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What does it mean when your dreams feel so real?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Sep 23, 2017
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Often, dreams are just representative of our subconscious sorting things out while we sleep. -- Alternatively, sometimes dreams represent actual memories such as those of traumatic events, in which case they may feel like reliving the experience. -- However, it is important to note that our perception of reality and 'what is real' is largely a collection of senses, feelings and signals that our brain relays to us through our nervous system and other body systems. Some dreams can feel real because our brain is doing a great job of relaying these sensations to us even as we are asleep, and to the subconscious mind there is no difference. This sometimes explains why people feel true terror in their dreams, or the true feeling of falling, or feel as though they have had out-of-body experiences while sleeping, or have reflexes in their sleep like kicking. It is all a series of signals from our creative and functional brains. (This realization causes some people to wonder how we even distinguish what reality is at all. It's a valid question that philosophers have asked for centuries!) -- It does not necessarily need to mean anything, but what do you think it means? You are the expert on you, so it's possible that whatever you think it means has real valid influence on you and that's important, regardless of what others may say! Have you considered keeping a dream diary?
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Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Nov 7, 2017
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today i had a dream the only dreams i have are lucid dreams im always in control i want to fly i run i want to have superpowers i think what kind. but there is the rare occasion where nothing is in my control usually they are scary or odd very odd. in this case i seem to have ended up at a bus stop at what seems to be Taiwan there are people who chose to walk some who chose to ride a bike and an old factory to my south and in front of me is a vivid one way road i think i get on a bus i did not remember perfectly but the destination looked like a barn i sit there there are two girls who look exactly the same girl a lets call her ann and girl b we will call her lucy. lucy was defying the rules when no one could to torment or tease ann who was squeamish making herself contort and ann seemed like she wanted to wake up blinking really hard trying obviously hard i thought it was kinda funny at first like siblings teasing each other ,and for the first time ever i talked in my dream and i said who cares about reason ann squealed with a disturbed face and lucy smiled elated i have never seen such an honest and happy face . lucy grabbed me i started to feel pain i can't fell pain in my dreams usually and this makes the 2 times if we think of the setting ,she grabbed me and i couldn't move there was no free will in my dream and she said if you want blank move i don't remember what she said, it hurt and i couldn't move so i force my way out i moved my shoulder and it moved her hand then i woke up. the second time i had long forgot about this dream till i saw that road this time no ones around a few passing cars and a man dressed in black he wasn't moving o i walk the same direction i came closer he didn't react i put my hand on his shoulder he reacted put up a crazed smile instinctively i thought if don't run im screwed so i run as hard as i can i try flying like i usually can in lucid dreams but i was trapped i keep running i look back and hes gone i keep running forward and he poped up in front of me once i moved my head forward and he was there smiling big and wide he then stabbed me lifted me up high and proceed to shake me as i was in the air i felt pain lots of pain but couldn't wake up tried mentally pulling my self out couldn't wake up then i died and woke up i woke up feeling pain in the same place like my nerves hurt not my skin my nerves actually made pain in my dream im not ill no old wounds no reason but they hurt i did not sleep after that any ideas. to me i entered someone else s lucid dreams
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Mar 4, 2018
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It means that you can see it actually happen to you through you're mind just like something you would do in real life.
Profile: ElaineSaysHello
ElaineSaysHello on Jul 7, 2018
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You are most likely experiencing vivid dreams, or if you're seeing a similar occurrence when you're awake, you could also be experiencing deja vu.
Profile: FawnFox
FawnFox on Mar 25, 2015
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Many of us experience very vivid dreams. A few factors can determine why they are vivid: medications, alcohol consumption, level of depth of sleep, etc. Dreams are an accumulation of what happened during the day or recent events, thoughts, worries. They can at times leave you feeling like it really happened. And that's completely normal!
Profile: Manifestation
Manifestation on Dec 9, 2015
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“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.” ― Bill Hicks
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Dec 11, 2015
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That your dream state is very active. Maybe do some google searching and read up on lucid dreams and false awakenings.
Profile: MalignantLove
MalignantLove on Jan 29, 2016
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Not quite sure if I'm interpreting this question in the correct context but... It means you've actually fought through it all to be at the top of your very own world. You've achieved all the goals you've set out to accomplish, overcome all of the obstacles in your path, and you've finally made it to the land where you dreamed the journey it would take you.
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vad on May 4, 2016
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reams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur usually involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.[1] The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology
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HeartbreakloverK on May 31, 2016
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Dreams are a part of your unconscious mind, their thoughts that have been oppressed to the back of you mind, some are experiences that you've had to go through, and some just don't make sense, everyone dreams, men and women dream differently. If your controlling your dreams then its a thing called Lucid dreaming, this is where you have the ability to control what goes on not only in your conscious mind but your sub conscious mind too, Its completely normal and the people who can do it and feel everything its quite an amazing experience.
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