this is being observed since the last 5 years, i don't remember when was the last time i had A COMPLETE sleep.IT IS ALWAYS INTHE PHASE BETWEEN SLEEP & AWAKEN.MANY A TIMES ,I SPEND HOURS THINKING RATHER THAN DREAMING [while sleeping]A TINY RAY OF LIGHT ANY MOVEMENT IN THE REMOTE CORNER OF THE ROOM SLIGHTEST NOISE ALL THIS WAKES ME UP IMMEDIATELY ...BASICALLY NOCTURNAL BUT WISH TO ENJOY SLEEP EVEN FOR JUST FEW HOURS ....WILL THIS ALWAYS REMAIN A DESIRE ....HOPE NOT....
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If you are constantly in the REM phase of sleep I would recommend seeing a psychiatrist.  Although you probably do feel energized upon getting out of bed I am positive that it is not healthy because of the things accomplished in Deep Sleep and Stages 3-4
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Hun we are addicted to boredom lol--I should go to bed too but I am mesmerized by these questions I see here...I come here to lull myself to sleep--which makes no sense because I reached my goal and still I don't want to move!! lol.Give Us Strength to find our beds!
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maybe you are having an OBE (out of body experiance) You arent fully asleep when this happens.
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You aren't just about to drift off to sleep, you have actually been asleep and the brain is transitioning into REM,or 3rd stage of sleep.   In preparation, the brain paralyzes the muscles of the body so you don't act out your dreams.  For whatever reason, your are being jolted out of this stage into a lighter state.  From what you say, it sounds like you are starting to snore, and the snork could be the snore that is startling you.  If you are sleeping on your back, this could be due to your own tongue slipping back in your mouth, partially blocking your airway, and as you gasp/snore for breath, you wake yourself.   You aren't completely waking, but it's enough for you to be partially aware.  Jolting out of the transition is somewhat like catching your computer just as it starts going into standby mode, and asking it to do a file search.  It would do some wiggy things in the next seconds, as it converted from the standby to full working mode.  Your brain is not much different.    You are entering dream sleep, so wiggy hallucinations, as you called them, happen then.  The brain in dream state is not fully functioning in the same way it does when you are fully awake.  Because you are being jolted out of the transition/3rd stage back into the lighter 1st stage, you are getting some funky impressions before things settle back down again.\n  Try sleeping on your side, at least for falling asleep. Try adjusting your pillow to support you neck a little better.  Andjust relax about it all.  There's nothing abnormal in any of this, is the way things are supposed to work, except you aren't supposed to be aware of it all happening.   Snorks and all, it's all normal.  Nothing to worry about, nothing to lose sleep over.
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In my experience, the nightime creates a sort of 'bubble' around your consciousness - in the same way that sitting in a room while it storms outside does.  It isolates and envelopes you, and removes stimulation.  So, logically, you're left to ruminate on what's occupying your conscious mind at the time. Also, life, ostensibly anyway, appears to 'slow down' at night.  It is the designated time for relaxation, sleep and general recuperation (traditionally, anyway!). So with less external influences to 'dilute' or 'put in perspective' your thought stream, so any issues will seem like the only things happening to you and your entire reality.
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It's called sleep paralysis and is quite common.  Yes, you were asleep at least partially.\nhttp://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/S_P.html\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html\nhttp://www.trionica.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
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I know exactly what you are talking about... I seem to be conscious, yet I cannot move... I see everything that's around me in the dark room, my eyes seem to be open, but are they ?   .. how long this lasts, I dont know, but I'm conscious enough to say to myself, "this is just a dream, its going to go away"\nIt has happened several times to me to be dreaming especially about flying and saying to myself, "When I wake up, this is what I'll do to be able to leave the ground, its so easy" \nOr to dream about places I've never been to in real life, but to which I go back often in my dreams.  Dreams are weird things but without them we would not be able to live.  I'm only surmising this, but I wonder if its not the brain winding down after so much activity during the day.
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You need to forget your dreams, and to take them blue pills, but if you are on to something, then I'll say yes they are visiting us and whisper things to come in our ears when we sleep. There is belief in a rotation of the universe, as well as the planet and celestrial bodies in motion. A better question, is  where are we going?
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They ARE in fact "out of it"......however, the subconcsious part of the brain is still at work.  The same part of the brain that is at work when we sleep and have dreams.  When we are asleep, we are in an altered state of consciousness, but our brains are still at work.  It is believed by studies and it is said that our subconscious brain holds thoughts and feelings that we wouldn't convey to anyone else aloud, on purpose or in a complete conscious state.  I have been in the medical field for 7 years now, and am currently going to nursing school and have had experience with this situation.  Like I said, it's arguable to say that what someone says in an unconscious state is not accurate, but it's also arguable on the other side of that too.  Personally..............I believe that what we do or say on a subconscious level IS IN FACT things (emotions, feelings) that we keep "put" away.  Yes, our dreams sometimes are bizzare....but I think that they DO intertwine with conscious thoughts along with subconscious....they're just scrambled in a weird order and don't seem to relate to one another because they do seem so bizzare.  It is definitely a fact for sure that UNLESS WE ARE IN A "VEGETABLE" OR BRAIN DEAD STATE...our brain is ALWAYS at work....always.  Whether we think it to be or not.  It's a very complex organ that is hard to figure out!!!!  But yes, I believe that what someone says coming out of anesthesia has SOME form of truth to it that relates to their thoughts or feelings.  May not make a whole lot of sense, or seem mean, or whatever....and that's because it's coming from subconscious and you've never heard of it before because they've never shared that information with you.  Perplexing, isn't it??  :)     Oh yeah, if you ask them about it later, they probably won't remember it.  There are parts of our subconscious that even WE don't have access to.  Good luck.  Hope that helps without confusing you too much!!!!
