#sleep things

[marisashorror]

Anyone else have this weird feeling when theyre trying to go to sleep like something is shrinking to the tiniest thing and then growing to the biggest thing ever? Its not a visual thing, more of a feeling or something you "see" in your minds eye.

Its not a dream, bc sometimes it happens when Ive just closed my eyes. It doesn't feel like vertigo or anything like that. The "impression" is like a giant, looming thing like a planet, which then shrinks down to something like a tiny apple core.

Both the hypnogogic hallucinations and this size change thing used to happen all the time when I was a kid. Now its less frequent, but the size change thing just happened today when I tried to take a nap.

It's not like something im perceiving to be in the room with me. Its like its all happening in my head. I can "feel the size change in my teeth somehow. It feels similar to hypnogogic hallucinations I used to have, but distinct from them.

[sleepicore]

Do you take naps?

✅️YES! I love taking naps <3

✅️I like to / used to, but I usually don't have time

✅️I like to / used to, but can't fall asleep when I try to.

💛Sometimes; I prefer to just get all my rest when I go to sleep for the night

💛Sometimes; only if I didn't get enough sleep the night before for some reason.

❌️Nah, I don't like naps unless I'm really sick or exhausted

❌️Nah, I don't like naps; they usually don't help / make me feel MORE tired

❌️No, I never take naps

🤔 Some other nuanced answer! (talk abt it in the tags)

Voting ended onAug 22, 2024

[chestersbraincell]

Ya’ll ever have dream sensations creep into real life. Like last night my ass was getting CHASED and I woke up lowkey exhausted and a lil out of breath like hello??? Sleep was supposed to be restfull?? That shit was supposed to stay in the head???

[ahnsael]

I haven’t slept well in a month...until yesterday.

My mistake? I was thinking, “It’s cold as heck outside, I should blanket-burrito myself.”

And then I would maneuver it so my feet were sticking out the bottom, because I was too hot.

Even then, I was too warm, but felt that I needed to be covered.

Last night I realized...I’m often cold in bed during the summer, because our AC is on.

This time of year, the heat is on (with apologies to Glenn Frey).

Yesterday afternoon, as I was sleeping before work, I realized that I should eschew the blankets and sleep without them. Let the heater keep me warm, but not so warn that I spend my night waking up over and over again in discomfort from the heat.

It worked like a charm.

I hope it works again today.

[atouchofmidnight]

does anyone else judge their fatigue level by the weird amorphous feelings behind their eyes?

like rn mine are OPEN and BLINKING and MOVING AROUND WITHOUT EFFORT so that means I woke up naturally between REM cycles and for right now my brain feels like it got a fair amount of rest and I’m ok

[rum-and-shattered-dreams]

I envy y'all who can sleep sitting up or leaning over a desk...

[arsenicfox]

So I’m currently helping train assistance dogs, and my partners had our dog last night. To make a long story short, last night I abruptly woke up for some reason and legit spent a sleep haze fueled delirious minute thinking one of my pillows was the dog and petting it/talking to it because when I looked at my pillow it looked like our dog.

This is the third time this has happened since I started working with the dogs.

It’s really common for me to get very brief visual hallucinations upon immediately waking from a deep sleep (I also get sleep paralysis a lot, the two kind of go hand-in-hand), but I usually see a person standing by my bed, or a face on the wall, or a bug on my bed (i.e. Creepy stuff) so even though it makes me feel like an idiot I’m loving the transition to dog hallucinations :’)