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Does this happen to other people?
I am quite a prolific dreamer. I can usually remember what I dreamt about - I get up the next morning and relate the quirky, strange and amusing events of my dream to my husband or daughter and we usually have a good laugh.
Sometimes though, I find that I can't remember some specific dreams when I wake up but I know that they were weird in some way (sorry, I can't be more informative than that!) Then when I wake up, I feel anxious and like there's a cloud of oppression over me. It's not always strong, but sometimes it hangs around for a while. Like today. The anxiety is very mild, just sort of lightly humming in the background, but the "down in the dumps" feeling is still with me and it's lunchtime. It's nothing major, and I know it will pass, but I don't particularly like it. Just wondering if anybody else has felt like this?
I am quite a prolific dreamer. I can usually remember what I dreamt about - I get up the next morning and relate the quirky, strange and amusing events of my dream to my husband or daughter and we usually have a good laugh.
Sometimes though, I find that I can't remember some specific dreams when I wake up but I know that they were weird in some way (sorry, I can't be more informative than that!) Then when I wake up, I feel anxious and like there's a cloud of oppression over me. It's not always strong, but sometimes it hangs around for a while. Like today. The anxiety is very mild, just sort of lightly humming in the background, but the "down in the dumps" feeling is still with me and it's lunchtime. It's nothing major, and I know it will pass, but I don't particularly like it. Just wondering if anybody else has felt like this?
yes, i do often vconfuse real life with dreams and it can be quite embarrassing.
I just think I must have a very vivid imagination. I'm also an artist so have a creative mind.
And like some of you, I can recall some dreams I had during my childhood. Not many, just a few really vivid ones. Like the one where I was walking home from school and it started to get dark really early. All the stars in the sky were shapd like twisted wedges and I remember feeling really spooked by them. No matter how quickly I tried to walk or run, I couldn't seem to move very fast.