Have you ever been crying in a dream and physically feel like you were crying after you wake up?

I’ve woken many times from dreams where loved ones die or something and found myself actually crying, the pillow wet and everything. It’s pretty annoying actually but the dreams aren’t that often at least.

Sometimes, when I am extremely tired, I’ll dream that I’m in pain or crying and wake up realizing that I had a leg cramp. If you’ve never had one of those, be glad. They make you want to rip your leg off, because that pain would be far less intense than the cramp.
What I’m saying is, often I dream about something that is making me uncomfortable in my sleep. If I am sleeping on my hand strange, I’ll dream that my hand hurts.

I’ve never woken up crying, but I do laughing sometimes.

I’ve woken up from dreams where I had been crying and have actual tears myself. It’s a terrible feeling, especially if it’s still very early and I’m afraid to go back to sleep because I don’t want to revisit the same dream.

I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, I’ve had a BLOODY nose.

Yes, once I had a terrible dream that I’d had blood pouring out of my nose!!! Then, I woke up to drops of blood on my sheet and pillow case.

I’d never in my life had a bloody nose before that dream, and haven’t since.

I had a dream that I was running over a sand dune on a beach in Australia, and I woke up feeling A) like I had been running, with elevated heart rate and a little out of breath, and B) extremely disappointed when I figured out I wasn’t in Oz. The bedclothes were sprawled between the foot of my bed and the floor. I must have been moving at a pretty good clip!

I have had this happen many times. It happens to many people in one fashion or another (happy, sad, pain, etc…)
However, as no one knows for certain what a dream is, or why they are, it is different for every person.
I have felt what Les has felt, in the same fashion, but I too, have had dreams, that involve people I have never seen, or meet, and watched them die, and wept for them. Some of the dreams have had in the past still remain with me, I recall them like memories of a real life.
Why do they happen? The most logic conclusion would be your mind, in the state of rest, is mentally filing and sorting through everything you have experienced, and in doing so, have caused you to recall something painful, so painful, that it triggers a reaction in your conscious, causing you to cry. It could also be the same reaction that causes a wet dream. Feelings that are real in your conscious, are used in your subconscious as a function of enhancement to the dream.

All I can offer you would be to say, if you are always waking up crying, start to write down your dreams, immediately upon waking, and before you sleep, write down what you wish to dream about, in as much detail as you can stand. I tried this once, I did it for a month, as I was having horrible dreams about someone in my life, and I wanted them to stop. So I wrote what I wanted to dream, and eventually, I discovered the reason why I was having the dreams, and I was able to deal with it, while, being able to stop the bad dreams and replace them with what I had wrote.

I’ve had bad dreams quite a few times and woken up crying. It’s unsettling. I’ve also had dreams where my SO has done something to piss me off and I’m still made at them, even after waking up. I have to remind myself that she hasn’t done anything wrong.

Yes, I’ve cried in my dream and woken up to be crying in real life. I’ve also been frightened or scared by what happens such that I’m shocked into waking and overwhelmed by the emotions and cry.

Yes, the most intense emmotional release. I think it’s a pressure release valve and a way to get in touch with deeply buried or complex emmotional states. So raw though..cathartic

Absolutely. I’ve woken up crying many many times! It’s not cool.

I’ve had this happen a few times, most notably when I woke up sobbing my entire trachea hurt… that was the dream that reminded me about the childhood sexual abuse I had been supressing.

Here’s my answer.

I laugh, cry, talk, and ‘work’ in my sleep. Periodically, I wake myself up because I am laughing too loud! When I dream about working all night, I am exhausted when I wake up.

Yes, though I don’t generally cry that much either in the dreams or outside them. This happened a lot during a particularly hard period in my life, when I was generally crying a lot.

I think it may have happened in the past to me, but my bro says that he he is ever cut in a dream, he wakes up feeling like the blood is on him, but its not, and also if he dreams he gets shot, it hurts in the place it happened for a moment when he wakes up…
What ive had though often is that if im trying to scream or shout in my sleep (like nightmares or something) i cant really get it out at all, but wake up and kinda go ‘neuuuurrr’ ha… sort of groan out loud…

Apparently when you are in rem sleep your muscles are completely limp, so maybe its how i dont know what you are dreaming is crossed over (?) or carried on once you wake up and your muscle tone is more there again, for a short time… but i don’t really know much about it though, uneducated guessing…

Yes, when I had a dream that I was attending the funeral of a loved one. What made it so bizarre is that a month or two afterward they passed away in an accident. It’s the strangest thing that’s ever happened to me.