Right, so I had my first experience of a false awakening, or double dream.
I woke up, at first I didn't notice a thing, then something little was odd.. I got the strangest feeling of misplacement, "did I leave that cup there..?" or "is there someone else in here..?" then I was back in bed, waking up again.
The misplaced details, about one per false awakening, included things like weird sounds outside, suddenly the time of day was way off like I'd slept for 10h instead of one, all windows wide open, odd lighting all around, different sofa in the living room with its top layer of cloth peeled right off, and one time my front door was slightly open.
As I went to see what the hell was going on with the door, there was an empty plastic bag just lying around with some, I don't know, remains of whatever liquid inside. Then my grandpa appeared from behind the door, looked very serious and tried to tell me something, I couldn't figure out what it was. I got a really damn creepy feeling, then I found myself back in bed, again.
After some five times of waking up it started to really bug me, always returning to the exactly same point in bed, as I started to gather some kind of understanding that perhaps this was indeed a dream.
I got up, tried to search for the clue of still being in a dream and thus achieving the blurry return to the start. It happened gradually faster, I could almost force myself just to "blur out" back to bed in the end. Still took about ten or eight awakenings after that before I finally turned on my back, stared at the ceiling and all the details around me, colors that had no weird post processing and the fact that I could sit in front of my computer and see that the internet was just the way I'd left it, making even less sense than in my dreams, convinced me that it was the real real.
It's funny, I'd left some music on, after all I was just having an hour nap (I actually even remember punching my alarm off, hmm), I kinda recall it playing during the whole dream and I usually don't remember any kind of sounds from my dreams.
Figures, music used to have a very strange role in my life for the last three or four years.
I hate false awakenings too. They're such a pain in the ass. Some mornings I have to do the same stuff like twice just because my brain has refused to wake up for _real_ :D
ReplyDeleteI once 'woke up' like 4 times in a row. On one occasion I was hinted that this wasn't real because as soon as I had looked outside (and it was night, like I'd slept 10 h extra like you mentioned too) there was a zombie peering down at me from the roof :|
Zombies! Awesome, uhm, I guess :D.
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