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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: something bizarre and impractical on November 06, 2007, 05:56:51 am
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Ok, this is a spin off of the "I feel like shit when I wake up topic" (not actual title). I was just thinking about hilarious things I've done while half-asleep or just after waking up and thought this would be a funny topic. What kind of dumb/funny/ridiculous things have you done while you were still laying in bed barely awake or shortly after you had woken up and were experiencing 'morning grogginess.'
1) When I was in Grade 8 I went to make my lunch in the morning and was about to pour a jug of juice into my lunchbox. Luckily I stopped myself because that would've been a very unexpected snack!
2) The phone was ringing and it woke me up. Instead of answering the phone I made a phone shape with my hand using my thumb and pinky and put it to my head. "Hello?" I answered. Alas there was no reply and I snapped out of it after the phone rang again.
3) I woke up to go to work and my stepdad asked me if I wanted water to which I replied, "I don't care." I thought this was funny later after repeating the conversation in my head.
"Do you want water for lunch?"
"I don't care."
4) My stepdad came into my room to hand me the phone while I was still sleeping and said "The phone is for you." I thought he said "Would you like to read to a poem?" to which I gave a questioning "No?"
Thoughts in my head: "Why would I want to read a poem? What time is it? Who reads poems at 8am?"
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Actually, just a week ago I dreamt I was eating something really disgusting for whatever reason, so I spit it out, and that's when I realized that I was only half-asleep, and that I had just splattered a huge phlegmy gob of morning spit onto the carpet beside my bed.
Not the best start to a day!
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I always eat warm cereal for breakfast (because I'm a man), but one time I poured yoghurt instead of milk into the skillet. I just stared at it in disbelief.
That's pretty much it!
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I once accidentally pushed my sister into my bureau when I thought she was the evil fucking mindrape octopus from the dream I'd just had.
I got grounded.
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I do the beautiful "Put my cereal bowl in the fridge and put the milk in the sink" quite often, and I've nodded my head as an answer on the phone before. Besides that, I don't have too many problems.
Except there are probably some in this post because I JUST WOKE UP so
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actually this kind of happened to me this morning in history. the lecturer was asking if we had any problems with the material that day and i thought he said "do you have any questions, mr. worf?"
so i asked him if that is what he said and apparently that was nothing like what he said because the whole class done that "Heh heh HOW WEIRD" kind of laugh. it was pretty cool.
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i remember throwing my empty serial bowl into the bin once, that was it.
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I have sleep disorders, not just sleep talking- but where I will awake in a panic or mindstate that I cannot control (or most of the time remember). My roomate last year in college has taped several of our conversations while I was sleeping. Sometimes I will "awake" standing up, only realizing that I was just looking for someone that was never there to begin with and feel completely embarrest with myself that I cannot control my body sometimes. Most likely, I am going to be that person that gets out of bed, gets in their car, drives down the street and rob a bank while asleep.
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I have sleep disorders, not just sleep talking- but where I will awake in a panic or mindstate that I cannot control (or most of the time remember). My roomate last year in college has taped several of our conversations while I was sleeping. Sometimes I will "awake" standing up, only realizing that I was just looking for someone that was never there to begin with and feel completely embarrest with myself that I cannot control my body sometimes. Most likely, I am going to be that person that gets out of bed, gets in their car, drives down the street and rob a bank while asleep.
Wow, that's not cool.
I have done some zany shit after waking up. Once, I was at my ex-girlfriend's residence and she had to wake up early to go to class. I was lying there, half awake, and she was talking to me. Now, I thought I was talking to her and we were having a conversation; I remember forming words in my head and my brain telling my mouth to say them. Apparently, however, I was later informed (with anger, if you can believe!) that I didn't say anything until the very end of the conversation when I tapped my lips and said "kiss" (which I still think is fucking adorable). I was confused as shit, because in my half-awake state I could have sworn we had just had an entire conversation.
I used to use my iPod as an alarm, but I didn't have any good wakeup music on it. Many times I would wake up and THINK I was awake and lean over and turn it off, and then fall back asleep. However, it turned out that almost every time I thought I did this I was actually just did nothing at all, and then I would have half-dreaming nightmares about whatever song was playing because I couldn't turn it off. Several times I awoke in cold sweats because I just couldn't stop that damn music (because I wasn't actually doing anything, I just thought I was).
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One time I was in the school and I was writting something, and then I began sleeping but continued writting, and when I woke up I looked at the scribbles I made and thought it was funny
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My roommate has awoken a few times. Most recently, he bursted into my room in the middle of the night, wondering if I had let a lot of people into his room (he was asking the names, for instance "Did you let Jake and John into my room? How about Janice!? Or Jacob?" and I had to reply NO to each person, even though I explained there was no one there. Most of the people he asked me are people that live in Oslo, a 7 hour drive away from here, and about half of them are people I've never even met.
