Crazily realistic dreams...

twirlagig · 08-11-2017 09:38PM #1

I suppose I have had these for the last 5 or 6 months, almost every night lately. They can vary from simple everyday things to the most extreme scenario. They are so real that when I wake up in the morning I'm convinced they've actually happened. One that scared me the most was of a friend who I don't see that often, but still a good friend. A lad that is into motorbikes, and I dreamt he came to see me and we had lots of laughs and craic and I watched him leaving my cottage (I don't even have a cottage!), only to see him speeding off around the corner towards home and a big truck came along and I was shouting out, be careful... could see the crash and the truck took so long to stop it had carried him within 3 feet of my front door... And I could see it all.
Woke up in the morning a bit groggy and went looking up local news for crashes, his Facebook etc... totally shook me, I'm actually still not the better of it.

AND then today, I asked one of the girls in work to get me 'such and such' that arrived in work yesterday... She said, 'what are you on about? '
I could've, (And still would), swear that I picked up that item and remarked on it ...

How are dreams so crazily real like this?

09-11-2017 04:04AM

twirlagig wrote: »

I suppose I have had these for the last 5 or 6 months, almost every night lately. They can vary from simple everyday things to the most extreme scenario. They are so real that when I wake up in the morning I'm convinced they've actually happened.

When teen I used to have such dreams, whereupon I would awake prepared for the worst, only to realise it was just a dream.

Fathom · 09-11-2017 06:07PM

twirlagig wrote: »

How are dreams so crazily real like this?

Both awake and dreaming behaviors can form memories.

Fathom · 07-12-2017 07:13PM

RASSIN, E., et al, When Dreams Become a Royal Road to Confusion: Realistic Dreams, Dissociation, and Fantasy Proneness, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, July 2001, Volume 189, Issue 7, pp 478-481, suggested that "difficulties in distinguishing between dreams and reality may lead to false memories."

MadYaker · 07-12-2017 07:19PM

Are you on any meds? I was in Africa for a month a while ago and I was taking an anti malaria drug called malerone and it gave me dreams like you’re describing.

twirlagig · 07-12-2017 07:29PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Are you on any meds? I was in Africa for a month a while ago and I was taking an anti malaria drug called malerone and it gave me dreams like you’re describing.

No, nothing apart from the odd paracetamol now and then. I don’t know, it’ll probably pass in time.
They’re mad though!

Fathom · 13-12-2017 03:24PM

Flying about for work. Sleeping on airplanes. Many "Crazily realistic dreams."

Fathom · 25-12-2017 11:07PM

Fell asleep in car while driving. Awoke suddenly to find myself in bed.

Fathom · 13-04-2018 11:19PM

Dreamt a HOT dream. Was married. Had 2 children. Hubby wanted more. Seemed so real. Awoke. Wondered what married life and having children would be like?

Fathom · 16-04-2018 01:56AM

Ate too much. Slept. Wild dreams!

21-04-2018 11:55AM

Woke up, or I thought I had, but in reality I was dreaming such. Made breakfast and greeted my housemate with a plate of food and drink. Began to discuss the day to come, before actually waking up.

Fathom · 21-04-2018 06:13PM

Black Swan wrote: »

Woke up, or I thought I had, but in reality I was dreaming such. Made breakfast and greeted my housemate with a plate of food and drink. Began to discuss the day to come, before actually waking up.

Talked in sleep?

Crazily realistic dreams...

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