Have you ever had a dream that has affected your waking time?

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Have you ever had a dream that left you thinking about it all day and feeling bad?

I had a dream about something somewhat ridiculous and very innocent that has never and will never happen but in the dream my friend reacted badly and I hurt their feelings and now I’m lying awake feeling bloody awful about something that isn’t real, even although it felt very real in my dream. I’m usually a
lucid dreamer and not sure if that’s why I’m feeling this as if it’s real.

Do others experience this?

Oh yes, every now and then I have vivid dreams where I wake up crying or drenched in sweat and the feelings I was dreaming of leave me feeling uneasy or unsettled for the rest of the day.

Yes, you are not alone, horrible feeling.

I had a drew I was on a beach in the South of England. I was dressed in 1920s clothing. In the dream I leapt into the air and started flying and it was just such a visually stunning dream I couldn't forget it all day.

The following day I searched for that beach ( it had a hotel on the cliff top over looking the beach) and I found the exact place. I have never visited there in real life or read about the place! Weird!

That’s a bit creepy @decionsdecisions62 - is it a famous place?

I’m sorry you’ve experienced it @Doppe -I’ve felt rotten all day and the friend has no idea but I felt like I had to avoid them 😂

Yes, many times. Sometimes I'm sad all day after an upsetting dream, or irrationally irritated at DH about something he's done in a dream. It can be hard to shake off the emotion even when I know the cause of it isn't real, but then again, maybe the dream only happens because I've got that emotion brewing and it needs an outlet?

I had an absolutely horrible dream once when our dog was a tiny 9 week old puppy. We had only had him a week and were so tired. I dreamt a group of people had got him wrapped in aluminum foil and were throwing him between them, and every time I tried to run at them they would throw him to another piggy in the middle style. I remember waking up sobbing and going and getting him out of his crate and cuddling him. Dog is now 4 years old, 35 kilos and strong as an ox so no chance of it coming true but I still remember the dream.

Often. I call it a dream hangover. I'm still chewing over the weird dream I had Tuesday. I still remember a dream I had in my teens! I'd love to be clever enough to do a PhD in dreams, they fascinate me.

Yes very much. Sometimes I have dreams so vivid that I'm actually confused when I wake up and unsure if it was a dream or it really happened. Sometimes my mood is ruined all day because of a dream.

I also sometimes have lucid dreams where I'm trying to wake up within my dream, and I keep thinking I've woken up but I'm actually still dreaming and it will happen over and over again. When I finally really do wake up, I can feel very upset and confused for hours.

Yes. Every so often.
Dream Hangover is a good phrase.

Newquay by any chance?

I can't remember the name of the hotel but it's a 1920s style and it's quite exclusive I think.

Constantly

sometimes i gave dreams so real I’m not sure if they happened or not. If something important transpired, I have to contact one of the other participants to check.

other times I’m just dealing with the experience as if I had lived it

my most intense dreaming happens adjacent to or during migraines. I might have a hyper realistic dream, a lucid dream, or one where I am over focusing on a detail but unable to see it or solve it. The last one is when I need to wake up and take meds asap because it’s going to be a really bad migraine. Sometimes I realize that during the dream and wake myself up, sometimes not.

Yes. I had a horrific one about being in a bookstore with my two children who were both primary school age and watching a plane fall from the sky through the shop window and knowing we would all die. It upset me for days and it felt so real. I couldn't do anything to save my kids.

I had a dream where I’d found a serial killers lair where he stored his victims bodies and their ghosts were talking to me directing me to tell the police where to dig to find them. It was years ago and I still dwell on it, it was so unnerving and felt so real.

I also had a dream of my long deceased Nan when my dd was newborn telling me she approved of her and she would have liked her, that left me happy all day and I still smile when I think of it.

Another dream I had not long after my Nan passed away where she was lost in a city and I was looking for her and the panic I felt running down streets with tall buildings either side of me stayed with me for a while.

maybe the dream only happens because I've got
emotion brewing and it needs an outlet?

I believe that's often the case

Sigmund Freud said that dreams are royal road to the unconscious

Oh yes. Twice I've had That Dream once about dhs best mate and once about one of the teachers I work with. Utterly filthy. I couldn't talk to.either of them for ages.

Yes.

I can still remember dreams I had a child and teen.

They often pop into my head out of nowhere. Maybe every year or so.

Very strange.

Dreams fascinate me.

Yes, from time to time. Sometimes it’s a really, really good dream that I want to fall asleep to get back, occasionally an unfulfilled wish or hope that I’ve had in waking life.
Sometimes it’s a horrid dream that scares the life out of me and I can’t stop thinking about the next day. Those are the worst.