Thread: Have you ever had a dream so real that...

I had a dream which ended in my being almost squished by a landing helicopter, and it was very vivid and realistic. While waking I completed the motion of getting out of the helicopter's way / out of my bed, and my heart was racing pretty fast.

Last night I had a dream i wrote in my dream journal but it was a random page. But idk actually because since I wrote it in a random page, idk if it's there or not.

I had a dream about being suffocated by a mafia gangster that strapped a bag over my head after me passing out and said something like this "Let me help you stop your insanity, end your suffering," or something like that. When I woke up my throat was clogged by mucus building up all night. :C

I've had dreams where I have to think "did that happen?".

For instance, I might have a dream about a person and during the day I might think "oh I know a person that used to be an acrobat"....then stop and think "wait, was that a dream?".

The worst is when you're groggy or over-worked and tired. Then reality meshes with dream land.

When I was a kid I dreamed about I found my lost toy car and I was happy few days until I realised that was only a very realistic dream.

Two years ago I had for five or six times a dream in where I was on a edge of an abis and sundden a pink hand with claws wearing a large orange sleeve is pushing me from my back, droping me into the abis. Every time I woke up instant after I start falling. Soon I get knocked on my bed, feeling as I fell from 10-15 cm height smashing the mattress and hearing the squeak of [insert the english word for metal spirals that supporting the mattress].

sometimes i'd go for quite a while believing that an encounter i had in my dream really happened in real life, so when they cross my mind i get nervous and then realize it was all a dream. i always believe whatever scenario taking place in my dreams really happened during my waking life a few seconds after i wake up. again it's always a relief when i come down to reality.

I left music school for about 20 years now. Sometimes i dream that i still am attending music school. When i wake up, i still stress about me being late for practicing music for my next class. It takes like 2 minutes for me to get back to reality.

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A few times I have had a dream that includes a small and insignificant event, like for intense getting further on a video game or finding my ipod that I have misplaced for a week, and even though the dream was not vivid I would go about my day believing in my dream as if it was a memory. If these dreams were not so insignificant I think I would not believe them to be true.

I've had something similar happen. I'm still not sure if it was a dream or not, but I say it was a dream because that's the most likely explanation for it.

I was laying down to take a nap, and only had an hour, so I was a little bit pushing myself to fall asleep quickly to make the most of it. (Ironically this usually has the opposite effect). It seemed like I just lay there, unmoving for at least an hour. As I lay in my bed, beginning to question whether or not I set my alarm clock correctly, I heard some weird clickety clackety noises in my room. Then what sounded like someone pushing buttons on a phone. My door was still shut, so I knew no one was in the room, but I felt like there was someone in the room. The noises were very unusual, and with a rhythm that seems to only exist when being created by a living being, not just house settling noises. "My mind must be making this all up" I decided, as I continued to wait for sleep. I didn't move at all, because I wanted to just drift off to sleep, and not toss and turn for the whole hour. Then I felt what I can describe as impending doom, like right before something bad is about to happen and you know it. It was followed by an intense pressure on my chest, and a feeling of my head being crushed by some unseen energy force. It was too painful to just ignore like the noises, and it felt like my life force was being drained out of me. "This seems to be an attack of some kind by a spirit or something like that" I concluded. Not knowing what else to do, I developed a strong wish to give my attacker all my energy, even my life force, every bit of what I had, even if it kills me to give that much. I visualized all this being radiated out from my heart center like bright lights, filling my attacker, and everyone else with all my positive energy. I got a feeling this satisfied whatever was causing the crushing sensations, and they stopped. I continued to lay there, hoping to sleep for about 3 minutes until my alarm clock started making noises.

It all seemed very continuous, with no transition from waking to dreaming or back to waking, but I must have been dreaming for all that to happen. It just seemed so real, and with such a seamless transition, I'm not convinced if I was dreaming or not.

I suppose if I knew it were a dream, I wouldn't be unsure if it were real or not. Kind of a paradox in your question there, to have had a dream, but not be sure if it was really a dream. But paradoxes are okay, and it works here.

Had a dream not to long ago, that my beard was falling off. I love my beard so i was getting pretty terrified, when i finaly woke up, i was afraid it was actually gone. I had to go to the bathroom and look in the mirror to check that it was still there.