Believable dreams

Just for interest for those who think they talk in their sleep, you can use a recording app that records your sleep and sounds. I tried it few times and heard myself muttering through the night, but nothing exciting lol.

I had a dream where over a few weeks I learnt to ride a bicycle to work and back, but just doing a short part of the journey first, then the next day more etc. Getting to the start of the bike ride by car.
When I woke up I was convinced I had done it! But living in London, I would not have the confidence, let alone having not ridden a bicycle since my teens!

I’ve only recently started having dreams about ‘real’ stuff, whereas before they were always things like being in a boxing match with Shirley Bassey, who then changed into Donald Trump. Now I dream of more ordinary things, and sometimes I don’t know if things really happened, or if I dreamt them, so I know what Doodledog means.
I blame the Covids.

I often dream that I am reading a book. It's a book that I don't know but it's very good and well written. I read pages and pages of it. I wish I could remember it when I wake up.

Also, I have a memory of going to view a house with my SIL and BIL. It was standing on its own in the middle of fields in the countryside. It was empty and Tudor in style. This would have been 25 years ago. To this day, I don't know whether it actually happened of whether it was a dream.

I can't sleep in a very dark room as I wake up in a panic having dreamt I was either locked in a small dark cave or in a four poster bed with the top coming slowly down on me. Very claustrophobic.

I dreamt last night about my darling older brother, still missed after 30 years 😭

I’m often cross to leave my dreams when I wake up and miss out on what happens next. I also talk a lot in my sleep and have no idea what this all about.

Some dreams seem so real that when you wake up you wish you hadn't as what was happening in the dream is something you would like to happen. I used to wonder if they were like premonitions when I was younger but some of the 'longed for' events never actually happened. I don't seem to have dreams like that nowadays so wonder if it's because I'm more content with my life.

The last time I had a very realistic dream it involved being back with my ex husband. That was quite disturbing as I'm pretty sure that wasn't wishful thinking!

I am another one who dreams constantly and on every subject usually related to something I have seen, heard or thought the previous day. However the other night I dreamt that I was at the local C of E Secondary School that my children attended and where I worked for a while. The Pope was visiting on the school field and I heard a gun shot. Children (mostly boys) were running back through the corridors totally traumatised. It turned out somebody else was shot not the Pope. I have no idea what the origin of this dream was though I was a little shocked today to hear he had been in hospital with bronchitis. Apparently he is back on duty for Easter but is still quite weak. (I am not Catholic or even religious by the way).

Dear Azalea99 and Grannyshouse
Perhaps we could form a dreamland version of the Red Arrows, and float around in close formation, trailing streams of coloured smoke?

On second thoughts: let's not do the streams of smoke bit...

I used to remember quite vivid dreams but have not done so for a while now - until earlier in the week - I dreamt that I was in a room with 3 of my grandchildren and an unknown man began abusing the 5 year old girl, I was powerless to stop him and when I tried to scream only a tiny sound came out, and when I tried to grab him he threatened me with a pair of sharp scissors. Thank goodness DH woke me at that point as he thought I was crying in pain! This nightmare has stayed with me all week, but I decided against telling DD about it.

Me too. I have to fight hard to stay in the air. Not had that dream for a while though x

Oh I have very vivid dreams and they stay with me through the day.

I often dream themed dreams, moving home, unable to find loos, losing children.
But one that blurs dream and reality is that I’ve dreamt up an entire day out kind of theme park/farm park.
It’s very specific, the sign as you arrive is always there, it’s on a bend, half the activities are one side, and then you cross a small river by bridge to get to the other side.
I dream frequently about taking the children there, in my dream it’s convenient and we like it there.
Whenever I drive into it, it feels familiar, and I’m happy to be there, I often wake up thinking it’s real.

Bodach I have that dream, too! Another is that we’re driving home from dinner at in-laws & OH says he’s too tired to carry on driving to our place so instead we’ll just pop into our previous home & spend the night there as he still has the keys! For some reason the kitchen had bright lilac gauze curtains. I was scared stiff but we got away with it & even went out to check on the garden before leaving. And btw our current house is only about 2 miles from the previous one.

SachaMac what a lovely comforting dream.

I think the dream that LadyGaGa describes is the closest to mine. It is less the dream (I do sometimes get vivid dreams) than the uncertainty about whether it was real or not that is troubling.

I used to have dreams about houses with rooms. Often rooms that needed work doing on them. Sometimes rooms that were a bit sinister. And often used to have dreams that I knew was a recurring one but couldn’t remember what actually happened in it, just that I was left with the feeling of knowing it was ‘that dream again’.

I used to have a recurring dream about a house that I lived in.
The dreams continued for months quite mundane in content, feeding chickens, arriving home from work, celebrating Christmas.
The only thing was I have never lived in the house.
In real life I became convinced that I must have seen the property on my long commute to and from work and actually started looking for it. I never found it, but I would have loved to live that life💓

I have a recurrent dream where I am knocking on my Grandmas door (she has been dead since 1988) she opens it and says why haven’t you been to see me for so long. I go in & sit in the kitchen like I always did & everything is just as it was. I tell her my news & any of my troubles. She makes me a cup of tea, hugs me and then I leave. In the dream I’m the age I am now and I’m kind of aware that my Grandma died years ago. I’m always so pleased that I have managed to get to see her. It’s like she is still around in a parallel world and I have managed to get through, so weird.

Years ago I had a dream about an alternate life in a small town by the sea. I felt that I had actually been in that life for years, and I remember it shook me up a bit. I remembered the town, my job, the people I met, my partner etc, and the thought of not being there again left me feeling a bit bereft. I can still see what the town looked like. The mind is a weird thing.

I used regularly to dream that I could levitate. All I had to do was concentrate on levitating myself, and (Shazam!) I would rise off the ground and float gently upwards to the ceiling - from whence I could 'swim' through any open windows and fly gently around outside. I would stay airborne so long as I could keep the 'levitate' thought uppermost in my mind. If I lost concentration, I would float gently earthwards. No-one in my dream ever noticed that I was floating around, and I never came to harm. Very enjoyable dreams, which (sadly) I don't experience so often these days.

I often have lucid dreams, in the main theatre pleasant, but I can be quite discombobulated for several hours afterwards

Does anyone have to rising sea dreams? I just wondered what they are about? Trying to get away from the rising sea but it keeps joining with other seas whilst i battle to get to higher ground

I have really vivid 'real' dreams but the last one I had I got stabbed in a busy market and someone got me a wheelchair and people were trying to help and I was so shook up when I actually woke up!

ExDancer Nice to know it's not just me.