[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Nick Wedig]

>weirdy sleep conditions reminds me of a cool thing i read a while back. a
>comic writer (can't remember his name, he did that steampunk thing) was
>talking about a condition he has called hypno-something (yes, i know this
>story is missing several key words already). basically it caused his
>subconscious to carry on firing off randomly for about ten minutes or so
>after he'd woken up and his conscious took over. this would cause him to
>carry on seeing and hearing the sort of mad shit that normally gets reserved
>for dreams, like little gnomes dancing round his bed or strange faces
>peering through the walls at him. sort of like the "funky hallucinations"
>part of schizophrenia without the "depressive psychosis" part. bonus!

Since everyone else is pointing out times they've had Sleep Paralysis and the like, I feel left out.  But I've had this happen before.  Not often, and it never really lasted long, but images from dreams would continue as I was up and walking around.  More real than if I imagined them, but not I knew it was just an image in my head.

Anyway, it seems to have gone away when I went to college, which messed with my dreaming in other ways as well.  Before that, I had no more than ten dreams in my life which I was aware of upon awaking (not dreams that I remembered, just dreams that immediately upon waking up you were able to say "I was dreaming").  Upon going off to college, I began having dreams most times I sleep, as often as normal.  I always thought that was weird.

Mr. Teapot
always felt vaguely left out as a child

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