Curly J;1106580 wrote:I dreamed about my Dad every night for at least two weeks after he passed away.
I've also had dreams within dreams. My weirdest though is when I'm sleeping and trying wake up and can't. I try to cry out a yell, sometimes I manage to other times I can't. Then when I wake up ask people in the room where I was napping if I said anything and it's always no. That usually only occurs in quick naps...aka Heretic's every waking moment.
That kind of thing hasn't happened to me for a while, but there was a period of time when I had them happen to me a lot. Looked it up online...can't remember it, but there's an actual name for it. The explanation is that when you're asleep, your body produces some chemical that paralyzes you (so you don't hurt yourself/others during vivid dreams by flailing around). When you wake up, that chemical stops being released, so you can move again. But sometimes, you have this situation where you wake up early, you're still semi-paralyzed and since you're caught between awake and asleep, you have audio/visual hallucinations. Usually along the lines of this sense of doom where you can kinda catch some scary-ass presence just out of sight like out of the corner of your eye. While you're trying to move, but it feels near-impossible. And you're half asleep anyway, so it's your dream self that's essentially paralyzed.