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you're always dreaming when you sleep, when you wake up and cant remember is because you've entered into a really deep rem sleep most likely from being so tired from being run down all day....you have to lighten your rem sleep in order to recall you dreams ad good way to do this (even though it's annoying) is to set your alarm to various odd hours at night. it'll wake you from your slumber and going back to bed after that might keep you from entering rem too deeply. also waking up speratically sometimes also makes you feel more rested when you get out of bed in the mourning
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Studies show that the number of hours is not the main factor - what is more important is the number of complete sleep cycles. Each sleep cycle lasts an average of 90 minutes and contains five distinct phases, which exhibit different brain-wave patterns: 65 minutes of normal, or non-REM (rapid eye movement), sleep; 20 minutes of REM sleep (dream state); and a further 5 minutes of non-REM sleep.  The REM sleep phases are shorter during earlier cycles (less than 20 minutes) and longer during later ones.  If we were to sleep completely naturally, with no alarm clocks or other sleep disturbances, we would usually wake up after a multiple of 90 minutes, e.g. after 4.5 hours, 6 hours, 7.5 hours or 9 hours, but not after 7 or 8 hours, which are not multiples of 90 minutes.\n\nA person sleeping only four cycles (6 hours) will feel more rested than someone who's slept for 8 to 10 hours but not been allowed to complete a cycle due to being woken up before it was completed.\n\nI have also heard from various sources that scientists are developing a new type of alarm clock that would detect the phase of your sleep and wake you when the current cycle is complete, so as not to disturb the cycle and ensure that you are as fresh upon waking as possible.  (I heard this over a year ago and have been waiting for its release, as I have a medical condition that means I am almost constantly fatigued.)
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To answer this question you need to understand the sleeping stages.\nMany people think of their sleeping bodies as if they were cars parked for the night--motionless, engines off, headlights dimmed. But sleep is an amazingly complex state of being. As we sleep, muscles tense and relax. Pulse, temperature and blood pressure rise and fall. Chemicals crucial for well-being course through the blood stream. The brain, like a Hollywood director, conjures up fantastic stories, complete with a plot, characters and action. \n\nYou don't simply "fall" asleep. You descend slowly through different levels. As you close your eyes and drift off, you enter the first stage of what is called quiet sleep. Your brain produces irregular, rapid waves, and muscle tension decreases. You breathe smoothly, and mundane thoughts float through your mind. If roused, you might jerk awake quickly and deny that you'd slept at all. \n\nIn stage 2 of quiet sleep, your brain waves become larger, punctuated by occasional sudden bursts of electrical activity. You've definitely crossed the border between wakefulness and sleep. If someone lifted your eyelids gently, you wouldn't waken; your eyes no longer respond to stimuli. \n\nAs you descend into stage 3, your brain waves become slower and bigger. In this state of deep slumber, your bodily functions slow down even more. Finally stepping into stage 4, you reach deepest sleep, the most profound state of unconsciousness. On an EEG (electroencephalogram), your brain waves would appear extremely large and slow. You are so "dead to the world" that a thunderstorm might not wake you. \n\nThis step-by-step journey into oblivion usually takes more than an hour. Then you begin to climb upward, moving rapidly through the same sleep stages as before, not all the way to full wakefulness but in active sleep. Because the pupils dart back and forth, this stage is called Rapid Eye Movement or REM sleep. (The four stages of quiet sleep are often referred to as non-REM or NREM sleep.) \n\nDuring REM, your brain waves resemble those of waking rather than of quiet sleep. The large muscles of your torso, arms and legs are paralyzed, although your fingers and toes may twitch. You breathe quickly and slowly, the flow of blood through your brain accelerates. REM sleep is the time of vivid dreaming, and if wakened, you'd probably recall a fragment of a fantasy. \n\nAfter about ten minutes in REM sleep, you descend the sleep staircase again. The entire cycle of REM and NREM stages takes roughly 90 minutes. Early in the night, the periods spent in the deepest stages of quiet sleep are longer. In the second half of the night, REM sleep predominates. By morning, you go around the sleep circuit four or five times. \n\nThis pattern changes gradually throughout life. From infancy to adulthood, REM periods dwindle to less than a quarter of a night's sleep. By their thirties, men spend less time in the very deep stages of NREM sleep. Women begin to sleep less deeply in their fifties. By age 65, both sexes spend half as much time in deep sleep as they did when they were 25. The lighter sleep stages increase later in life, and REM shrinks to about a fifth of total sleep time.
