Thread: Dream emotions

I once had a very lengthy dream which covered a WHOLE relationship, start to finish. At the end, the girl faded away, and I woke up devastated. I couldn't think of much else for the following two weeks. It was horrible really. And too vivid for my liking. Sometimes they become so realistic, it really makes you think.

How I react to things is part of why I love dreams so much. Most of the time in dreams I'll be totally lax about everything that goes on around me. I just go with the flow. This obviously poses a problem when I want to be lucid though.

I've had dreams where my husband has "dream cheated" on me, and I'll wake up completely pissed off and mad at him. Of course he's totally bewildered, but you can feel such powerful emotions in dreams that they carry over into wakefulness.

Actually I usually don't feel very emotional in dreams. Although I do remember feeling annoyed and maybe a couple of other insignificant emotions, I've also noticed that I never feel any fear in my dreams. Not even when I couldn't breathe/when people were trying to kill me. Furthermore, I killed one of my best friends in a dream the other day and although I felt a little sad about that, I thought I did the right thing.

Guess that's just me >.>

Yeah, this has happened to be before. I had a dream (which I described in another thread somewhere) where I was surfing with this guy who was holding my hands and comforting me, and when I woke up I almost missed him! But thank God for lucid dreaming, so I can see him again

I have only had one emotional dream.

I was in the forest. Everything was quiet and calm. All of sudden, a bear came, and he immediately attacked me. I had an axe with me, and I hit the bear with it three times in the chest. The bear, being severly wounded, fell into my arms. When he died I felt sorrow, as if someone close to me had died, and tears bursted from my eyes, causing me to wake up.

That bear is the dream character I have liked the most, even though the course of events in that short dream. I wish I could met him again.

I once had a dream where a lady was to be giving me a shave but insted she cut my hair (i have dreds) and i was very angry. When i woke up i was still angry .

Then another time i had a dream where i saw a lady with a sucked in face and i said "it looks like she ate a lemon." and i started laughing really hard. then i woke up still laughing very hard.

Are those LD's

There are two main instances that I can call where very powerful emotions carried over from dreams. In one, I was dreaming that nobody liked me (as childish as that sounds), and I was crying, so when I woke up I was still crying and it took me a minute to realize that it had all just been a dream.

The second involved me being unable to find my parrot that I had traded for the Christmas present I had received. I was sure that my brother (who I'm on better terms with, but we have a history of not always getting along) was the one who stole it and he even hit me when I confronted him. I was so mad at him! So even when I woke up and all throughout that day, though I knew it was a dream the anger was still there.

I don't always notice my emotions, but when I do they are often a great deal stronger than they would be in real life.

-Amé

I also had this dream where i found out i had cancer and was going to die soon, in the dream i was panicking and crying . When i woke up i was relieved i was back in the real world

i've felt one of my strongest emotions ever while in a lucid a couple weeks ago.

i was exploring a house, and i came across a girl of my own age meditating (floating in the air). she was incredibly 'real', and unlike any dream character i've ever seen (later i realized she had been a DC in two dreams earlier in the night, though i hadn't dreamt of her before that night, or since.)

i sat lotus position opposite her, and after a moment of conversation we embraced. it was such a feeling of acceptance and peace (like finding a missing piece), and i felt a probe of sorts enter my forehead near the third eye chakra and penetrate deeply.

it was the most vivid feeling of 'being home'

other than that though, i usually don't feel much emotion in dream, except laughter or excitement if the dream is particularly cool.

Originally posted by Asher
i sat lotus position opposite her, and after a moment of conversation we embraced. it was such a feeling of acceptance and peace (like finding a missing piece), and i felt a probe of sorts enter my forehead near the third eye chakra and penetrate deeply.

it was the most vivid feeling of 'being home'

Maybe you met your soulmate in that dream. I can see why that would be emotional.

I have had quite a few emotional dreams, I'll give a pair of pairs, since they are related.

Dying (with hypnopompic SP)[list]I was shot in the stomach with a sniper rifle. I woke up still in sleep paralysis and could not inhale for a breath or two.[*]I was in someone else's house, they returned home and I got this sensation of a grid of needles being stuck in my back. My vision turned from black, to yellowish white, to crimson red. Then I woke up and couldn't breathe or move any limbs for two seconds.[list].

Loving[list].[*]I was in a friend's room with him. His sister, I like, and her friend, he likes. After being distracted by a fire alarm, they are gone, and he says we need to find them. He is cut off by his sister's friend, and when we turn around, they are both there in white bra and panties. They rush towards us and we each hug them. Again I fell to the floor, this time I kissed her twice. Then my brother, and some random person are causing distractions. The fat guy runs and jumps on "my girl" and at that point, her underwear was off, one arm over the breasts, her other hand in the crotch. I got him off her and then the dream ended before I could get back to her. What a nice Valentine's night dream.[list]

I know how it feels. It really sucks when being interrupted like that in the dreams.

Originally posted by Kitti
Just last night i had a dream where i fell inlove with a random DC i remember every detail the texture of his skin the sound of his voice and the way i felt. I had this powerful feeling of joy and sexuality within the dream and when i woke up it stayed with me.Has anyone experienced this? Like when you have a dream of someone dying and you wake up with the feeling that the world is over and you are depressed. Strangley i have felt that these dream emotions are more intense then the ones in real life. Which dreams made you guys feel great and which ones scared and disturbed?

Actually those feelings are exactly the same as what are felt in Real Life. This accounts for so much sexual addiction. People are hooked on falling in love, anew, anew, anew. That feeling of forming a sexual attachment is an extremely stong one.

As one matures, one finds that the same feelings can be satisfied just about as well by flirting, but that is something of a sophisticated discovery, and a great many 'swingers' never realize that they are going a step or two beyond what is really emotionally necessary.

But, yes, that is a common dream for myself as well. I meet with some nice young lady and we enjoy each other's company... just flirting... but there is that heart to heart connection which give that sense of euphoria that you have commented upon. But it is really the same feeling I get when I can make a sales lady laugh. Oh... I sing in a choir... just the other day, at a funeral, we were singing, and another choir joined up with us... I caught myself accidentally stealing this one lady's hymnal and so I joked of needing to go to Confession, and the lady laughed and gave me a shove -- flirting! Same wonderful feeling.

All my dreams seriously affect my mental wellbeing. Every day I wake up feeling very different from when I fell asleep. I can feel anything from severe depression to overwhelming joy. For me, dreams can affect my personality if they are very emotional. I suppose I'm just very vulnerable to emotions.

It used to be that the emotion I experienced in dreams were far more intense than those I felt while awake. Most often, it was love or happiness or peace - just this incrediby strong feeling that could leave me feeling good for the rest of the day. Fear was also very strong, and I would wake up from nightmarish dreams with my heart pounding and an intense feeling that something was very wrong. Thankfully, those ones were few and far between, and seem to have stopped entirely. The reason I say I used to be this way is not because my dream emotions have lost intensity, but rather, my waking emotions have gained it.

The interesting thing is, I don't remember any other emotions from my dreams. Perhaps mild entertainment or annoyance and such as according to the situation, but not much. Every dream emotion that I can pin down and say "I know I felt this," (instead of thinking I would feel that way in the situation) has been very strong, and tends to affect my feelings for a day or more after the dream.