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to ask if you have ever had a dream so vivid you couldn't distinguish it with reality?

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vividdream · 12/09/2017 19:02

I had a very vivid dream over the weekend which seemed unusually clear and real. When I woke up I wasn't sure if I was still in the dream as everything in the dream seemed so real and solid and since then it has made me think about reality and whether I am still dreaming as it was so vivid and elements of it were indistinguishable from real life. I have never had a dream that real and lucid before.

Has anyone had an experience like this?

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Apocalyptichorsewoman · 12/09/2017 20:05

All the time - particularly with my deceased mum, dad, and sister. I have real conversations with me where they tell me that they are sorry to have left me, but they are still there and always will be. Real conversations between us. Go figure....

I once had a dream that my friends hamster had babies that were being rolled upon. In a slight dream state still, and to my absolute horror, I drifted downstairs to phone her to warn her. Her Dad answered Blush he was very kind...

GrockleBocs · 12/09/2017 20:07

I have had a few. One example involved something happening to my body. Something improbable, unlikely and not a normal thing at all. I kept checking the area involved for weeks and decades later I can still remember how it felt.

hazeydays14 · 12/09/2017 20:10

I had a dream that I had a red hooded cloak for a costume hung on my door in my childhood room at my mum's so I decided to dress up as 'dead' riding hood for Halloween. I looked everywhere for it, asked my mum and she said it doesn't exist. I remember 'seeing' it so clearly it still baffles me to this day!

Whereismumhiding2 · 12/09/2017 20:11

All the time. It's exhausting and in equal measures ....

...annoying (when I been "working all night"... I even do the typing with my hands & talk out loud (kids tell me!) and my reports were 'only' done in my sleep)
...Mortifying (when I spend the first 30 minutes after waking confused and embarrassed at having a secret affair with someone i met once and would never look at that way)
... Amazed at how great i am with the fab parties I held or fab adventures I went on

... Shocked at how i could be pregnant again (I'm not & am too old now)
None of it is wishful thinking... as I'm happy with my lot! My imagination just works overtime when I'm sleeping and it all feels so real.

catgirl1976 · 12/09/2017 20:12

yes for the last 2 days. I have a kidney infection though which has no doubt caused it. This morning was like I was trapped in a horror film version of inception

Whereismumhiding2 · 12/09/2017 20:21

Oh and last year, I fostered 3 children one night, closed down a carehome as CQC were busy & they all came to live at my house, married in secret to a prince and got awarded a medal from work which was the first medal they had ever given out. I did none of those things but I did wonder at work for 3 hours when my award ceremony was!!! Grin Two weeks ago me and my colleagues as the world as the crust was collapsing by propping up tectonic plates with streetlights with the love borough council bin men helping us, which my manager satellited instructions on to The White House so that out method could be shared amongst other nations (too many scifi films!) .... I sometimes regale my colleagues with "last night's dream", especially when they had starring roles!

GastonsWife · 12/09/2017 20:46

Outrageous the same thing happened to me but Donald Trump not boriso.
I've always had the most vivid dreams. Lots of anxiety dreams. Poor DH is so bored of me telling him about my dreams.
Just before DD was born I dreamed about talking to my granddad a lot (He died when I was a child). I also used to dream that my nanny who had Alzheimer's was herself again if you see what I mean and would be heartbroken when I woke up.

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vividdream · 12/09/2017 21:22

These stories are all fascinating! Has anyone dreamt something that came true or was true without the dreamer knowing?

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Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 12/09/2017 21:27

I dreamt the lottery numbers once

By the time i got to a pen and paper i could only remember 4 numbers

Teddy1970 · 12/09/2017 21:31

Did the 4 numbers ever come up Rufus?

flownthecoopkiwi · 12/09/2017 21:36

I had a dream that i had a neck beard. I can still see it.

OlderGolder · 12/09/2017 21:39

I dreamt i had a penis!

