What does it mean when in your dream your asleep as well and you try to wake up but you cant ?

Question

What does it mean when in your dream your asleep as well and you try to wake up but you cant ?

Answer 1

~That has always confused me.  The last time I was dreaming and I tried to wake up, I actually woke up, only to discover that I had only dreamed that I woke up.  When I realized I was still dreaming, I decided to dream that I woke up.  That worked, except that I knew I was only dreaming that I was awake and that thought almost woke me up, which would have spoiled the dream so I went back to sleep - but actually I just continued sleeping and I dreamed that I went back to sleep - which worked a whole lot better than dreaming that I woke up because in dreaming that I was asleep while I was really asleep, as opposed to dreaming that I woke up even though I was still sleeping, lent some credibility to the dream.  I find that when I dream incredulous dreams, they wake me up, but if I dream something that could actually be reality, I can keep dreaming.  That makes functioning in the real world difficult at times because I'm not really sure if I'm actually doing it or just dreaming it.  By the way, did I really answer this or did I just dream it?  I'll check back tomorrow to find out - and I'll hope that when I  do that it is really tomorrow and I'm really checking it out rather than just dreaming that it's tomorrow and I'm just dreaming I'm checking.  d**n, I wish I could wake up so I could get some sleep.  Sweet Dreams.

Answer 2

That's a nervous twitch of the mind. Kind of like one of those tingly, vibrating, jiggly muscle spasms most folks get once in awhile, only in the psyche instead of in the body. :-)

That sort of twitch is most often the result of frustration over an inability to accomplish something.

Answer 3

Yeah it happens to me and it baffles me too :)