I looked around on this forum and I haven't seen anything similar to my issue, so hopefully posting a new thread for it is okay!

So I have these weird sleep episodes where I'm dreaming(I think) that I'm at a special event of some sort and I'm not supposed to be asleep. It can be anything, work, a speech, a banquet really anything.

The first time I remembering it happening was probably 6 years ago after an event where someone was speaking and I was tired and everyone around me was bored and we wanted to leave. That night I "dreamt" that I was back at this event and I could not sleep in fear that the speaker or someone would see me sleeping. I literally kept myself up all night because of this. It happens to the point where I can see people around me and I literally feel like I'm in this specific place. I will find myself sitting up in bed trying to stay awake because of it. I try to tell myself to stop and to snap out of it and go back to sleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Until recently this only happened occasionally. After ransoms events like the one before or other random things. I just always left it as a weird dream experience that happened rarely. Well for the past few weeks this has happened so often it's beginning to worry me. I started a new job almost a month ago. I wondered if this dream like thing would happen after my first day of work, but it didn't. I had to be up early everyday for a week for training so I was exhausted. It started happening again partway through the week. But now I'm working my regular 8pm to midnight shift. When I get home I'm tired and I have no trouble actually falling asleep, but just about every night this week I have experienced this. I have never experienced this two nights in a row let alone a whole week. It usually happens once surrounding an event and then goes away.

I'm just worried because its affecting my sleep schedule so badly. I'm so exhausted I sleep well into the morning/early afternoon and I hate doing so. Does anyone have any suggestions or know of anyone who's experienced this? I've asked friends and no one I know has experienced it and it's just starting to get worse and worse. These "dreams" feel so real. Last night was the worst. I literally could see my workplace as if it was in my bedroom and I was in bed.