In the middle of a WBTB... When I woke up, I did something really wierd.

Doing a 10-minute WBTB right now.

Woke up, then did something really weird - I was holding my hand out, moving it along the part where the front end of the mattress meets the headboards of the bed, looking for a "timeline" so I could drag it back to the beginning. I fully believed that there was some sort of linear timeline there, be it physical or sort-of-physical-that-is-also-on-a-screen. Not sure what I was thinking, but it took me a few moments to snap out of it. I've been working in a video editing program a lot over the past few days, but this was really stupid. :P

I've never experienced this hiccup in logic while awake, consciously anyways. I'm sure this was me just being half-asleep, my brain not fully turned on. Somebody please tell me they've also done goofy things like this when they first got up in the middle of the night?

Also, I just had to listen to some music for a few moments. It's funny because it sounds so much faster than when I'm wide awake!

my mind does this to me all the time. just between sleep and waking, I go into these strange logic loops where I'm pursuing some goal and thinking through concepts and ideas that I have absolutely no ability to recall afterwards

Once I woke up in the middle of the night and I think I had some sort of portal weapon. I shooted at the wall at my side and at the floor.
This happened when I played a lot of Portal 2.
I wasn't even aware.

My friend woke up and tried his locker combination on his doorknob lol.

Last night I set my intention to wake after my REM periods, when I awoke I think I was lying for what felt like half an hour with a random daydream about a nature on doc Grizzly bears. I literally thought 'what the hell, I'm awake'.

I one of my dreams, I WILDed inside the dream while not lucid, very odd experience. The transition felt like a subway train hit me, and I was lucid during the dream scene of the WILD until I 'awoke' to the same non-lucid dream in the same place :S

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Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Last night I set my intention to wake after my REM periods, when I awoke I think I was lying for what felt like half an hour with a random daydream about a nature on Grizzly bears. I literally thought 'what the hell, I'm awake'.

I one of my dreams, I WILDed inside the dream while not lucid, very odd experience. The transition felt like a subway train hit me, and I was lucid during the dream scene of the WILD until I 'awoke' to the same non-lucid dream in the same place :S

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I've WILDed and DEILDed within non-lucid dreams before... It's definitely wierd. Sometimes I actually do enter a new dream and become lucid, but without knowing the WILD or DEILD was fake until I wake up!

I love stuff like this. We do such weird stuff when we have just woken up. My fiancee woke up, ripped a page out of the book I was reading, and blew her nose in it.

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Originally Posted by Puffin

I've WILDed and DEILDed within non-lucid dreams before... It's definitely wierd. Sometimes I actually do enter a new dream and become lucid, but without knowing the WILD or DEILD was fake until I wake up!

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What's more bizarre is that I've never successfully WILDed for real, yet I have had a few dreams where I have WILDed in way that seems utterly convincing.

@Robot Butler; haha, wow :lol:

You weren't fully awake. The mind can easily go into a state where your eyes are open, you body is working, but your brain is dreaming. I can very easily do it to you through hypnosis. When I hypnotize people, they are in exactly that state

Haha, stuff like that happens to me sometimes....Usually I feel that I have thousands of eyes, and thats why its so hard to wake up, because I have to open them all.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

You weren't fully awake. The mind can easily go into a state where your eyes are open, you body is working, but your brain is dreaming. I can very easily do it to you through hypnosis. When I hypnotize people, they are in exactly that state

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That's awesome. o_o

This was the first time I (remember) doing something like this, so it was a bit of a mind-bleep when I woke out of it.

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Originally Posted by TheModernNinja

Haha, stuff like that happens to me sometimes....Usually I feel that I have thousands of eyes, and thats why its so hard to wake up, because I have to open them all.

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That sounds like fun. xD

Not exactly. It makes waking up waaay to hard lol

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Originally Posted by Puffin

That's awesome. o_o

This was the first time I (remember) doing something like this, so it was a bit of a mind-bleep when I woke out of it.

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You've probably done it before, usually in that state you don't remember anything. If it weren't for people sleeping next to me, I wouldn't know half the strange things I've done in sleepy states. I once sat up, told the girl I was with that smurfs were surrounding us, then passed back out.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

You've probably done it before, usually in that state you don't remember anything. If it weren't for people sleeping next to me, I wouldn't know half the strange things I've done in sleepy states. I once sat up, told the girl I was with that smurfs were surrounding us, then passed back out.

