Thread: Trouble separating from reality

Hey there. I've come to the site a bunch but never the forums before, thought this would be a good place to get an answer to my question.

The past three nights I have not been falling asleep but have been having short dreams at the end of each night while still awake as far as I can tell. I experience all of my senses in both the dream and my waking life. For example, last night I could feel myself riding on my roller skates while still feeling myself curled up in bed. I told this to one of my friends with normal sleeping patterns and he said he has experienced the same thing infrequently in the past. Can anyone explain how or why it happens?

P.S. Don't worry about my sleeping patterns, though they make it difficult for me to lucid dream, they aren't negatively affecting my health.

I've had this kind of experience many times before as well, where you feel yourself in bed, but your other senses tell you otherwise. If I have to come to a hypothesis, I would say that being tired, not sleeping comfortably, etc. is a likely cause of this phenomenon.

It's most definitely not being tired. I rarely am able to stay comfortable with one position for very long though, so comfortability is an option.

I think that happens if you are not in a deep sleep. In fact, I'm pretty positive that's what it is. You will never have this in, say, the REM stage. Unless you are about to wake up I guess.

Yea, i think you were on the brink of waking up, or uncomfortable

Ok then. This doesn't sound like anything unnatural then. Maybe if I'm lucky I can use it to my advantage to notice when I'm dreaming and finally get lucid. I don't exactly have very good sleeping patterns for lucid dreaming, but I'm trying.