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[narcose.]

I've noticed that sometimes when I fall asleep and start to dream, I find in the dream that I'm still struggling to stay awake. Like the narcolepsy is so deeply wired into me that it's even there in my dreams. I'll be trying to do something in my dream - I'll be in class, or trying to get some work done, doing various important things and even though I'm actually asleep and dreaming, I just cannot stay awake.

And it dominates the entire dream: usually I'll dream about something really strange and it's the strangeness of the situation that is sort of the main focus. But when this happens, it's more like I'm just dreaming about things that are only slightly (if at all) unusual and I'm just as sleepy as is normal for me in waking life. Hopefully that makes sense

The most interesting part of all this is that when I have these "tired" dreams, I wake up feeling...well, good. Kinda the way you'd hope to feel after taking a nap, and that's a beautiful feeling. It's the only time I ever wake up feeling anything close to "rested." Unfortunately it happens so rarely that I haven't been able to find any patterns or figure out what might bring it on

Has anyone else had dreams like this? If so, do you too find that you feel better upon waking up? Or is this just me?

[Asleeper]

I've had these dreams. I remember dreaming that I was sitting in class trying to stay awake but could hardly keep my eyes open or even move.
I would like to learn to be able to actively alter my dreams so that I could stop what I am doing in the dream and then dream that I was going to bed to get a good nights sleep.

Asleeper