I just had a really weird dream. One of those that you wake up and go back into the same dream later when you fall asleep again. I was me but surrounded by people I don't know irl but I truly did in my dream. I was with a group of friends. One of them was going through a separation and we were helping him move out. The ex was there as well and we all knew her and the guy for years. She was a part of the friend group.
The thing that really fucked with me is these people that don't exist were so real. It included inside jokes that I knew, back stories of how we met. Reminiscing of things we did together in the past. I remember pulling out my phone and shooting the shit with one of the guys showing old pics and videos of crazy shit we did in the past for instance.
There was also drama that I knew about in my dream and watched progress / unfold in front of me. Like a few of the closest people to the guy going through this were a no show.
Idk it was just fucking weird, like I was completely emersed in the situations, having unique conversations with these "friends", the story progressed like the movers finally showing up. People coming and going. Me getting yelled at to get off my ass and start helping.
The whole thing was surreal and I think what made it weirder was that it wasn't very eventful. Usually dreams are more interesting? Like it was just me, existing, doing something with this friend group that doesn't get together very often anymore that I had known for years but literally don't exist. Another weird thing is I wasn't the main character. I was just helping a friend out that needed me.
Idk, the whole thing fucked with me. I have never had a dream so.... Immersive based completely on people I don't know?
I've found that my most immersive dreams have me feeling as though I woke up in the dream without waking up in real life. Maybe that's when the implausible dream scenarios end and real-life types of events start happening. There's been a couple times I wake up missing the people I knew from those dreams.
I agree with that! Usually my dreams consist of me being in situations with real people I know of they are realistic at all. It was just so weird to be thrown into someone else's life that wasn't mine for what felt like an entire day.
I usually take stuff to sleep and can't remember my dreams. This is one of the first time I have naturally fell asleep and stayed asleep in well over a month!
This is probably a factor! It's super common to suddenly have intense, vivid, memorable dreams (when you usually don't) after continually using sleep aides and then stopping them. It can even happen with just marijuana. Brains are weird! I've experienced the same thing. You're not alone.
I completely agree and I hate it. I pay attention to my dreams because sometimes they tell me things that I need to know or figure out. There's a reason why "let's sleep in it" is a thing. But I have issues. I don't smoke weed or take anything strong to sleep (prescriptions make me feel groggy). Instead I take melatonin nightly. I pass out and don't feel like shit the next day but the downside is I no longer remember my dreams. It's one of the long lists of things that I need to work on when it comes to my mental health. But hey, at least I don't find myself sitting on the edge of my bed having full blown panic attacks anymore..
I used to take Xanax but that caused an addiction. Plus the half life of the medication made me a different person when I was awake. So I told my doctor I didn't want them anymore and changed to melatonin.
I truly wish I could sleep naturally. I miss remembering my dreams nightly. The good ones and the bad.