Hiya,

I have this thing when I dream, it is a mechanism or something I call the "twizzler". For me, its purpose it to keep a sense of real time in a dream.

I asked a dream character/wise man once about it and he told me about the continuity of time and no time in different "places"... and that the twizzler simply keeps track of these things for you... so you do not have to think about it... like how your body keeps your heart beating.

I can tell it to wake me up at say, 4:12 am... and it will.
So no more alarm clocks.
It does manefest itself in similar ways are you describe in the dream... with a final time's up.

Anyway, that is what I think about when I read about the messages.