More weird stuff incoming!
For the past two nights I have woken up about an hour or two(no concept of time in this state) before normal, and I try to go straight back to sleep, but then I enter a weird kind of semiconscious state. While I'm trying to go back to sleep like that I can't actually go back to sleep, I think, and I end up spending the next hour or so trying to fall asleep and then jumping awake for no apparent reason. OK I'll start again with some more details.
I woke up in near the end of my sleep time, realized that I hadn't remembered any dreams and was a bit disappointed. I then rolled over and tried to get back to sleep. For the first bit I was pretty restless and I sometimes randomly kicked out or rolled over, but that is fairly common when I try to fall back asleep sometimes. What was happening though was I believe that I was kind of falling asleep for short, 5 minute patches or so. What I mean is that my consciousness suddenly disappeared, like in non-rem sleep, but I could still kinda feel that I was awake. It was almost like in a very deep meditative state, where my consciousness was completely quiet and almost non existent. Now I think about it I am pretty sure I was still awake for the whole time, but my conscious kind of slipped in and out every few minutes. I twas almost like a reverse lucid dream if you will.
Hold on, I've had some ideas. I think now that this may have been a FA dream started from my very lazy and halfhearted attempt at a WILD. Hmmm, this might make sense, as I had the same kind of dull headedness that I have during non lucid dreams, if that makes sense, and also I jerked awake like when I wake up from a dream too early. It just kind of felt like a dream really. Orrrr, it might have been a series of hypnic jerks waking me up just as I was about to fall asleep. This also might work as I felt as tired as if I hadn't slept that time. This is confusing
So, does anyone know what this might be? I've looked it up a bit, but only came up with sleep paralysis disorder sufferers and fundamentalist Christians, so I am a at a bit of a loss. I have had this happen to me before, like maybe once every one or two months, when I wake up in the middle of the night, I think one time I spent about 3 hours in this state. I have feeling that having a too hot/comfortable bed might be the answer, as i seem to remember heat in all the times it has happened before. Anyway, do you think this might be a weak WILD FA, me staying awake, the hypnic jerks, even SP or anything really, I'm at a loss. Thanks for reading this wall of text .
PS. Oh one more thing when I did kind of regain consciousness last night for those brief periods I did kind of roll over sometimes to try and get (back?) to sleep, so that might rule out the SP or REM atonia or such, hmmmm the plot thickens...