Mar 15, 2010
It’s incredible how what feels like a long dream can exist entirely in the moment of waking up.
I’m continually amazed by intricate dream-stories that materialize instantaneously to explain my alarm.
Wait…I’m sort of assuming this happens to everybody…
Happens to me. Wait . . . it might be genetic . . .
Happens in my gene pool too…and to some people involved in making a health class film I watched in 5th grade–they talked about this.
I’ve had this happen to. I remember one long, intricate dream involving a motorboat, and then it turned out the “motor” was the buzz of my alarm clock.
Random song playing in the background of my dream. Wake to random song. Wonder why, in the dream, the song made * perfect sense * Sometimes entire segments of morning dj banter will infiltrate the dream. This is a good way to ensure I will sleep late.
Doesn’t happen now that I have a baby. He does not fit into dreams the way radio does.
LOL. It is funny how babies wake you up in an even more definitive, clear cut way than alarm clocks do :-)
Absolutely. Dreams, to me, help me grasp infinity.
How else could my brain have an hour long-dream that culminates in a plot point involving a noise that ends up being my alarm clock, the little device that is ringing after I hit snooze nine minutes ago?
How can an hour in my brain fit into nine minutes of “real time”?
I have only one variation, a ringing phone. Some reason I never want to answer it!
Happens to me sometimes – but it’s always pretty impressive and intricate. It depends on what kind of alarm I have at the time – radio alarms sometimes get me backstage at a concert hall and getting to the stage where all the noise is coming from wakes me up. Can’t remember what other alarms have done in the past.
If I use a buzzer alarm, it always associates itself with doom of some kind (I’m skiing, and it’s an avalanche warning!).
But the radio just insinuates itself somehow.
i often will find myself dancing in a dream because my alarm is going off…it depends on the song, but my brain usually tries to build a scenario. it’s weird.
I had this conversation with a friend just last night. How serendipitous! Yes, I too, have someone in a dream spontaneously start singing a song, which, lo and behold, is the song on my radio alarm or something similar. It is good to not be alone on such *important* matters!
Any psychologists out there to explain this phenomenon?
Ugh, it is both annoying and fascinating and happens at least once a week. Silly REM sleep getting interrupted at the last minute. :-/
Yeah, that happens to me all the time. I’ll be playing soccer, and someone will run across the field yelling to me, “Jenny! It’s time to get up! ” or something like that.
The weird thing that happens to me is that sometimes I dream my alarm is going off, and then I wake up to silence. It really stinks.
I hate to spoil the party, but… I’ve never actually seen any evidence of this in myself.
Maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough, or maybe I’m just different.
Happens to me and my husband. I can’t remember one of mine, but I remember this one of his: My hubby was in college and staying at his grandparents’ house one night. In the morning, his grandfather came in and started knocking on the headboard to wake him. All of a sudden in Hubby’s dream, a giant tree springs up in front of him and someone is chopping it down with an axe.
Time is an illusion, dreamtime doubly so. We broke it like everything else. Maranatha, Lord! :-)
I just reach over and hit snooze and continue dreaming whatever was going on before the radio came on.
i understand…totally. :)
been there…it is amazing :)
I know what you mean.