What's "normal"? I don't start dreaming as I fall asleep. Well I might, but I don't remember. I either have "racing mind" and can't actually get to sleep or I ... just fall asleep.
On the other end though I sometimes wake up in a state where I sort of seem to know I'm awake but not really awake yet. I guess that's still dreaming. Sometimes I try to control the dream but it often fails because I actually move my real body and I wake up and I have that "daaang, I wanted to keep dreaming" sensation. But then it's too late.
However, as hard as I try, I can't remember more than the fact that I was in that state even just hours later, never mind now. Except for very few times. Like I still have one specific split second memory of a nightmare I had when I was a kid (like 30 years ago) and woke up from it. But I can't remember anything but some sort of vague "brown paper lunch box head monster" thing.
You might experience mind-wandering "dreams" while in shallow sleep, but they're not true dreams, and this stage is a brief transitory stage into NREM sleep, during which no dreams happen.
I can't speak for normal, only what I experience. In my experience, I rest and close my eyes. Scene change. There may or may not be dreams remembered, and then I wake up.
Generally, the earlier stages of sleep are categorized by more "deep" sleep, with REM (dreams) occurring later. Narcolepsy Type 1 (NT1) is characterized by inappropriately entering REM sleep, likely due to a deficiency in orexin-producing neurons.
.. definitely not for me. I just descend into progressive unconsciousness, dreaming starts way later when I'm already out cold for an hour. Not once have they started when I was falling asleep
Yeah this is me too. I've always thought this is normal. I don't experience any primary symptoms (e.g. sudden bouts of sleep or cataplexy), so it's probably no real cause for concern.
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It's not normal to start dreaming as you fall asleep ? I thought that's how you know you're falling asleep? That you're starting to see the dreams?
What's "normal"? I don't start dreaming as I fall asleep. Well I might, but I don't remember. I either have "racing mind" and can't actually get to sleep or I ... just fall asleep.
On the other end though I sometimes wake up in a state where I sort of seem to know I'm awake but not really awake yet. I guess that's still dreaming. Sometimes I try to control the dream but it often fails because I actually move my real body and I wake up and I have that "daaang, I wanted to keep dreaming" sensation. But then it's too late.
However, as hard as I try, I can't remember more than the fact that I was in that state even just hours later, never mind now. Except for very few times. Like I still have one specific split second memory of a nightmare I had when I was a kid (like 30 years ago) and woke up from it. But I can't remember anything but some sort of vague "brown paper lunch box head monster" thing.
You might experience mind-wandering "dreams" while in shallow sleep, but they're not true dreams, and this stage is a brief transitory stage into NREM sleep, during which no dreams happen.
I can't speak for normal, only what I experience. In my experience, I rest and close my eyes. Scene change. There may or may not be dreams remembered, and then I wake up.
Generally, the earlier stages of sleep are categorized by more "deep" sleep, with REM (dreams) occurring later. Narcolepsy Type 1 (NT1) is characterized by inappropriately entering REM sleep, likely due to a deficiency in orexin-producing neurons.
It is atypical for REM sleep where most vivid dreaming occurs to start immediately or shortly after falling asleep.
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/stages-of-sleep
.. definitely not for me. I just descend into progressive unconsciousness, dreaming starts way later when I'm already out cold for an hour. Not once have they started when I was falling asleep
Yeah this is me too. I've always thought this is normal. I don't experience any primary symptoms (e.g. sudden bouts of sleep or cataplexy), so it's probably no real cause for concern.