[stahrgeyzer]

I was wondering if this could be a DID symptom. The other night I went to bed. The last thing I remember is closing my eyes, and next thing I know I'm opening my eyes and it's morning time with the sun shining through the window. About 9 hours of sleep. It literally felt like no time had passed. It really freaked me out. I did not drink alcohol or take any drugs. I've read this can sometimes on rare occasion happen to people, mostly children, and that it's caused by trauma or when your body needs to do some serious repair, and so your enter very deep sleep, but that when you awaken you're supposed to feel rejuvenated. What was even more weird was that I felt so completely drained that I had to go back to sleep, which I slept for several hours.

Could this have been an alter or alters taking over my body for the entire night?

[Wild Coyote]

To me, it sounds like you'd had a night of excellent sleep!
I'd love to sleep a whole night like that every night!

I do, on occasion, sleep through like that.
I do not have DID.

While I cannot determine if you have DID, I can say your reported sleep experience is not a diagnostic indicator for DID.

I am sorry you are experiencing some diagnostic uncertainty. I hope your pdoc, if you see one, can help you with diagnosis(es).


WC

I don’t know....I can tell time is passing when I’m asleep and the others are dreaming- watching as if a movie and bystander....I can hear the body snoring but with no physical control.

Only heavy sedation knocks us all out at the same time, or if it’s me sleeping and I’m dreaming unmolested totally immersed.

But sometimes I lay down and then I’m awake with a feeling that it was just a few moments....but really hard drugs or severe tiredness causes this.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by stahrgeyzer

I was wondering if this could be a DID symptom. The other night I went to bed. The last thing I remember is closing my eyes, and next thing I know I'm opening my eyes and it's morning time with the sun shining through the window. About 9 hours of sleep. It literally felt like no time had passed. It really freaked me out. I did not drink alcohol or take any drugs. I've read this can sometimes on rare occasion happen to people, mostly children, and that it's caused by trauma or when your body needs to do some serious repair, and so your enter very deep sleep, but that when you awaken you're supposed to feel rejuvenated. What was even more weird was that I felt so completely drained that I had to go back to sleep, which I slept for several hours.

Could this have been an alter or alters taking over my body for the entire night?

Im sorry but I cant tell you if this was an alter taking over your body or not only your own treatment providers can say that.

what I can say is the for me getting 9 hours of sleep is normal and sometimes it does feel like this normal sleep is just one second laying down to bed and the next waking up the next morning.

my treatment providers also had me go through a sleep study to make sure I was going through all the different phases of sleep. sometimes my sleep pattern did skip the REM phase. they discovered my meds were interfering with my sleep phases. after my meds were adjusted and one prescribed especially for correcting sleep my sleep pattern of skipping REM I was fine.

even though sometimes this still happens where I sleep so heavily that I feel like no time has past my treatment providers call it normal sleep.

my suggestion is contact your treatment providers they will be able to have you tested to find out why you are having this problem and what it is called in you.

[stahrgeyzer]

It felt like I was put under with some very seriously strong drugs. When I wake up I always have a good sense of how much time has passed. Imagine closing your eyes and then opening them 30 seconds later, except 9 hours passed by! You'd be in disbelief.

There's been plenty of times after serious injuries or trauma that I went to bed and had amazing night sleep that seemed maybe a few hours instead of 9 hours, but never zero time. Like one time as a child when I was in a vehicle accident, I slept so hard. The other night was different and scary. Maybe I was abducted by ETs haha. hmm