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Nicegranny Sun 02-Apr-23 14:19:45

I have dreams like full length feature films 😂 I always have had.

grandtanteJE65 Sun 02-Apr-23 14:13:59

Yes, I have often had dreams about things that seemed absolutely real, but which I realised on waking, or sometimes not until I had been awake for some time had never happened.

I honestly thought everyone had dreams of this kind, so I don't think you need to worry about it.

As yet no-one has been able to fully fathom the way our brains work, sometimes I think we in our dreams convert something we have read or heard of into first-hand experiences, which they obviously are not.

Scottiebear Sun 02-Apr-23 12:46:47

I sometimes think I remember things, but have to question myself whether it was a dream or really happened. Suppose as we get older we can't totally rely on our memories.

ExDancer Sun 02-Apr-23 12:30:26

Oh Sandelf I have a similar one, but in mine it's my DH who is accusing me of having killed the unknown person. He is trying to convince me to take my punishment like a man (?) and stop telling lies.
I have to remind myself when I wake up that I don't need to explain my innocence to him, and convince myself that he doesn't really think I could do such a thing.

sandelf Sun 02-Apr-23 12:17:53

Oh I used to have an awful one. Someone (totally unknown to me) had been murdered. I was suspected. The problem of the dream was how to prove I had not done something... Yes it was a real nightmare, but it has left me with a bit more feeling towards those wrongly suspected of offences.

Coconut Sun 02-Apr-23 11:41:39

I dreamt that I was heavily pregnant again ! I’m 70, with 3 AC and 5GC …..but I have no man and no womb 🤣 In the dream I went thro all the emotions of dreading the birth, but feeling the excitement of having another beautiful little baby. When I woke and realised I was not pregnant, I felt really upset as it was all so real ! I don’t think my maternal instincts will ever fade !

sazz1 Sun 02-Apr-23 11:38:50

I dreamed that I won the lottery and told OH about it in the morning. Just for fun I bought a lucky dip that week. Woke very early next day and a message came saying I'd won a prize. Really excited I checked how much but it was only £70.

HousePlantQueen Sun 02-Apr-23 11:37:47

Every few years I dream about the same place, and it is somewhere that I haven't been so it will be interesting if I ever get there and 'recognise' it. It is nothing special, just a bit of a city, central reservation with railings, but I am always heading somewhere purposefully when I am there, as if I know where I am going. I also once woke up speaking fluent French; I am a passable speaker, but certainly not as fluent as that morning.

Nicolenet Sun 02-Apr-23 11:15:29

I dream about people that I have not
seen or thought of for ages. Nightmares really. Hahaha

Keeper1 Thu 30-Mar-23 12:25:25

I must be going mad but for whatever reason I still think that maybe it did happen. It feels very real maybe another life?

Theexwife Thu 30-Mar-23 11:26:41

Yes, I thought I had to reply to a work email, which needed one question to be answered in French. Although it did not make sense I still searched my emails, and read through old ones to see if French was mentioned.

It must have been a dream, one that I have had more than once as there have been a few mornings when I think of somewhere else to look or some reason as to why French was needed.

MayBee70 Thu 30-Mar-23 10:27:39

I dreamt last night that I was at Paul McCartneys and I needed to get home so I either took or stole a car from him but then realised I couldn’t drive it. But it turned out to be a car that drove itself. I have very vivid dreams most night, many of which stay with me throughout the day. It does worry me to be honest.

Doodledog Thu 30-Mar-23 09:47:55

Hurrah! I'm not going mad (unless you are, too, Keeper grin.

It's disconcerting, isn't it? I wonder what's going on in our subconscious when that happens.

Keeper1 Thu 30-Mar-23 09:37:23

I had a dream that I was working as a temp for a firm of accountants in the town near where I live. It was so real to me in the dream and afterwards in fact I still think it was true now although I know it wasn’t and isn’t but when I drive in I look for the offices where I “worked”.

Doodledog Thu 30-Mar-23 09:24:04

Thanks. I have a new inhaler which seems to be helping. I need to break the vicious circle in which breathlessness prevents exercise which causes unfitness that aggravates breathlessness.

I hope someone else has had a similar dream too. It was almost like a glimpse into a previous life.

DanniRae Thu 30-Mar-23 09:20:35

Sorry no ... but I will be interested to read what others say.
I hope your asthma improves soon.

Doodledog Thu 30-Mar-23 00:27:25

This is going to sound strange, but please bear with me? Do you ever have dreams which are untrue but very believable?

Yesterday morning I 'remembered' a time in the recent past when I took up smoking. I could picture the cigarettes in my bag (packs of 10, which I don't know if you can still buy?) and a gold lighter. I couldn't picture actually smoking one, or remember giving up, but I was absolutely certain that I had been a regular but temporary smoker in the past couple of years or so.

I have asthma, which has relapsed badly of late - there is no chance that I would take up smoking. Not only that, but I hardly left the house during Covid, and am not exactly painting the town red now, so where I would have gone to smoke them is a mystery.

I assume I dreamt about it, but I don't remember the dream, and it was later in the morning that the 'memory' came to me.

Has anyone else had an experience like that? It was most odd.