Accidently Waking Up While Dreaming

Mods, I had trouble naming this topic so go ahead and rename it if you can think of something better. :content:

The other night I had an odd occurance (atleast odd to me) :confused: I basically was dreaming (ND), then as soon as I went to do something (I was showing off my super power of Ice Manipulation :tongue: ) I woke up. I didn’t realize I woke up, but I sat up and said “I have the power of ice.” and acted like I was still in the dream. I never got out of my bed. As soon as I began to realize something was off, I fell asleep. My eyes were only partly open, so I saw the real world (my bed room) and thought ice was coming out of my hand (which, unfortunantly, wasn’t).

I had this same thing happen 2 other times that night, but none as long nor as easy to remeber. I tend to have bad DR when I fall asleep before writing anything, and that was the last one (I think).

Has anyone else had a similar experience, or am I just crazy. :tongue:

Thanks.

Dunno…by the way you described it, sounds like a false awakening?

Might be wrong, though.

I guess it could be a FA, but I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t. I think I just woke up and thought I was still with my friends.

Yeah, I don’t know, it could just as well have been a FA. The only certain thing is that it confused me :eh:

I had a similiar thing happen to me, where I have woken up but still been inside the dream for a min or so, one time I was about to climb out of a second story window, because I thought I was trapped in box, until my true awake vision kicked in, and another time, i was climbing half up the the top bunk above me? Both times I was definatly awake, they were not FA’s

I had something like that happen too… it was a long time ago (years ago), and I was dreaming about something scary which I can’t remember, but I think someone was going to throw something at me, possibly a bomb or something like that.

Then I woke up (not a FA) and my brother was in the room, since we shared it back then, standing by my bed. It was a bunk bed and I was on the top bed, and when I saw him I just freaked out and took cover (like I covered my head with my arms) and started screaming “No, don’t do it!!”, thinking he was going to throw the bomb at me. I’m not sure I even realized it was my brother at the time, even though I was awake. Took me about 30 seconds to realize that nothing was going to happen and that I was in RL, awake, in my bed.

This has happened to me before, when I was little. I’d have a dream about going somewhere and doing something, then when my mom would come wake me up, I’d tell her, “I don’t want to go there”, (wherever it was I dreamt about). I think the problem was that I’d wake up physically, but my mind was still a little slow from sleep, so I’d have trouble differentiating what had happened in the dream from real things that happened in real life.

I don’t know if it’s exactly the same case, but it could be something like hypnopompic hallucinations (that is hallucinations you have when you wake up). It’s rarer than hypnagogic hallucinations but it’s more impressive cause you are really awake. For instance, I saw once a fireball going through my bedroom. :eek: Some people said that, when they were a child, they could still see dreams things 30 minutes after they have awoken.

And this reminds me of this thread too: Lucid thoughts