State of being half-asleep half-awake?

[Inadequacy]

Wasn't exactly sure where to post this because its not really dream related. But anyway, I've experienced a state where I'm lying in my bed completely still, body resting and time going by quite fast. However I'm not having any dreams and I'm completely aware that I'm currently in my bed. Examples of this happening: - trying to do sleep paralysis but I can't because I'm not tired enough? At this point I can lay in my bed for hours without falling asleep. - sleeping in a different area other than my room. If i'm sleeping at my friend or outside, the first night I usually don't sleep at all and end up being awake the whole night, but my body is still sort of resting. Anyone else experience this? Does this state have a name?

[Darkmatters]

I have definitely experienced it, but going well beyond what your examples illustrate. Many times I've been laying in bed as you describe thinking I'm fully awake or very nearly, and that I could easily move if I want to, but when I try I find I really can't. If I keep persisting in trying to move, then I have to sort of force it, and it will gradually happen, but it's like I have to slough off several layers of sleep (that I didn't think were there) before I can actually move. So the reality was that I was actually at least half asleep, if not more - I think it would make more sense to say I was really asleep but had either some level of conscious awareness, or maybe it was just the illusion of conscious awareness. I liken it to the feeling of being a hot air ballon that needs to rise through thick fog before breaking through into the light, but for some reason I think there's almost no fog, or I think there's just a very thin wispy layer of it, when in reality I was very deep into it. I think it's something like an illusion that you're awake. Sort of you're dreaming that you're awake or mostly awake, and thinking "#$$^$#!! Why the %#%^ can't I fall asleep??!!" but in reality you've been deep asleep for some time now. It's similar to what's called a False Awakening, but a somewhat different form of it. In a false awakening (FA) you dream that you wake up and get out of bed and start doing things. But this one is more insidious - you think you're laying there wasting precious sleeping time when really you are asleep. This is a good time to do some reality checks, so if you actually are sleeping you'll become lucid.

[Inadequacy]

I have definitely experienced it, but going well beyond what your examples illustrate. Many times I've been laying in bed as you describe thinking I'm fully awake or very nearly, and that I could easily move if I want to, but when I try I find I really can't. If I keep persisting in trying to move, then I have to sort of force it, and it will gradually happen, but it's like I have to slough off several layers of sleep (that I didn't think were there) before I can actually move. So the reality was that I was actually at least half asleep, if not more - I think it would make more sense to say I was really asleep but had either some level of conscious awareness, or maybe it was just the illusion of conscious awareness. I liken it to the feeling of being a hot air ballon that needs to rise through thick fog before breaking through into the light, but for some reason I think there's almost no fog, or I think there's just a very thin wispy layer of it, when in reality I was very deep into it. I think it's something like an illusion that you're awake. Sort of you're dreaming that you're awake or mostly awake, and thinking "#$$^$#!! Why the %#%^ can't I fall asleep??!!" but in reality you've been deep asleep for some time now. It's similar to what's called a False Awakening, but a somewhat different form of it. In a false awakening (FA) you dream that you wake up and get out of bed and start doing things. But this one is more insidious - you think you're laying there wasting precious sleeping time when really you are asleep. This is a good time to do some reality checks, so if you actually are sleeping you'll become lucid. Yeah this is exactly what I mean. I truly do believe that you are conscious at that moment, its especially nice if you are able to relax and just listen to your surroundings. You know exactly whats going on around you and you also know that your body is resting. Maybe thats how animals sleep in the nature, as they have to stay conscious because of predators and stuff. But yeah, it could also be easily mistaken for a false awakening since I do experience these a lot lately.

[Darkmatters]

Maybe thats how animals sleep in the nature, as they have to stay conscious because of predators and stuff. I thought the exact same thing - but it doesn't seem all that helpful to be conscious and able to hear an approaching wolf or something, but then it still takes you 2 or 3 minutes to really wake up and be able to move. Weird.. EDIT - on second thought, it doesn't really take a few minutes - probably just a few seconds really - but it's just that it's so DIFFICULT! Yes, very handy though, to be asleep while also able to pay attention to your surroundings.

[Condoriano]

I was looking a lot for something close to what happened to me. So, first times was like you, in bed but not laying, on the edge, playing on my phone. Last thing I know for sure, was a message someone text me. And then I was with a group of people who were my team and we should recover some things from somewhere...it was like some old storage...every door was blocked and we hacked.. Well this is what I remember when my phone start to ring because someone call me, I answer and sad I will call back, and I realized that I am still on the same position, on the side of bed with my phone in hand...but what made think about was all the things opened on phone and the message before that was at 19.37, and when my phone call and wake up was 20.51. That was just first time, then I had more..the longest was about 4-5 hours. What is happening with me because I know for sure that I am awake, because before and after this "dreams " I am always doing something which show somehow that my body was awake all time. So..Are those dreams? Because for me that is really scary....One time I was at home and friends of mine came to visit..we stay...speak..and they left.. After 2 days I realized that nobody was here and don't know what I did in that time... I try to find if someone know about...but nothing...This is no lucid dreams, no OBE, no sleep paralysis... Sometimes is so hard to tell what is real or not... I can't understand how i am moving while in dreaming and why I dreaming whiteout sleeping, but dreams are supposed to start when you sleeping.. Someone have any idea what can be the reason of that?