Is this normal?

**bust113** · 01-19-2011 07:30 AM

Two nights ago I had like 12 hours of sleep, I wasn't over tired or anything, but that normally doesn't happen. That night though, I was having a slightly lucid dream that I could run superhumanly fast and jump super high. That dream seemed like a whole day, but I remember it perfectly, when it was actually about 2 minutes long. Near the end I started to wake up, but I didn't want to. So I forced myself back to sleep. While I was forcing myself back to sleep, I saw the image from my physical eyes blurred onto that of my dream view. At that point I came mostly lucid, but only had about 5 seconds until I moved to a different non-lucid dream.

Is everything in the "Forcing myself back to sleep" part normal?

**zebrah** · 01-19-2011 08:00 AM

Time in dreams is a highly debated topic. Yes it is possible to have super long dreams in short amounts of time.

But to answer your question, yea it's normal.

**bust113** · 01-19-2011 04:11 PM

Oh no, that's not what I meant. And I meant that like if I went through that in real life it would be about 2 minutes of actual time, but it felt like forever.

My question is is it normal to force yourself back to sleep when almost awake, and see a mix between what's really happening and what is in the dream?

**Hukif** · 01-19-2011 04:18 PM

Since you were supposed to wake up, yeah its normal, guess you didn't stabilize afterwards, right?

**bust113** · 01-19-2011 04:45 PM

Yea I guess that makes sense, and it was rather cool.

**atkins513** · 01-20-2011 08:25 AM

The experience you had of having your eyes open, and still seeing the dream world overlaid on your eyesight has happened to me many times... usually very soon after I can only see from my physical eyes but this is a very strange feeling without a doubt...