Waking up from sleep saying prayers

[allhers]

I so appreciate this thread and have waited a long time for it. I fall asleep every night saying the rosary and the prayers go on all through the night, each time I wake up. I usually manage not to lose my beads. Then sometimes in the very early morning when I am almost awake but not quite, I get to listen in to myself talking to God and it’s like a prayer from the depths of my soul, apart from the rest of me, as I am when awake. The words I hear then are so bare-bones honest, it’s amazing as I would never know how to express myself so openly on my own.

That’s what happens to me too, I asked my husband if it happens to him too and he said yes, so we figured it just happens to everyone. We pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy together daily and then at night pray together before we go to bed and usually we pray silenly as we are falling asleep and if we wake up during the night or very early we uaually are still praying.

Just recently what you describe has been happening to me too and I just feel so honored to be talking to Jesus even when I am not aware of it. When I become aware of it, I almost feel like I am listening in on someone else’s conversation. Then I just continue with prayers that I am aware of that I am praying.

 

[Lifeisawesome]

That’s what happens to me too, I asked my husband if it happens to him too and he said yes, so we figured it just happens to everyone. We pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy together daily and then at night pray together before we go to bed and usually we pray silenly as we are falling asleep and if we wake up during the night or very early we uaually are still praying.

Just recently what you describe has been happening to me too and I just feel so honored to be talking to Jesus even when I am not aware of it. When I become aware of it, I almost feel like I am listening in on someone else’s conversation. Then I just continue with prayers that I am aware of that I am praying.

Very cool that you pray together.

 

[Angels_Unaware]

It’s never happened to me, but I have had nightmares, particularly the kind where you feel paralyzed and want to wake up but can’t get yourself to wake up, and suddenly just said, “in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”, and instantly the nightmare ended and I woke up.

 

[Anlar]

I haven’t experience those but I remember one time when I was thinking much to pray first before sleeping but because I’m so sleepy I’ve fallen asleep without praying. Then I thought I’ve fallen asleep or rather half asleep since I can feel myself lying in bed and then I thought again of praying. Despite that half of me is sleeping and half is awake, I thought of praying for my brother, but then a prayer started and I’m like their lying and listening to a voice. While hearing the voice that said a prayer to my brother, I was also thinking if it was me (really weird) . The prayer was so exceedingly beautiful, I even felt myself having goosebumps.

When I woke up. I was thinking so deeply and quite confused. I know very well how I pray, I pray so poorly and that prayer I heard was so powerful and perfect. I thought it was my guardian angel or the holy spirit praying to whomsoever we wish to pray for, helping us despite all the sins we’ve committed in this life.

 

[Holly3278]

I often fall asleep while praying. It’s my favorite way to fall asleep.

 

[Pani_Rose]

My husband had a number of surgeries lately, and during one of them, the nurse watching him in recovery finally came over and said, ‘sir what are you saying, I can’t understand you’. He told her he was praying. He had been praying through his unconscienousness of anesthisa the whole time to our Lord Jesus.

 

[spiritualunity]

When you fall asleep praying, you pray during sleep; when you fall asleep with certain thoughts on your mind, you dream of those things; and when you fall asleep thinking of an object with certain colors in it, like a blue toy, you’ll dream about the color blue. It’s how God designed our brains, in His Infinite Wisdom and Mercy, for our greater good. We can use it to pray without ceasing, but we must ask for this grace, first, because prayer is God’s gift to us. We could not raise our hearts and minds to Him if He did not give us the ability to do so, for He is the Source of all goodness.

I wake up praying even if I have not fallen asleep praying. So, even though what you stated I am sure is true in many cases, it is not ALWAYS the case. Not everything has a common sense or scientific anwer. I believe that sometimes I wake up praying,even though I have not fallen asleep praying, is the Lord protecting me.