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I'm sure I have done things like that before! :P I just wish there was someone around to witness the things I didn't remember doing.

ya ive had stuff like that happen too. Once my friend fell asleep on the couch so i told him he could go upstairs and crash there for the night, i got him up but could tell he wasnt all there because id be like "over here Chris " every few steps, he would go to my voice then stop. Eventually i got him up the stairs but he randomly went back down and into my kitchen... so i asked him what he was doing and he said "getting pizza" even though we never had any to begin with. In the morning he didnt remember it at all.

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Originally Posted by KMAC445

ya ive had stuff like that happen too. Once my friend fell asleep on the couch so i told him he could go upstairs and crash there for the night, i got him up but could tell he wasnt all there because id be like "over here Chris " every few steps, he would go to my voice then stop. Eventually i got him up the stairs but he randomly went back down and into my kitchen... so i asked him what he was doing and he said "getting pizza" even though we never had any to begin with. In the morning he didnt remember it at all.

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Haha lol....thats sort of like hypnosis

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Originally Posted by Puffin

I'm sure I have done things like that before! :P I just wish there was someone around to witness the things I didn't remember doing.

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That's what video cameras are for. Video yourself sleeping. You will be amazed at some of the weird stuff that happens. Most of the time, you think you slept all the way through the night. I promise that if you video yourself all night, you will see several spots where you actually wake up. And you might get lucky and see one of those weird cases.

Ive never had any really weird things happen, like with any odd intentions. But when my alarm goes off, sometimes i cant remember how to turn it off...

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

That's what video cameras are for. Video yourself sleeping. You will be amazed at some of the weird stuff that happens. Most of the time, you think you slept all the way through the night. I promise that if you video yourself all night, you will see several spots where you actually wake up. And you might get lucky and see one of those weird cases.

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I don't have a video camera, just a crappy iPod camera and that on my MacBook. I do have a canon elph, but the video time's like twenty minutes. I really want to try that now, though!

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Originally Posted by dajerkajer

Ive never had any really weird things happen, like with any odd intentions. But when my alarm goes off, sometimes i cant remember how to turn it off...

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That happens to me too.

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I love stuff like this. We do such weird stuff when we have just woken up. My fiancee woke up, ripped a page out of the book I was reading, and blew her nose in it.

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lol she's a keeper

I do this kind of thing all the time when I'm halfway between sleeping and waking (either falling asleep or waking up). Normally I'm not physically doing something, but I've had some ridiculously illogical trains of thought going. When I do wake up, all I can think is "what???"

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Originally Posted by Entaria

I do this kind of thing all the time when I'm halfway between sleeping and waking (either falling asleep or waking up). Normally I'm not physically doing something, but I've had some ridiculously illogical trains of thought going. When I do wake up, all I can think is "what???"

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Yeah, like once, I started shouting: DONT LET ME DIE!!!!DONT LET ME DIE!!!!
My mum was like WTF?!?

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Originally Posted by Puffin

Doing a 10-minute WBTB right now.

Woke up, then did something really weird - I was holding my hand out, moving it along the part where the front end of the mattress meets the headboards of the bed, looking for a "timeline" so I could drag it back to the beginning. I fully believed that there was some sort of linear timeline there, be it physical or sort-of-physical-that-is-also-on-a-screen. Not sure what I was thinking, but it took me a few moments to snap out of it. I've been working in a video editing program a lot over the past few days, but this was really stupid. :P

I've never experienced this hiccup in logic while awake, consciously anyways. I'm sure this was me just being half-asleep, my brain not fully turned on. Somebody please tell me they've also done goofy things like this when they first got up in the middle of the night?

Also, I just had to listen to some music for a few moments. It's funny because it sounds so much faster than when I'm wide awake!

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Your first time? I do stuff like this all the time. I have tried to make my bed fly and travel in time when awake.

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Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Your first time? I do stuff like this all the time. I have tried to make my bed fly and travel in time when awake.

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Haha!! lol

This raises a new question, what happens if you become lucid in this state?

I've known a few people who sleep talk. My grandma used to be really bad. She slept in my bunk bed once when I was a kid, and was screaming and howling all night like a scoobie-doo ghost. I guess she was heavily abused as a child. Her step mother tried to kill her a few times before they figured out she really was crazy. Have you guys seen the sleep talking man?
Sleep Talkin' Man

I knew a girl in college who would always take off all her clothes in the middle of the night, along with some weird sleep talking. She would have no idea she did it until she woke in the morning completely naked. She quickly became a legend ;)

All these responses are so funny!

Where would one draw the line between random "waking up activities" and sleepwalking, though? I mean, some people actually get up and walk around? :P