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This honestly sounds concerning. I would get mad if I regularly experienced seemingly days long sleep interspersed with fake awakenings.

waltbosz 2y ago
They're not regular. Just whenever I do experience a dream-in-a-dream loop, it's never just one loop and it feels like it's taking forever to actually wake up. During the dream, I do experience the emotion of impatience and annoyance. Sometimes there is also a feeling of urgency and fear because the in dream I am trying to escape some danger and I know that I can escape it by waking up ... but when I do wake up, I'm still in a dream. I've on a few very rare occasions been awake/conscious in real life, but also still dreaming. That's really weird when that happens. To explain: once I was awoken by my wife getting ready for work, I said some words to her, while in the back of my mind the dream was still happening. I then went back to sleep and returned to the same dream in progress. It wasn't like I was talking to her in my sleep and didn't remember it. I was fully awake and making new memories, while still dreaming. The best analogy that I can make that you might be able to understand is. I have multiple streams of consciousness. One level I use to think about what I'm going to say when speaking to someone, but at the same time I could be counting in my other stream of consciousness. I assume that's how most people's brains work. I think when the dreaming-awake thing happened, the dream was in one stream and the awareness was in the other.
- tacocataco 2y ago
  Maybe you are lucid dreaming but you don't know how to control it yet.
  - waltbosz 2y ago
    I've done lucid dreaming a couple of times. My trick to test if I'm in a dream is to stick my dream finger through my hand, or phase through a wall. It's a strange feeling to be aware that you're in a dream. I've never really managed to get complete control of the dream.
    - jenoer 2y ago
      Looking at a Digital Clocks also work for me. For some reason those always seem to “bug out”, showing or hiding random lines and sometimes even showing an unreadable time.
      - waltbosz 2y ago
        I've noticed something similar. If I try to look at a piece of dream text, it looks all garbled. Just like how some AI art generators make text. Except, I can't remember if my dream text look that way before I was exposed to AI art, or if my dreams were influenced by my memories of AI art text.
- fydorm 2y ago
  I've had this as well. When I'm really tired, I can wake up then fall asleep and resume my dream.

waltbosz 2y ago

They're not regular. Just whenever I do experience a dream-in-a-dream loop, it's never just one loop and it feels like it's taking forever to actually wake up. During the dream, I do experience the emotion of impatience and annoyance. Sometimes there is also a feeling of urgency and fear because the in dream I am trying to escape some danger and I know that I can escape it by waking up ... but when I do wake up, I'm still in a dream. I've on a few very rare occasions been awake/conscious in real life, but also still dreaming. That's really weird when that happens. To explain: once I was awoken by my wife getting ready for work, I said some words to her, while in the back of my mind the dream was still happening. I then went back to sleep and returned to the same dream in progress. It wasn't like I was talking to her in my sleep and didn't remember it. I was fully awake and making new memories, while still dreaming. The best analogy that I can make that you might be able to understand is. I have multiple streams of consciousness. One level I use to think about what I'm going to say when speaking to someone, but at the same time I could be counting in my other stream of consciousness. I assume that's how most people's brains work. I think when the dreaming-awake thing happened, the dream was in one stream and the awareness was in the other.

tacocataco 2y ago
Maybe you are lucid dreaming but you don't know how to control it yet.
- waltbosz 2y ago
  I've done lucid dreaming a couple of times. My trick to test if I'm in a dream is to stick my dream finger through my hand, or phase through a wall. It's a strange feeling to be aware that you're in a dream. I've never really managed to get complete control of the dream.
  - jenoer 2y ago
    Looking at a Digital Clocks also work for me. For some reason those always seem to “bug out”, showing or hiding random lines and sometimes even showing an unreadable time.
    - waltbosz 2y ago
      I've noticed something similar. If I try to look at a piece of dream text, it looks all garbled. Just like how some AI art generators make text. Except, I can't remember if my dream text look that way before I was exposed to AI art, or if my dreams were influenced by my memories of AI art text.
fydorm 2y ago
I've had this as well. When I'm really tired, I can wake up then fall asleep and resume my dream.