Intense dream completely shaken me up emotionally

[rosebud]

I just had a dream that has shaken me up so much that I started crying not long after waking up and I'm still crying. I don't feel sad, I feel warm, not exactly happy, mostly confused. Now I have a problem (or a blessing, depends on how you see it) where I have long, vivid dreams almost every night of my life/every time I go to sleep, which I can almost fully remember and recall, and sometimes leaves me more exhausted than I was before I went to sleep! But this dream really has affected me like nothing else. I feel like I've just come out of an acid trip, or similar experience. It wasn't a very long dream, and it was quite boring before the end. I was living in this strange house in this strange, almost alien setting, with my best friend and another guy. This other guy was middle-aged old, with long grey hair, like a hippy. I don't know who the guy was but he was dressed in militaristic clothing and he was kind and fatherly and I had the impression he was there helping me and my friend survive. At the end of my dream, and this is the bit that really affected me, I went to wash, and instead of getting dressed I just wrapped myself up in a towel. I went outside, it was twilight, and I sat down on the grass. I saw my best friend walking out over in the distance. I saw him recognise me and walk towards me. I lay down on the grass in my towel for a long while, I felt heavy and depressed, and my body was flickering and fading away. Eventually he reached me, sat down, smiled gently and asked, "hey, what'cha doing there?" and I said, "I'm just lying here". He laid a hand on my head, and then I reached up and put my hand on top, wrapped a few fingers around his. After a while he started talking happily, holding a picture in his hand. I wasn't listening to anything he was saying, but I looked at the picture. It was a small painting of a smiling girl with long blonde hair, I instantly associated with his girlfriend, and in front of her was a small dark shadow in the same shape. He carried on talking and after a while, carefully ripped around the portrait of the girl, folded it up and put it in his pocket. He then ripped off the excess paper around the picture of the shadow, and held it in his hand, looking at it. I think he was still talking, but I wasn't listening, just ripping up the scraps of waste paper. I remember feeling a little embarrassed and improper because I was only in a towel. Eventually, he stopped talking, smiled at me, and laid down next to me and put his hand carefully on my waist, protectively. I've never felt so strong a love, not a romantic love, but strong, if not stronger, in my life. Throughout the whole scene it felt like I was fighting a crushing depression that was dissolving me as well as being energised by this powerful warming love that I had for him. I woke up sweating, I dwelled on it and while, and I've been sobbing for maybe an hour now just with the intensity of it. Anyone had anything similar?

[LucidMonogatari]

Wow, that's sounds like a very strong dream and I wouldn't be suprised if you felt emotional afterwards, I would feel emotional also. The only thing I can remember is that sometimes when I have a very vivid dream involving a girl I have a very strong emotion after a wake up. Almost like depressed but not really. I think it could be false love XP other from that welcome to dreamviews!

[JulieChristine]

Wow! I am no where near a dream expert but I've heard of things like dream guides or these good "dream beings" and maybe he's yours! The fact that he was pulling you out of this depression is really interesting!