thought i would post something seeing as i haven’t visited the forum in ages! Been so busy with A levels and all that rubbish.
I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced dreams that are so intense that they can actually feel the emotion, or feel things or is this just me imagining it? If i wasn’t imagining it, maybe someone could tell me a bit about it? That would be great
An example from recently, i have dreamt (twice now) that i’ve been shot in the chest and i could actually feel the warmth of the blood and it coming out when i touched it. It just felt so intense. I’ve also woken up from dreams before crying after feeling intense sadness in a dream.
Thanks for the reply, it was just a little strange i thought and i definately didn’t like some of them dreams. I think they are stress related because i got most of them around my A level exams.
Do they affect you a lot in waking hours then? Like your mood for the day?
I’ve only had 1 proper lucid dream, it lasted seconds and i couldn’t make myself move in it . I’ve come quite close several times though, but its hard!
Have you had any LD’s?
I have also had these very emotional dreams, it can be so strong that i lose my voice or my breath in the dream. I can wake uP crying or gasping for air. It can be a small, unimportant thing that makes me react very strongly, i have had it after my sister damaged a letter to me and after i broke an ice cream stick in the dream.
These dreams work almost like watching a good drama or disaster film, only more strongly because we are in the middle of it. It gives the extreme emotions a chance to be used, ones we usually don’t experience irl.
As far as I know, emotions are often encountered in dreams. In many dreams, the only thing you remember after waking up is an emotion - sometimes bliss, sometimes fear, as well as many other emotions.
Personally, though, it is very hard for a dream to affect my mood for more than an hour. Mostly the feeling is lost on me even when I try to preserve it - to such extent, that the dream becomes more like a story than a dream.
I’ve had numerous lucid dreams, and sometimes they’re almost… in a way… more real than being awake.
And dreams can set my mood for the day, especially if nothing changes my mood. Such as last week, I had a dream I was back with an ex for some reason… and I tried to leave, but he took a knife and started stabbing me until I came back… where he fixed up all my stab wounds and told me he loved me, and all that jazz. I have to say, that dream chaotically messed me up for the morning… and then everything else went haywire.
And I’ve had other dreams where there’s something or other going on and I just wake up with an overflow of emotions. I think it has a lot to do with stress that I try to bottle up and don’t let out.
I’ve only had something like that happen to me in a lucid dream once, and it was fear more than anything. I think that one is in my dream journal.
I’ve had several dreams in which I’m responsible for the death of someone I care about, and they’re incredibly depressing. One time I dreamt I’d accidentally shot my friend in the head, and I’ve never felt more intense grief and regret in my life. When I woke up I still thought he was dead, and I was practically sobbing. I actually went to my computer, saw an email from him, and checked the timestamp to make sure he had sent it that morning and was still alive.
I usually feel a lot of emotions in my dreams, ranging from fear, sadness, joy, happiness, surprise, you name it. Most of the time, though, the emotions come in the form of music played in the dream, or actions carried out in the dream.
I experiance emotion in all my dreams. It’s not whether you experiance emotion as much as that it’s intense enough that you can remember it or appreciate it.
When I think about emotions in dreams, I always think of that time, when I felt a tremendous love for the world, and absolute bliss. It is one of the most emotionally intense experiences that I can remember, waking or dreaming. It felt like pure joy. It was fantastic. I have also felt very sad in dreams, and angry. I have felt sympathy. It’s all possible.
If i wasn’t imagining it, maybe someone could tell me a bit about it? That would be great 
. I’ve come quite close several times though, but its hard! 