I was just reading the thread about feeling pain and this came to mind. I had a weird dream once where I was turning into a huge bird (harpy-like) and I woke up with pain in my gums from losing all my teeth, and my back hurt where the wings were supposed to sprout. I felt like crying. It sucked.

It's like I've got this weird habit of not letting go of dream-feelings when I wake up. Sometimes it's not even willingly, it just kinda sticks with me for a while.

I don't know how to explain it. For instance, I've never flown in real life (except on airplanes, but that doesn't count; I'm talking about actual flying, like sprouting wings and so on), but whenever I dream of it, I wake up actually feeling like I was just floating on air or something.

Sometimes I smell something or someone in a dream, and I remember it in real life even though there's no way I could, 'cause I haven't done it in reality. (Of course that's probably my brain making up shit. I doubt I'm smelling the actual scents in the dream. Unless I'm psychic, which, duh... ).

I actually woke up crying once because my boyfriend had cheated on me in my dream. I was aware that it wasn't actually him, but it just felt so horrible. And another time I woke feeling like I had a kid because I loved my dream-kid so much.

My recall is pretty good overall, could it be that I just remember my dreams too well, not only images and dialogues, but also those feelings?

Does anyone else get this? Like, ultra-vivid dreams that kind of never die?