Have you ever woken up without knowing where you were or what time it was?

I certainly have!

Winter in Chicago - had flown in from LA after working through the night - got to my hotel around 6pm.

I had to wake up at 6am to drive to another part of the city to pick up my parents at their hotel. I woke with a start and looked at my watch - 7 - shit! I overslept.

I quickly got ready and drove all the way to their hotel before i realized it was actually 7:45 pm and I’d only slept for an hour.

Oh, Kermie!

time to get a brain scan!

Dementia is in your future!

Where were you the night before? were you drinking? drugs?

Yes, on an unfortunate field trip to the planetarium. A particularly soothing presenter’s voice coupled with the cool dark and a surprisingly comfortable seat led to me lapsing into light and then deep sleep, only to be interrupted by impatient children shaking my shoulders at the show’s conclusion, launching me into a jarring state of complete bewilderment.

Yes, waking up and confusing evening with early morning. It happened a week or so ago when I fell asleep reading on the sofa. It was kind of overcast so I thought it was early morning. It didn't freak me out because it happened once before and it's kind of understandable since the visual cues are the same.

OTOH, never had a problem waking up and not knowing where I am.

OP waking up...

You were just having a senior moment, OP.

Happens to the best of us, even presidents!

One time I was like 3 blocks from work when I noticed the streets were emptier than usual. I asked the cabbie what day it was, "Sunday." I thought it was Monday. I sheepishly asked him to turn around.

Lol R11.

I've woken up not knowing what time it was when I've dozed off during the day but I've never not known where I was. The WTF feeling of thinking it was, say 7PM instead of 7AM, though, was confusing enough.

I've never confused night for day, but many times I've awoken to believe I am someplace else entirely, most often my teenaged bedroom but on several occasions thinking I was in the tiny bedroom of my first apartment in Boston. Disorienting at first, but I've come to enjoy it.

I fell asleep during the afternoon once when I was only in my 30s but very stressed, and I was awakened from a deep sleep by someone knocking at the door. Because it was dark when I opened the door I said to the person (who was a Jehovah's Witness or someone doing a survey, not someone I knew), "What time is it?" They said, "Six." I berated them for waking me so early in the morning. I genuinely thought I'd slept all night. It wasn't till I turned the radio on that I realized my error, by which time they had long fled into the night.

I lived with my mom as a child and as an adult (part of my adult life). When she died, her house got sold. In retrospect, that was the only place that felt like "home."

Anyway, I sometimes wake up and feel like I'm in that bedroom in my mom's house.

I think it's a stress reaction. Trying to go back to somewhere comfortable.

I went out with some friends one night and got super drunk. At the last club we went to, I started grinding on a hot guy on the dance floor. He invited me back to his hotel room, so we jumped into a cab and went there. He had a nice suite with more bottles of alcohol and a full ice bucket. I remember thinking, Wow, this guy’s smooth and classy.

The next thing I knew, I awakened, freezing cold. I was in the bath tub partially submerged in cold water and ice cubes. It was light outside and the sun in my eyes probably woke me up. I was so sore though and began to wonder what I had done the night before. I moved slightly to get out of the tub when I felt a sharp pain in my flank. I put my hand on the pain and felt a wound dressing. That motherfucker had harvested a kidney!

^^^^^

Urban Legend.

Yes, multiple times in a week. I was exhausted and I booked a cheap, inside cabin on a cruise ship. Between the engine sound, the motion and the dark, I never slept better in my life; 20 years later I still fantasize about it. Sex is easy, sleep is hard.

Every Sunday afternoon nap ever

[quote] I was exhausted and I booked a cheap, inside cabin on a cruise ship.

What? You booked a cruise in order to get some sleep?

^Not exactly, I had been working non-stop for months and I had a death in the family. I just needed to unplug and waking up a 2 and not knowing AM or PM was orgasmic.

Have you ever woken up to find yourself sucking your bedroom door knob thinking it’s your boss?

^^^meth is a terrible thing.

Where the fuck are you right now....do you know?

Most of my 20s

Jet lagged and checked in to Barcelona hotel with heavy blackout shades. Fell asleep around 8 PM and woke up around 9 am and asked where breakfast was, Staff just laughed and said it was 3 in the afternoon. I had slept 18 hours without realizing it. What a drag to lose so much of my first day in Barcelona.

We should ask that one poster who replied about their breakfast habits relying on whose house they regained consciousness in.

I had an awful drunk of a boyfriend in the early 90’s before cellphones- and to trick him, set his watch and every other clock in the house an hour earlier. He would work four hours every day counting money from Bostix receipts at Tower Records at 6am.

I woke him yelling, he quickly ran out of the house and showed up to a darkened store at 5am utterly confused.

Boy, was he mad! Lol

A friend's wife went down for breakfast one Sunday morning and found a passed out teenager they didn't know sleeping on their couch. They live in a gated beach community and don't always lock their doors. She woke the kid who had no clue where he was but was very embarrassed and apologetic as he gathered himself and left.

Quite often in hotels, and brand new living arrangements, such as in the first night or two in a condo or house you've just moved into.

[quote]It was absolutely terrifying.

Fuck off, clickbait dementia patient.

Yes, what R31 said. It's common to experience a softer version of this that's not really a feeling of terror but definitely a moment of confusion. I've traveled where I'm in a different bed over a number of nights. And if the dreams are hitting hard waking up can briefly be a puzzle.

[Quote] Have you ever woken up

Woke thread

Most recently when I was sick and didn’t keep to a schedule. Waking to watch tv whenever and then nodding off to sleep. Woke up one time and stared out the window (no view, just looking at the type of light) and tried for several minutes to figure out if it was early morning or late afternoon. Was kinda fun.

After my first flight back to North America (east coast) from Australia. For about three weeks I'd wake up in the night, not knowing where I was or the time.

Sometimes, too, rarely, after a really good deep sleep.

I wouldn't worry til you find an iron in the freezer, OP.

Do I know what today’s date is?

No

Do I care what today’s date is?

No

I took 2 Ambien once and ended up peeing in my office chair.

[quote]I took 2 Ambien once and ended up peeing in my office chair.

Sitting or standing?

Yes, generally either traveling or if I take a nap. Occasionally I also don’t know who I am, but I assume part of my brain is still sleeping when that happens. (Not the onset of dementia since it’s been consistent since childhood) It’s disconcerting to say the least.

Standing, I assume. I don't remember actually peeing. It was bizarre.

Happened to me a couple weeks ago. Went to bed around 4 on on a Saturday night. Big plans to headed out in the morning to a gay campground after getting up early enough to do house work. I get up about 7. Look through the blinds, see the sun coming up. I scrubbed floors, I vaccumed , I folded laundry packed a few things for my day trip got into my car ready to ride. Only 9 am I’ll be poolside by 10:15. I pull out. It’s dark, it’s 9 pm Saturday night.. lol@me.

This happens to me every night

I've awakened with a start in a panic not knowing where I was or what time - mistakenly thinking it was morning, rather than late afternoon.

However, once I became fully awake I figured out where I was, then eventually realized it was afternoon, not morning.

I’ve had a very long pain filled day. Took a tramadol and going to bed now