Emotions left after a dream.

[General-Army]

Dreams are less impactive. I have woken up alot of times feeling as if i was anticipating something. I only say they are less impactive because after a few days the pain will go away. I had dreams where i knew someone, than he/she died or i was living the life i always wanted to live. I even wake up pained that i will never see the person in my dream again, or if i do, he/she is not real.

Every man has their fear of dieing, whether it be of pain or not knowing where you are going, however, mine is the family, memories, and good times i leave behind.

[lucid dancer]

David,  this response sounds totally normal to me.  I've had devastating dreams in the past.  To this day I still wonder if some of them are memories from past lives. Dreams are a place where your imagination comes to life. Anything in your mind can be created and played out, but at the time it's as real as your waking life.  You can experience anything from tragedy to bliss.  When you wake up, you should have every right to feel your emotions.  It was a dream, but that doesn't mean you didn't experience it first hand!

[WalkerInTheWoods]

I have had this happen to me once. Usually my dream emotions fade very quickly when I wake up. But one time a few years ago I had a dream, it seemed kind of like more than that but anyway, this old man came to me and seemed to show me/confess to killing a boy when he was much younger. His showing me was much like telepathy as he showed me the events and I could feel his emotions at the time. I woke up after he showed this to me and I felt very ... dirty and negative, not sure how to describe it exactly. I felt like this for a few days but the feelings finally went away. I am not sure why some dreams can have this effect. Maybe they have more meaning than just being dreams. These emotions should go away after a day or two, atleast from my experience they should.

[James S]

David,
Has it been 24 since the dream, and if so did it impact on your last nights sleep?
I'm not sure if the time stamp on these posts are our local time or local to the website's server.

I would disagree that dreams loose their impact soon after.

I can still vividly recall a dream that I had during my early 20's. In this dream I'd met a young woman, and became very close to her, but found out she was a ghost. Despite this I continued to spend time with her. This made her very happy because she craved some real love & affection. after a short time she told me she had to go and left. At that moment the dream ended. I woke up almost in tears. At the time I was not long married to my now ex-wife. She was a very jealous and often irrational person so I didn't speak a word of it to her.

All the years since, that dream has continued to haunt me (definitely no pun intended there). I have long suspected that it was more than just a dream, that I actually had an encounter with an earth bound spirit. No other dream has ever left such an emotional mark on me.

I'm sorry that this dream has left you feeling so hurt. I don't subscribe to the theory that every vivid dream has a message, though I know for sure that on occasions they can. Is there an element to this dream that has been affected by, or could possibly affect your waking life? Though it may hurt, a little introspection here might give some valuable answers.



James S
(Fate amenable to change)

[cainam_nazier]

I know that it is common to maintain a certain level of emtion after an impactive dream.  You often awake mildly paranoid, scared, or in total bliss.  However the dream I had this time was unlike any I have had before.  I do not wish to go into too many details for the dream was some what personal.  I still feel its effects just as much now as when I woke up and the was about 16 hours ago.  
    I feel broken and hollow.  I have never had a dream that tore at my heart so.   I usually find it very easy to let go of the remaining emtions after waking, but this one seems so very different.  I normally awake and find myself in bed and I am comforted by this.  This is normally what allows me to just say that it was all a dream and forget what ever pain or horror that was inflicted apon me.  It is odd but the reason I still feel this is because I awoke in my bed, seemingly returned to the reality of my life that was played out in the dream.  
    I have delt with depression before, and I have always won.  But this does not feel like depression, or at least not like any I have felt before.  I have always been able to take some pride in knowing that I am what I am.  I feel as if my heart was pulled from my chest in the dream and I was returned to the waking world with out it.  That is the only way I can describe the hollow pain that I was left with.
     How many have felt this?  And how in such a time of despair did you deal with it?
     I hope that by even simply writting this it is able to help me mend the wound that I was left with.

David Rogalski
cainam_nazier@hotmail.com
I am he who walks in the light but is masked by the shadows.
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