Another night he burst into my room and was like "DAMN, THERE ARE SPIDERS IN MY BED!!"
He usually takes about ten minutes to snap out of it.
Myself, I rarely experience shit like this. I do often wake up dillusional, but it seems my logic is the first part of my consciousness that is activated, as I can look around in my room and look at a lot of people and just think to myself "Ok, I just wake up. Back to sleep/get up." without giving the illusions another thought. I often recognize sizes in my room as different things than they really are, but my logic is already racing before I can recognize any weird shapes so I'm never really fooled.
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earlier today i woke up to the beep of a text message, i checked it and answered it. then i hear a beep and another beep. Apparently I had heard the text message and then i dreamed or half-thought that i answered it when in reality it was still lying next to my bed, unread and unanswered.
funkay.
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2) The phone was ringing and it woke me up. Instead of answering the phone I made a phone shape with my hand using my thumb and pinky and put it to my head. "Hello?" I answered. Alas there was no reply and I snapped out of it after the phone rang again.
...and I've nodded my head as an answer on the phone before.
actually this kind of happened to me this morning in history. the lecturer was asking if we had any problems with the material that day and i thought he said "do you have any questions, mr. worf?"
i remember throwing my empty serial bowl into the bin once, that was it.
Further evidence we actually descended from an advanced extraterrestial civilisation and forgot about it. Really, cybernetic implants, house AIs, an implanted racial memory of star trek, and easy recycling.
I generally act quite normal after waking up and can function just fine, unless I go to sleep again within a few minutes. I will, as a rule, forget to have ever woken up earlier that morning. I remember waking up and having coffee. If only the rest of the day was that easy -- any task, you just do it, and forget about the discomfort later. It's like having a butler.
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Yeah like someone was saying sometimes I'll be dreaming I'm with someone cool or in a cool place but then I get awake enough to realize it's a dream and I'm like shit :(
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Yesterday I overslept so a friend of mine called. I thought it was the alarm though (I use my phone for alarm) so when it rang I just held it in my hand and stared at it, trying to understand why my alarm went "Hello? HEEEELLO?". Appearently I also groaned very audibly before I snapped out of it.
Pretty sure I've done the milk in sink and bowl in fridge thing, at least back when I worked early mornings.
I don't usually get confused when I wake up though...maybe becuase I try to wake up long before I need to do anything special so I don't have to hurry.
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In the shower I thought of a new type of porcupine the other day, like porcupines are made somewhere and this version was better for any practical use. I had the schematics in my head and everything. sounds like bad humor but it's true!
I'm always awake after my shower, so nothing else happens to me after that. mostly it's just me thinking of jokes that I find hilarious at the time, but if I remember them later they don't make sense at all
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I have done a variation of the cereal bowl thing, except I take the cereal bowl to my bathroom sink instead of the kitchen one.
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Ok, this is a spin off of the "I feel like shit when I wake up topic" (not actual title). I was just thinking about hilarious things I've done while half-asleep or just after waking up and thought this would be a funny topic. What kind of dumb/funny/ridiculous things have you done while you were still laying in bed barely awake or shortly after you had woken up and were experiencing 'morning grogginess.'
1) When I was in Grade 8 I went to make my lunch in the morning and was about to pour a jug of juice into my lunchbox. Luckily I stopped myself because that would've been a very unexpected snack!
2) The phone was ringing and it woke me up. Instead of answering the phone I made a phone shape with my hand using my thumb and pinky and put it to my head. "Hello?" I answered. Alas there was no reply and I snapped out of it after the phone rang again.
3) I woke up to go to work and my stepdad asked me if I wanted water to which I replied, "I don't care." I thought this was funny later after repeating the conversation in my head.
"Do you want water for lunch?"
"I don't care."
4) My stepdad came into my room to hand me the phone while I was still sleeping and said "The phone is for you." I thought he said "Would you like to read to a poem?" to which I gave a questioning "No?"
Thoughts in my head: "Why would I want to read a poem? What time is it? Who reads poems at 8am?"
When I was little I used to sleepwalk.
I once got in the shower at 3am.
Also, some time ago, the maid was afraid to go in my room and I had no idea why.
Turns out when she brought me breakfast really early on weekends, I screamed and insulted her... But then, when I woke up... I didn't remember.
I never knew until one day I did it to my bro and he then told me.
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Before I got put on ambien I'd fall asleep at school a lot.
The only thing I can remember doing is thinking I heard my Grandpa call for me while I was half awake in school, and I yelled "what?" in the middle of class.
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I used to use my iPod as an alarm, but I didn't have any good wakeup music on it. Many times I would wake up and THINK I was awake and lean over and turn it off, and then fall back asleep. However, it turned out that almost every time I thought I did this I was actually just did nothing at all, and then I would have half-dreaming nightmares about whatever song was playing because I couldn't turn it off. Several times I awoke in cold sweats because I just couldn't stop that damn music (because I wasn't actually doing anything, I just thought I was).
