/alt/ - Anomalous

My dreams feel more real than reality, even when I don't remember them. When I wake up, I feel like I got back to work, and that I'm back in the real world for a rest, or by some limitation. My dreams are also strangely connected even when radically different, so that a dream I had last night will remind me of a dream I immediately forgot five or more years ago, as if my brain is storing memories of dreams in a special place that nothing else mixes with.

I rarely remember dreams so this has not been a concern for me. But I have other memory related anxieties, recently I have been seriously questioning how well can I trust my memories as it seems that the rest of the world does not remember things happening the way I do.

>>259
Like what? I feel the same way sometimes. Maybe we have some memories in common.

>>260
Just private stuff, saying "rest of the world" might have been a bit of an overstatement.

>>259
Do you smoke weed by chance? Weed severely limits the ability to dream; fucks up REM or something.

If you don't, I'd just say have a journal or something to think back on your dreams right when you wake up.

>>257
No, my dreams are very chaotic and it's impossible to confuse them with reality.

>confuse their reality and their dreams?
This happens to me sometimes. I found it to be a potentially destabilizing downside of having strong dream recall or working towards that goal. For a while, when I was younger, I was having dreams with varying degrees of lucidity where I would think that I would wake up, but would still be dreaming. Sure, that happens from time to time, but this was constant. That experience would repeat over and over again when I slept and the dreams I had during that period were all very mundane and didn't contain many surreal elements, so they were almost indistinguishable from waking life. That kept happening to me day in and day out for a few weeks, dreaming like that all through the night and again during short naps during the day. I was never completely sure if I was awake or dreaming and I kept attempting to do reality checks throughout the day to be sure that I wasn't dreaming. It was like doing those lucid dreaming reality checks but inverted to verify that, yes, I actually was awake and in the real world. It felt like I was jumping through dimensions or something hyperbolic and fantastical like that and was very destabilizing for a while.

In my dreams I often steal things and feel disappointed, when I notice it was a dream. Strangely enough I never stole something irl. The last time I remember making a lasting impact on my dreams was, when I made peace with my night terrors as a child. I regularly have wet dreams, that are very surreal, mechanistic and anything but arousing.

>>257
It has happened to me but not very often. It hasn't happened in a while though. When it did happen, it was inconsequential as you said and it only lasted like a split second. It kind of felt like deja vu in a way.

i've never remembered having had a dream but i very often remember things and then conclude i must have dreamt it, so i think i still dream

>>257
I don´t dream very often but when I do they're either nightmares or impossible to tell from reality
Usually in the reality like dreams I end up telling someone info they're not privy to.
This could just be my brain building on my fears of being delusional, but with my bad memory it makes them very hard to tell from reality

>>257
That sounds like psychosis.

On another point, does anybody feel that their dreams can predict reality?
Some times ill dream of something and it will happen later.No wetdreams yet unfortnunally, but hings like ill dream about a person i haven't seen in years then ill talk to them a day later, its all really weird.

yeah for me it happens the more that i care about dreams

Started writing my dreams around July 2021. Had to stop because dreams became too real (to a scary level) and I felt quite often like OP claims. Writing made them clearer, easier to remember and easier to manipulate.

>>257
Sometimes for a while but then I realize I'm in a dream and I start freaking out usually causing the dream to turn on me.

>>257
not often, but sometimes i see very normal interactions in my dreams which makes me confused about whether or not i've talked about something with someone and so on. usually my dreams are more surreal so there's no confusion. i am highly parasocial though, and go through imaginary scenarios in my head a lot which also confuses me when i think i've interacted with someone but then it turns out it was all just in my head. i will have full on conversations with imaginary versions of people i know IRL and now that i think about it the idea of me having made up personalities for them creeps me the fuck out. oh man

>>257
this happens to me a lot but im also prone to psychosis/derealization