# Longest its taken to realise a dream/nightmare was not real

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 27, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-its-taken-to-realise-a-dream-nightmare-was-not-real/629545 "2012-07-27T08:41:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-its-taken-to-realise-a-dream-nightmare-was-not-real/629545/21 "2012-07-29T05:28:38Z")

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I almost never realize I’m in a dream when I’m in one.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-its-taken-to-realise-a-dream-nightmare-was-not-real/629545/22 "2012-07-29T14:59:57Z")

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Huh. For me, the worst ones are the dreams where everything is fine, and then I wake up and have to deal with reality that isn’t. It can take a few minutes to accept that.

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**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-its-taken-to-realise-a-dream-nightmare-was-not-real/629545/23 "2012-07-29T18:31:34Z")

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A day. Just posted this dream in another thread, oddly enough. It involved dreaming we were out of mustard and the next day really thinking we WERE out of mustard.

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