Does anyone ever dream vividly about friends/boyfriends they fell out with?

[Steenac74]

I fell out badly with my best friends in uni about 10 years ago now. I haven’t seen any of them since. I vaguely know what they’re up to due to social media and other friends who know them. I have this weird thing we’re as often as every two weeks I have a dream with some of them in it. It’s always a bit awkward as we’ve fallen out and usually around the lines of them being at an event I’m at where I have to awkwardly chat to them or we are trying to patch up the friendship, or just talking to them about something.

It’s so odd!!! It was a bad friendship break up - they were pretty cruel to me - so I don’t want to be friends with them again. I’ve since made a lovely new group of friends, met my husband and gotten married and changed career to a new job I love. I have a very happy life but for some reason they keep intruding into my dreams.

Anyone else find the same?

I had a dream last night about my ex husband. In it, we were married and in our home, he was telling me that he didn’t think it was working out, I was crying and begging him to talk it through and give us a chance. I was desperate not to lose him. It was so vivid I felt distraught when I woke up.

In reality, I fell out of love with him and I was the one who ended the marriage and moved out. That was nearly 20 years ago and I’m long since happily married to someone else.

Very strange indeed what your brain can do! It isn’t recurrent like your dreams though, thankfully. Do you ever think of them during the day, when you’re awake?

I have very vivid real dreams

No I don’t often think of them! The odd time when I see something on social media etc.

I wonder if it’s as subconsciously I’m worried about seeing them again and how awkward it would be and that plays out in my dreams. It’s weird!!