This is a hard post to write. Not because it's particularly hard to share, it's just so abstract I can't really describe it. The basic scenario is this: ~6 years ago I had a vivid dream scene I remember to this day. In that scene I was overwhelmed with an emotion I had never felt in real life. Over the next 6 years I would encounter it more in dreams, and now in the last 6 months I've been feeling it in real life as well.

It's not an emotion I can associate with any real-world stimulus. Nothing similar triggers it in dreams or real life - hence it's f-ing hard to describe. So I'll try when it's not 2am in the morning.

But the purpose of this post was to ask. Has anyone else invented an emotion in their dreams? I guess if you can dream you are doing something you never truly have, you can dream an emotion you've never truly felt?

-spoon