Strange

I was laying down the other morning. While I was staring out the window I fell asleep with my eyes open. I had a dream and during it I was lucid. At the end of the dream I was sitting on a bed in a ship. A woman was sitting with her back to me and I gave her a gun (i don't know why) while I was tending to a wound on my hand (which hurt alot by the way) a zombie stepped into the doorway. I looked back and told the woman. "shoot it damn you." she sat there and so I grabbed the pistol and shot it. Now this is where the weird thing happened. As the zombie fell backwards i began to awaken. As I did the doorway in my dream shifted back into the window i was staring out of while i was asleep.

It was quite odd. I had to do a reality check to make sure I was realy awake. I was just freaked out by my falling asleep with my eyes open and the window becoming a doorway.

What do you guys/girls think?
Have you ever had anything like that happen to you?

Wow..that sounds like a fascinating sort of dream. I loved the way you described it. And yes, i've had dreams like that in the past, where i've walked through a doorway, and woken up in my own bed.

Re: Strange

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Originally posted by AdvenDreams
I was laying down the other morning. While I was staring out the window I fell asleep with my eyes open. I had a dream and during it I was lucid. At the end of the dream I was sitting on a bed in a ship. A woman was sitting with her back to me and I gave her a gun (i don't know why) while I was tending to a wound on my hand (which hurt alot by the way) a zombie stepped into the doorway. I looked back and told the woman. "shoot it damn you." she sat there and so I grabbed the pistol and shot it. Now this is where the weird thing happened. As the zombie fell backwards i began to awaken. As I did the doorway in my dream shifted back into the window i was staring out of while i was asleep. *

It was quite odd. I had to do a reality check to make sure I was realy awake. I was just freaked out by my falling asleep with my eyes open and the window becoming a doorway. *

What do you guys/girls think? *
Have you ever had anything like that happen to you?

One meets all kinds in the Army and one soon becomes acquainted with soldiers who manage to fall asleep with their eyes open, typically on guard duty or while sitting as CQ (Charge of Quarters... I myself was sitting CQ while my daughter's mother had started to go through labor... by the time my daugher was born and I had her and her mother squared away I had been up close to 48 hours straight ). Anyway, rather than making 'sleeping with eyes open' a discipline issue, it was decided to give the soldiers something of a benefit of the doubt and so the Sergeants would stand in front of them for a moment or two to 'sense the threat' and wake up. You see, even the Army knows that healthy people are just psychic enough to know when they are being watched. Indeed, I have told this story before, but it is a good story, but back in the Vietnam days there were two types of Combat Sergeant -- those who rotated all their men to the Point in their turn, and thus occassionally have their entire platoons lead into ambush by an inadequate and poorly qualified Point Man, and those sergeants who learned to pick good Point Men. Well, this is how you pick a good point man. You secretly sneek up on your Platoon. The man that gets suspicious and starts looking around -- HE is your Point Man. You see, when the enemy is setting up an Ambush, they are laying in wait, and they are looking. A good Point Man can actually feel those eyes, and can feel all that anxious and murderous energy out there in those nearby trees and bushes. The Worst Point Man is a man of science who tells himself that since he can't prove that there is an ambush waiting, that it must not be there. But, anyway, 8 out of 10 soldiers who are sleeping on duty, eyes open or closed, will wake up within a few seconds just from having a sergeant look at their sleeping bodies. The 2 out of 10 that keep sleeping -- might as well shoot those stupid-f___ks because they're good for nothing.

Oh, by the way, you may have low blood pressure. It is especially easy to drift in and out of consciousness if your blood pressure is low. Typically, when one is fasting for more than several days in a row, the blood pressure will drop a bit, and I've noticed that it becomes easy to lose consciousness and to slip into a momentary dream. One should be careful this does not happen while one is standing. I often find myself down on the floor without remembering any reason for having been down there, except that I remember having stood up too suddenly from sitting down and then having that pleasant feeling of light headedness that is so similar to being very high. I suppose I am lucky I haven't hurt myself yet. But now I try to remember to take a seat when I get that pleasant feeling of lightheadedness. Besides, I think it must scare the cats when I fall down.

Sounds cool :) Funny that when you woke up the world kind of 'morphed' back :)

I have never had blood pressure issues before but that could be. It wasn't the first time I had fallen asleep with my eyes open. And yeah, it was pretty cool watching the door shrink in size and change shape a bit to become the window and the walls fade into the walls of the room.

I've had kind of a similar experience. Once, I was in a dream (not lucid) and I closed my eyes for a moment. When I opened them, I was lying in my bed, staring at my ceiling- but I was still in the dream. Shortly after, I woke up for real, staring at the same ceiling. It was quite strange. I then did several reality checks. :)