What is the cause of these weird naps?!
Question: I usually like to take naps after my morning classes. However, sometimes after I wake up I am still a little lazy to get up so I take a nap for a few more minutes.
Sometimes though I find it difficult to actually go to sleep. It feels as if something is rushing through my head and pulling me down. When I do get to sleep though, I realize that I am in a dream and in the dream there is always something that makes me want to wake up.
For example, today I woke up from a nice nap but when back to sleep again because I was still a little tired. Then all of a sudden as I am sleeping it feels like everything is shaking and a voice asks a question that I don't remember. I then remember waking up and answering it then falling back asleep and the voice responding again to my answer. I try to wake up as soon as possible because it freaks me out but it all happens in slow motion and something is pulling me down from waking me up. Eventually though I wake up.
It may be REM, but I am not sure.
Answers: I usually like to take naps after my morning classes. However, sometimes after I wake up I am still a little lazy to get up so I take a nap for a few more minutes.
Sometimes though I find it difficult to actually go to sleep. It feels as if something is rushing through my head and pulling me down. When I do get to sleep though, I realize that I am in a dream and in the dream there is always something that makes me want to wake up.
For example, today I woke up from a nice nap but when back to sleep again because I was still a little tired. Then all of a sudden as I am sleeping it feels like everything is shaking and a voice asks a question that I don't remember. I then remember waking up and answering it then falling back asleep and the voice responding again to my answer. I try to wake up as soon as possible because it freaks me out but it all happens in slow motion and something is pulling me down from waking me up. Eventually though I wake up.
It may be REM, but I am not sure.
Since this question is very similar to one you posted earlier - just in case you did not read that/my answer there - I am re-posting it for your convenience if you don't mind.
Original Q. "Is it REM" by Brent
"REM is tied in to the waking/sleep cycle. That cycle occurs about every 90 minutes. In other words...... you can compare that with a sine wave building up, the amplitude.... peaks and troughs ever getting larger towards the morning. There are about five such highs and lows during the night - depending how long you sleep.
Dreaming (REM) usually happens on the positive peak. That's why dreams are more vivid before waking up.
Many people make the mistake trying to sleep when they hit the wrong part of the cycle which would be the positive part.
"when I try to wake up it feels as if I am in slow-motion and something is pulling me down not allowing me to wake up." Interesting what you said here...... There is more than one type of state of mind, consciousness. We all kow about the waking consciousness where time flows in a "normal" fashin as we experience it. However, that does not apply to the dream world or consciousness. There time is VERY flexible. Many studies have been done in dream labs where people were wired up to EEG machines etc watching out for REM. The researchers then woke up the dreamer and he/she had to recall the dream. Suppose the dream lasted 5 minutes..... what was surprising was that if the content of the dream was spread out according how "real" time in the waking consciousness was measured/flows, those five minutes would have taken let's say half an hour in the waking world. In the dream world time can be enormously compressed or expanded..... relative to what we are accustomed to time running in the waking state.
Another good example how time runs in an altered state is when let's say...... someone falls off a 10th floor balcony and lands on an awning or in some tree and survives. What most people tell after is that they saw their whole life rolling like a movie before their "eyes". It can be said that time truly is a fiction of the mind - absolutely not rigid by any means.
The brain actually does not dream - it is rather the etheric shells that surround the body where the consciousness resides. There are different and distinct layers of the aura which can be measured. We may also look at Astral Traveling where time and space has no limitations.
I hope this gives you some insight....
Your dreaming, dreams can be really weird.