MaddeningtheUnhelpful · 12/09/2017 21:39

Every night for me. It takes me a good 10-15 minutes of waking to sort my head out because of it. My husband jokes that I leave my body every night like that kid in Insideous Confused

HerLadySheep · 12/09/2017 21:42

I had an incredibly vivid dream about murdering someone and hiding their corpse. In the morning I had to check they body wasn't there, I was convinced that I'd actually done it!

Iusedtobecarmen · 12/09/2017 21:43

My dreams are unbelievably vivid. I too,can go back into them. Also, I sometimes know I'm dreaming sometimes and can tell myself that in a dream(if it's a bad dream ), though i dont beleive everyone can do this. Its lucid dreaming.
One dream stick in my mind and still does as being so so real. Or maybe I just wanted it to be.
My mother died about 12 yrs ago. She wasn't old and it was after a short bit unexpected illness

This particular dream I saw her standing on the doorstep putting out milk bottles and looking as she did when I was probably about 10.
I literally ran towards her crying that I couldn't believe she was alive. She looked and smiled but didn't speak. Then I woke before I got up to her on the doorstep.

That dream was a few years ago,but it's like it was last night and it still upsets me.
Dreams are fascinating.

Mrsjohnmurphy · 12/09/2017 21:46

I once randomly dreamt about some blokes drowning in a slurry pit, there was a news item about it next day, quite random.

I often have vivid or lucid dreams. Ocassionally the dream within a dream thing. I was having a tiny hoverboat ride and woke to find myself working in an ice cream factory. Fuck you brain.

Masonbee · 12/09/2017 21:47

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TheLegendOfBeans · 12/09/2017 21:48

Yes, all bar one when I was pregnant though.

The one that I had when I wasn't pregnant was about my mum who'd died around 5 years earlier. I ant speak about it as even typing would make me cry.

The others were all in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Powerful hormones whizzing around the body give me powerfully "real" dreams; good and bad.

Just gonna say it OP; could you be pg?

SaucyJack · 12/09/2017 21:51

Yeah, this is me too. Dreams within dreams.

I often dream that I've woken up, and am running late for wherever it is I'm supposed to be. Or that I've found something I've lost or completed a task from real life.

Or that I've been stabbed, and I can't run. Or someone's died. Or I've had an affair. Or I need to call someone in an emergency, but I can't type the numbers in right.

My nights are not restful to say the least. It takes me a while to process, and come round.

MrsEileithyia · 12/09/2017 21:52

When my DD was newborn I used to regularly dream that she was falling out of my hands and I would clumsily try and catch her as she was falling to the floor. She is 7 months now and I still have the dream occasionally. I would wake up with a huge knot of panic in my chest for a good 5 mins.

The most vivid dream I can remember involves my late grandfather not long after he died coming to say goodbye and how he will always love me. I'm convinced it was him visiting in a dream, less so because of the vivid nature but more because of how I felt after I woke up. I felt less heartbroken. ''Twas weird!

Masonbee · 12/09/2017 21:52

@Acupfullofspiders that sounds quite a bit like sleep paralysis, if you were feeling trapped and couldn't move some or all of your body?

I've heard you always believe there's someone else in the room with you as part of sleep paralysis and I always have (once it was my cat, although he wasn't actually there!) I always 'know' where I am as well (I.e. The dream is happening in the place I'm actually sleeping in) and I think I'm awake.

titsbumfannythelot · 12/09/2017 21:56

I sometimes dream my mum is still alive, it takes a few moments to realise and then a morning of grieving follows😥

tigercub50 · 12/09/2017 21:56

I have some incredible dreams, some of which stay with me for nearly the whole of the next day. And I have felt things too....lovely!
Sometimes it's scary because I have waking dreams - my husband had to calm me down once because I was out of bed, panicking, calling for my Mum who I was absolutely convinced lived with us. I was nearly hysterical & refused to believe my husband when he was telling me that Mum lives somewhere else with my Dad.

Rufustherenegadereindeer1 · 12/09/2017 21:57

teddy

Yes, the four numbers came up that Saturday

We won £70...

tigercub50 · 12/09/2017 21:57

I used to have sleep paralysis - horrible!