Dream carries on, with interruptions?!

[Kanyetayens]

I never had this happen before and was wondering what it means. I had my alarm clock set for 6:15am. I'm sleeping and in a good involved dream. My alarm goes off and I hit snooze and go back to sleep. My dream continues as if there was no interruptions..and again my alarm goes off and I hit snooze go back to sleep n continue with my dream as if I wasn't interrupted..my snooze goes off every 5 mins..i hit snooze 9 times and each time I go back to sleep and continue with my dream as if nothing happened..the last time the alarm went off..It finally clicked that I'm supposed to be awake and be real now...I don't know if thats normal.or common. For me usually, once I'm interrupted from a dream..I can't get back to it. Any thoughts? I had someone say it sounds like depression..?!

[RaveCrazedDave]

This is perfectly normal. As you said, it doesn't happen often at first, but once you get more used to the idea of dreams having a continuation like that it usually gets more frequent. I actually had a month or so when I had a lot of dreams where I'd slip in and out of awake consciousness, and yet felt the dream was completely unbroken. You could do it at will, like many people can, if you train it, often by means of slipping from the awake state directly into the dream state; plenty of material on it around the forums. In my opinion, continuing dreams at will seems like a really cool thing to be able to do; I'm honestly not sure why it would, in any way, be linked with depression or some other kind of negative state of mind.

[TravisE]

Yes, it happens, as strange as it sounds! For some reason, it never happened very often to me personally, only on very rare occasions. It blew me away back when it happened once as a teenager, because it was something that never seemed to occur no matter how much I wanted! More recently, I'm starting to notice occurrences like these a bit more often, though I often don't notice them until after waking up from the whole dream. By the way, if you're interested in lucid dreaming, these brief awakenings are prime times to perform DEILD and reenter the dream with lucidity.