Hi all It was funny, i woke up and immediately started thinking about this. There have been a few times where i've thought i've had memories only to realise they were dreams. Or i've had deju' vu that resembeled a dream. Also i've woken up from a dream fully thinking that dream was reality only to realise after a few seconds/minutes that it was only a dream. Basically just wondering if anyone else has experienced this or knows a technical term for it. Apologies for an incoherent post lol. peace
I have many memories that I can not tell if they were dreams or they really happened. After a while they just mash together . . I'll never ever know. It's strange, but it's just the way that it is.
there's probably a term for somebody who honestly can't distinguish one from the other, but i'll bet everybody has that 5 minute confusion time after they wake up. either that or there's something terribly wrong with us both!
i have deja vu all the time, i believe it is when you dream of the future but do not remember only to have it happen in real life. sometimes when i get deja vu i completely remember my dream (only sometimes) then try to act out things differently or in the same way as my dream. ive actually known what other people were going to say before they said it and surprised them :O dreams are awesome can you have lucid dreams?? i cant anymore..... D: i used to be able to know when i was dreaming by figuring it out then i could do whatever i wanted.. like flying!!!!.. so much fun
i don't know how to have lucid dreams, that sounds cool. but i do experience deja vu quite frequently, or sometimes i'll just randomly know things that i should have no way of knowing. also, i have had dreams that happened in real life.
Yeah, all of which you speak happens to me and began happening recently. Also I have begun to recall dreams from childhood. One involving a summer path with a single daisy that leads to a dark spaceship.
This problem is actually very common but it becomes a bigger problem for some. The pathways in your brain are like highways that intersect and crossover one another. Sometimes, this information takes the wrong off ramp and winds up in another location. Our sense of taste and smell are often crossed because of their close proximity to one another in the brain. x
Supposively the human mind can recall actual memories just as easily as it can recall things that have never happened, but we've thought or dreampt up. it's crazy but I wouldn't give it much thought... it looks like a lot of people have this problem, myself included :cheers2:
Watch a movie called The science of sleep. Its a french movie about a man who has an overactive imagination and sometimes lets it interfere in his life. A trip and a half.
It's called Lucid Dreaming. Most people don't have it, but it's where you are concious during REM sleep. Your physical body is still asleep but your concious brain is in overdrive. One way to trigger this effect is memory. Your brain, normally, will dream 6 or 7 times in one night. Normal people remember none, or maybe one of those dreams. One way to trigger the Lucid Dreaming state is to write down a dream you remember as soon as you wake. Do this everytime you remember a dream, as soon as you can. After a few days, or weeks, your memory will start to get better with your dreams, more clear, and soon enough your memory will start to allow your concious part of your brain to be aware you are dreaming. Once you reach the start of realising you're dreaming, you'll be able to begin controlling what you do there
This happened to me this morning. I got a text from a friend in the middle of the night and I thought that I replied to it. When I woke up I saw that I never replied to her at all. She told me it happened to her one time too. It's all so weird.
science of sleep is quite wild. and for lucid dreaming i was driving past my school in a dream and saw a street sign that was wrong and realized i was dreaming so then i flew the car for little bit then woke up... edit - whoops, didnt check date.
I was prescribed Effexor XR and Prozac a few years ago and I got the same thing. Vertigo was another really bad side effect I got, while albiet trippy to be honest. It's quite strange watching shit in the background start moving toward you and the foreground start moving away. I'm glad I'm off them though... they never did anything for me except make me feel like a zombie.
once and a while this happens where some one whould be chasing or something like that then i whould assume that i have to escape some how
i had pain killers from when i had my c-section that would make me have nightmares everytime i slept, but they were so real, like i'd fall asleep on the couch, and in the dream, im getting up from the couch and walking into the kitchen....but then it would be the sickest realistic nightmare. i took the pain instead.
definitely check out the movie Waking Life. deals with existentialism, philosophy, dreaming versus reality.
