's a bit blurry for me now).
This goes on for a total of probably about four times, getting more panicked each time I don't wake up properly. Eventually I somehow managed to actually wake up slowly and groggily as in the dream, slowly coming out of a state of being half asleep (I don't remember if something happened differently or not for me to actually wake up). I pulled out my earphones and was very relieved when the music stopped. (I haven't been downstairs yet... lol)
I'm not sure if there was any beginning to this dream; if there is, I don't remember it. It's starting to blur now but I'll try to remember. I think the dream may have actually been more of a loop than it was recursion (inception was recursive), so I'll just start from the earliest I remember.
I'll keep it reasonably brief. I woke up, got up and went downstairs, but downstairs was somehow a bar instead my lounge. I think it was at this point that I realised I was dreaming, that something wasn't quite right. I started trying to wake up. I sort of could feel my sleeping body outside this dream, kind of blended together or something, but I couldn't move it. All the while, I still have my earphones in (in the dream) and Poor Twisted Me by Metallica is playing (kind of ironic). So I try to move my body outside of the dream to wake up. I wasn't getting very far so I kind of... strained my limbs, tried to push them really hard as if I was pushing/lifting something heavy. Eventually I managed to slowly wake up, but still feeling sluggish and dazed. I get up and stumble downstairs again, but that bar is still there instead of my lounge... I take my earphones out, but the music keeps playing. Now I realise something is wrong and start to panic a little. Again, I can sort of feel my sleeping body outside of the dream, with the dream and my sleeping body faded together, so I try to wake up. Again, I can't move my limbs and have to struggle like I did in the last dream before I can move and eventually wake up. As before, I wake up and stumble downstairs to find a bar where my lounge should be, then pull out my earphones only for Poor Twisted Me to keep playing (or maybe the bar and earphones are actually swapped in order, it's a bit blurry for me now).
This goes on for a total of probably about four times, getting more panicked each time I don't wake up properly. Eventually I somehow managed to actually wake up slowly and groggily as in the dream, slowly coming out of a state of being half asleep (I don't remember if something happened differently or not for me to actually wake up). I pulled out my earphones and was very relieved when the music stopped. (I haven't been downstairs yet... lol)
I'm not entirely sure that it actually counts as lucid; I knew I was in a dream and I wanted out, but I don't think I had much control over what happened...
I spam snooze a lot in the morning on my alarm (possibly worse than Alex [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/4080-More-Sleep]; I seem to sometimes hit snooze instinctively without being properly awake so the snooze seems to last for twenty or thirty minutes). During this time I find that I dream quite a lot in the ten minutes between alarms. I wonder if having the music playing (I don't often sleep with music playing; especially not earphones) was the driving reason behind this, keeping me in a weird state of sleep or something... Then again, maybe I'm just insane or something. =)
I know in movies and stories they have dreams waking up in dreams etc, and I suppose they had to get the idea from somewhere, but I haven't really heard of anything quite like this actually happening before. Has anyone else had an experience like this?
