Disorientation

[Serinanth]

Do any of you experience disorientation when you wake up? I dont mean when you attain lucidity in the dream but when you wake up here. This morning, it took me about 2 minutes to figure out where I was, and what was going on. In my own room, Ive been in it for over a year, but it drew a complete blank, like I had never been here in my life and it was totaly new to me. While 2 minutes may not seem like a long time its too danmed long to not know where the hell you just woke up, when its your own room.

[LewisM]

Wow that is weird. How did you feel? Afraid? Sometimes my dad wakes me up and I ramble. He says normal things like 'get up' and Im often really confused and say weird irrelevant stuff like 'but I just went to bed' or 'but mum wants to see my brother... I can't get up now!' Maybe this happens when you wake up from Delta sleep? Or maybe it's a continuation from the dream I was having.

[CT]

Hrm, I had it once in my new room but that was because I just moved houses like 10 days ago and was having major weird dreams about my old house all the time, but never as long as 2 minutes... o_O perhaps you should lay off the pot for a while... haha.

[Maystar]

when i used to do sleep-in's at work, sometimes i used to wake up at home wondering where the hell i was - but never for more than 30 seconds or so. cos' i commute from my place to my boyfriends i can sometimes wake up at mine in the night and have difficulty working out where i am. i can understand that i'm not at my boyf's, but it takes a while for my brain to process where i actually am. my room doesn't look familiar and it can be quite weird sometimes. last night i must have fallen alseep without realising it at about 8.30pm. my phone (i think) woke me up with a text message.... i couldn't work out why the light was on, and however much i kept looking at my phone and seeing 2233, my brain just wouldn't process that information. instead of thinking 'oh hang about maybe i've been heavily asleep and it's 2233' it was more like 'uh? uh? ' this lasted for about half a minute... i think i gave up trying to figure it out, went to the toilet and crashed out again.

[Serinanth]

Yah I was afraid a bit, because I knew I should have felt safe and at home but I didnt. It may have been a dream I have dreams that are pretty undistinguishable from reality at times. Hehe, as for talking to others in sleep, While I was traveling my aunt said that I was talking in my sleep having a complete conversation with some one, and it wasnt nonsense, and she asked me if I was talking to her or just talking in my sleep, I replied to her "Oh im just talking in my sleep" and didnt wake up, I dun remember it happening either =D I havent been smoking much CT Now that you mention that It may have been becuase of my travels, I havent been in the same bed long for the past 13 days so it may have helped confuse me. I looked up and was looking at my computers screen saver and listening to my fountain, I did the same thing, my brain wouldent refuse to cooperate untill the memory came back it was weird. Thanks for your ideas =)

[Lucius]

Perhaps it is some sort of form of sleep paralysis? I mean, sometimes you like only wake up your mind, but not your body and you are paralyzed, it could also be the other way around I suppose, you wake up your body, but your mind is still (half) asleep and is not completely back yet, or something, you know what I mean

[nightowl]

I used to get that but not anymore. I think it might've been when I moved into my new room. This also occasionally happens if i sleep on the coach. Its not as bad as your experience though. just slight disorientation

[dream-scape]

I only get this occasionally if waking up in a drastically different position from which I fell asleep in. For example my bed is against the wall but I don't like to sleep very close to the wall, and a couple times in the past I've woken with my face nearly in the wall and just think "Where am I?" for a moment, until I roll over and the rest of my room comes into view. And also will get that feeling if I unintentionally fall asleep on the couch or the chair or something like that; don't think I've ever had it for 2 minutes though. That seems to be an awful long time to recall where you are at upon waking. Maybe it just seems like a couple minutes, but is really a few seconds. Perception of time, especially in states of heightened emotions and senses, sometimes can seem drastically different than what amount of time has actually passed. Fear, panic, etc, generally seem to have a large slowing effect on the perception of time (for example, when my house burned down, I could swear it took the fire department hours to get there, though there actual response time was around 5 minutes).