Dreams that affect you emotionally (even after you wake up)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Still the most vivid and memorable dream I’ve ever had. This was back in the early 90s.

I was on a train, commuting from some country town to the city. I THINK it was in Europe somewhere (I’ve never actually even BEEN to Europe, but that was the sense I had). The region was apparently known for making dogfood, and the traditional way to do it was to butcher the cows in the fields, which surrounded the train tracks.

We were either in the middle of a war or there was a military flying demonstration (like the Blue Angels), and a fighter jet somehow went out of control and crashed into the roof of the train car I was in. It didn’t flatten the car or anything. Just WHAP into the roof and a dead stop, while the needle-nose thingy in the front punched through the roof and was more or less just sticking down into the car.

I vividly remember everyone in the car coming to the realization of just what had happened, physically, to the pilot when inertia kept him going after the jet stopped. The mood was incredibly somber, and we all just kept looking at each other wondering what to do. The train had stopped, and the only way to really get out of there was to walk through the fields where they were butchering the cattle, which seemed like just a little too much similarity to what had happened to that pilot.

That was where the dream stopped or I woke up or however that happens. I was just completely seized by an incredibly intense feeling of depression that lasted for DAYS. I don’t think I’m ever going to forget the dream or the emotion it stuck me with in waking life.

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Had one I remember from last night (which is itself odd for me, as I don’t remember many dreams.) I opened a case on a new patient and then forgot all about him. In the dream, I was in a panic because I realized I’d dropped the ball and he was either dead or our billing paperwork was going to be all screwed up because I hadn’t been doing my job seeing him every week. I couldn’t figure out which was the worse possibility.

It was so real that I had to think for quite a while after waking up to figure out if it was really a dream. The anxiety lasted nearly until lunchtime. Finally, I remembered that his “house” in my dream was a white glossy building with a drive through - a bank not far from where I used to live. Couldn’t have been a real person’s home.

But I looked through all my files and my appointment book, just in case. Everyone appears to be accounted for! :smiley:

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I feel sick posting this.

When my first child was born my wife and I were pretty much on our own. Neither of us had family close by. We struggled to do our best to take care of her in the best way possible. Looking back we did a heck of a good job but we were always afraid it wasn’t enough, that we should be doing something more or better.

One night I had a dream that we had roasted the baby in the oven and we were in the kitchen happily discussing how delicious she was going to be as we snuck peeks into the oven.

I woke up, ran to the bathroom and spent the next hour vomiting. I was despondent for the next week. When my wife would ask me what was wrong I couldn’t bring myself to tell her.

Looking back I can see that it was a subconscious expression of my fear that were terrible parents and coupled with a complete lack of sleep and the anxiety of being a new parent it just came to the surface.

I’ve still never told my wife and thinking about it now makes me sick.

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You should well be. Sneaking peeks in the oven will spoil the roast.:smiley:
Dreams do not usually effect me much after I wake up and realize the truth. However, which bad dreams usually see me relieved after I wake up, there are some dreams which consist of senarios and situations that I deeply desire and they can leave me annoyed at reality for some time.

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Recently I dreamed that I was meeting a male friend for lunch and, as pathetic as it sounds, I wanted to pretend to myself that we were on a date, since no one ever asks me out. My mother and one of my sisters tagged along, and my mom said something to the effect of “oh, just pretend we’re not here.” They then proceeded to ruin everything, monopolizing the conversation and stealing food from my plate. At one point, Mom started putting bits of the sushi I was eating into a takeout box, saying “Let’s save some for Dad, this stuff is so healthy.” I woke up angry at my family for ruining my pseudo-date. Never mind that my mother has been dead for several months and never would have done something like that to me in real life.

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I’ve been having crazy apocalyptic dreams for some reason lately. Last night, there was a kind of WWIII scenario, with apparently simultaneous attacks from who knows whom literally everywhere. Now, this being at some point in the future, for some reason, everybody was dependent on their mobile devices (looking, oddly enough, exactly like my not-really-high-end cell), and I mean dependent in a way that life was not possible without them.

But then, via these mobiles, everybody basically was drafted to fight: you would get your assignments via text, and had to follow orders; moreover, if you encountered hostiles, the device would detect that, and start a countdown, within which you could either engage the enemy, or, if you should fail to, the device would explode, in such a way as to have a chance to take down the enemy as well. So basically, you were on constant high alert, always watching out for the countdown starting or new orders coming in, and everybody got extremely worn out quickly.

Coupled to this was the fact that you seemingly got everywhere by train, which you had to catch in order to be able to fulfill your mission, and if you didn’t, well, countdown. At one point, I remember running some supply mission, basically a backpack full of futuristic-looking ammunition I had to get somewhere, but I just couldn’t figure out where, and missed the train, and the countdown started, which almost came as a kind of relief; but it never seemed to end, so I was stuck desperately trying to get somewhere I didn’t know, all the while anticipating the device exploding.

