Memory/weird thing happened this morning

Miguel_Sanchez

You know the momentary feeling you get when you wake up and you have to get your bearings, figure out what day it is, where you are etc.

Well this morning I woke up, after about 7 hours sleep and had that moment. Except it lasted much, much longer than usual, maybe 2 mins or so. I knew who I was obviously and where I was but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what day it was and whether or not I should be getting up. In fact, I didn't even know if I had a job to get up to go to.

It was extremely disorientating and I suppose a small glimpse into something of what an amensiac must feel.

Weird. Altogether.

Anyone else ever experience anything like this or have any other weird tricks played on them by their memory or lack thereof?

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Victor

I told you to lay off the drink ... but oh no you had to have 12 pints...

Joking aside, I always wake up knowing where and who I am, drink, no drink, exhaustion, smack on head, daydreaming, whatever. I also have the ability to know to wake up early at weekends (subliminal messages from my weekday alarm clock tell me go back to sleep ).

Waking up aside, I was in a car crash in November and forgot my pin number - I remembered after 2-3 minutes.

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Miguel_Sanchez

Oh yeah I suppose I should point out that I was stone sober going to bed - hadn't had a pint in the previous 4 days.

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K!LL!@N

I've only ever had one real memory failure and it scared me. It involved drink. I lost about 2 or 3 hours and i don't think i'll ever remember them. I did regain some of the time, but it was in the form of a dream. I dreamnt about it but didn't actually think it happened. Needless to say it was amusing to be filled in on what actually happened by other people. Thankfully i haven't repeated this incident.

Miguel_Sanchez

Sure a lot of us have memory gaps due to drink. And I don't mean just little things we don't remember - I mean, hours just completely gone. Tequila is normally to blame in my case, or just solid hard-core drinking sessions.

What I'm talking about though is memory just going for unknown reasons.

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[This message has been edited by Jeff_Lebowski (edited 20-06-2001).]

K!LL!@N

You ever get where you're introduced to someone and straight after they tell you their name you can't remember it? That happens to me sometimes. But i think it's a selective thing. I think my brain instinctively knows i'm not going to have much to do with this person after this meeting.

Magwitch

Though it does seem extreme, I would say that people who awake directly from a very deep state of sleep will experience disorientation (cognitive recognition feeding data to a mind still in slumber mode and unable to process it). This would affect anbody, despite super-human claims to the contrary.

_CreeD_

Once or twice a mont I get this when waking up very slowly. I think the worst lasted for a few minutes, whereby I couldn't even say where I was (I work abroad a lot, so that's not quite as strange as it sounds - still scarey though). It's like you know you have a name, job, whatever you just haven't an inkling of what they are.
Then identity comes tumbling back and you're happy for a second, before you remember you really are in work.....

C B

Nothing like that has happened to me, but I did wake up paralysed once in Germany.
I went over to visit a friend who was on work experience in Koln. I was sleeping on the couch and one morning I woke up and could see everything around me I could see him putting on his shoes and going out the door but I couldn't move a muscle. Lasted for about two minutes. I was as if a certain part of my brian was still asleep. I was freaked out big time and I had to get seriously pis$ed afterwards mmmmm..... weissbeir

Draco

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by C B:
I was as if a certain part of my brian was still asleep. </font>

There is a name for that (which escapes me right now - damn my bad memory) but it is caused by one part of your brain being still asleep. It's fairly common and I don't think there is anything that you can do to stop it.

Puck

Sleep Paralysis?

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Chubby

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Puck:
Sleep Paralysis?</font>

People used to believe they're being visited by ghosts/demons when this happen to them. In recent years, all the silly yanks intepret it as alien abduction. CB, any signs of anal probs being used when that happened? If no then you should be okay...then again them aliens might've wiped ya memory. In fact, Jeff_Lebowski's experience could be just that.

Jim Daniels

I dreamt once that I had woken up from my nights sleep and was lying on my bed. It really felt like I was awake, there was nothing weird going on or anything. The next minute I rolled out of the bed and hit the floor. The second I hit the floor I really woke up and was lying in bed.

What a ****in way to start the day...

_CreeD_

Once or twice a mont I get this when waking up very slowly. I think the worst lasted for a few minutes, whereby I couldn't even say where I was (I work abroad a lot, so that's not quite as strange as it sounds - still scarey though). It's like you know you have a name, job, whatever you just haven't an inkling of what they are.
Then identity comes tumbling back and you're happy for a second, before you remember you really are in work.....

Puck

Did you forget you already said that there _CreeD_?

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Paladin

Ive woken up b4 thinking I was in my own bed, till a few seconds later I realises there isnt grass growing from mud on my bed...

_CreeD_

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Puck:
Did you forget you already said that there _CreeD_?

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'Whoosh' <--- The sound of irony passing over Puck's head....

Puck

Whoosh <--- The sound of sarcasm passing over _CreeD_'s head!

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John (yes THE John!)
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Lucy_la_morte

Now, now children.

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Puck

Deep breaths..... and relax!!

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John (yes THE John!)
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SickBoy

Sometimes when my alarm clock goes off I jump out of bed and just stare at it for ages and wonder how I actually turn it off. I use the same alarm clock for the last 13 years and its usually second nature to just press the snooze button or turn it off but now and then I just don't know how to turn off the damn thing.

Puck

This morning I woke up at about 05:30 and for some reason I thought it was 17:30 and that I had slept through most of the day and missed work. That's been happening a lot lately.

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Jim Daniels

All weird sleep things are here..

