I just had a really weird dream. One of those that you wake up and go back into the same dream later when you fall asleep again. I was me but surrounded by people I don’t know irl but I truly did in my dream. I was with a group of friends. One of them was going through a separation and we were helping him move out. The ex was there as well and we all knew her and the guy for years. She was a part of the friend group.
The thing that really fucked with me is these people that don’t exist were so real. It included inside jokes that I knew, back stories of how we met. Reminiscing of things we did together in the past. I remember pulling out my phone and shooting the shit with one of the guys showing old pics and videos of crazy shit we did in the past for instance.
There was also drama that I knew about in my dream and watched progress / unfold in front of me. Like a few of the closest people to the guy going through this were a no show.
Idk it was just fucking weird, like I was completely emersed in the situations, having unique conversations with these “friends”, the story progressed like the movers finally showing up. People coming and going. Me getting yelled at to get off my ass and start helping.
The whole thing was surreal and I think what made it weirder was that it wasn’t very eventful. Usually dreams are more interesting? Like it was just me, existing, doing something with this friend group that doesn’t get together very often anymore that I had known for years but literally don’t exist. Another weird thing is I wasn’t the main character. I was just helping a friend out that needed me.
Idk, the whole thing fucked with me. I have never had a dream so… Immersive based completely on people I don’t know?
The dreams that have fucked me up the most is what I call sequel dreams. Randomly I get a dream that is a continuation of a dream I had years ago and I barely remember it.
Yes, exactly! This was one of those! Like the 2 guys that didn’t show up and I asked about them, I was referencing a previous dream I had with these people that consciously I barely remember but dream-me remembers full well this whole world.
I’ve found that my most immersive dreams have me feeling as though I woke up in the dream without waking up in real life. Maybe that’s when the implausible dream scenarios end and real-life types of events start happening. There’s been a couple times I wake up missing the people I knew from those dreams.
I agree with that! Usually my dreams consist of me being in situations with real people I know of they are realistic at all. It was just so weird to be thrown into someone else’s life that wasn’t mine for what felt like an entire day.
I usually take stuff to sleep and can’t remember my dreams. This is one of the first time I have naturally fell asleep and stayed asleep in well over a month!
I usually take stuff to sleep and can’t remember my dreams. This is one of the first time I have naturally fell asleep and stayed asleep in well over a month!
This is probably a factor! It’s super common to suddenly have intense, vivid, memorable dreams (when you usually don’t) after continually using sleep aides and then stopping them. It can even happen with just marijuana. Brains are weird! I’ve experienced the same thing. You’re not alone.
I completely agree and I hate it. I pay attention to my dreams because sometimes they tell me things that I need to know or figure out. There’s a reason why “let’s sleep in it” is a thing. But I have issues. I don’t smoke weed or take anything strong to sleep (prescriptions make me feel groggy). Instead I take melatonin nightly. I pass out and don’t feel like shit the next day but the downside is I no longer remember my dreams. It’s one of the long lists of things that I need to work on when it comes to my mental health. But hey, at least I don’t find myself sitting on the edge of my bed having full blown panic attacks anymore…
I used to take Xanax but that caused an addiction. Plus the half life of the medication made me a different person when I was awake. So I told my doctor I didn’t want them anymore and changed to melatonin.
I truly wish I could sleep naturally. I miss remembering my dreams nightly. The good ones and the bad.
I’ve had lucid dreams as long as I can remember and yeah sometimes they really stick. I tend to have good control over my dreams too and so when I get into one and I can’t control it I feel very helpless. Historically I’ve also been able to wake myself up from dreams when I lose control but the last couple of years my brain has caught on. Sometimes now when I wake up I actually end up in another dream that mimics how I wake up from dreams then it’ll warp back into whatever I was trying to wake up from. It’s turned into an arms race where I’ll go through my wake up procedures multiple times and honestly some days I’m uncertain if I’ve actually woken up or not.
I get in those false awakening loops, too! They’re so trippy and stressful.
How do you know this isn’t a dream?
I’m gonna be real, something deep in me can’t tell the difference. This reality has more emotional consequences (both good and bad) than dream reality though so I’m more careful here. I just kinda let that existential thought sit around off to the side and if I don’t poke at it too hard it doesn’t cause me any noticable harm
In a way, life is a dream, inasmuch as it’s interpreted through the same wetware that dreams are. Much of the same stuff is at work at all times.
I think fairy tales and religious stories tickle something in us IRL because they have an almost dreamlike quality to them
When I was between 7 and 11 I had a dream that involved the flayed head of someone I knew at school landing on my lap and for a few days remember feeling odd about it.
What fucks me up lately is my own behavior in dreams. I get super pissed off for things that would be slightly annoying in real life. E.g. in the last dream some uncle of my wife who doesn’t actually exist wanted me to unpack and connect a new washing machine (which IRL is a bit of a problem because I have back issues with herniated discs). Also IRL this would be a bit stressful because it’s in our basement and there’s not a lot of room and the water valves are not great etc. Anyways this (the uncle demanding me to do things and not thinking about my back) got me super butthurt and in my dream, I punched doors and shouted something and then ran to the bedroom and cried when I heard the rest of the family which for some reason where all in the house say things like “what’s up with [my name]?”
I’ve had a few similar dreams recently and I hate them.
I rarely have good dreams but I’m more used to dreams where I lose important shit, forget important things, get lost or where escalators kill me. I even prefer the body horror dreams where my or some loved ones teeth fall out.
I just woke up from a dream where surreal versions of the Looney Tunes characters were trying to give me cryptic clues to something as they were legally barred from appearing as themselves or speaking openly.
i have not had a dream that made me feel weird that is a continuation of another dream, but i had a dream where i was able to transition
when i woke up i cried
All these different people in your dreams are not strangers at all. It is all parts of you. Think of it like different facettes of your personality.
Constantly. Something about my brain and shit had given me very vivid dreams for as long as I can remeber. It has its ups and down sides. The best is when I get to hug a dead relative the worst is the brutal death of me and loved ones.
The most annoying are when I dream about mundane tasks like taking my meds or feeding a pet. I think wake up and then have to figure out if I actually did those things or not.
You get used to it though. However it does present the weird phenomenon of feeling older then I am. Or at least adds to it. Its almost like I’m awake more then everyone which means time is much slower.
