Strong Emotion in a Dream?

**Apopholis** · 11-15-2009 11:45 PM

Is it usual in a dream to feel strong feelings and emotions, like when I was younger I used to always feel extreme pain in my dreams whenever something happened to me that would have hurt in real life.
Also, in my latest recorded dream, which you can read here, I more or less fell in love with a girl I have never seen before. Is this normal?

**AlternateReality** · 11-16-2009 12:48 AM

It doesn't happen to me often, but I have had plenty of dreams characterized by intense emotions. I can still remember most of them. they're very strange for me, because I can still experience the feeling after waking up, though I can then realize that it's not real.

Usually it is fear or love, but I do remember one where it was nothing but an empty loneliness, during a zombie invasion.

**Serenity** · 11-16-2009 01:31 PM

I've had dreams in the past, where I have dated DC's that I don't know in waking life and it certainly did feel like I loved them, so I don't think that's unusual.

**Zezarict** · 11-17-2009 12:12 AM

In a lucid dream it is mostly the id part of your brain that is active wihich controls instinct and emotion so a dream has intense emotions

**Loaf** · 11-17-2009 12:24 AM

Every time something sad happens in a dream I will start crying. I cry really really intensely even if its something silly, and get a deep depressing feeling inside of me. Only that emotion gets magnified for me.

**Kraftwerk** · 11-17-2009 12:28 AM

I woke up SOBBING once. I didn't even remember the dream :/

**Loaf** · 11-17-2009 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

I woke up SOBBING once. I didn't even remember the dream :/

I laughed at that, but now I feel bad.

**Zezarict** · 11-17-2009 02:22 AM

One time I awoke hysterically laughing

**Felixplore** · 11-18-2009 03:47 AM

Yeah i feel quite strong emotions in my dreams/ Ranging from attraction, happiness and anxiety. depending on the situation will determine how strongly i feel the emotion while dreaming. I still remember the intense fear that gripped me when my mate had killed someone in my dream and i was helping him cover it up. That fear of getting caught with a dead body was very very intense at the time.

**oniman7** · 11-21-2009 04:39 AM

I've felt a wide range of emotions in my dream. Anger/power (came with an EXTREME adrenaline rush fueled by the anger), sadness (I often times wake up with tears streaming down my face), fear, desperation, etc. I don't often feel happy, but I would say I've felt elated (as in, almost dazed with my happiness) once or twice when dealing with DC's.

**Jp.** · 11-21-2009 05:11 PM

The only emotions I recall feeling during dreams are sadness and love/infatuation.

Most of my dreams are about girls (i'm a bit of a hopeless romantic) and I almost always feel love for them.

Sometimes I will be aware of the fact that I should be feeling pain in the dream, but I don't actually feel it and the awareness of this pain will not hinder me.

**PhiL** · 11-21-2009 07:18 PM

Yes it happens to me sometimes, i fall in love with a girl in my dreams and wake up depressed its quite common for some people.

**octopewz** · 11-21-2009 07:50 PM

I do, but usually for no reason. In my dream I'd be walking around my block on a bright, sunny day and I'd feel terrified. Nothing would actually happen.

**Caprisun** · 11-22-2009 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

I laughed at that, but now I feel bad.

Don't feel bad, it was funny. I laughed too.

**Flashdance** · 11-23-2009 10:10 AM

Romantic love is always a strong emotion in my dreams.

**Baron Samedi** · 11-23-2009 01:29 PM

Wow. So many males dreaming about love. And women say what about us? I guess we don't want "just one thing." We want two things.

Anyway, people have called these dream emotions. After experiencing them in dreams, I now often experience them in waking life. It's like dream colors. Emotions you have never had before, or even at that intensity.

Here are some I have experienced: drunk with power, terrifying hiliarity, android's agony, quiet madness, pure rage, quiet rage, vengeful justice

**Knight** · 11-24-2009 12:36 AM

I had a strong feeling of love for a girl last night in my dream, she had asked for directions and I gave her them. Then I told her I would meet her their, but I couldn't find her.

**Loaf** · 11-24-2009 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by Knight

I had a strong feeling of love for a girl last night in my dream, she had asked for directions and I gave her them. Then I told her I would meet her their, but I couldn't find her.

Owned.

Nah that sucks..

**Lucid_Guy.exe** · 11-24-2009 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by Apophilis

Is it usual in a dream to feel strong feelings and emotions, like when I was younger I used to always feel extreme pain in my dreams whenever something happened to me that would have hurt in real life.
Also, in my latest recorded dream, which you can read here, I more or less fell in love with a girl I have never seen before. Is this normal?

Well, i've never had either of those happen to me.

But, it probably is normal

**nottherealone** · 07-07-2012 08:07 PM

hi, i suffer from depression and these extreme dreams are kind of messing me up lately. i would like to know, what to do with them, how to get rid of them. because i kind of liked them untill last night. even though i was rather confused with a dream in which i had this really strong emotion towards an old man, i loved him as a father and i would die for him if he was in danger. i have never felt that way towards my real father, which made me feel guilty. but i was okay with that. but last night i had a dream about a man seducing me. i am asexual. never had any kind of these dreams, never felt the sexual tension towards anyone or anything, never watched porn. nothing actually happened in the dream, but the solemn fact that i had a dream about sex which i liked made me feel really uncomfortable. this never happened to me before and i don´t want it to repeat. does anyone have an idea how to get rid of these dreams? i liked the madlyinlove ones, but this is weird and it makes me feel sick about myself irl. help?

**Tekeydie** · 07-09-2012 02:45 AM

i had a dream my brother died and i was sobbing, woke up and was will crying for a little while

**whitedreams** · 07-12-2012 09:00 PM

anyone ever get an intense adrenaline rush? somtimes i just feel a surge of energy in a lucid and do crazy shit like jump through windows and destroy cop cars

**SpaceCowboyDave** · 07-16-2012 05:23 AM

In my favorite dreams I experiance emotions unlike I ever have gotten in "Real Life". I am not experianced enough of a dreamer to be able to list them, but I specifically remember several times when love/lust radiated through my dreams.