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dream or reality

mrflowers00

mrflowers00

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does anyone else have a hard time differentiating dreams from reality? i have on occasion some very vivid realistic dreams and often wake up believing that that dream was something that actually happened in my life.
 
um i guess so? but maybe not to the extent you're experiencing. sometimes i have really vivid dreams, wake up, remember them a week later and not sure if it actually happened. i often have dreams that i really think are real (whilst i'm asleep) and get very distressed when i wake up but i think thats normal.
 
Yes particularly when I was getting used to antipsychotic medication. I also had that phenomenon when I used to abuse DXM. I think any stressor can cause those sorts of experiences (i.e. my antipsychotic meds may not have caused the crazy dreams, it could have been my stress about being on antipsychotic meds!)

For me when it was happening most recently I would have dreams of myself going downstairs and running the shower to help me sleep. This is because I really did need to do this sometimes, but I would also have nightmares about doing it so vivid that my parents would ask me "did you have to go downstairs and run the shower to help you sleep last night?" (fucking water bills!) and I'd have to say "I honestly don't know".
 
Yeah I have very vivid dreams very often, and I normally wake up feeling as if it was real and will be in a confused state for a few minutes until i get my head round it. Then I fell sad because it was such an awesome dream and I wish it was real :(
 
Earlier today, I had a dream that involved a basketball player (I've been paying attention to certain NBA free agents this offseason). Something funny happened in the dream involving Tracy McGrady. A few hours after waking up, I was online doing my normal routine, and I saw his name come up and I thought it must involve what I found funny. Then I couldn't remember what I found funny, then I started wondering if it was a dream, so I looked up Tracy McGrady. I know now that I was dreaming, and it's more clear to me.

Sometimes my dreams seem very real, although it's uncommon for things like the above example to occur. Often, though, when I'm just waking up, I'll be lying in bed half-awake, under the assumption that the dream was real (and it's as if I'm not entirely aware that I'm awake or conscious, in a way). But that fades after I start really waking up and shaking it off.
 
i have this really bad my dad will have to tell me from time to time what i am saying happened just isn't real at all and is quite farfetched
 
I've had it happen on a few occasions. They happen rarely but when I do have one it leaves me sad through the entire day. Dreams are scary stuff sometimes. I've also woken up still crying from in my dream.
 
Not often, but it has happened to me before, just upon waking up. I had a fever at the time, and I'm not sure if it was due to that or due to the fact that I was at the peak of my H addiction, but there were several instances where someone would wake me up/I'd wake myself up and start talking to my boyfriend at the time about things that had happened in my dream as if they were reality. I was fully convinced that I hadn't been dreaming and that these things had actually happened, were happening, or were about to happen (depending on what I was dreaming about of course). My ex had to tell me a few times that I was trippin' and that none of it was real before I'd come back to reality and realize he was right, I must have nodded off or fallen asleep without realizing it and was just dreaming.

It's a very disorienting feeling.

My dreams have always been extremely vivid, however, for as long as I can remember. From colors and sounds and even sensations - I swear I literally FEEL things in my dreams, even pain. It's intense. I like it sometimes, if it's a nice dream. Other times though... meh, not so much.

Oh and someone else mentioned crying... that happened to me one time too. Another time I didn't start crying until AFTER I had already woken up and processed what had happened in the dream. It had to do with my family members and my pets, and the dream was traumatic enough that the thought of it possibly ever being real was enough to make me start bawling. Kind of silly in retrospect, my dreams are always so out there and fantastical that nothing in them could ever *actually* come true lol at least not in this plane of reality!
 
i sometimes have extroaordinarily realistic dreams. well, the dream itself might be quite unbelievable when i wake up, but while i am still dreaming it may as well be real.

anyhow, sometimes they are about mundane things like making a phone call to a friend, and yeah, sometimes it's hard to tell if it actually happened or not.
 
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