Has anyone ever dreamt that they were dreaming? It's happened to me a couple of times and it's a strange one. I wake up in the dream and the dream continues until the real me wakes up.
Yes, Tom. A long time ago and I had forgotten about it. I also remember being in a bad dream one time and was aware in the dream that I had the power to wake myself up. I remember it took great concentration to make that happen but worked. That was also a long time ago. I haven't had a bad dream in quite awhile.
I'm curious about dementia in old age if it happens in dreams, as well. I forget my dreams the second I wake up. Or I don't remember having dreamt or not as soon as I get up in the morning. I think, ever since I turned 51, I stopped dreaming in my sleep. .
When I was the Director of EMS for a small city ambulance company in Texas, I was also the health and building inspector. Since most of our EMS calls were at night, it wasn't unusual for me to be tired during the days when I still had to come in to work because of a scheduled inspection or something. One day, I was taking a nap on one of our spare stretchers in the ambulance garage when I woke up hearing the city manager saying something to someone else that had to do with the ambulance service. Thinking they were going to come into the ambulance station, I quickly got up and pretended to be doing something else. Sometime later, I woke up to find that I was still lying on the stretcher asleep, and that I had only dreamed about waking up and getting up off of the stretcher. It was a little confusing for a while, but no one had come into the ambulance station after all.
I had a strange dream about Putin last night, I was doing something doubtful concerning metal recycling with a male friend, when Putin appeared out of the bushes but instead of remonstrating with me, starting talking in a friendly way while holding my hand, his grip was firm and warm, what it all meant I can't imagine, but maybe I need some therapy. We had been discussing him at length the evening before, so I guess that was what stimulated it.