Do you have vivid, never ending dreams?

Do you ever have dreams that scare the hell out of you to the point where you wake up screaming?

Do you ever have dreams where you think you are awake, because the dream is for example, of you lieing in bed waiting to fall asleep?

Yes, yes, and yes.

My dreams are often as "real" to me as waking reality. While asleep and dreaming, it seems as though I experience the whole range of sensory stimuli - sight, smell, hearing, touch , and taste. Time goes by at a different pace, so that I can experience hours, days, months in my dreams in the short time that I'm really asleep. I'll often wake up disoriented, because I was "away" for what in the dream lasted months or years, and then suddenly I'm back in my bed where and when I left, and I have to try to remember who and where I am and what is going on in my real life where I left off.

Did you ever see that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Capt. Picard gets zapped by a signal from some space probe left by an alien race that was killed off by their sun that went nova? He lives like an entire lifetime of what seems like reality to him, and then suddenly wakes up back where he was with all the experiences of the alterante reality intact.

I'm not a "Trekkie." I just remember that show because I recognized at the time I watched it that my dreams are like that.

Sometimes, I'll have a memory of something that I have a hard time placing. I have to try to remember whether it happened in real life or in a dream.

I have lucid dreams a lot..those are the only ones I tend to have memory of when I wake up. I actually control myself in the dream, it's cool.

They also often revolve around things happening, or that are going to happen in my real life. Usually a bunch of them all at the same time, but sometimes my dreams are like playing out one of the possible scenarios that could take place around this event. Totally exaggerated and implausable but still an option I guess. Other than that I dream about a lot of serial killers and being chased by bears.

It does seem like reality though. I find myself actually thinking in the dream "how does this work when (some other thing actually happening in life that would make this event impossible) is happening?" Like comparing real life to dream life. I also wake up thinking sometimes "what am I doing here? I thought I was...(whereever I was in my dream/doing whatever)" for example in one dream I had aquired three little dogs, I don't know how or why. When I woke up it took me probably about 5 minutes to realize I don't actually have those dogs. I was quite mad, they were adorable :p

It's fascinating lol.

During a dream one night I fell madly in love. Up to this point in my life (real or otherwise) I had never experienced such joy. Upon awakening to realize it was a dream, my heart broke at the loss of this, my first true love. It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.

Sadly, in real life I had been married for a number of years to a woman for whom I had never felt the love I had felt for the woman in my dreams. Things were never the same after that.

When I have dreamt it was always scarey yet not... I don't know if you can understand that. I will wake up sometimes with a sever headache.

I have a few dreams that reoccur as well. Such as dreams of me in between many different small tornados and I am always wearing one of those old fashioned skirts that would be flowing with the wind.

Wierd... But yea I have had odd dreams when I do.

That is very deep. I had actually experienced the same feeling in a dream once. Now I had recently met someone that gave me that same feeling and I always told him that he was the one I had been dreaming of. Sadly, he will probably never understand the underlying meaning of that at all.



During a dream one night I fell madly in love. Up to this point in my life (real or otherwise) I had never experienced such joy. Upon awakening to realize it was a dream, my heart broke at the loss of this, my first true love. It was the most painful thing I had ever experienced.

Sadly, in real life I had been married for a number of years to a woman for whom I had never felt the love I had felt for the woman in my dreams. Things were never the same after that.

I have nightmares or nightterrors a lot, almost every night. At some point when I was a kid I learned you can't feel pain in your dreams. After awhile I learned to realise I was dreaming, I could bite my arm or hurt myself in my dream and wake myself up. Some times I woke up instantly sometimes I had to hurt myself a few times but it always works.

Still the dreams are so real and scary that when I wake up I immediately pinch myself as hard as I can to make sure I am actually awake. I have had way to many of those dreams where you dream you wake up but your really still asleep. Depending on how scared I am I keep checking for awhile after waking to make sure I am really awake.

I keep coming to this post, but get distracted with something else...I could on and on about my dreams, but I'll spare you ;)

I really feel that in dreams, we have the ability to experience a wider range of emotions simply because we're presented with so many situations each night. I actually feel like my dreams in some small part, make me who I am today--meaning, I've had "experiences and emotions" that I could not otherwise have had in the real world. That sounds strange, I know, but I really look forward to dreaming--and they feel so real!

