Hopefully this doesnt sound as crazy as this is about to sound…
Do you guys ever have dreams that are so vivid that you cant differentiate between real life and dreams?
I once was getting ready for something, and I was trying to decide what purse would look great with the outfit I was wearing. I remembered that I had purchased a designer purse, and it would be perfect.
As I was walking to the place where I stow my extra purses, I realized that my designer purse was imaginary. I had purchased the purse in a dream.
How crazy is that? I really felt like I had that purse!
But anyway, I was wondering if anyone had a simliar experience.
How could a dream be so vivid that I thought it actually happened?
Happened to me a couple of times.
For example I was thinking about a song I’d listened to on youtube the day before when I realized that I’d never been on youtube that day, I can’t recall if the dream had been vivid but the memory was extremely clear. I guess it might be hard to tell the difference between real memories and dream memories if you have vivid and realistic dreams.
Kinda creepy really
I had a dream in which i could clearly remember that me and my parents moved to america. Interestingly, since the moment I remembered that fact, my dream was actually in english (I’m normally dreaming in german.) I was so sure that I was in america and WAS an american, even if a) i never actually was in america, b) the place did not look “american” at all, but was some german town (although it was none of existance.)
After waking up, I really wondered about this.
I think i had a couple of similar dreams, now that I think about it.
It has happened once or twice. For instance, dreaming I went back to the party I was at earlier that night, and not realising I never actually went back until I had been awake for a while.
No, you don’t sound crazy. It’s a pretty common question that I’ve seen asked several times before.
I think most people at some stage get dreams mixed up with real life. I don’t know if I would say it’s caused by “vividness”, however, because I experience the exact opposite. If something happens to me very clearly in a dream and I remember it clearly, then I have no trouble distinguishing it from reality. However, if it’s a more hazy memory of something dull, everyday and generally unnoticable, it becomes a lot more difficult to pick it out from what’s real. But I assume it’s different for everyone.
One time, earlier this year, I put my phone right next to my bed like I always do. That night I had this false awakening and my phone rang. I answered it, and this guy said ‘Hello, are you still there?’ I said ‘Yeah.’
‘Hello are you still there?’ I hung up, since I thought it was a prank call. He kept calling, and asking the same thing! It was very frustrating, because I thought I wasn’t sleeping, even though it was a dream. I eventually turned off my dream phone, and went to ‘sleep.’
The next day, my phone was on. I didn’t know if it was a dream or not, and I told my sister and my friend. Me and my friend checked my call list on thebus, and figured out it was a dream. It felt so real, though!
I once woke up in the middle of the night from my TV (by the foot of the bed) being turned on. I turned it of using the remote but it turns back on immediately. I keep trying to turn it of and I mute the speakers so that no one else in the house will wake up. Finally I crawl across the bed and presses the powerbutton on the tv and then WHAM- Blank, another dream starts.
I wake up the next morning not knowing wheather it happened or not. Then I check the tv and see that it is turned on (the power button on the tv- If it’s off you can’t turn the tv on using the remote).
I can’t remember what it was about, but I remember being in school feeling all happy cos I knew that a package (that I had been expecting) had been delivered to the post office and my mum had picked it up (Though I never actually thought about it, cos all I could remember was that something good had happen (I don’t normally question my happiness u know)). I get home and after a while infront of my computer I remember- THE PACKAGE! A few seconds later, after rushing off my chair I also remember that it was a dream xD
Yes, I have a lot of vivid dreams, even a few of them recently. I have to remember if it was a dream or not, it takes me a while after I wake up sometimes xD. I’m sometimes relieved that it is a dream and sometimes I get pissed that it was a dream which happened to me at least twice this month.
I guess it might be hard to tell the difference between real memories and dream memories if you have vivid and realistic dreams.