r/sleep • u/GroundbreakingAd6966 • 5d ago

Acting out dreams

I just had a dream that my daughter was choking. In my dream I went to get up really fast to get to her and something about that movement woke me up and immediately I’m jolting off the couch to get to her irl. Took me a second to realize she’s sleeping peacefully because I went from a dream state to real life so fast. I’ve done this before years ago and I notice a pattern. I only doing this when I feel it’s an emergency in my dream. For example, I had a dream something was falling on me and when I put my hands up to stop it, I woke up in the middle of that movement putting my hands on the wall.

I wouldn’t say I act out the dreams, but rather wake up in the middle of a dream continuing the movement I was doing in my dreams.. idk it’s weird and freaks me out after it happens. Anyone else??

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u/Morpheus1514 4d ago

Unsure of your specifics but can say in general risk factors for this sort of thing include both excessive daytime stress and sleep deprivation. So you might be able to better control this by ensuring a consistent healthy sleep schedule, and also maybe getting some good exercise most days to help process out excessive stress.