Hi all, after trolling the internet and having no success looking for an answer to my question I decided to give some online forums a try. I am hoping for some input on what it is I am experiencing while sleeping. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

My name is Brian, I am 34 years young My whole life I have experienced some sort of surreal sleeping disorder I can't seem to diagnose or find any credible information regarding it. Since I have been a child I have had countless nightmares, and even night terrors at times. I have researched these conditions and they relate a lot of it to anxiety, stress, caffeine etc. I even went to see several professionals regarding it over the years and their answer is "give him a pill" or I have I have issues I need to work through that are subconsciously playing out in my sleep. I have elected over the years never to take anything for this condition and always felt it had some sort of meaning to all of it.

Over the last 10 years I would say I have been experiencing something way beyond nightmares or terrors. I awake in the morning knowing how to do things I never knew how to do before. Like something downloaded while sleeping, perhaps something awoke as well. That is the feeling I experience when I have had these mornings in which I wake up and know how to do this things I was never taught in school, never witnessed anyone doing and or never even thought of prior to going to sleep the night before. For example; one morning I awoke and got on my pc and was able to navigate, crack, hack, program, and build a pc. Overnight I became more experienced on a computer than my Mother or Father that worked for IBM for 30 years as executives. I have no background in this as well. There are so many more examples of this. On some mornings I would wake up and know how to calculate math equations way beyond my education level, be able to decipher codes, figure out complex puzzles, and know how to fix complex electronics, etc. It has even flowed over into my personal life with seeing and hearing people differently. They have almost become transparent to my eyes and ears. I could go on and on about these experiences. It has become such second nature to wake up in the AM and be able to do something new way beyond my educational background and or experience, that when I wake up in the morning and I haven't had these episodes I feel like something is wrong with me.

If I was to interpret these events myself and try to understand how and why they occur I truly feel it has something to do with the subconscious awakening something in my brain at night while I sleep. Like I said before it almost feels like something was downloading while sleeping.

I am really looking for others that have had similar experiences or someone knowledgeable of this condition that could shed some light.

Thanks,
Brian