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Have you ever had a dream so immersive that it fucks with your head? (lemmy.zip)

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I just had a really weird dream. One of those that you wake up and go back into the same dream later when you fall asleep again. I was me but surrounded by people I don't know irl but I truly did in my dream. I was with a group of friends. One of them was going through a separation and we were helping him move out. The ex was there as well and we all knew her and the guy for years. She was a part of the friend group.

The thing that really fucked with me is these people that don't exist were so real. It included inside jokes that I knew, back stories of how we met. Reminiscing of things we did together in the past. I remember pulling out my phone and shooting the shit with one of the guys showing old pics and videos of crazy shit we did in the past for instance.

There was also drama that I knew about in my dream and watched progress / unfold in front of me. Like a few of the closest people to the guy going through this were a no show.

Idk it was just fucking weird, like I was completely emersed in the situations, having unique conversations with these "friends", the story progressed like the movers finally showing up. People coming and going. Me getting yelled at to get off my ass and start helping.

The whole thing was surreal and I think what made it weirder was that it wasn't very eventful. Usually dreams are more interesting? Like it was just me, existing, doing something with this friend group that doesn't get together very often anymore that I had known for years but literally don't exist. Another weird thing is I wasn't the main character. I was just helping a friend out that needed me.

Idk, the whole thing fucked with me. I have never had a dream so.... Immersive based completely on people I don't know?

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[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

What fucks me up lately is my own behavior in dreams. I get super pissed off for things that would be slightly annoying in real life. E.g. in the last dream some uncle of my wife who doesn't actually exist wanted me to unpack and connect a new washing machine (which IRL is a bit of a problem because I have back issues with herniated discs). Also IRL this would be a bit stressful because it's in our basement and there's not a lot of room and the water valves are not great etc. Anyways this (the uncle demanding me to do things and not thinking about my back) got me super butthurt and in my dream, I punched doors and shouted something and then ran to the bedroom and cried when I heard the rest of the family which for some reason where all in the house say things like "what's up with [my name]?"

I've had a few similar dreams recently and I hate them.

I rarely have good dreams but I'm more used to dreams where I lose important shit, forget important things, get lost or where escalators kill me. I even prefer the body horror dreams where my or some loved ones teeth fall out.