Odd Sleep/Awakening Habits/Experiences

[Sleepyskull]

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?

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

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

[Vik]

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

[Sleepyskull]

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!

[jimmybob]

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

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. 

-Jimmybob

[Mr. DS]

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. 

[Vik]

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

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. 

-Jimmybob

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

[claws]

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.

[Sleepyskull]

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. 

[Raffine]

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. 

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.

[Doggett]

I wake up very turned on at times...



Too much info ?

[jimmybob]

That happens to everybody Doggett.

... I hope.

-Jimmybob

[Saucerman]

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?

[indianasmith]

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!

[Sleepyskull]

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?

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