1.) Out-of-reach sleep

I want to see if anyone else has this problem, as I've mentioned it to many friends, and they all always at me like I'm crazy. Often when I'm sleeping, I enter this sort of "trance". First off, I do NOT sleep-walk, sleep-talk, snore, rustle around, or anything like that (or at least I'm told I don't). However, nearly every other night, I hit this trance that I just mentioned, where I'm half-awake, half asleep. I'll lay in bed seemingly-awake. I know I'm awake, b/c I can look around the bedroom and see everything, and can do the "pinch-test" to make sure I'm not dreaming. However, my mind would be COMPLETELY in a whole other realm of thought, where normal principles of nature don't apply (I'll explain this in a second). When I'm in this trance, my SOLE desire is to get sleep, as I'm VERY tired and just CAN'T get to sleep at all. However, as mentioned, w/ my mind being in it's own little realm, I'm under the impression that in order to get sleep, I must complete certain tasks. A quick example would be to "win a soccer game". I'd be laying in bed TRYING to get to sleep, but I'm convinced that I must win this soccer game that I'm imagining in my head in order to get to sleep. So what I often do is close my eyes and imagine the hell out of a soccer game that I'm playing, and try as hard as I can. .KICKING in bed and rustling around (and I'm well aware of this) trying to win. I know I'm not sleeping, b/c when I open my eyes, I can look around and be back in the bedroom, where I'll convince myself to go back to imagining myself in this soccer game. I will do this for honestly hours at a time, and still not "snap out of it". Again, I don't know if I'm conscious or what. I'm WELL aware that I'm awake, but my brain is functioning in COMPLETE different principles, and it doesn't understand that if I lay there long enough, I'll sleep, rather it thinks I need to win the damned soccer game. To make matters worse, it's one of those deals that no matter how HARD I try to win.. it's always impossible. I always run in slow-motion, or the ball always seems to bounce away from me, or when I shoot it, it always goes SAILING away. Also.. let the records stand, I don't play soccer (not often anyways), so it's never based off of anything that I do often, rather random events.

They are normally quite a bit more complicated than that though, often more along the lines of me trying to do unimaginable feats, such as moving things w/ my mind. I'd be convinced that to fall asleep, I need to levitate the pin on the counter, however I just stand there thinking HARD about it, with no result ever. They are VERY weird, and VERY rarely make sense, unlike the Soccer one.

2.) Lucid Dreams

I often have Lucid dreams, which is pretty sweet, b/c I'll be WELL aware it's a dream in my dream, making me want to do outrageous events in the dream, knowing there will be no consequences for my actions. For example, I'd be driving, and I'd KNOW it's a dream, so then I'd go off on a high-speed chase, and when I get stopped, I'd get out of the car and just start flying away, and be able to do pretty much w/e I want.

3.) Exhaustion

I'm almost convinced this is due to my intense school schedule up at UTexas, as well as currently working 50-60 hour weeks, but I want to know if anyone else shares some of THESE same issues. I'm often extremely exhausted, or at least, have been so much more than I used to be. I've had about the same number of sleeping hours as I did in HS, before I had this problem. I generally only get about 6 hours of sleep or so, and find that I'm EXTREMELY exhausted. I know this is absolutely normal, but I slept the same amount when I went to HS, AND I had sports practice then as well, and didn't have an exhaustion problem. It wasn't until I got to college that it hit. It's most likely my work-load, but the weird thing is that despite me only getting like 6 hours of sleep a day, if I have a day off where I don't have to wake up early, I can sleep for IMMENSE amounts of time. I'm talking, 15+ hours (probably more, but last time I slept that long, I had to get up..). Shouldn't my body try to stay consistent w/ it's sleep cycle, rather jump from an average 6 hour sleep, to more than twice that? I also find that when I eat food, I get EXTREMELY tired. I can be sitting at Chick-fil-A on break, eat a sandwich, then halfway through, feel as if I'm about to unwillingly pass-out. I do NOT have a size-issue, and am perfectly fit. I actually have a very fast metabolism, and have never had weight or health problems (minus those that may come from lack of sleep). I also am NO stranger to going to sleeping for 6 hours, when it felt like literally the blink of an eye. Ya, it's only 6 hours, but when I often sleep for 10+ hours on my days off, I wake up and it STILL feels like it just FLEW by, often faster than many 6 hour nights, and I feel extremely mal-rested. Often my 2 hour combat naps replenish me much better than 8 hours of sleeping.

Ya, it may not have much to do w/ Aliens and UFOs, though I feel they go hand in hand, as many people have complained of similar problems, and who show signs of abduction. I've only had one "weird" instance at the beginning of college that I had aliens "abduct" me in my sleep. I know it couldn't have happend though, as it was from a day-time nap. My roommate was in the room for the most part, then went out to the fields IMMEDIATELY outside my window to run around the track. I dreamt I had tests run on me, but I couldn't tell you all of what happened, as it's very faint. I woke up at about 10 though, so it was still dark, and a few minutes before my roommate came back upstairs to the room. However, when I woke up, I looked around the room absolutely petrified, and again, in my own little "fantasy" world, not knowing what was going on, and have unconscious. I looked towards the window, and there was my roommate's hat-rack w/ a few white hats on top that looked like a gray's head, and was SO terrified right after the dream, that I saw that and was STRICKEN w/ shock. I recall what seemed to be a lightning strike outside and instant thunder afterwards, and I was absolutely paralyzed looking at this hat-rack. Literally, I was just under utter shock, and was shaking SO much, when after a few seconds I snapped out of it, and then realized it was a hat-rack. My roommate came in, like I said, just 5 minutes after this event, and all seemed normal. I really don't think I was abducted, as I was mainly asleep during daytime, and when it was dark, my roommate was running laps just immediately outside of the window (dorm on campus). I WAS looking at a lot of pretty freaky pictures of aliens the night before, however, and that was mainly when I first started learning all about this stuff, and was still very freaked from it. I'm almost positive that it was just a nightmare, then when I woke up, I wasn't "completely" awake yet, so imagined a lightning strike and THOUGHT I saw something, and the mixture of everything just put me in shock.. Besides that, I've never had any other weird circumstances dealing memories of being abducted or of seeing aliens.

I don't know.. maybe I'm just crazy, or over-hyping something that's extremely common. Anyone have $.02 they'd like to add? I'm thinking that I just have an over-active imagination, and my brain often dwells into it's own fantasy-world when I'm that exhausted and just waking up/going to sleep, so things end up weird for me.

maybe you should play sport and try to get at least 8 hours sleep?

you need to reset your body clock.go bed the same time every time,and get up at the same time.i have had times where i have nodded off in an armchair without realising and had some weird dreams even woke myself talking to someone who wasn't there.young children have difficulty in seperating dreams from reality,but you're no kid.i think you just need to get a good rest routine,ever tried meditation?