Do you have dreams that feel like a lifetime?

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No. But I have dreams that fill me with..indescribable grief

@Dutchess_III the guy in the story got beaten up by some bully then dreamed of meeting a woman, getting married and having a happy family and job. One day he saw a lamp and realized it looked wrong. He became obsessed with it, then he woke up and realized his entire life was a dream.

I would be cautious with Reddit stories. There is a chance it’s made up. There is no way anyone can verify it.

But I do agree that some dreams feel really real and long. I have them sometimes. Those dreams are often really intense and have some kind of danger theme in them and I always wake up late because I’m so engrossed in them.

I know. Which is why I don’t have a reddit account which why I can’t access the OPs link.

I don’t have dreams like that exactly, that I remember, anyway.

But I do quite often have very detailed and vivid dreams where my life situation is quite different, with other people in them. They usually seem quite real to me. Some of them get returned to in whole or in part on later nights. Many different situations, though.

The aspect of noticing something is off in the dream leading to leaving the dream and waking up, is common, and even moments of not remembering the life I wake up into, but not as described in the story (no long periods of apparent insanity in the dreams, generally at most curious about the people in the dreams, but not really mourning their loss or anything).

That dream story sounds like the person might have had a “near-death experience” rather than just a dream.

I have never experienced that though sometimes dreams confuse time.. For example, sometimes I remember a dream but cannot tell if I had the dream last night, a week ago or even months or years ago. I see to remember remembering the dream previously but I’m not certain.

I am a very vivid dreamer. I also recall them and journal them. Sometimes i wake and go back into them to either enjoy more or to change the ending.
Some are fleeting and some go on forever since I was a child.

I have dreams that are very vivid and movie-like. But not living a whole life in them.

No, but I lucid dream all the time.

@Dutchess_III Do you remember the actual dreams? Or just the feeling that you have afterwards?

@Mimishu1995 I take everything on Reddit and the internet with a grain of salt. I do agree that many of the stories on Reddit sound like people trying their hand at writing fiction.

@Zaku I have those kinds of dreams too! It’s its own world and picks up from the last dream. I also have this house with winding corridors where it’s both familiar (from previous dress) but always more to explore.

@flutherother Yes! Time in dreams moves at its own pace. I can fall asleep for a few minutes and wake up from a dream where I lived a whole lifetime.

@Forever_Free I’m a lucid dreamer too. But more so when I was younger. I noticed that if I woke slowly and mindfully, that I’d remember more. These days I don’t lucid dream as much as I tend to wake much more abruptly.

I used to have this one dream over and over for years since I was a kid. But I haven’t had it since I had kids?

I still have repeated dreamscapes, but much fewer and further between.

@janbb That’s what I’m curious about! Is this the norm or not the norm?

@Blackwater_Park There goes my theory that this is related to lucid dreaming.

I have had dreams that took me through several years of life and I was surprised to wake up and find it was a dream.

@raum I have 3–4 dream themes that I have had since I was kid. People in my life now tend to pop in and out of those places. I completely agree on waking slowly and mindfully to reflect and remember more. Do you journal your dreams. That has been the most significant thing I do to recall more dream events.

@raum…I sort of remember, but tried to forget. It involved some of my little grandkids. It wrecked me for days.