I've always found it a bit strange

[aryanhwy]

how sometimes things that happen in my dreams have such a large effect on my waking life. Every once in a while, I have a dream that features a real person that I know, who features as that person (and usually in the same type of relationship that we're in in real life), and something happens in the dream which is so real and vivid that it affects how I view that person outside of the dream. The effect isn't permanent -- but sometimes it's way more long-lasting than feels comfortable. For example, at one point when Joel and I were still in the agonizing "are we dating, are we not" stage, I dreamt that he ran into me on campus and invited me to have lunch with him the next day (an actual lunch date! progress!), because coming to visit was some one very important to him that he wanted me to meet (he wants me to meet people important to him! progress!). That person was an ex-girlfriend (!) of his who was visiting from Iowa, who was bringing with her his four year old daughter (!!!!!!!). I woke up from that dream so spitting mad that I could hardly be civil to him at all the next day, and it was weeks before the memory of it didn't trigger the same reactions.

Well I had another dream of that type last night about someone I know involved in some events that just never would happen in real life, and the couple hour period after waking up where I have to adjust to it not having actually happened, despite having clear and vivid memories of it, is disorienting. I'm always afraid I'm going to make some reference to "what happened", forgetting that it was actually a dream.

Comments

[jpgsawyer.livejournal.com]

Ummm if I where you I would avoid the strong cheese or real beer for a while, the phsycotropic effects are obviously too much for you.

:-)

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was that single glass of Reisling that I had with dinner last night...

[jpgsawyer.livejournal.com]

Possible, alcohol can have thoses sort of effects but more likely it was something yeasty.... Could it have been a young wine or perhaps an organic one?

Of course it could just be you had a vivid dream.... I personal hate it when I become convinced I did some task already because I dream I was doing it during the night! Usually I can tell its a dream as live dinosaurs don't generally turn up these days not that some parts of my brain know that sometimes but othertimes I swear I have put the bin out when in fact I just dreamt that I did!

Weird really.

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure these are just very vivid dreams, since so far as I can tell there's no correlation between having them and anything ingested previously. And, quite often, I know while it's happening that it's just a dream. But that makes it even more disorienting the next morning when I know what happened really didn't happen and yet I keep thinking that what didn't happen happened.

[midnightpeapod.livejournal.com]

I have experienced the same thing, on both the dreamer end and the being in someone else's dream.

Most memorable instance in my family (meaning we still talk about it even though it happened ten years ago): My mom had a dream that my sister had a boy pick her up for a date by just honking at the end of the driveway (a big no-no in our house - even mundane boys have to be chivalrous) and my mom had to chase her down barefoot in the snow. My mom woke up so angry at my sister and believing it had really happened.