Thread: Confused Memories

Does anyone else confuse their dreams with actual real memories? This has happened to me quite a bit recently.

Like before I went up to the bathroom and went to use mouthwash, but the bottle was empty. (It has been empty for a while now.) I asked my parents what happened to the bottle we just bought and they said they never bought a bottle. But I definitely remembered us having a bottle, later I realised that this was from a dream I had. The image of the full bottle is still clear in my mind.

Have you ever confused dream memories with waking ones?

Yeah it is always a trip when this happens. It doesn't happen near as often anymore now that I keep a dream journal and most of my dreams are written down. Still here and there a random memory I missed will pop into my mind and i'll take it for reality. Last time this happened I had dreamt I had purchased some fine cannabis the night before and the next morning I was pretty excited. The excitement didn't last long though...

Yeh exactly, it's like the memory just pops into your head and it's dissapointing when you find out it's from a dream!

Has happened a few times, mostly because quite often my dreams are realistic in the sense they copy my average day pretty well. There are still a few instances where I am not sure if it was a dream or reality, but those instances aren't anything all too important so I just ignore them.

I've had tons. With conversations, I would randomly relate back to past events, and it would turn out they were all just childhood dreams. Kinda frustrating and annoying actually...

Originally Posted by Kaiserlome

Does anyone else confuse their dreams with actual real memories? This has happened to me quite a bit recently.

Like before I went up to the bathroom and went to use mouthwash, but the bottle was empty. (It has been empty for a while now.) I asked my parents what happened to the bottle we just bought and they said they never bought a bottle. But I definitely remembered us having a bottle, later I realised that this was from a dream I had. The image of the full bottle is still clear in my mind.

Have you ever confused dream memories with waking ones?

This happened to me alot when I was younger, back in elementary school. I would have sworn I already went to school so I didn't want to wake up (This was all in a half asleep half awake phase, eyes were closed), of course I was then woken up by mom and I was angry to say the least
I mean, I was soo happy I had already went to school, and it felt so easy and ended so fast, then I had to go to real school. 2 schools in one day AHHHHHH!!!!