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This exact same thing happens to me and it comes and goes.  I usually wake up between 3 am and  5 am...usually falling asleep around 6 am and having to wake up at 7 for work.  I really do not know why this happens, but I have searched and found that it could be a form of insomnia. I have tried everyhing from getting out of bed watching TV to laying in bed tossing and turning...nothing can get me to go back to bed!  I hate it!!!!  I take melatonin and magnesium supplements at night before bed..if you dont, I would suggest it.
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What you describe is a normal phenomena.  There are four states or stages of sleep- the first being simply a drousy state when you would still consider yourself awake, or very nearly so.  The second stage is when you no longer have conscious awareness of your surroundings, and will awaken fairly easily.  Just prior to the third stage, the brain immobilizes muscles in preparation for the third stage- dream or REM state.  This prevents or at least inhibits to a large degree- muscle movement, so you don't act out your dreams.  The 4th stage is a very deep state, which takes a bit to rouse from.  If you awaken during the transition into or out of 3rd stage sleep, it is usual to be disoriented and to feel somewhat frozen and out of control of your body.    The brain has to "reboot" everything to allow you to take full conscious control.  Normally this only takes a few seconds, and is why when you first wake you usually yawn and stretch before really feeling fully awake.  It should pass within a few seconds, as you return to complete waking state. \n  It isn't anything as exotic as astral travel or projection, it's a normal sleepy brain reaction.  You have simply become wakeful before the system fully booted.  It's happened to most people, usually if they are woken when they weren't expecting to be, or earlier than they they probably should be.
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I found that if think about all the things that I found destressing in past dreams just before I go to sleep. that they do not appear that night.  It's sort of facing your fears. When your sleeping your hidden fears in your subconcious come forward in your dreams. But if you face them while awake, then they are no longer in your subconcious etc.\nTry it, it works for me. If not then your best bet is to see a professional.
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"It's a common thing amongst Time Travellers." I've experienced De-je vue millions if not billions of times, no joke, most of the time, I'm sure I've experienced stuff in dreams. When it happens it lasts for up to a minute and I can accurately describe what events will occur round me during those moments. I wonder how many people are going to give a religious answer to this?! :0)
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It sounds like you are suffering from sleep deprevation of what is called REM sleep which is the sixth level of sleep!  It IS caused by RLS and sleep apnea!\n\nYou are falling asleep during the day right!  Tired.\n\nSee our brains need sleep they only get to unwind on the level of sleep called REM for rapid eye movement!  At this level our breathing and other functions are on automatic. They are handled by the lower brain!  Our upper brain is free to unwind!  During this time our eyes dart around!  Now if our legs twitch,  This causes the brain to receive a stimilus and it drops out of REM!  Likewise if our breathing either stops in the case of central apnea or is blocked off in the case of obstructive apnea  the lack of oxygen in the brain causes it to signal the lungs to gasp for air! Now it does this while we are still in level one thru five of sleep!  So we do not know what is happening!  But our poor brain is not sleeping!!  Our body can get 10 hours of sleep and yet we are TIRED!\n\nI really think you should inquire about a sleep study!  That I think Apnea is the cause of your Hypersomnia!  I ABSOLUTELY KNOW ONE HUNDRED PERCENT THAT RLS ALONE WILL DISTURB YOUR SLEEP AT REM LEVEL!!!!!\n\nYOU NEED AN OVERNIGHT SLEEP STUDY TO SEE WHAT IS WRONG!  I DO NOT THINK MEDICATION IS NECESSARY EXCEPT FOR THE RLS!  THERE ARE SEVERAL DRUGS AVAILABLE FOR IT!  IF YOU GO TO A SLEEP CLINIC THEY WILL FIND OUT THE SPECIFICS!\n\nI GO TO A NEUROLOGIST AND A SLEEP DOCTOR BOTH!\n\nYOU NEED TO GO TO A SLEEP SPECIALIST !\n\nI am 61 and I feel like I am 30 I am using a CPAP device nightly and I wish I had gotten it earlier!  See I did not go until I actually DIED for a few minutes on the operating table in a simple operation! Within a month I was at one of those Sleep Clinics and I met my best new buddy my CPAP machine which I use nightly!  God only knows how my life would of come out if I would of had it earlier!  I have so much more energy than I ever did!\n\nI am telling you you really need to get checked out!  It makes all the difference in the world!  The RLS is one pill just before bed!\n\nGo to a clinic please! It will take care of BOTH YOUR PROBLEMS\n\n\nAPS\n\nTHIS IS FROM MERK MANUALS:\n"Hypersomnia may also be a symptom of sleep apnea or a psychologic disorder (such as severe anxiety or depression). Chronic hypersomnia that begins during adolescence may be a symptom of narcolepsy. Hypersomnia may also result from overuse of sleep aids.\n\n\nWhen evaluating a person who has become excessively sleepy, doctors ask about the person's mood, sleep-wake schedule, and use of drugs. Often, a sleep partner can describe the person's sleep abnormalities best. These abnormalities may include snoring and breathing pauses (which suggest obstructive sleep apnea) as well as grinding of teeth, kicking, and sleepwalking. Doctors "