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Weird half-asleep half-awake behavior. Crazy much?

So often when I wake up I'm a little crazy. For some reason no matter what I'm dreaming about be it ponies or candy or demons or whatever I'll wake up and randomly kind of "see" something vague. Basically I'll think there's a spider or other bug that's either one me, coming to me or just plain threatening me. I then freak out and jump out of bed and basically am totally insane for a few seconds. Now if someone is there like if they woke me up or something that will keep me in reality. I don't think I've ever gone insane when someone wakes me up but only when I wake up alone. But when it happens I leap out of bed. Sometimes I'll shake my blanket around as if looking for a bug or something. Then a few seconds later think "what the crap am I doing?" and go back to sleep. I'm not even afraid of bugs though I dislike being surprised by them. :P Also when that doesn't happen if I've forgotten to do something important I'll immediately think about it. Like if I forgot to do some work when I wake up that'll be the first thing on my mind no matter what. Even if my dream had nothing to do with it. It'll just randomly pop into my head. Lastly I have trouble going to sleep and often just get stuck in a half asleep half awake thing. Not stuck but it's like I'm almost consciously in almost a dream state. Though nowhere near the dreaming level my imagination is so much more powerful. Things will just pop into my head clear as day as if I'm looking at it. If I'm having writer's block for my web page design or graphic design I'll go to sleep and often an idea from literally nowhere will pop into my head for it. I don't even have to think about it. I'll suddenly see a clear picture of what I could make this website look like and it'll be a great design. Some of my best designs come from random flashes when I'm trying to sleep. Heck, I just won a comic contest from a funny comic idea that popped into my head out of nowhere in my nigh-sleep but not quite sleep mode. It's like my imagination gets a significant boost and gives me flashes of inspiration I can only get in the neigh-sleep zone. That or someone is tunneling images into my head somehow. :P Is this normal?

Public Comments

1. Sorry, I don't know about most of it, but half conscious dreaming is called lucid dreaming/dream control. Some people, it comes easily. Others, you have to practice. :)
2. Don't worry about it, millinons of people go through this everynight