Does this happen to anyone else or am I going insane?

[Bosh]

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night so suddenly that I think that the dream I've been having is still true, this can result in some very strange behavior on my part. Once I woke up and then spent a few minutes telling my roommate that the Romance Languages Department now owned my window and I wouldn't believe when he said that that wasn't true. More recently I've told my fiance that there was a chair floating in the air next to the fridge and I kept on pointing at it apparently and then last night I woke up in the middle of the night convinced that I had to take the bedspread off the bed and put it on the floro, which didn't make my fiance too happy.

Does this happen to anyone else or am I sinking into insanity?

[Adagio]

Can't say I've experienced it, but sounds like fun

[DeathByTheSword]

More recently I've told my fiance that there was a chair floating in the air next to the fridge and I kept on pointing at it apparently

never had any trouble with it...i just fall out of bed if the dream starts to be to weird or sexy

[Pekka]

Yeah I get sleep paralysis from time to time. And it's usually a part were I'm chased by killers too. So I'm awake (feels VERY real, even more real than realistic dreams, since it IS real), and I'm still in sleep mode, meaning I'm wake, I can't move, I can't breath good, and I think the killer is behind me about to stab me in the back with a large kitchen knife or machete, and I can't even move to face it to fight or something, I'm stuck, paralyzed, and very awake. It's not fun at all.. It can last like 10 seconds too or so.. pure horror. But it wears off quick.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Pekka
Yeah I get sleep paralysis from time to time. And it's usually a part were I'm chased by killers too. So I'm awake (feels VERY real, even more real than realistic dreams, since it IS real), and I'm still in sleep mode, meaning I'm wake, I can't move, I can't breath good, and I think the killer is behind me about to stab me in the back with a large kitchen knife or machete, and I can't even move to face it to fight or something, I'm stuck, paralyzed, and very awake. It's not fun at all.. It can last like 10 seconds too or so.. pure horror. But it wears off quick.

I used to get something similar, I can't even begin to explain how scary it is.

[Pekka]

yeah.. it is scary. I don't get them so often anymore though.. and it was not like once a week either but say once or twice a month is bad enough, because it feels exactly like about to be killed and you can't move. The feeling stays (the bad feeling) even after you wake up for a little while. Not very nice... The 'I NEED TO RUN!' and you can't move, and you are damn semi wake.. not fun. But not too rare, happens to quite a lot of people. Mostly people who are sexy and intelligent.

[DeathByTheSword]

never had it that bad...but when i was younger i had the being chase dreams too...but i could only move in 1 direction...forward or backward...it was like i was stuck and couldnt move anymore...and the killer closer and closer...then i woke up...still scared ****less but able to move atleast

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Pekka
Yeah I get sleep paralysis from time to time. And it's usually a part were I'm chased by killers too. So I'm awake (feels VERY real, even more real than realistic dreams, since it IS real), and I'm still in sleep mode, meaning I'm wake, I can't move, I can't breath good, and I think the killer is behind me about to stab me in the back with a large kitchen knife or machete, and I can't even move to face it to fight or something, I'm stuck, paralyzed, and very awake. It's not fun at all.. It can last like 10 seconds too or so.. pure horror. But it wears off quick.

That sounds annoying but that's not what I have, I can move just fine (which is part of the problem) and I'm not scared just very very convinced that whatever strange thing I'm talking about is true.

[JohnT]

Yeah, my wife occassionally does that, Bosh. It's just another form of sleepwalking. Don't worry about it.

[Bosh]

Originally posted by JohnT
Yeah, my wife occassionally does that, Bosh. It's just another form of sleepwalking. Don't worry about it.

Good to hear it, the fiance was giving me some very strange looks this morning.

[Pekka]

Actually, your symptoms are part of schizofrenia. sorry man.

[Mr. Harley]

I used to have long, coherent conservations at night with my mother (when I was a teenager). It was only after one of them when she talked to me the next morning that the two of us figured out I was sleepwalking and had absolutely zero memory of them. It was a surreal moment.

[JohnT]

For my wife, this behavior waxes and wanes with the general level of stress that she's feeling. It hasn't happened in a while, but before the baby was born -

[Bosh]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
I used to have long, coherent conservations at night with my mother (when I was a teenager). It was only after one of them when she talked to me the next morning that the two of us figured out I was sleepwalking and had absolutely zero memory of them. It was a surreal moment.

Its even more surreal if you remember the conversation

[Mr. Harley]

I was in High School at the time and under huge amounts of stress at home.