I have slept with my eyes open all my life. This is nothing new. I've seen video and pictures of myself sleeping, my wife tells me it happens etc. So its fact. But something has changed just in the past year and its starting to happen more frequently.. I will summerize the situation then give my 3 most recent examples in detail. Basically my brain is starting to process the information that my eyes are seeing in real time while i'm asleep and my dream state has no control of this. I'm in my dream walking talking moving myself like any other dream, but I can't escape what the image is in my dream, and usually its just a static image, because when you are asleep you head isn't moving. So for an example heres what happened the 3 most recent times. example # 1 I fall asleep on my couch. Suddenly I am dreaming looking through my eyes in my house out a window. I can't quite remember what I could see out the window but it was sorta dark. Then all the sudden there is a bright light and I see a persons head, I have a confusion and fear and I think someone is trying to get in my window and is using a bright flashlight to see inside. I wake up in terror. When I wake up I realise I fell asleep with the TV on . I have a huge TV. I guess the program before was kinda dark, but when I woke up it was a bright picture with a news reporter on the screen doing a report from outside. So my brain processed what my eyes were seeing while I was asleep, but didn't interpret what It was seeing correcttly. This always leads me to wake up in confusion and terror. example #2 I am dreaming I am in my bedroom standing up looking into my bathroom. for some reason my head is stuck against a black wall. Nothing terrifying yet. Then I try to look around the room. I can feel my legs moving and my head turning, but wherever I look I see the same thing. Its a static image. My head is always against this wall, the doorway is always in front of my, I wave my hands in front of my eyes, I can feel them but I can't see them. I start to really get freaked out and I wake up startled and confused. I realise the wall my head was stuck to was just my head resting on the bed. and I was facing the bathroom that joins my bedroom. Interestingly enough, when this dream/reality happens my brain always processes what I'm seeing as if i'm standing up, even though i'm laying down and everything is turned 90 degrees....thus my head against a wall instead of laying on a bed. Example #3 I dream there is a man standing in my bedroom doorway, I yell at him to go away get out of here but he just stand there. He doesn't come closer he doesn't go away he doesn't talk. I can't get up and move towards him. I wake up startled and confused. Turns out the man was a shirt hanging on a hanger from my bedpost, positioned so that from where i was laying it lined up with my view of the door. When ever this cross information happens in my dreams its never pleasant and always frightening and confusing. I believe my brain is confused with processing both pathways of information at once and thats why it always lead to terror. Anyone ever heard of this?
I've heard of that. it's weird. Do you blink when you are sleeping or do you wake up with really dry eyes?
Yea alot of times my eyes are red and teary. Alot of times I have dried tears on the corners of my eyes when i wake up, so I probably don't blink much
