There are different stages of sleep. The drifty off can still hear the cats mucking about (annoying) bit, the shallow almost asleep legs jerking (annoying) bit, and the zonked flat out, snoring away, cats have gone downstairs thank goodness (not annoying as I am dead to the world) bit. We all do most of those stages even if we don't think we do.
Now there are proper names for those stages of sleep, but I think my way describes them quite adequately. I don't always get that jerky leg bit. You know, the stage where you are almost there, half conscious, and your legs jerk like you are falling off a building. Very annoying, and you usually fully wake up again. I have no idea why it happens but I expect I'll go off and Google it later, as usual! I also expect I'll put a link at the end of this blog, as usual.
I dream a lot. I expect everyone does but they don't always remember them. I also apparently shout a lot in my dreams! It seems that I like to wake Neil up even when I am asleep. Poor man. It appears I also like to fidget in my sleep. How do I know this? Complaints from Neil, which is why he often is sleeping in another bedroom, and the faint awareness a cat has thumped off the bed at some point where I've shoved them. They get straight back on the bed so it's obviously not their choice to get off! I know I 'star fish', but it's usually because I'm trying to fit my legs round the cats. That happens in my slightly aware sleepy bit as I shuffle about. Once, years ago Neil and I decided to shut the cats out of the bedroom. The ensuing howls of despair, scratching at the door, and more howls of 'help we are all alone out here' meows went on for three nights before we gave up. Yes, it's very obvious we should have done that from the beginning, but hey ho. There is nothing like a cute kitten snuggling up to you, purring away, when you are drifting off to sleep. Now we have four cats snuggling up, purring away, when we are drifting off to sleep. At least they cuddle the legs end not the face!
So, last night I actually woke myself up by calling out. I recall I was shouting at someone in my dream, warning them, but I haven't a clue about the rest of the dream. I'm a pretty prolific dreamer. I can even control my dreams sometimes. It's rare I have a nightmare, though I have had some, because I can change the dream from being nasty to something nice, or wake myself up. Don't ask me how, but the mind is a powerful thing. Oh, and I have one dream that I have dreamt since I was a teenager. A sort of historical drama thing that I have extended over the years. I have never go to the end, but I know various bits of the dream. I expect it's influenced by things I have read and watched, but I even know everyone's name in the dream.
Sometimes I wake up feeling like I have a hangover, but I haven't had the pleasure of the alcohol. Now that's not so good. I wake up fuzzy and dry mouthed and a bit 'not with it'. I think that must be due to dehydration or sleeping with my mouth open. I suspect I do that now and again. I know I'm not one of these 'sleeping beauties' who look so lovely when they are all fluttery lashed asleep. I snore, I dribble if my mouth is open, I snuffle and talk. I'm sure Neil mutters about me talking so much in the day I should be able to be quiet when I am asleep, but oh no I still talk...!! Ha! He thinks I snore. He rumbles like a train roaring through a tunnel on a dark night, with the odd whistle tooting.
Ah sleep. Humans do it, animals do it, some insects sleep, fish sleep. Some do it more than others (my cats, but sadly not at 2am which is why they sleep all day), and some don't need it much. But we all do it. I wish I could do it more...……..zzzzzzzz.
https://psychcentral.com/lib/stages-of-sleep/
https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/dreaming-overview#1
https://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/wellbeing/news/a29253/hypnic-jerk-before-fall-asleep/
https://www.her.ie/life/heres-why-you-woke-up-with-that-hangover-feeling-when-you-werent-drinking-254149
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