That dreams are actually just us experiencing alternate realities and traveling to different places in the nonphysical. And then I get pulled into this thought train, especially when I wake up from nightmares, what happens when I wake up if this is the case? Does it look like I’m vanishing to people in that plane? Or do I leave behind a body/person depending on who I was in that dream? If I am leaving an alternate version of myself behind, does that me still have powers?
I wonder these things because I get anxiety when I wake up just before something terrible happens in a nightmare that I just left my loved ones or innocent people or even myself to die in some alternate reality when if I’d got over the initial startle and stayed asleep I could’ve saved everyone as in my dreams I have powers. Sometimes I get so upset by these thoughts I have to sit and imagine alternate endings to the dreams hoping they happen and trying to fall back asleep to change the end. But I rarely fall back asleep to the same dream place twice.
summary: having illogical worries about dreams, that they’re real, I worry about things I didn’t do to save people and worry when I do bad things that I actually harmed people in some alternate reality
Your problem is that you seem to be having semi lucid or actual lucid dreams. That can make things appear real.
Dreams aren’t real. There’s no more reality to a lucid dream than to dreams that you barely remember.
There’s no need to feel distressed by it. Hopefully your new med combo will dampen down the intensity of your dreams and it’ll be easier to see them for what they are.
I’m all shaken up again because one of my friends in my dream last night basically indirectly asked me how I was sure that she wasn’t real. It’s just bizarre.
I mean how do we know that the only reason why we consider the waking world real is because our sensory systems make sense of it and filter it into something simple we can comprehend? And when we go to sleep and those systems shut off, we experience reality as it truly is, but we can’t make sense of it and it seems so bizarre we write it off as fake and a dream or hallucination? My head is spinning. Honestly if my dream characters would stop becoming self aware that would probably help calm these thoughts down a lot.
I’ve tried reading about physics a lot lately to try and comfort me and ironically I’ve found it the opposite of comforting. If anything it stokes the thoughts more. Ugh.
What the hell. Horribly confusing. How can we judge if something is only APPEARING to become self aware. Reminds me of old zoology statements about animals. Careful not to humanize animals! Those monkeys only APPEAR like they’re mourning their dead baby! Except now we know that animals do experience grief and have mourning rituals just like people do.
I was wondering how to explain to someone that they aren’t real and how you know exactly that they aren’t real. How can I explain how I know that I’m in a dream vs when I’m awake? I just do. I know when I know. The two feel very different. But how do they feel different?? Wha??? Existential crises
I have limited senses other than sight in dreams usually. Occasionally feeling sensations or hearing or taste come through. Mild pain. When I was on a higher dose seroquel I did have most of my senses on full including pain which was very shocking to me. I don’t get that anymore but honestly my dreams are very vivid even without seroquel, at least visually. Even if you know something is not real, and won’t hurt, it’s still hard not to flinch when say, a giant spider crunches your head between its mandibles.