Didn't even know this was possible

[resonant]

but this morning I dreamed that I took a nap. Like, literally, I dreamed that I lay down and went to sleep.

It was doubly restful!

Comments

[linaerys]

That's awesome! I've often dreamed that I can't sleep. Which kind of cancels itself out.

[resonant]

Oh, no. That would stink!

[calico]

Hurrah for doubly restful! \o/

You've just reminded me: I recently had a dream that I was John, and fell asleep sitting on the sofa with Sherlock's arm around me, and then woke up to discover dusk had fallen and the room was dark but Sherlock was still there, same position; tapping slowly away at his laptop with his left hand, light from the screen illuminating a scowl on his face; clearly in a very bad mood.

John: what?

Sherlock: I cannot feel most of my thumb and forefinger on my right hand. It was tingling and then painful and now absolutely numb. Your incredibly heavy head has been crushing my radial nerve for hours, you selfish--

John, sleep-drunk but blinking, taken aback: W-why didn't you move it then?

Sherlock, with an irritated sniff: Of course I wouldn't move it.

John: oh

...and then I woke up. Brief, odd, and anatomically incorrect, but quite enjoyable as dreams go!

[resonant]

Aww! How adorably grumpy and in-character. I rarely dream about my characters, though occasionally I used to dream I was getting spooned by Fraser, which was very comforting.

I've been thinking about you as part of a long chain of those kinds of thoughts you get when you have kids and they remind you that the life cycle is moving on, because I look at my kidlet and wonder: how much older than that were you when I was reading your Voyager stories? And then I have to go scream and sign up for a spot in the nursing home.

[calico]

Ha! Terrifying.

*still doesn't feel like a grown-up most days*

[anatsuno]

I am so glad to see you say this, not just that you dreamed you slept, but that it was doubly restful! It happened to me once years ago and that was my exact feeling as well. I dreamed that I was sleeping and it was doubly restful, PLUS, in the dream I had that bonus conscious feeling of reveling in the fact that you're comfy and snuggly and sleep and isn't is so nice?

Yes. Wish it had happened more than once.

[resonant]

Yes, yes, that's exactly it! As if you could sleep and know you're sleeping1

[monanotlisa]

I've had this too -- well, I was dozing happily in my dream (or possibly I was dozing in a deep doze?), but either way, it is wicked cool.

[resonant]

When I had a newish baby, I was hanging out on an online bulletin board with a lot of other new moms, and we would make these posts about the epic naps we would like to take, all detailed and sensual -- and someone pointed out that we were basically writing sleep porn.

[monanotlisa]

*laugh* From what I know -- admittedly more the young-father side, given my sadly skewed workplace, that sounds absolutely universal.

♥

[snarkyducky]

wow! but, did you have to wake up twice?

[resonant]

No, the dream sort of folded painlessly into reality.

[giglet]

Congratulations, you've discovered doublesleep!

[resonant]

One of my co-workers once said, "If I could only sleep in high-res, I'd get so much more done!"

[nel_ani]

Dude, that's some Inception shit right there.

[resonant]

Oh, man, you're right. Wonder if all the Inception slash I'm reading is responsible?

[lian]

!!! I experienced the same thing right now (dozed off on an afternoon nap), and in my dream, I was not only sleeping, but woken by a puppy licking my hand. Awww. (and I my dream-dream -- before sleep-waking -- I dreamt it was my beloved late puppy too, sigh.) It was very warm and sunny. (Can I go back to sleep-sleep, please?)

[resonant]

Aww. That's sweet.

When my childhood cat died, I dreamed I fel thim leap onto the bed, walk across the foot of it, and leap off again. Like he'd just come to say goodbye, and now he had places to be.