Dream life phenomena

[brisck1]

Hey,
Just want you to know I had exactly the same experience. It was very real at the time and when I woke up I felt very dijointed from 'reality'

I dreamt I went to see an old school teacher at a school I never went to, then I started to remember extremely intimate details about my school life; freinds, teachers, classes I took, even where I sat in the class. Then I started to remember my parents and the town I lived in. Like you said it felt so natural and like 'that' was my real life!

Totally freaky

[mazdaaf]

What if we are really just dreaming and this is all one huge dream that someday we'll just wake up from...freaky thought -_-

Maybe it was a life in a parallel universe or on another dimention or something that u happened to get into...thatd be pretty neat.

Ive never really had that experiance though because most of my dreams include people i know in real life... But there are tons of things in my dreams that dont exist in real life. Like i saw a movie in my dream and i remember hte story line and characters and stuff... and other things such as places that dont exist (to my knowledge).

[Rakon]

Hy, everyone!

I was just wandering if any of you has ever remembered something from a dream that doesn't really exist. For example, you talked with a friend in your dream, and it felt like you've known him for all eternity, but when you wake up, you realise you don't know the guy and you've never seen him. That happens quite often to me. But it can get much deeper. I'll tell you about my experience.

I was having a normal dream, not a lucid dream. In that dream I had many nonexisting friends, a nonexisting mother and a totally nonexisting life. I talked about a movie with one of those friends and I was thinking 'Yeah, I know that movie.' I remembered the story, and even some details. (The movie doesn't exist.) That and a few other things are all I can remember from that dream, but at the time, I knew everything about that 'life' (ofcourse). Then I did a reality check. Memories of my real life started flooding my mind. I didn't want to accept them. I was very attached to my nonexisting life. I felt like I knew those people from a dream for many years, I even loved some of them. It felt very, very weird. I was shocked. It was a nightmare. I suddenly realised that all the people I knew didn't exist. I wanted my false life back, because I could feel it slipping away. I woke up. It was too big shock for me. At the time I woke up, I still didn't want to accept that this was reality. I knew this was real, but it was very confuzing. It's not like that life was any better than the real one, but it hurt to lose all those people from my dream life. By the end of the day I forgot most of my dream life, mostly because I wanted not to remember. It was exactly like waking up from the matrix.

Have any of you had any similar experiences?

For those who didn't, just imagine that you are sleeping now, and it all ain't real. And when you wake up, you will realise that all the years you spent here weren't real and that they all happened in only one night. That life will soon be replaced by a new one. Wouldn't you try to fight to keep all that you accomplished in your life?

[gentlesavage]

maybe its a life that you wanted to have, and your sub-concious lives it out in your dreams.

[Manix]

<gasps>
I was naive enough to think I was the only one that this has happened to! You'd think I'd know better by now...

So, yes, I too have experienced this. I wake up nearly every morning wishing I could go back to that other life. I've even noticed two or three different lives. In each one everything seems perfectly normal...until I wake up in the dream and the memorys of this life overlap the other and I have difficulty telling the difference in the places and people within the dream. It can get very confusing! In one of those alternate lives (the one I remember the best) I actually have two brothers! An older and a younger, both wonderfully annoying!
I began noticing the different lives by the house I found myself living in. Houses I've never been in kept showing up repeatedly in dreams and I finally took notice of them as well as their associated landmarks and towns.
I haven't noticed so much strange people that seem familiar but rather people I'm still friends with in the dreams that I haven't seen in years in real life. Like events in real life took a different turn in the dream life and created a new chain of events and memories from that.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but it's still pretty cool.

[Shrike]

Yeah, I've had this as well.  In fact, I'll take it one step further.  I actually have had several different dreams with the same people I've never met in them.  It's kind of creepy waking up sometimes, and I also feel disconnected form reality for about an hour after having dreams with these people.  It seems I have three separate groups of friends if you include the group I *actually* know in real life.  One of them involves me going to a different college than I went to.  

Now, the really creepy thing for me was actually meeting one of these other people in real life.  Well, not really meeting more like just seeing.  We both kind of stared at each other across a room for about 2 minutes before someone hit me and asked what I was looking at and I had to go.  I think it could've been interesting if I had time to talk with them.  I wonder if they had the same dreams I had.  Oh well, another time and place I suppose.

If anyone has an experience like this they want to share I would like to hear about it!