But the worst path was that I kept almost waking up, realized I was dreaming, and really struggling to escape that horrible world, but never quite could do it and plunged back in. I haven’t gotten much done today so far…

But the dream that’s stuck with me the longest was one in which I experienced – or somehow was convinced I had experienced – my entire life, from the point of waking up to its completion, which took place in some sanatorium on a space station. At that point, I was absolutely ready to go: life had been a bit of a struggle, but on the whole, I was at peace, ready to go; and then I went.

I’m not sure how to describe what happened then, but there was some sense of being judged, and found not worthy; so then, I was, in some way, sent back to try again and do better this time. And there was a sense of absolute horror, excruciatingly weariness and despair attached to this: the realization that I had to go through everything again, that years and decades of struggle had not been enough, that I would have to try harder this time, and if I failed again, I would have to go through it all anew.

And then I woke up, and though I am not really vulnerable to such beliefs, it took quite some time to shake the feeling that everything actually was a re-thread of before, despite the fact that I was convinced then and am convinced now that there’s nothing coming after death, no judgement, just non-being.

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That was wrong, so very very wrong, but very funny.

I had a dream like this a few days ago, made me very upset and took me half a day to get over it. In it I stabbed one of my children. I woke up and knew it was a dream, but still, WTF head.

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Last night I dreamed I was riding around with a California police officer (along with several other prospective police recruits) and got involved with a call on a bank robbery and shooting (while they were handling that, we future officers were sent to hand out summonses to illegal sidewalk vendors).

I should be emotionally wrought today, realizing I cannot achieve my dream of being a police officer in California, but am adjusting with surprising speed.

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I fell in love with a man in a dream. We were escaping from somewhere, I had rescued him from bad people, and we had to climb up a huge cliff. I had the most tender feelings for this guy and I can still feel the love, after forty years.

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I had a really nasty one the other night. I dreamt that I’d been given a free trip to some deep-woods country resort. After getting there, I found out it was a killing camp and that everyone who got off the plane was captured & killed, some horrifically.

I still remember the part where I was running in the woods and I saw a group of guys in manacles & chains locked to a steel rope behind a ruin of a cement wall. They were yelling at me to free them when suddenly a motor started up and the steel rope started slowly pulling them one by one behind the wall… and slowly through a long and fully lit kiln. :frowning:

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Wet ones :smiley:

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Details, scootergirl. We need details to properly evalute the emotional effect of the dream.

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There are very few dreams that I can recall but one stands out. I was being chased by a lion. No idea why. The lion leapt and killed me. That’s right, killed me. I died in my dream. That’s it, the lights went out, there was nothing else, my last thought was the realization that I was about to die. I awoke with a start, heart pounding, sweating, and pretty much weirded out. I assume I didn’t really die, but it was sure one hell of a simulation.

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It sounds almost as if you were able to emerge into another reality.

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I recently dreamer that my husband and another man who is raising several teens on his own had fallen in love. This is a guy we really know. In the dream I was really happy to witness their new love. My husband was giddy over this man. It was 't till he revealed he was going to pay for guys new sofa. I need a new sofa IRL. When I told my husband about it he could see why I was pissed about the furniture. Weirdly I wasalso regretful to not be able watch love blossom.

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Recently had a dream that I was working at my old job and that my wife was coming back to me. I was very happy in the dream. Then I woke up unemployed and single. (sad zebra)

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Sorry, no can do. You will have to use your imagination.

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Had one last night. My dad came home after being gone for a long time (in reality he’s been dead 9 years) and we hugged and hugged and I told him how much I’ve missed him. He said “I didn’t think you’d want to see me since I’ve gotten skinny and by the way, you’ll love my” and I stopped him because he was going to say “my new wife” (my mom has been dead for 2 years). I woke up with tears running down my face and have been crying on and off all morning.

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Mostly my dreams tend to be weird and nonsensical - like the one where my boss was stealing my socks… :confused:

But I remember one that really hit me hard. I dreamed that I’d given birth to a daughter - everything about the dream was so real that when I woke up, still childless (and single, not dating anyone, never been pregnant, the whole deal) - anyway, I really missed and mourned for my “daughter” for a few days afterwards.

I also had one where I woke up furious at a coworker, but that made sense, since I couldn’t stand that woman anyway. Not that she’d ever done anything to me - I just didn’t like her.

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Just last night I couldn’t get back to sleep for hours because I dreamed I found a second melanoma mole. I’ve been doing just fine emotionally, but that freaked me right the hell out.