Sleep behaviour
10 February 2014 22:56I love sleeping. I think it might be one of my favourite things to do, haha. I usually sleep well, with the odd exception after a night full of sensations that I didn't have time to process.
The last couple of nights I've been having intense dreams. I often wake up in the middle of the night with a strong beating heart, always after an intense dream about either hiding, or running, or both. Last week I woke up from my beating heart and it took me a whole minute to realise that the sound that woke me up was my own heartbeat and not some kind of ramming outside, haha. I am weird though, cause nightmares are actually dreams I do not mind, but like. I dream vividly and am always able to control small parts of the dreams, though I always like not being in total control and have things just happen.
Last night was weird though. I was having an intense dream, of which I can't remember anything of, but I do remember that at one point I thought something or someone touched my leg. Not in my dream, but in the real world. Of course that scared me, but I was still in between the sleeping and waking stage. I remember how I tried to move but then couldn't, I couldn't move a muscle. And then my breathing also stopped for a bit.
Now, I've read about those night terrors and I know I have experienced it at least once as a child, which freaked me out then. But I never experienced it as an adult. I was still mostly asleep this time when it happened and so it became part of this dream state and it didn't freak me out much. But it was weird though.
I do wonder why I am dreaming so intensely these days though. Not that I mind these dreams, at all, I just wonder.
Also...I so often have forgotten about my dreams in the morning, but then when I go to bed at night, turn off the lights, and place my head on my pillow in my usual sleeping position, I so often instantly get flashes back of dreams from the night before. They also often continue right where they ended the night before. I still find that so amazing, haha.
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The last couple of nights I've been having intense dreams. I often wake up in the middle of the night with a strong beating heart, always after an intense dream about either hiding, or running, or both. Last week I woke up from my beating heart and it took me a whole minute to realise that the sound that woke me up was my own heartbeat and not some kind of ramming outside, haha. I am weird though, cause nightmares are actually dreams I do not mind, but like. I dream vividly and am always able to control small parts of the dreams, though I always like not being in total control and have things just happen.
Last night was weird though. I was having an intense dream, of which I can't remember anything of, but I do remember that at one point I thought something or someone touched my leg. Not in my dream, but in the real world. Of course that scared me, but I was still in between the sleeping and waking stage. I remember how I tried to move but then couldn't, I couldn't move a muscle. And then my breathing also stopped for a bit.
Now, I've read about those night terrors and I know I have experienced it at least once as a child, which freaked me out then. But I never experienced it as an adult. I was still mostly asleep this time when it happened and so it became part of this dream state and it didn't freak me out much. But it was weird though.
I do wonder why I am dreaming so intensely these days though. Not that I mind these dreams, at all, I just wonder.
Also...I so often have forgotten about my dreams in the morning, but then when I go to bed at night, turn off the lights, and place my head on my pillow in my usual sleeping position, I so often instantly get flashes back of dreams from the night before. They also often continue right where they ended the night before. I still find that so amazing, haha.
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