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/health/sleepdisorders/library/weekly/aa042099.htm

Victor

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Puck:
This morning I woke up at about 05:30 and for some reason I thought it was 17:30 and that I had slept through most of the day and missed work. That's been happening a lot lately.</font>

And when you go to work they ask you where you were yesterday!

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_CreeD_

I remember a mate of mine when I was in Gateway getting up 2 hours late, racing for the bus, running from the stop to the office etc. He literally skidded to a halt in fron of our supervisor, apologising about being late....only to be asked what the hell he was doing in on his day off...

Oh yeah

I remember one time I woke up and was about an hour early... off to school at half past bollocking seven. The clocks were all fine. Dunno what happened. Town seemed quiet.


What happens every now and again is that I forget that I have a reason to get up, somewhere to be, or put out the bin or whatever.


Actually, on the memory loss front, there was this one incident, where I said something that upset someone (just being honest, there was no nice way to put it), and then though about saying "Meanwhile, back on the ranch..." to fill the silence. As you do. A few seconds later, as certain young lady says "you're not supposed to say that!" (long story) and hit me a slap.

I had absolutely no idea that I had spoken, so I thought she was talking about what I had to the other person... beyond this it gets a little complicated and laughable so I'll be stopping now.


Ok, you can breathe again.

Victor

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Oh yeah:
I remember one time I woke up and was about an hour early... off to school at half past bollocking seven. The clocks were all fine. Dunno what happened. Town seemed quiet.</font>

Or walking home for lunch from school, then realising, "Damn, it's 12:25 not 1:05 - we are meant to have English now" (English was role-call class)

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Qualm

Yeah, ive had weird things happen aswell. Once I was asleep, and my dad came in to
turn off the light, when suddenly I sat bolt upright and started shouting:
"Where are the Messerschmitz, I cant see the Messerschmitz!" (type of German plane used in
the wars)
The next morning, a report was in the newspaper saying that the last of the Messerschmitz planes had been crashed, and that no more existed in the world. Very weird
as I didnt know wat the hell a Messerschmitz was before the incident!

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Evil Phil

Apparently there's a cycle to your sleep. You go from light to deep sleep and back again, this normal takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours. If your woken up in the deep sleep stage you'll be disorientated and confudelled. This is why when you do wake up a 6:30 in the morning and think "cool I can go back to sleep for an hour" your wrecked when you wake an hour later.

Mills

Interesting to know why that happens, I'm always waking up feeling fine then being an utter mess when I go back to sleep and wake up after that again.

Oh yeah

Varies from person to person, I believe.


And victor, same thing happened to mes a few years back. I was in the shop, looking around and thought "Where are all the people? Oh, balls...".

I ran back to class and mumbled something about losing some money or something. Woah.

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beaver

Happens me from time to time, that memory thing. Normally lasts about half a minute.

Strangest thing that happened me upon waking up was about a half an hour of complete deafness on one occasion. It was not a nice feeling to wake up deaf. Just wore off...

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bats

i once took a nap just before i was going out one night only when i woke up i couldn't actually speak! i know that sounds mad but i had to practice turning sounds into words for an hour before i left. Needless to say the people i lived with were very entertained...

*very* odd sensation indeed

Repli

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Qualm:

The next morning, a report was in the newspaper saying that the last of the Messerschmitz planes had been crashed, and that no more existed in the world. Very weird
as I didnt know wat the hell a Messerschmitz was before the incident!

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This topic is starting to scare me.. .

amp

I suspose it's a bit like that whole "walking into room and forgetting completely why you went in there" thing, which happens to me all the time.

Also, I always sneeze twice every day, I don't think it's related though.

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ThrAx

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SickBoy:
Sometimes when my alarm clock goes off I jump out of bed and just stare at it for ages and wonder how I actually turn it off. I use the same alarm clock for the last 13 years and its usually second nature to just press the snooze button or turn it off but now and then I just don't know how to turn off the damn thing.</font>

haha that happened to me this morning, i was terrified i would wake somebody up, the thing was turned up real loud but i couldnt figure out how to turn it off so i just plugged it out. Every night i have to set the ****in clock. Maybe this is because im away from home, because when im at home i know how to turn it off (i brought my own alarmclock from home). Also, i know that feeling of sleep paralysis, i get it nearly every time i sleep. one time when i was really young i woke up walking down the stairs really slowly. I was wondering how i got there and i couldnt stop walking. I tried to run or walk faster but I couldn't, everything seemed in slow motion. Then I could hear all these freaky voices, i woke up properly standing in the hall downstairs and the freaky voice was my mom screaming down at me to get back into bed and to turn off the TV (yes the TV was on somehow, I don't know) I was about 7 when this happened and similar things have happened. I just think certain ppl are prone to this sort of thing.

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ThrAx

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Oh yeah:
I remember one time I woke up and was about an hour early... off to school at half past bollocking seven. The clocks were all fine. Dunno what happened. Town seemed quiet.
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i did that once, i woke up at 1:00 am an hour after i went to bed, thinking it was 7:00am. I started getting dressed when my mother who was still awake shouted "What the hell are you doing?" I then replied "What the hell do you think im bloody doing, i'm getting dressed for school, dya want me to be late", "Its one o'clock in the bleedin moring ya eejit, go back to bed" she replied, i said "oh, oops sorry" got undressed and went to bed.

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Miguel_Sanchez

Bats - I'm sorry to have to say this but you might want to have that speech thing looked at. **** like that can be the result of a brain tumor pressing down on a nerve in your noggin.

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