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Today I woke up and got ready for school. It was not until somebody told me what the time was however, that I realized it was an hour later than I thought! This meant I had missed the bus. The funny thing is I had been feeling unusually awake and alert and not realizing why! Also, I had the strangest feeling I was forgetting or not noticing something.

Another experience was (this has happened several times) I woke up about 1 hour before my alarm clock went off and for no apparent reason thought it was time to get up. I got up and was almost ready to leave before I realized I had almost 1 hour left before I would normally even be awake.

What odd sleep/awakening habits/experiences do the rest of you have?

When I was about 18, I woke up at 3 am, and throught it was 5 am, when I had to be somewhere.  I ran around until my mom woke and and asked what I was doing.
-Ed

I was sleeping, it was about 5 AM I think, because then I had put my alarmclock, I woke up shut it off and tried to get back to sleep, I was lieing with my chest on the matras. And suddenly, with my eyes closed, this seriously loud wooshing noise started (I did realise this wooshing noise was all in my head but I did hear it) and I started seeing bright white in my eyes, wich were closed. I was paralysed and couldn't move and it felt like I was getting sucked on the matras, I couldn't open my eyes or do nothing for at least 15 seconds. I tried t open my eyes and to move but I couldn't for at least 15 seconds. Then it just went away. I was really freaked out but excited at the same time, I still want to know what it was.
This was the first time, two weeks later it happened again, only very briefly.
Wierd stuff

Another thing I thought of:  Public buses travel close to my house. Several times over the years I have woken up terrified because my bed was shaking. It was not until about 1 year ago that I found out the shaking was caused by the buses. Each time I thought I was either dreaming, going crazy, or there were ghosts or monsters or something (keep in mind this has been happening ever since I was very young). For many years I was too scared to tell anybody!

It's called sleep paralysis. It's probably because you were laying in a certain position or from being half asleep stuck between sleeping and being awake. It happens to me often, along with hypnagogic hallucination, which probably explains the whoosh and the light. I've had the nightmare many times that there is something sitting on top of me while I am sleeping; but yeah it's just paralysis.

Sorry to sink your story.  :tongueout:

-Jimmybob

If I happen to fall into a really deep sleep and my wife comes in through the front door, I wake up and go into panic mode.  She has to literally throw her hands up in a defensive posture and say "Mark calm down...calm down...calm down..." over and over again.  Its almost as if I forget everything I know about my life for about 10 seconds and I'm a caged animal. 

Hehe, I already got the answer on BiM but I thought I'd share the experience here too  :cheers:

I have always been a good sleeper, meaning, no strange habits or unusual experiences. Except for this one time in the 80s when I would wake up around midnight for a snack in the kitchen. Or I would grab a piece of chocolate on my night stand and would "sleep eat" but yeah, that was a long time ago.
Other than that I tend to get headache if I sleep too long.

I get headaches from sleeping too long as well.  :bluesad:

When I was a kid a good friend of mine would wake up fighting. If I ever went over and he was asleep I learned to stand on the other side of the room and chuck stuff at him to wake him up.

I wake up very turned on at times...

 :question:

Too much info ?

That happens to everybody Doggett.

... I hope.

-Jimmybob

Anyone else do the thing where you're sleeping, and you wake up and spaz out and "fall" against the mattress? Almost as if you were hovering over the mattress in your sleep and waking ends the hovering?

I snore like a chainsaw and have very vivid dreams, frequently centered around politics, my nose, or both.


One time, back during the 1992 election season, I dreamed that Ross Perot was chasing me around Texas Stadium with a giant toothbrush, screaming about the deficit . . . .


Freud would love me!

Yeah! Also, you flail your legs like crazy!   I know I've kicked the wall before.

I have two sleeping positions. one~ Like a dead person in a coffin, on my back with my hands folded on my chest. Two~ on my side with my hands under my armpits, usually in fists... most mornings I wake up and my hands have fallen asleep. I have...issues   :teddyr:

I always wear a pair of fresh socks in bed. I've been doing that since I was a kid, and I guess that is why I didn't mention this before because it seems like a normal thing for me to do. So yeah, nobody gets in my bed with dirty naked feet  :teddyr: Seriously, I'm anal about that.

