Wow, I'm not going to complain about the cat waking me up 15 minutes before the alarm any more. I normally get very good sleep--once I actually go to bed. Hubby was always jealous of the way I can drop off. Those hallucinations would drive you away from sleep.
Riley: Maybe I should just let you rest. Buffy: You sure? I bet if you just lay down with me- Riley: Nothing you are about to say will lead to rest.
'Lessons'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2014 9:22:09 am PDT #2465 of 30000
brillig
Jesse - Jul 21, 2014 9:25:41 am PDT #2466 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And then there's Mike Birbiglia, who ran out of a hotel room window. [link]
Dana - Jul 21, 2014 9:27:15 am PDT #2467 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I've only had the hallucination thing once that I remember, but it was fucking terrifying, especially since it repeated. I would wake up a little, be convinced that someone was moving in the room nearby, fall back asleep, wake up, see the person again, and I couldn't move.
Laura - Jul 21, 2014 9:27:51 am PDT #2468 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Wow, although I suffered form terrible insomnia most of my life I never had any of those types of hallucinations. Just no sleep. Not anymore though. I drop off in no time and all and enter dreamy dream land.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2014 9:29:37 am PDT #2469 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I vote no.
Not dreams--hallucination. If you see a man in your room is he in 20/40 like your unassisted vision or is he properly in focus?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2014 9:35:42 am PDT #2470 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
One of my great-uncles supposedly grabbed his wife and jumped out a window with her while dreaming about a fire.
I used to sleepwalk as a kid, but thankfully no broken glass or ER visits resulted.
Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2014 9:43:18 am PDT #2471 of 30000
brillig
Matt, Hubby tried the same thing in the early days of our marriage, but I woke him up before he got me to the window. He often dreamed of fire in the early years.
Zenkitty - Jul 21, 2014 9:52:35 am PDT #2472 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I don't recall any dreams where I perceived myself to be wearing glasses.
Now that you mention it, neither do I. And yet I wore glasses from age five, got contacts when I was 14, and wear glasses more often than contacts now. Somehow glasses are not part of my internal perception of what I look like.
If you don't know the scientific explanation for what you are seeing and feeling, haunting and alien abduction are fairly convincing.
I meant, why does the brain do that?
Alien abduction stories are remarkably similar to faery/otherworld abduction stories from times past.
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Scrappy - Jul 21, 2014 10:10:56 am PDT #2473 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I loves me some Mike Birbiglia. He has one of my favorite comic bits ever: [link]
Atropa - Jul 21, 2014 10:27:58 am PDT #2474 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Not dreams--hallucination. If you see a man in your room is he in 20/40 like your unassisted vision or is he properly in focus?
Out of focus. And usually the act of grabbing for my glasses makes that particular style of sleep hallucination vanish. And because I'm a witchy-woo sort, I generally cleanse the house and redo wards the next day. It makes me feel better.
Pete can drop off to sleep instantly, and has never experienced the sleep-dep hallucinations. I am very envious of this.