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Vivid emotion in dreams

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dakota dorner

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Has anybody been in a dream that makes you feel an amazing amount of a feeling of witch you are generally unaccustomed to? I had one last night and when i woke up in the morning my heart ached. In the dream i had met a young woman whom i had fallen in love with imedately. We had made love and she was asking me to move in with her when i woke up. I even remember the layout of this dream girl's house. I belive in the dream i was a little older, maybe 17. But when i woke up i was hit with a burst of emotion, i experienced emotion at 10 times the level i normally do. It was like sombody ripped out my heart, sprayed carb cleaner on it, and put it back in. I was shaking. Do any of you experience dreams such as these?
 
My dreams tend to have a deeper and more vivid emotional content than my waking life. I had put that down to my way of life and will be interested in other responses from folk here.
 
Yes, but they are usually connected to things in my waking life that I'm not acknowledging or unable to express. The dream puts them vividly for me and makes connections that I was unable to make consciously, and then my emotions are released. At least that's how I see it.
 
My waking life is usually so isolated that I think my dream life goes that extra effort somehow, to make up for it.
I have a vivid recurring dream of sitting on a curving seating area - white, in a white room, everything softly glowing, in the company of 3-4 people. They are undefined and similarly white and gently glowing.. maybe there's conversation, or maybe there's no need as the silence is so comfortable.. I always feel such a fulfilling sense of acceptance and love, as if that is precisely the point of this dream.
I always wake up with tears on my face.. and with a full heart, as if I've drawn strength from the experience :)
 
I don't notice much difference in emotions, but I am very prone to getting attached to dream people. I don't care if they're not real, I'll go through lengths to look after them. Which usually ends up getting me eaten by something. But last night I got to save this cute kid from Spain from these snake/cat monsters by first doing some body-switching/possessing to get him out from under these weird lights that make people explode and then turning into some kind of werewolf to kill the snake/cat monsters. Or was that the night before...? Oh well, doesn't matter. Probably will never see him again, people don't usually visit me twice. :(
 
AsheSkyler said:
I don't notice much difference in emotions, but I am very prone to getting attached to dream people. I don't care if they're not real, I'll go through lengths to look after them. Which usually ends up getting me eaten by something. But last night I got to save this cute kid from Spain from these snake/cat monsters by first doing some body-switching/possessing to get him out from under these weird lights that make people explode and then turning into some kind of werewolf to kill the snake/cat monsters. Or was that the night before...? Oh well, doesn't matter. Probably will never see him again, people don't usually visit me twice. :(
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AsheSkyler, I can't help getting the feeling that you are rather anxious in life, about yourself and especially your kids possibly and this is being expressed in your dreams?
Excuse me for coming across as the Great Dream Guru, or something, I've just spent a lot of time studying my own dreams :)
 
Spiller said:
AsheSkyler, I can't help getting the feeling that you are rather anxious in life, about yourself and especially your kids possibly and this is being expressed in your dreams?
Excuse me for coming across as the Great Dream Guru, or something, I've just spent a lot of time studying my own dreams :)
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It's possible. I have had multiple threats from people to take him away, and I have had multiple threats against my own life, all for the dumbest of reasons. I usually focus on the half where I like to play the hero and protect people too much, and that I have entirely too much fun shapeshifting! It is AWESOME! Feeling the ground under your paws, whipping through your fur, barreling along, and then sinking your teeth into the bad guy? I look forward to it every time. Turning into a bird is fun too! An exhilaration I haven't found the equal to awake.
 
dakota dorner said:
Has anybody been in a dream that makes you feel an amazing amount of a feeling of witch you are generally unaccustomed to? I had one last night and when i woke up in the morning my heart ached. In the dream i had met a young woman whom i had fallen in love with imedately. We had made love and she was asking me to move in with her when i woke up. I even remember the layout of this dream girl's house. I belive in the dream i was a little older, maybe 17. But when i woke up i was hit with a burst of emotion, i experienced emotion at 10 times the level i normally do. It was like sombody ripped out my heart, sprayed carb cleaner on it, and put it back in. I was shaking. Do any of you experience dreams such as these?
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Yer, I have occassionally experienced dreams like that. I once had a dream in which a 5yr old child ran up to me calling me mum, and when I picked him up and looked at him he looked just like a mixture of me and my boyfriend at the time. In the next scene I saw him lying on the floor, dead. I started crying in the dream and woke up crying too, feeling such an intense sense of loss and grief. It was horrible :(
 
I've occasionally had dreams where I wake and have a hard time after not being angry against someone. Gotta keep reminding myself that they never did it!
 
I remember in a dream my mother broke my TV and somewhere during the day after I woke up I became really angry with her over it and she did not know what I was talking about so I went upstairs to my room and saw my TV is fine. That was one of the funniest things i have ever done.
 
Intense emotions, not so much, but there's emotional content. Sometimes it's what's in the dream that tells me what I'm feeling, but the feeling itself isn't there. For a lot of my dreams, I'm actually watching myself in the dreamscape.
 
Aspergirl4hire said:
Intense emotions, not so much, but there's emotional content. Sometimes it's what's in the dream that tells me what I'm feeling, but the feeling itself isn't there. For a lot of my dreams, I'm actually watching myself in the dreamscape.
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I know what you mean here.. I often have a sort of inside/outside perspective at the same time. I wonder if it's due to real life disassociation from your own body/life, due to the hardships of living with AS.. certainly, as I've aged, recognised the habitual negative thinking patterns I'm prone to and improved my physical and mental situation, my waking life feels more real to me.. it's early days yet, but I'll be watching my dreams..
 
Aspergirl4hire said:
My dreams are usually the things I see but can't say. The intensely emotional ones are usually not the important ones.
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Hmm, I feel that the emotion you remember feeling while in the dream is important to the interpretation of it, rather than the feelings you have as you begin to wake, remembering the dream.. these latter are your conscious reaction to the dream memory, the former are part of the dream itself.
How do you decide which are the important dreams? I sometimes keep a dream diary, which helps with dream recall and interpretation; seeing patterns in my dreams, sometimes I find that the little snippets I'd normally ignore/forget take on new meaning..
 
You may have experienced a form of precognition. Which might have explained the intensity.

Just a thought...take it as something good.
 
Lately, yes. The most intense emotions I've experienced in my life. Profound terror. Pure delight. I find it's difficult to transition into waking life.
 
Wow. You guys really have some dreams. I don't usually remember my dreams and if I do, it's always someone coming after me. Stabbings, shootings, even this one Chinese guy that was in my bedroom throwing one of those star thingies (that are like a flying blade) at me that ended up missing me every time because I swayed from one side to the other and even knew when to duck! Go figure. Makes me wonder how many lives I have left, you know? :confused:
 
Grumpy Cat said:
Wow. You guys really have some dreams. I don't usually remember my dreams and if I do, it's always someone coming after me. Stabbings, shootings, even this one Chinese guy that was in my bedroom throwing one of those star thingies (that are like a flying blade) at me that ended up missing me every time because I swayed from one side to the other and even knew when to duck! Go figure. Makes me wonder how many lives I have left, you know? :confused:
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Hey Angie, do you feel like you come under attack a lot in your waking life? The Matrixy dodging bit with the star thingies sounds like you cope well with it, but the rest sounds like anxiety to me..
I hope you sleep well otherwise hun :)
 
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