The first couple days I started my dream journal I woke up telling myself that my dreams were only my imagination. I didn’t realize they were dreams until I started recording them and they became more clear. But today…
I woke up at 4:44 to do WBTB but after I recorded my dream from earlier in the night, parsed it for dream signs and characters, listened to a supraliminal suggestion track, practiced the hand technique, mild and wild (I reality checked and told myself I would do so every three minutes) I couldn’t fall asleep. So I got up and went back to bed a little later. The birds were chirping loudly outside my window and with the thin walls, eventually I could hear my neighbors talking, going through their morning routine, music on, television on, etc.
I clearly remember there was a lot of pounding and noise, I thought I made out someone shouting a number of times things like “You’ve got to get up!” and then I heard more pounding and the woman shouting again “Hey! I have a juvenile! Deal with it!” But now that I remember it I’m not sure if it was real or not because I can vaguely remember seeing what the woman and the child looked like, their apartment, and possibly how their day continued. Has anything like that ever happened to you?
When I was in hs, back in the 9th grade I attended a Jewish school. Because of the dual curriculum the day was very long. On top of that, I was on the soccer team and some days were even longer. I was getting into the habit of staying up very late to watch Conan and on a medication that made me more drowsy. I’d come home from school and collapse on my parent’s bed where I’d have a false awakening and finish the rest of my day (my mom would also wake me up within 45 minutes for dinner.) When I went to bed is usually when I’d really wake up. And the evening always seemed to match my dream fairly well. I think that type of experience might be more common, thinking it’s real. But have you ever woken up and still been highly unsure whether your dream really happened, either all of it or part of it?