Thread: Have You Ever Waken Up

One time in my life, and very weird thing happened. I've posted it before, but I never got an answer to what exactly the definition of what happened to me was - hopefully now I'll get one.

I was at my cousin's house, and I was sleeping in his room. His room is so pitch black, you cannot see anything at all, not even your own hand inches away from your face. I was sleep deprived before I went to sleep (was up about 60 straight hours or so). Anyway, the only dream-like state I can recall from that night was when I was actually really awake. This was my only recall of the night. This is what happened...

I woke up, but I guess the extremely dis-orienting blackness and no visual aids caused my brain to not realize I had waken up. I've never slept in an environment so pitch black. I didn't know what time it was, but it was still dark. I got up, completely in a non-lucid dream state. I almost fell off the bed (I didn't know I was on the bed to begin with). I did however see the faintest light coming from around the cracks of where his door was located. Immediatly I got the idea that I was inside of some kind of metal chamber, that was closed off. And then I started to hallucinate! (or dream while awake) I could all of a sudden see through the cracks of faint light (which all of a sudden was bright yellow instead of light blue like it was initially), and I saw 3 of my friends on the other side. They talked briefly, and then turned away from me and started walking away. I panicked, thinking they forgot about me and that I was going to be trapped in this metal chamber forever. My heart started beating really fast, and I stumbled toward the light, and while doing this, I must have stepped on my cousins leg or something who laying on the floor. He called out my name, and when I heard him, I realized I was awake and realized where I truly was. I breathed a HUGE sigh of relief. I was still super tired, went back to bed, and committed all this to memory before I passed out again.

Now, this wasn't a flase awakening because that only happens in dreams when you think you are awake. This is like the exact the opposite. I woke up, thinking I was dreaming (or atleast in a dream-state) while I was really awake. Sleep-walkers don't ever remember their experiences, so it wasn't that.

All I know is sleep deprivation + pitch blackness + dead quite eqauled me waking up in a dream state.

I don't think this was in anyway dangerous. Like I said, once my auditory sense was given something familiar, it brought me to waking conciousness. Oddly, the physical sensations, did not seem right. It felt very dream-like, like I felt the bed, the floor, but it felt like I was mildly buzzed, but the moment I came back to waking conciousness I felt normal. Had my cousin not called out my name, I would have began to bang on the door, yelling, and waking up the entire house. Had I actually opened the door and continued I would have seen the hallway, stairs, and been brought back to waking conciousness by the familiar environment (atleast I think I would have if my cousin's familiar voice did). Hopefully I would have atleast, my hallucinations were beginning to get pretty intense there.