Parked my truck on a ramp behind another truck to take a nap. Woke up and saw the truck was too close and slammed on the brakes. Then I remembered I was not moving.
Or taking a break at a rest stop, then you wake up and think that your car is rolling on its own but it’s actually the car that was parked next to you backing out to drive off!
I hate those so much! I used to get them all the time, and I even had instances of having as many as 20 nested false awakenings. What finally put a stop to it was me going “Okay brain, I’m sick of you doing that shit, knock it off. It’s not funny.” Haven’t had one since then. (I did a similar thing once with nightmares of my dolls talking to me. I told them “I love you guys, but knock it off.”)
After telling a friend of mine about those nested false awakenings, she joked “how do you know you’re not still asleep?” and I basically told her to knock it off or I’d slug her. She hasn’t done it since.
Later, though, I realized there are tells: 1. Physics doesn’t work the same in dreams. One hyper-realistic dream I had once was in so much detail that I only figured out it was a dream as I was walking up a hill. The details were so perfect, that literally the only sign it was a dream was that I wasn’t getting winded as I climbed the hill, which led to realizing I felt a lot lighter than usual, too. And then that while I could see the breeze in the trees, I couldn’t feel it.2. Something I can only remember after the fact is that the colors in dreams are also a little blue-filtered, like a lot of Hollywood movies have done in the last few years. It’s so subtle I can only tell the difference when I wake up and can compare the remembered blue-filtered images to the much redder/yellower light of the real world.3. Unlike most people, I can in fact read in dreams. But it’s nowhere near as easy as it is in real life.
I had a dream that I was awake and sitting in my living room. I only realized I was dreaming when a giraffe walked past the window. I live in a sixth floor apartment and nowhere near Africa or a zoo.
Ida No almost 6 years ago
Oh! My! God! This always happens to me! Jeezus, is this a wake up call, or what!
PoodleGroomer almost 6 years ago
The horrible dream and panic was from sleeping at the wheel. Time to trade up to a car with autopilot.
RonnieAThompson Premium Member almost 6 years ago
That is a terrible nightmare.
drivingfuriously Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Parked my truck on a ramp behind another truck to take a nap. Woke up and saw the truck was too close and slammed on the brakes. Then I remembered I was not moving.
Alec McLure Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Or taking a break at a rest stop, then you wake up and think that your car is rolling on its own but it’s actually the car that was parked next to you backing out to drive off!
FayAnneAuraArts about 4 years ago
I hate those so much! I used to get them all the time, and I even had instances of having as many as 20 nested false awakenings. What finally put a stop to it was me going “Okay brain, I’m sick of you doing that shit, knock it off. It’s not funny.” Haven’t had one since then. (I did a similar thing once with nightmares of my dolls talking to me. I told them “I love you guys, but knock it off.”)
After telling a friend of mine about those nested false awakenings, she joked “how do you know you’re not still asleep?” and I basically told her to knock it off or I’d slug her. She hasn’t done it since.
Later, though, I realized there are tells: 1. Physics doesn’t work the same in dreams. One hyper-realistic dream I had once was in so much detail that I only figured out it was a dream as I was walking up a hill. The details were so perfect, that literally the only sign it was a dream was that I wasn’t getting winded as I climbed the hill, which led to realizing I felt a lot lighter than usual, too. And then that while I could see the breeze in the trees, I couldn’t feel it.2. Something I can only remember after the fact is that the colors in dreams are also a little blue-filtered, like a lot of Hollywood movies have done in the last few years. It’s so subtle I can only tell the difference when I wake up and can compare the remembered blue-filtered images to the much redder/yellower light of the real world.3. Unlike most people, I can in fact read in dreams. But it’s nowhere near as easy as it is in real life.
alantain 10 months ago
I had a dream that I was awake and sitting in my living room. I only realized I was dreaming when a giraffe walked past the window. I live in a sixth floor apartment and nowhere near Africa or a zoo.