Actually, I have long vivid dreams right after falling asleep, too. I know dreams are possible outside of REM, but I heard they're not usually vivid. Perhaps after being particularly tired your body enters an REM state more quickly? I'm not sure, but I found your post interesting seeing as I experience the same thing. Sometimes I'll wake up every hour on the hour having long, vivid dreams between each awakening. That's the worst, I feel exhausted the next morning.
The whole time thing, I get that too. In fact it causes panics for me really often. I'm notorious for sleeping through my alarm clock, so whenever I wake up I always make sure to check the clock and make sure I haven't overslept. Anyways, sometimes (particularly after lucids), I'll wake up in that weird dream-consciousness state like technically awake, but still dreaming, look at the clock and hallucinate that I'm late, get completely ready, only to realize I've only been asleep an hour. Haha so annoying!
Anyways, I'm new, too. I'd be interested to see what the oldbies have to say. o:
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