Originally Posted by Sanitas
Does this ever happen to anybody? It happened to me the other day after I made a point to stay up until as late (or early) as possible to finish a book I was reading. When I finally got to sleep I was tired, but somehow my mind wouldn't let me rest. I stayed on the dividing line of being asleep and awake for hours - where I'd have a half dreams and also conscious thoughts dissecting the dreams in half - these aren't lucid dreams. Does any body else ever have this syndrome?
Hi Sanitas,
I think what you're describing is hypnagogic dreams or visions. That is the word used to describe short dreams that occur as we're falling asleep, but are still half awake. We're "betwixt and between" as the saying goes. We also can have similar ones as waking, called hypnapompic dreams. It's as if being fully awake is day, and fully asleep is night. Hypnagogic/pompic dreams occur at twilight, at dusk and at dawn, the transitional stages.
I remember when I could stay up all night reading... wow. Nowadays, I'm early to bed and early to rise... still waiting for healthy, wealthy and wise... well, getting there a little bit.
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