Not sure if that's the best way to describe.

Ever sleep, not feel as though you're completely asleep (like being half awake and your eyes always fully adjusted to the room's darkness) and yet dreaming where your dreams are interacting with what is happening inside and outside the house (as interpreted by what your consciousness and subconscious is hearing?).

The Last couple nights have been like this. I'm asleep, fully aware I'm dreaming, dreaming about what is going on around me and the house, and fully aware of and able to accurately speak about what happened in the neighborhood the night before (people walking, cars, animals, etc).

For example, I heard/ dreamt when my neighbor and his wife came home last night. Today I asked him if he saw the couple walking down the street and the two coyotes by his house. He did and asked if I was watching them (the canines).

So I was curious, anyone else here have nights like that?

Nope.

Yep...especially since I'm older "sleeping in twilight" is a great description...and I usually feel somewhat rested after this "twilight" sleep/nap...it's like Zen sleep.

Yes, seems like every night for the last 7 months. Tossing and turning all night long, looking at the clock every hour on the hour yet fully remembering dreaming but getting up in the morning not feeling rested. After about a week of this I may get a full nights sleep and then it starts all over again.

I get that sometimes.

During my cop years, if I could not sleep the previous day, I would sometimes fall asleep while writing reports in the patrol car. Nothing would wake me unless the dispatcher would say my call sign. No other radio traffic would rouse me. When she called, I would then wake up in a cold sweat, thinking I had missed some dire emergency. This was not a normal nap by any means. It scared me. After these "naps" occurred, I would go home and go to bed. But I would wake up every hour or so, evidently to reassure myself I was not in the patrol car.
I once woke up in the patrol car, in the middle of a grocery store lot, an hour and a half after I was due to get off work! No one missed me at shift change. It took me several years after I retired to sleep in a more normal fashion.
Just another of the perks of police work they never mentioned during Academy.

Got a script the other day for just 10 Ambien extended release pills just to see if they work. 12.5 mg. Took first one last night.

Wow. Slept right through. Feel rested, something that doesn't usually happen.

Hoping it continues but will try to avoid taking it every night.

it's said ( by the sleep experts) to be your absolute most receptive time period.

there are many many written experience's about
this period sleep .

edgar cayce will be the most prominent ,
near death or out of body experience's are not un common

 
I sometimes "wake up" in a sort of twilight state. Look at the numbers on the clock and see something totally different that what it is really reading. After a few seconds it all becomes clear, but that has not stopped me from getting up at 2am sometimes when I thought it said 8am. I usually stay up when I get up, so some early mornings. The night time desert is a beautifully quiet peaceful place, listening to various critters I cannot see. Have to sit in the dark, though (which is what I prefer), otherwise any light source will bring thousands of bugs. One or more of the dogs will sit with me on the front porch.
 

Hi,
Suggest you see a sleep disorder specialist (can be either a neurologist or a pulmonologist these days). Might be a sign of something more ominous.

We have an Australian Shepherd with the smallest bladder known to man. Most nights she sleeps through but some nights I may get up 1-2 times to let her out. (I suspect deer outside may have something to do with it).

Seems like on occasion I reach that twilight state you mention right after going back to bed. There are occasions when it might take me 20 minutes to get back to sleep- not a norm for me.

https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...g-hypnagogia/478941/

This is an article that references the topic.

Sure - generally when I've got something (or multiple somethings) on my mind and I didn't have the sense to shift mental gears before going to sleep. There's a reason a lot of people like to read before going to bed.

sounds like hypnagogic hallucinations.

Well first of all, I'm really comforted to know it's not unusual.

Second, in relation to the article noted below, I wake up rested. Doesn't happen all the time maybe a few hours one night to a couple three or four nights in a row.

quote:

Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...g-hypnagogia/478941/

This is an article that references the topic.

But to reiterate, I know I'm dreaming yet fully and accurately aware of what is going on around me and the house (like out of body).

Are you under any amount of inordinate amount of stress or pressure ?

sometimes its a self imposed defense mechanism.

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