Had one the other night where I had a bit of a bad dream and thought I'd woken up to my normal alarm, dreamt I'd got out of bed, got dressed, etc. and then as I tried to walk out of my bedroom there was nothing - outside of my bedroom was just blackness and I couldn't move forward out the door - attempting to move forward just made me spin over and over (pitch) it was the unusual sense of floating in mid-air spinning that made me realise I wasn't awake and woke me up. The strange thing is when spinning like that I noticed details of the lintel that never registered on a conscious level before and were indeed there when I went to look actually awake.
Aside from those times where I think I've woken up I'm always aware I'm dreaming.
Dimple, you have kids don't you? I'm surprised you even have to ask this question. On 'bad' nights or mornings when my kids were younger I would often have dreams that seemed they had lasted ages and then realised I'd only been asleep for 5 minutes.
Not necessarily true, water living animals which require oxygen at all times and either have to be constantly moving or surfacing are capable of allowing half of their brain to sleep.
Still sleep in a sense, but it does mean that you can be constantly awake too.
Every single night I dream about being at work. Then I wake up and realise I still have a full days work ahead of me. I don't like dreams...
I only ever dream when I am too hot in bed. I can overdress or put the heating on if I want a dream, it's weird.
I remember waking up with a massive foot cramp after a dream of playing football while injured, which felt like a full length game
Weird dreams.
Many years ago, I sat up in the middle of the night and shouted "They're all going to die", Moments later, as I woke up properly, I told my GF that I had just had an awful dream about a space disaster.
We went back to sleep.
The next day the Columbia was lost!
I am sure that these coincidences happen all the time, but it was (and still is for me) pretty damn spooky!
:/
Whether its somehow REM phase or not I dunno but I frequently dream during short periods of sleep i.e. if I come home from work tired and take a nap I will usually have very vivid dreams for some reason (and always wake up after 1 sleep cycle max).
I frequently have lucid dreams but unlike the poster quoted below I can force myself awake if the dream gets bad - never occurred to me to try otherwise.
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Ex GF once called me up at 2/3 am in the morning crying about her grandmother dying (who as far as we were aware was in good health despite being old) and she'd never lost close family before. Had to calm her down and get her back to sleep. Next morning her parents called her to tell her the Grandmother died at around the time she called me.
That was very very weird.
I frequently have lucid dreams but unlike the poster quoted below I can force myself awake if the dream gets bad - never occurred to me to try otherwise.
Your mother brought you breakfast in bed? You lucky sod