This happens to me all the time with whatever alarm I use. It's a very odd feeling when you're too tired to even realise you can't be bothered doing something.
I've thrown teaspoons away frequently after stirring coffee, but I've got better with that recently.
I had a half an hour conversation with my girlfriend about her exams at like 8am a few days ago and I remember basically nothing about it.
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Also, some time ago, the maid was afraid to go in my room and I had no idea why.
You have a maid? What the hell, dude, what the hell.
I have conversations all the time that I forget because I was asleep and then SUDDENLY remember like ten hours later. The problem for me is that the memories of the real conversations seem to be exactly the same as memories of dreams I've had about conversations, so I never know which is real. My family has pretty much stopped trying to tell me to do things before I am awake, instead leaving notes around the house.
One thing I've noticed I do a lot (I always check the time when I get up) is I check the time in my dreams and think that is really the time. The scary thing is is that I am rarely that far off (usually around fifteen minutes) despite not having a clock in my room (I use a watch next to my bed that I have to pick up and check). This morning I actually said to myself "oh, it's this time" and then I said "no it's not, I'm only dreaming, get up Andrew, get up!" and then I got up and checked the time and I was 20 minutes off.
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You have a maid? What the hell, dude, what the hell.
I have conversations all the time that I forget because I was asleep and then SUDDENLY remember like ten hours later. The problem for me is that the memories of the real conversations seem to be exactly the same as memories of dreams I've had about conversations, so I never know which is real. My family has pretty much stopped trying to tell me to do things before I am awake, instead leaving notes around the house.
One thing I've noticed I do a lot (I always check the time when I get up) is I check the time in my dreams and think that is really the time. The scary thing is is that I am rarely that far off (usually around fifteen minutes) despite not having a clock in my room (I use a watch next to my bed that I have to pick up and check). This morning I actually said to myself "oh, it's this time" and then I said "no it's not, I'm only dreaming, get up Andrew, get up!" and then I got up and checked the time and I was 20 minutes off.
:fogetshrug: Pretty much everyone has a maid in my country.
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I remember I woke up thinking my cell was ringing when it was actually my alarm clock which was ringing. I then searched for my cell (which took a minute or two), opened my cell, realised that my cell was off and that it was my alarm clock which was making all the noise, shut off my alarm, and went back to sleep.
I got to school 3 hours late.
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:fogetshrug: Pretty much everyone has a maid in my country.
And they're black. :fogetlaugh:
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And they're black. :fogetlaugh:
There's so few black people in my country you actually go "Whoa, look, a black person" when you see one.
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There's so few black people in my country you actually go "Whoa, look, a black person" when you see one.
Where the heck do you live, Belgium?
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Where the heck do you live, Belgium?
Chile, in South america. There never were many black people back when they were used as slaves(I'm talking about 1800s here btw, back when this country was founded) and shit because they were EXPENSIVE so there's like, no black families. Most of the (really small) black population is due to recent immigration, mostly from Brazil.
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I once woke up in the middle of the night (it was about midnight) and I misread the clock wrong or something, because I thought it was time for me to go to school (assuming that my alarm clock hadn't gone off). I took a shower, and ate breakfast as usual only to realize then that it was only 12:50am.
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I almost suffocated once. Yeah I really dont enjoy sleeping face down anymore
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When I was little when Id go to sleep, Id generally wake up in a different place, like the floor. I dont really know of much crazy things about me but my sister was running in her sleep once.
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I had a dream that I was beating the hell out of someone, and when I woke up, I felt one of my arms take a swing at the air.
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The past few days, I have been waking up 5-10 min before my alarm clock is set to go off. What happens is that I dream my alarm clock didn't go off and I woke up like 5 hours late, and immediately after, I wake up for real and check the time.
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I had this one dream where there was a wooden plank sloped up to my chin, and at the base of it was a spider with suction cups on his feet, so I heard him coming up very slowly with that pop pop popping noise, and I lifted my head to get it away and I smacked it on the wooden beam on the wall just above my head.
Another time, In a dream that I knew I was dreaming (which happens a lot actually, and is incredibly fun) I was looking for a friend in an apartment complex, but it was mazelike with many repeating areas, like I was going in circles no matter which path I took, and I wanted to get out so I closed my eyes (sometimes works) and when I opened them I saw the ceiling above my bed, but it was very blurry, and I couldnt move my body! It felt like my entire body was numb, so I closed my eyes again, and when I opened them I was back in the dream, and I had found my friend. I don't remember anything after that but It always makes me happy when I can "end" or even "continue" a dream after being interrupted.
