What Was This That Happened Last Night?

[Cool Cat]

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night at about 2AM.
This is not the first time by any stretch of the imagination that I've woken up in the middle of the night.
But
I didn't have a clue where I was, what day of the week it was even! I had this sudden fear that I was
(a) locked into the room
(b) being kidnapped (and I've never been kidnapped)
I was really freaking out and when I got out of the room, ran into the hall and saw I was in my own house - it was a surprise! What's all this about? Never happened me before.

 

[shimmerz]

Disorientation is something I experience a ton. Even at night. I normally find, for myself, that if I have had a bad set of dreams and wake up they 'come with me'. It takes me a bit before I can get my brain out of the dream and into my here and now (sort of like when I have a flashback).

Keep in mind you can experience kidnapping as having felt like you were being held captive in some way. I am not certain if that helps or not but usually things that don't quite ring as being logical or 'the truth verbatim' can be looked at metaphorically.

 

[Cool Cat]

Yeah. It was really weird though! Like I genuinely believed I was being kidnapped/locked in the room.

 

[Friday]

I've woken up, still dreaming, tons of times. Just like reality can impinge on dreams (my alarm the siren on a boat), my dreams can impinge on reality as well. I quit sleeping with people for several years because my nightmares were so bad I was hurting them.

Other times, esp when traveling, it was one more hotel room. Just one more. Where was I? Didn't know. What day? That's what newspapers are for. Or reciepts. Or pass it off as pre-coffee in the cafe, or ones with daily specials, play dumb. As what the special is. Work backwards to find the day of the week. Eventually grab a paper. But even not traveling, I've woken up a lot and not really had an idea of where I was, what day it was. It's happened so often, for so long, it doesn't really bug me. Okay. Sort it out. Unless I've lost some major time. In which case I need to work backwards and figure out what the hell I've been doing for the past few weeks/months. ((I'm not DID. But sometimes, especially when my head has been in the past a lot, my current memories don't log very well. I need to backtrack and figure it out.))