Micro-Naps and Dreams

[LogieBear]

I suffer from Insomnia (not complete 'can't sleep ever' kind) but strong enough that sometimes I'll stay awake for over 40 hours and then experience Mirco-Naps.

A Micro-Nap means the brain is so tired it sleeps for quick periods causing the person to confuse dreams with real-life.

It happened to me a few days ago and suddenly I was in the world of Fallout:NewVegas for around a minute.
It was freaky but really amusing =P
I think my cat became a Radscorpian? im not sure hehe.

I was just wondering if anyone else gets Micro-Naps or have a dream they would like to experience in one etc

 

[emeraldrafael]

When I start to doze off or if I wake up but dont want to walk up, I'll see the real world out one hazy in a hazy view but my other eye will continue REM dreaming. So I cnfused whether something happens ina dream or life. I think its why i remember a lot of my dreams so vividly.

 

[Spade Lead]

When I do remember dreaming (A rare occurrence indeed) I will remember it as if it actually happened. I have actually only ever realized I was dreaming twice. Once, I actually thought my dream had really happened, and ended up asking my father if my Step-Mother was cheating on him. He was not amused...

I just had a dream today, in fact.

I was out and about in a town, and I called Eminem out. He came out of his house, we exchanged heated words, things got serious and he went back inside. I walked away as he was walking back inside and then casually I yelled another insult over my shoulder. He turned around and came running at me with a pistol drawn. I pulled this big ass Desert Eagle out and shot him in the face as easily as if it was a 9 millimeter at the shooting range.

 

[katsumoto03]

He turned around and came running at me with a pistol drawn. I pulled this big ass Desert Eagle out and shot him in the face

I lol'd at this part.

OT: Yeah, I microsleep occasionally even when I wide awake.

 

[manaman]

I feel asleep driving in a convoy once. I drove into the ditch and was able to steer back onto the road.

From my point of view one second I was on the road the next I was swinging the wheel hard to the right out of the ditch. It felt like I blinked my eyes and was in the ditch.

The guy in front and behind me in the convoy both said that I started to meander in the lane, but managed to drive down the windy mountain road mostly staying in my lane for about five minutes before I finally slowly moved over to the ditch.

I think I was half asleep for those five minutes before finally falling fully asleep, and when I thought I was awake I was actually dreaming I was driving.

I don't know if I am describing that in a way it makes total sense, but something seems off about a bit of what I remember while driving. For a bit I felt like I was driving but have no real memories of what music was playing, or what the road looked like. So while I have the memory of driving right before I ended up in the ditch I don't have any memories of the details. I don't remember weaving down the road at all.

 

[C_N.95]

Well, I've had plenty because my sleep cycle sucks 2 bags of dicks, but probably my most memorable and recent one was 5 weeks ago. I haven't had sleep in 4 days, and I walked to the window bleary-eyed, and saw Pyramid Head outside in the street. I pissed myself and screamed. -_- But yeah, it happens to quite a bit of people... >_>

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I know what you mean. I had an incredibly vivid dream this morning:
We were at a festival (the music kind, although I didn't dream any bands unfortunately. I think my unconscious mind could cook up a cracking show), and somehow one of my friends won a 1980's Porsche, so we took it for a drive, with me sat in the back for some reason (I'm pretty sure they don't even have backseats, but I'm not going to wonder why my dreams were illogical). We were going pretty slowly along some random empty road, the zombies turned up and everything went really washed out. Pretty common dream stuff, but I remember panicking as the zombies were closing in, thinking 'Holy shit, if this is a dream, wake up now, but I didn't. Normally in dreams I can't think that clearly, but for some reason it all seemed very real, despite the whole situation and colours being obviously unreal. Thankfully I woke up before I dreamed myself being eaten alive, so thank fuck for that.

Without wishing to be one of those people that brags about this sort of stuff (it really gets on my nerves, but this is relevant), when I'm awake for a very long time I start getting little acid-flashbacks. Things like 'shadow people' (which I firmly believe to be bollocks), and imagining curtains or posters rippling a little in the breeze despite there being none. If I nod off at my desk when I'm really tired I've occasionally had really odd dreams that seem like I've just woken up in my seat but everything's a bit odd, then only realized it was actually a dream when I woke up properly again. Sadly (or thankfully maybe?) nothing particularly interesting has ever happened in them. I put down dreams like the one I described to it as well, I never had them before I had those experiences, although I can't really be sure.

 

[DoPo]

I was just wondering if anyone else gets Micro-Naps or have a dream they would like to experience in one etc

Is that what they are called? Huh, didn't know there was a specific name, but yes, I've experienced them when staying awake for a while. You sort of doze off for a few seconds. And due to the sleep deprivation, you start dreaming immediately. I think the funniest one I has was when I was writing a project 2-3 years ago for uni and I was at the uni computer, I hadn't slept for ~2 days at that point and understandable I was really tired but just kept on writing. My eyes were tired, too, so in my wisdom, I just went "Oh, well, I'll just close my eyes and continue typing" - at that point it made sense to me, since this would apparently let my eyes rest while I concentrate on the work. Yeah, I kept on typing for about a minute being keenly aware of everything...only to find out I was just dreaming of typing comprehensibly, in reality I had kept on hitting two keys for the duration of the micro-nap, so I had a very long line that consisted of something like D's and L's or something. I decided it was finally time to get an actual nap.

 

[Foolery]

I was so tired the other day that I dreamt about a ringing light switch. Turns out it was my alarm clock. Switched it off in my sleep, and was late for work. I do have dreams from when I was a kid that I confuse for memories. I still micro-nap on occasion.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I don't have insomnia but when I have stayed awake for extended periods of time I do experience micro-naps and confusing dreams with reality. It's been pretty bad sometimes as well, particularly over the last year or so, when I started staying awake for days at a time working at university and then went to seminars, where I'd experience micro-naps. Worst time was when I had a two-hour seminar about paratext and every few minutes I'd shut down for a couple seconds and start seeing characters from video games I'd played nights before, like some sort of weird version of the bleeding effect from Assassin's Creed. Paratext is bad enough, but it's infinitely worse when half of the time you're convinced your lecturer is a Templar.