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Originally Posted by Rider52
Recently I went to sleep and started dreaming within a few minutes. It woke me up and took awhile too get back to sleep. I've had this happen before. Does anyone else experience this?
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Physically you can't dream within a few minutes. It is highly plausible that you were thinking about things on your mind.
There are 4 stages of sleep, and its not possible to suddenly dream within a few minutes. It probably feels like it. But the 4 stages of sleep happen in 90 minute cycles.
So, its likely that you were asleep for about 90 minutes, and had an intense dream and woke up from it.
You also could be a segmented sleeper, if you woke up and were awake for a while then it took you time to fall asleep again.
Here's a guide for the 4 stages of sleep.
The 4 Stages of Sleep (NREM and REM Sleep Cycles)
I will add that it could be your medications are negatively impacting your sleep cycle.
When I was prescribed different medications in the past, some gave me nightmares, others interfered with all 4 stages of my sleep so that i never REM slept, and other medications gave me very bizarre dreams.