In Between Dreams: Sleep at Yale
On the occasional morning, Lydia Stepanek ’12 wakes up as a 30-year-old mother on the way to a baseball game with her son.
She rises abruptly out of bed at the sound of her alarm clock, her packed collegiate schedule no longer allowing her the time to awaken fully before bolting for class. And the result has been that, at least for a few seconds, she will confuse her dreams with reality.
“Three seconds after I wake up, I usually realize I’m not actually 30,” Stepanek said. “And then I feel kind of sad.”
Stepanek, regularly finding herself awoken amid the last dream of her...
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I have always had issues with differentiating between my dreams and reality. I have always remembered my dreams very well too, which is not normal. Mt dreams are very realistic too, I can feel everything through them such as the emotions, the mood, the setting, and sometimes its the continuation of my life in my dream. I haven't got any professional help from a doctor yet, but I think I will be needing it soon.