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I once woke up, rose to a seat on the side of my bed, put my face in my hands and wept for a good ten minutes. To this day, I have no fucking idea why, and when I finally came to and realized what I was doing, I started wailing in laughter over how zany shit your mind can conjure.
It was by then I realized that my mother had been standing in the doorway the whole time.
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I had a dream that I was beating the hell out of someone, and when I woke up, I felt one of my arms take a swing at the air.
Yeah, I've had this happen. I've woken up and realized I was actually swinging my arms through the air. I wish I had these dreams more often to give myself a sweet workout.
:fogetnaughty:
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I once poured myself a glass of milk, put it in the fridge, and took the jug. It took me a couple drinks to realize what I did.
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Yeah like someone was saying sometimes I'll be dreaming I'm with someone cool or in a cool place but then I get awake enough to realize it's a dream and I'm like shit :(
Yea this happens to me a lot too :[
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I don't know if this counts, but...
One night I was having one of my funny dreams, of which I have many. In this dream I was back at my old primary school (I'm 20 now) and I was talking to one of the kids, Damien, who I didn't get on with (Damien is actually a real person). For some reason I was pissed off at him in the dream, so I did what any intelligent person would do - I punched him in the face :).
Now heres the weird part. I have a chest of drawers next to my bed. At the exact moment I punched dream-Damien in the face, I had actually leaned over and hit the wooden drawers with my fist. Hard. Needless to say I woke up immediately, moaning 'ahhhhh......f**k!'. The pain...my fist was throbbing like mad.
I eventually went back to sleep. I checked my hand in the morning - the knuckles on my thumb and first two fingers were skun pretty bad, and there was a big blue-red mark on the inside of my fingernail. It was a bruise or something. This mark only grew out a few weeks ago, and that was a good couple of months after the incident.
So yeah, I thought that was pretty wierd. I also punched a wall when I was sleeping in someone else's bed a few weeks later, but that wasn't as bad as I only hit it softly.
Sphinx
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People who know me know that I'm an insomniac.
But I can sleep through everything when I do manage to hit the bed.
I've joked that if there is the End of the World or something someone had better wake me up, or else I will miss it.
When I am upset, though, my sound sleeping goes right out the window.
I don't consider this unusual. I expect that everyone must have once had a bad night's tossing and turning like I do sometimes.
However, one peculiarity of my interesting nights is one that I haven't heard people admit to -- panic attacks.
When I am emotionally upset and go to sleep, I will sometimes wake up in the middle of the night in an absolute panic.
Usually, this is either due to a (false) sense that I am late for school, overslept, etc..or if I dream about someone that makes me feel uncomfortable.
One time, in Turkey, I managed to wake up -- SUDDENLY, grab my clothes and make it into the bathroom to turn the water on before I realized it was 3 am.
One night, I woke up in a false panic that I didn't know what time it was and that my clock was wrong.
I looked on my arm for my watch and got upset that it wasn't there even though I broke the band some time before and haven't yet replaced it.
These sorts of nocturnal things are just-- Fucking odd.
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Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but I sometimes fall asleep with one of my arms under my head or some other part of my body, cutting off circulation. When I wake up, my arm is completely numb and I can't feel it at all. At first, I usually panic and go "where the fuck is my arm" and once I realize it's still there, I move it around with my other arm since it can't move on it's own. It becomes very limp and I feel like a part of my body is dead. Pretty cool feeling.
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Not sure if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, but I sometimes fall asleep with one of my arms under my head or some other part of my body, cutting off circulation. When I wake up, my arm is completely numb and I can't feel it at all. At first, I usually panic and go "where the fuck is my arm" and once I realize it's still there, I move it around with my other arm since it can't move on it's own. It becomes very limp and I feel like a part of my body is dead. Pretty cool feeling.
I LOVE IT when that happens.
It feels so weird swinging your right arm in the sky with your left arm as if isn't your arm at all -- it feels like you're holding a corpse's arm wtf. I've eventried and purposely slept in such poses that I'd intentionally cut off circulation to my arms and i'd then wake up in the middle of the night - jump off my bed and actually feel arm-less for a few moments. My arms then feel like they're clinging onto me like partially cut-off joints -- it feels FUCKED UP for sure, but oh so interesting.
I'm not fully aware if this might actually be damaging to any nerves or muscle tissue in my arms, which would sound very logical as oxygen supply gets blocked to them though. I also suffer from low blood tension, meaning my blood circulation is simply a lot easier to obstruct than for example someone's with a high blood tension.
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I remember putting my undies in the toilet instead of the washing machine quite a bit at a young age, sucks having to fish them out again :(.
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Another thing related to whoevers post: Alot of times Ill wake up literally 5 seconds before my alarm goes off, and right when I open my eyes the alarm scares the crap outta me. Now whenever I set my alarm, I try not to look at the clock so I wont set off my mental clock.