Ever had a dream so vivid it bothers you for a few days?

I have few nightmares as an adult but I have a couple in the past 5 years where I have got up in the early hours and not gone back to sleep. **** that!

The most recent “full on terror” nightmare was about a lonely sole survivor of an apocalypse scenario and how he had to gather and use dead bodies to socialise with to keep himself sane. Things then got a little spicier when the bodies started speaking back.

It was the absolute worst.
 
My dreams are either dull as dishwater or incredibly detailed and elaborate to the point where they're basically a full on feature film. Quite often I wake up before the end but a few I don't and I really should write most down.

In one of my dreams I was eating a yoghurt, that's it. Didn't want to be woken up because I hadn't finished it yet.

Another was a full blown story about a guy who was living a Truman Show type life on an island, but things kept going awry. I remember vividly fruit he'd just bought immediately going bad in the fridge which was the decider in him trying to leave. Turned out he was in a coma, another character was the devil trying to keep him to stay whilst the things going wrong were his real life family trying to wake him.
 
My dreams, if I have one, always seem to occur around dawn or thereabouts, as in I’ve had maybe five hours, from midnight until 05.00, then I wake up needing to have a pee, then go back to sleep, and Bingo, here comes a dream.
From around 19 up to 22 I drove trucks, initially around U.K., then 44 tonners around Europe.
In my early forties I did “The Knowledge”, and became a London Black Cab driver.
In virtually all my dreams, I’m driving an articulated truck, but picking up fares as if I’m driving my taxi.
I constantly come to streets too narrow for the truck, and have to apologise and try another route, or I’m trying to jostle my way on to a taxi rank at Kings Cross, or Victoria, and all the regular taxi drivers are calling me names and telling me to Foxtrot Oscar and take the truck with me.
Worst of all, is when I get hailed, and I pick up someone in the truck, they ask for a street or place that I should know, and my mind goes blank, this is tantamount to asking a carpenter to join two pieces of wood together, and he’s forgotten how to do it.
 
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once had a dream that I was stabbed and I remember it feeling stupidly painful in my dream but I woke up instantly.

I have a lot of false awakening dreams and wake up paralysed, often I can go for a year maybe more without any then all of a sudden I can have them every night for weeks sometimes.

I know most of the time it was a dream other times I know it's real my ex GF caught me waking up and wiggling my toes and fingers one time, she asked what I was doing but I couldn't answer her, it felt like minutes to me but she said it was maybe 10 seconds.

I just wake up unable to move anything but my fingers and toes I'm assuming it helps get my blood flowing faster to wiggle them, often one thing in the dream will be different to the real world even just a gap in the curtains that exists in the dream but not in reality.

it's pretty messed up stuff, have had it for as long as I can remember
 
In my dream last night I had borrowed or bought a silver Audi RS4 and was driving along the motorway, I was tired, and I blacked out and crashed badly, then came to in hospital with the police talking to me. I think i'd killed someone else in the crash.

Now, when I have a dream usually, I become lucid at some point towards the end. I can control the dream from that point. If I am having a nightmare I will jerk my head in a certain way in the dream which will snap me out of the dream and wake me up.

In the dream last night I had the feeling of becoming aware that I am lucid and doing the head jerking action to snap myself out of the dream, only it didn't work. I tried it repeatedly, and it didn't work. I was in a state of panic and denial while doing this and started questioning if the dream was actually real because I couldn't snap myself out of it.

And then I woke up still in a state of panic and it took me a couple of minutes to become grounded again.

So my brain made me a nightmare where I thought I became lucid but the action of snapping myself awake didn't work, so that I started to question reality and panic.

A bit unkind of it... But also fascinating.
 
falling of a building and waking up just before landing

won loads of money and all set of buying a new car and nice house, woke up and then annoyed for the rest of the day.
 
The Egyptian goddess dream sounds nice, as opposed to being chased by the authorities or some other distasteful individuals.

I wake up when I get arrested, or start having the crap kicked out of me. There is never any escape :(
 
Not a dream I can remember the details of, but one that bothered me and left me with a horrible feeling of insignificance for days.

It wasn't until I read the Hitchhiker's Guide.... years later and Zaphod is put in the room that drives people mad by forcing their brain to accept how big the universe truly is that I had a way of describing the feeling I got.
 
Have anyone here had the ability to replay a dream in order to get a better end result? It usually starts off as a nightmare with a bad ending. Then I replay the dream to get better or less sinister outcomes until eventually (after the 3rd or 4th replay) I get a happy / satisfactory outcome. The set of dreams occur in the same sleep session. I had this a happen a few times between 2013 and 2017 but not after 2017. When it happened though, it stayed on my mind for a few days as with the OP. I'm also one for writing down my dreams, on a computer these days rather than in a dream diary.
 
Reoccurring dreams can leave you with a lasting "feeling". You may not remember the dream but you may remember the consequences of the dream. For example if you have a reoccurring dream of murdering someone if can leave you with a nagging feeling that you have really hurt someone at some time.

I never remember any of my dreams.
 
To clarify my post, ref the 2 posts below that:

My rewind dream-set isn't a recurring dream. When another rewind dream-set happens on a different night, it will usually be a different subject matter.

I agree though that recurring nightmares are the worst!
 
does anyone have a bad dream from their childhood etc which they still remember ?

i only have one

when i was little and my teddy was face down and i turned it over and its eyes were gone

i was about 6 and im 31 now ha ha
 
Mr Blonde said:
Out of the blue a few years back I started having dreams around the same theme. They were all based in the Hotel from "The Shining" and involved various odd goings on and conversations with some of the characters. Being chased around it by an axe wielding Jack Nicholson was always err fun, but the one's with the two little girls stayed with me for many a year. They'd occasionally appear in completely unrelated dreams too which really wasn't great.
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Dreams are your brain trying to advise you on life matters while you are asleep. The problem is the sub-conscious can only deal in emotions and images associated with those emotions so it tells you an emotional story using whatever images it has to hand... and those images are often misinterpreted. For example if you dream of a plane falling out of the sky and you can't tell anyone because you are speaking in a foreign language, then often the meaning is that you fear that people don't listen to you. So the two little girls is an image your brain latched on to, but the really important thing is the emotion connected to the little girls.
If a dream happens once often the meaning is garbled but it it happens many times then it's important. The weirdest repeating dream I ever heard of was a woman dreamt that she was in bed when her father silently entered the room carrying a sleeping dog and placed it on the bed. Without knowing the emotion attached to the dream it was impossible to determine what it was about but it was hellish spooky!!!
 
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