Why do dreams do this?

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The other night I was having a well cool dream about this huge, giant slide that went into a deep ball pit, and it was for adults only. It was just my family there, but most of the dream was spent waiting for them to finish eating, drinking and dithering about, which seemed to go on for hours. Then when we did finally start to climb up the steps to go down the huge slide, my alarm went off and I woke up. I set the alarm for another 20 minutes so I could get back to my dream and slide down the slide but I didn't dream at all (even if I did I probably wouldn't have continued the same dream).

Dreams often do this to me - something really exciting is about to happen but there are lots of distractions throughout the whole dream, then when the exciting bit does finally happen the bloody alarm goes off.

Does this happen to you? Why do dreams sometimes do this?

Dreaming knows no sense of time.

The person's head -- memory and being conscious while asleep in real time though, it's another story.


The closer a person is waking up, the more likely they remember and be aware of the dream.

Also it definitely happens abruptly -- one moment in a deep state where one would dream, the next one would hear the damn alarm.
It likely meant this person isn't supposed to wake up (naturally) yet.

And yes, that happened too often to me too.

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Dreams are designed to keep you asleep.

So the storyline gives you anticipation for something about to happen in order to keep you involved.

Many folks have "anxiety nightmares" about things like "flunking out of school" (even though you're middle aged and havent been in school in decades). I get those once in a while. Your thing may be the flip side of the same type of dream.

My theory is that you get dreams like that because you simply dont have enough covers on, and your body is tensed from the cold so your mind creates a dream with a storyline about anxiety (which also tenses up your muscles). Or it maybe a way to keep you from soiling yourself because you have to "go to the bathroom".

When you dream, do you realize you're in a dream? If so, you may be able to take some control to move the story along. I do that sometimes to make things less scary or to draw out something fun. Can't hurt you to try it anyway. I started as a child (way to get some control over nightmares), but I imagine it's possible to learn as an adult.

Hahahahaha! Yes. The same thing has happened to me in the past! And one is thinking "I have time to sleep for another 20 to 30 minutes" so one falls asleep and an hour later gets woken up by my Mum "You're late!"....
And then I am like Mr Bean in a hurry trying to get somewhere fast!