On a side note--when I was young, my mom would sometimes not let me watch cartoons as a punishment. Whenever she did this, I'd always dream the cartoons at night, and felt like I didn't really miss out on anything during the day :D

I've had to make myself feel minor pain to make sure I am awake as well. I wake up in dreams without actually waking up so often sometimes it is hard to tell. Sometimes it happens 3 or 4 times in a dream..I think I've woken up then realize I am still dreaming then wake myself up again but I'm actually still dreaming and on and on..
What I find really annoying about that is sometimes when I feel too lazy to get up and get ready I actually do it in my dream and then when I really do wake up I get annoyed that all that isn't already done.


I've also experienced deep love in my dreams. When I was younger I was kissed by the most adorable boy ever, and that was the first kiss I had experienced. It was years ago but I still know exactly what it was like and, sadly, still think it's the best one I ever had. It was entirely random, completely out of the blue and unrelated to my dream, and was just thrown in there only a moment before I woke up. Who knows why things like that are thrown in, maybe one day I'll find out it meant something more.

Do you have vivid, never ending dreams?

Do you ever have dreams that scare the hell out of you to the point where you wake up screaming?

Do you ever have dreams where you think you are awake, because the dream is for example, of you lieing in bed waiting to fall asleep?

today i had vivid neverending dreams i kept getting up over and over and thought it was so real but was actually asleep on couch from midnite til 1:30pm today when i got up for real! :) lol never experienced the last dream type..Have had screamy dreams good part of my life..hate it when ppl knock or ringdbell when i sleep cuz then they hear me scream..*embarrased* lol...:)

Do you ever have dreams where you think you are awake, because the dream is for example, of you lieing in bed waiting to fall asleep?
Yeah, happend to me lot of times. I dream something, and then wake up in a bed, mine or wherever, then after a time I wake up again for real.

Sometime I am awake but my body is totaly shut off. Cant even open my eyes.

I know that I dream, but very rarely do I recall them. When I do remember them, I sort of 1/2 wake up, and continue dreaming in a semi-conscious state...then wake up when it gets too disturbing.

Do you have vivid, never ending dreams?

Do you ever have dreams that scare the hell out of you to the point where you wake up screaming?

Do you ever have dreams where you think you are awake, because the dream is for example, of you lieing in bed waiting to fall asleep?

1. Yes, yes, yes, yes
2. Yes, sometimes
3. Rarely


I guess that the only thing I am really good at is dreaming.

My dreams are my second reality and moreover - it happens that I dream about some things that are happening in the same time or about things that are going to happen:

- I sow in dream my brother has surgery in the moment when it happened and didn't even know he is injured.
- once (in my dream) I went to the city I was born in, and I walked trough and I sow known people speaking about my old friend got married. I called her mom next morning and - guess what - she got married few days before

- I dreamed about unknown man and I met him next day in the train. We became good friends.

I have my own symbols in dreams (It took me some years to understood their meanings).

Sometimes I can walk trough my dream, knowing that I am dreaming. It happens when I dream about something I really want, I really like...And than waking up can be so painful.



Few friends told me that my vivid dreams are my way to escape from reality but I wouldn't see it as escape. I believe that our dreams are just the other place(s) we live in. Or there is no one certain place but whole other world we live in.and as time is passing I am much closer to conclude that the world of our dreams is more real than this one around us.

... the world of our dreams is more real than this one around us ... Yes,
A recurrent theme in artistic depictions of reality.
Our reality is defined by our mind.
Our reality is composed of the stuff of dreams.
Our mind is a stage upon which our mind places actors which interact.
Our mind is our world.
Our mind contains our reality - our virtual or logical reality.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
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Jed,

Yes, yes, yes.

And I love Canada too. Too bad about the passport thing. I'm about 350 miles from Montreal. The French makes it feel Europey. Great city to visit. And Canada has most of the last pristine wilderness on planet earth.

Love it.

Bob


Do you have vivid, never ending dreams?

Do you ever have dreams that scare the hell out of you to the point where you wake up screaming?

Do you ever have dreams where you think you are awake, because the dream is for example, of you lieing in bed waiting to fall asleep?

A Dream occuring while one is Awake (on falling asleep, OR, on awakening) can be a sign of a sleep disorder, or serious sleep deprivation.

eg. "hypnapompic hallucinations"; "hypnagogic hallucinations".

They also happen in Narcolepsy.

Talk to your doctor about this.

NB. It can also happen with some medications. I had this the first time i took the SSRI (SNRI?) drug -- Concerta.

Certain levels or types of Serotonin (in hallucinogenic drugs) is linked to quasi-hallucinations/visual disturbances.


Emma