Thread: Sleeping with eyes open?

Why can't we sleep with eyes open? I realize one reason is because your eyes would get dried out, but I assume one would blink every once in a while.

It's not impossible. I'm sure that I've seen people sleeping with their eyes open before.

My sister used to do it. Freaking creepy. Zzzz

Oh... I gotta learn! That would take sleeping in class to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL. But anyways... most people can't, right? Why can only some people do it?

Originally posted by ataraxis
Oh... I gotta learn! That would take sleeping in class to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL. But anyways... most people can't, right? Why can only some people do it?

Well, if you count staring off into space, and are consciously aware of doing so, then I kind of have been there...
And already, sleeping in class has been taken to a whole new level, as I dream I am listening to the teacher, & opening my eyes, maybe flying...& well, I am able to tell the tale..

Originally posted by nesgirl119


Well, if you count staring off into space, and are consciously aware of doing so, then I kind of have been there...
And already, sleeping in class has been taken to a whole new level, as I dream I am listening to the teacher, & opening my eyes, maybe flying...& well, I am able to tell the tale..

It's called spacing out... that's something virtually every teenager does. And you misinterpreted what I was talking about - I'm talking about actually sleeping in class, not dreaming you are sleeping in class.

I've done this...

I can tell when I've opened my eyes a bit while dreaming, because my dream inexplicably changes to take place in my room, whichever side I am facing. This happens occaisionally shortly before I wake up.

I only remember once waking up with my eyes open... I could see before my brain woke up.. it was really weird. And itchy.

Originally posted by ataraxis


It's called spacing out... that's something virtually every teenager does. And you misinterpreted what I was talking about - I'm talking about actually sleeping in class, not dreaming you are sleeping in class.

I fall asleep in class sometimes, let's put it in that way.

Okay, I really don't know if people can sleep w/their eyes open, but I know they can't Dream w/them open.

Originally posted by nesgirl119
Okay, I really don't know if people can sleep w/their eyes open, but I know they can't Dream w/them open.

Why? I'm sure you could go into REM with your eyes opened.

One time my mother found me asleep with one eye open.. She thought I was dead, hahaha. I went to sleep with my eyes closed, but one opened up apparently.

Originally posted by Lehabim


Why? I'm sure you could go into REM with your eyes opened.

One time my mother found me asleep with one eye open.. She thought I was dead, hahaha. I went to sleep with my eyes closed, but one opened up apparently.

Well, maybe I am wrong!!
But I know for sure I did fall asleep in my class, & LDed that I was in the same place...just got up from my seat is all! I will listen though!!

I don't and I have enough eye troubles as it is.

I wonder, though, what sleeping with your eyes open would alter in a dream, if anything... Anyone actually do this?

So... does anyone know the reason most people can't fall asleep with their eyes open?

Protective reflex closes the eyes upon sleeping ?

I actually wonder if the eyes excrete some kind of substance that keeps the eyes closed during sleep. I mean, all of you (I would think) can remember waking up with "crusties" in your eyes and wiping them away. Also, sometimes I'll wake up and feel something that's a little... stickier (?) than tears.

It'd be interesting to research.

-Amé

Nice ideas both of you. R.Carter... but why can't one just begin to go to sleep with their eyes open? If I lie there with my eyes open I would never fall asleep.

Originally posted by ataraxis
Nice ideas both of you. R.Carter... but why can't one just begin to go to sleep with their eyes open? If I lie there with my eyes open I would never fall asleep.

I don't know. If I lie there with my eyes open, I think I would fall asleep anyway and they would shut by themselves. I think it's happened before at times I've fallen asleep unexpectedly. Of course, I could be wrong--maybe I always fall asleep right when I blink my eyes, and then they stay shut because I'm now alseep.

My mum sleeps with her eyes open sometimes and it freaks my dad right out! I sometimes wish i could do it for getting through boring convos

Originally posted by Bubble Wrap
If I lie there with my eyes open I would never fall asleep.

I don't know. If you were in a room with absolutely no light -- none -- then your brain would not really notice any difference between having your eyes open or closed -- you might be able to fall asleep with them open.

I wonder if blind people are more likely to sleep with eyes open?

Originally posted by TygrHawk


I don't know. If you were in a room with absolutely no light -- none -- then your brain would not really notice any difference between having your eyes open or closed -- you might be able to fall asleep with them open.

I wonder if blind people are more likely to sleep with eyes open?

Wrong quote Was Ataraxis

Uh, no. That was me. Or was that some kind of joke?



EDIT: oh wait, nevermind. I'm confuzzled.

You quoted ataraxis, but put my name...I thought to myself 'no way have I had so much wine I don't remember typing!'

I have no such excuse, except that it's been a long week.

I know the feeling! I am so happy that the weekend is finally upon us! And on that note I'm off to the pub Swwet dreams all!

Okay, I think I might have had one point this morning where I had my eyes open while asleep, at least for a moment or two.

Basically what happened is that I had woken up and fallen back asleep and had a non-lucid dream followed by a very brief (20-30 second) lucid dream. (I didn't remember having the non-lucid dream until the lucid dream was over.) I was lying on my bed (above the covers, as opposed to under them, like my real body was at the time) facing the opposite direction from the way I was lying in real life. I suddenly got a strange feeling that it wasn't actually happening and that it was a dream (I've already had this feeling at the beginning of LDs enough times that I'm starting to become familiar with it).

Anyway, I managed to get up (took some effort), and I started telling myself how I had made it and that it was a dream and I knew it was a dream, etc., wasting time blabbering instead of actually doing something. But when the dream ended a few seconds later, I woke up with my eyes already open (as far as I could tell), and I was looking at the doorknob on my door. The funny thing is that this image looked almost exactly like the last image I saw in that LD, although I don't remember what it was (I just know I hadn't been looking at the door in that dream), and that these two images somehow looked almost the same.

I believe I have opened one eye in a dream and still remained asleep