I jerk awake every now and then, as though something I was dreaming about startled me.  Usually don't remember what it was though. 

I usually use three pillows, that might be weird to some people.  One for my head, one between my knees (usually I sleep on my side) and one between my arms. 

I have that too, I once hit the wall really hard.

I had a dream in which I killed a man and than woke up feeling scared and upset.

It was a brutal death too: I dreamed I was sent to military school and became angry about the fact that I was sent there. In the lunch room I broke the sneeze guard over the food, took a piece of glass, and stabbed my instructor's neck.

I was very sweaty and panting hard when I woke up. It was one of the worst dreams I've ever had.

Maybe if you took down the posters of Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Amy Winehouse you've got hanging over your bed, you'd wake up a little "calmer."  :tongueout: :twirl: :tongueout:

As for strange sleep habits, I've been waking up with a sudden jerk lately, and once awake, I find I've (yet again) bitten the side of my tongue, just on the very edge, so that it stings horribly. I've done that five or six times in the last few weeks, and it's getting annoying.

Sleep paralysis is way worse when the Old Hag visits you and seems to be trying to smother or choke you alive and you're fighting, fighting, fighting to move, to breathe, to do anything and just when you think you're about to die, you wake up. Has happened to me a few times in the past. Always far more likely if you sleep on your back.

Boot camp does wierd things to you. You go from whatever was your normal life was to being thrown together with 75 other guys, sleeping in racks(bunks), no privacy, ordered around, lots of rules, and being woken up harshly every morning at 4 am. I would see guys waking up in the middle of the night doing very strange things, thinking, "that's not going to happen to me." Then, one night, I found myself jumping out of my rack at 0100 and throwing on my uniform, thinking I had slept through morning reveille. I woke up literally thinking the barracks were completely empty and everyone had left and I was in deep s**t, when in reality everyone was asleep and I had imagined it. The guy in the rack next to me was saying "you better hurry, man, they're in formation already." Then I realized what was going on and said "you dick," and crawled by in my rack, him cracking up the whole time.

Ah, what a twisted world the military is.

A few years ago I was in my bed. (Now I sleep on the floor. . . You'll see why) My alarm clock rang.  - It was a f***ing loud mechanical one - and I darted up strait from a dream . . . but before I became fully vertical and my eyes open, . . . someone hit me full force on the nose! Sending me right back horizontal. Blinded by tears, punchdrunk, confused and desperate how vulnerable I was, I rolled out of my bunk, to avoid further hits, slashing around to sweep the attacker down. How did he enter my locked flat? What does he want? Would I be able to fight him off?
After a few minutes my eyes stopped watering and I found, that I was alone in my bedroom . . . with a broken nose and a mystery who to blame for it.
Later I found a bloodstain, that told me all.
When I woke up I didn't lie flat on my back as I thought, but on my side. So when the clock alarmed, I didn't bolt up as planed, but trebucheted directly against the wall.
Since this I sleep on the floor in the middle of the room.

When I was about 8 years old I went through a period of having 'Night Terrors'. This translated to me wandering through the house at two AM and screaming things like "THEY'VE EATEN MY HANDS! THEY'VE EATEN MY HANDS!".

My family still tells those stories...

Night terrors are an interesting phenomenon, along with others that accompany what is termed "slow wave sleep." This is the truly deep sleep that typically lasts between an hour to two hours in most adults, longer in children and adolescents. Sleep proceed through three stages of "non REM" sleep, the third being that slow wave sleep. This is where night terrors occur, as well as most sleep-walking, and all other sleep phenomena where the person rarely recalls the experience, and upon awakening from this stage can experience hallucinations or difficulty coming back into reality. The poster who talked about waking suddenly and breaking his nose on the wall probably experienced that during this stage. After slow wave sleep is REM sleep, where most dream activity occurs, and the sleeper is making the slow trek to natural awakening.

The experience I had in boot camp that I related in my earlier post was probably during the slow-wave stage.