I am confused.

**ravanoos** · 01-15-2014 01:55 PM

Hi. I had not so many LDs in the last period but I have VERY vivid dreams. The problems are that I can't know what`s reality and what`s not. I don't mean right now, in the present but I can't tell if some memories of mine really happened or not. For example I remebered a friend of mine saiyng something funny. Actually a bit later I discovered that I dreamed about it and forgot. Do you have this problem too?

**DreamHighlander** · 01-15-2014 03:20 PM

Yes. I guess it´s pretty common. Sentences like "I didn't do what you said. You must have dreamt it." or "I thought i said this to you before. Or was it a dream?" i heard many times before.

**LouaiB** · 01-15-2014 11:40 PM

Very common actually, and not really bad. little things may be confusing, but important things don't get confused with dream(very very rarely), because they have a very strong correlation with the current sequence of events.

**Intrepidity** · 01-16-2014 01:15 AM

Are these memories very vivid and feel like they happened just yesterday, or are they sort of distant and/or hard to place in context. I can relate to the feeling, but usually the memories I have feel more like the later case. So far I've never had any negative side effects from such memories.

**LouaiB** · 01-16-2014 01:17 AM

In my case, both of these cases occur quite often

**ravanoos** · 01-16-2014 01:42 PM

They are sort of distant and hard to place in context. I remember it but I don't know if it really happened or it was just a dream. From what I`ve seen from this thread this is a common thing. So far the only bad thing about LDs

**Baron Samedi** · 01-17-2014 01:31 PM

Yeah, I get mixed up between memories of dreams and waking life, too. That reminds me of a night a couple weeks ago. I crawled into bed with my wife, and put the blanket on her, but she didn't want it because she was too hot, and made annoyed half-asleep noises. In the morning she said, "Why were you trying to put balloons on me in my sleep?" (We do balloon twisting for kids.) I laughed and said, "Uh, that was a blanket sweetie. I would never do such a weird or annoying thing as to cover you with balloons in your sleep! Do you think I made some kind of balloon blanket, and was testing it out on you? HAHAHAHA!"

**Dismiss** · 01-17-2014 01:52 PM

Yes, this has happened to me before. I remember an example from when I was four. I was in my room and looked outside to the backyard and saw my father and brother digging at the ground. Eventually, they both grinned and pulled up the grass and saw a huge stream of lava. I told them how cool that was the next day, but they were confused because it never happened and asked if I had been dreaming. It's common.