Do you have dreams that feel like a lifetime?

Link didn’t work for me
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.