Intense Dreams?

[Revan]

This is just a question for everyone. Have you ever had dreams that were so intense you woke up with tears in your eyes or even after waking up you continued to cry because it got to you so much? If so, what happened? I have difficulty remembering my dreams, but I think it had to do with like...two of my best friends saying that they were abandoning me and then some weird dream about a plane crashing into my house and life just getting haywire, like the country went into martial law because of it and my parents and I were on the run for some reason...

[Nomad187]

I have a recurring one. One of my best friends died in real life by getting hit by a car. In my dream I am there and I almost get to him to pull him out of the way but I am always too late. and I always blame myself for his death. I always wake up crying form that one.

[theJosephDean]

I once had a dream my best friend died in my arms, and I cried the whole next day and wouldn't let go of her. :P I've had dreams that seemed to span a lifetime and then dreams that lasted only a few minutes but affected me just as much. Intense dreams are intense. =/

[Shevanel]

I once had this really intense and insanely real feeling dream about the end of the world. It involved me surviving out on a boat in the middle of the ocean while the mainland got nuked to shit, and when I rowed back, most people had turned into zombies that could talk and they fought tigers that escaped from the zoo. In the end I died after letting one of the zombies (who were my non existant brothers, because I was not me in the dream) just eat me because I couldn't care to live anymore.

Yeah. My dreams are fucked up.

[Revan]

Tell me about it...some just get to the point where I wake up just...scared as all hell. And then I realize it was just a dream. I do have to wonder though, after seeing Inception (This can NOT transfer into an Inception thread please), if you die in your dream...do you wake up or do you indeed die. I don't recall if it's been proven...

Again though, I don't want everyone sidetracking to that...this is about intense dreams. It was more just something I've been wondering...

[Jeremy]

I guess I don't really cry when I wake up, but there are some dreams that leave me feeling completely distraught.

Most of these dreams have to do with me dying. It kinda sucks, and sometimes I die in the most abstract ways. Like one time I had a dream that I was in some tall building with a bunch of other people, and there was a small but super high power bomb on the ground so I jumped on it and covered it with my body to save everyone else. I just remember like feeling the explosion and then everything started to go monochrome. I also tend to have crazy dreams of psycho killers stabbing. I get those a lot for some reason :/ lol. Other dreams I really don't like is my mom or close friends finding out I'm gay and making fun of me and leaving me.

Also another weird dream I had was that everyone in the world smoked except me, and they were all pressuring me to smoke... It was kind of a weird dream... I don't really know why I had it.

Oh yeah! One more; sometimes I dream about guys I kinda like and that we're going out. I guess when I wake up from these dreams I just think about ways I could have expressed that I liked them but didn't and then regret it kinda. lol xD I'm kinda weird.

[concklin]

once when i was younger, i had this dream where my father was just horribly mad at me. i didn't even know what for, but i could just tell he was. it was probably from how overall intimidating my father was during most of my life. (then ironically me coming out brought him and i closer)

within i think the last year i had a dream where i told my mom i hated her, and it was over something stupid. in my dream she cried so much after i told her that, and in real life seeing my mom upset makes me upset

i cried after both dreams. i feel like i've had more dreams like that though.

i've also had dreams where i'm getting hurt and the pain feels so real

[Swamp56]

I had a dream I was driving on a bridge and I spun out of control. I ended up going through the guardrail and flew off the bridge. I hit the water and right when the car started to sink, I woke up with a bad feeling in my gut.

[Shevanel]

Originally Posted by Revan

Tell me about it...some just get to the point where I wake up just...scared as all hell. And then I realize it was just a dream. I do have to wonder though, after seeing Inception (This can NOT transfer into an Inception thread please), if you die in your dream...do you wake up or do you indeed die. I don't recall if it's been proven...

Again though, I don't want everyone sidetracking to that...this is about intense dreams. It was more just something I've been wondering...

I've died in my dreams tons of times >_>

[Hoppip]

Nope. My dreams are never intense, never realistic. They mostly involve me being at school, or having something to do with a video game format.

(Driving is always third person GTA style, and I always crash and get a "Wasted" message.)

[Eric]

The dreams I remember are always more comical than intense. I used to have a reccuring dream about a zombie appocalypse, but the zombies were friendly and didn't want to kill people. The living people, Mario and David Caruso just killed them all anyway.

When I was a kid, I had this freaky dream where I saw these ghostlike shadows walking past my doorway, always in the same direction. That was when I was like 5 and along with some other things, caused me to be afraid of the dark pretty much until I was 10.

[Revan]

Well...good to know one can die and still live....

And Jyu...it'll happen one day, maybe not now, but stress is generally something that brings it on and when you get later in life with a profession or w/e, stress comes. Unless you're just a relaxed kid, then...lucky you.

The most intense dream, in the sense that it woke me up with a fright, was a dream about me riding a bus and looking out the window. And in the night sky, flying saucers slowly started appearing. And they looked like those ye-olde flying saucers from 80s movies. I woke up screaming and my father laughed at me for being scared of flying saucers.

[RedKnight]

nope my dreams are pretty lame and boring, mainly consist of things changing and making no sense at all when thinking back on them

[Owl47]

Oh yeah, I've had several dreams where I'll be running away from something or someone in what seems to be a scene from an action flick, and I'll wake up sweating and out of breath.

I've also had plenty of lucid dreams, one of which I got really angry at the "villain" in my dream and ended up killing him, aware I was dreaming and summoning up the power to destroy him. It was more cool than anything.

I've only had a few dreams in which I woke up crying. . .

[Techcompu2]

mine are never very intense. just very strange.

the strangest I have had recently, I won't explain fully (not all of it would be appropriate):

*in a strange mens room, I saw one of my crushes walk in except his pants were invisible to me. he went to one stall, took a piss, then when he came out was wearing crotchless panties, instead of boxers. then he walks to the sink, and when he exits the restroom, he is in full drag.

*please note: I remember every detail of this dream, from the number of people/stalls/urinals to the personal details of my crush's package...

*also, I would like to point out that at this time, the crush mentioned in this dream, does not know anything about it. :P

[partietraumatic]

I have one overwhelming recurring theme in my dreams: Panic.

Most of my dreams involves me running from something, i rarely know what, but just running away from something. Also, a regular theme is my teeth falling out, which is odd

Also, i had a dream where someone talked to me in spanish, which was odd. It was correct spanish and fluent, so clearly my unconscious is good at spanish!

[x2x2x2x2y2]

When I was little I would always have this reoccuring dream. I can't remember much but I know it involved someone kidnapping my mom. Those always used to make me cry.

[Cameron17]

I haven't woke crying or anything as a 'continuation' of my dreams feelings, but if I have a particularly intense dream I do feel bucket loads of relief when waking up.

I can dream something really lame and be terrified, or something that would make me cower in fear in real life I will take in my stride in a dream, it all depends if that sense or feeling of 'dread' is there.

I remember one time I dreamed I jumped and floated very slowly down my stairs, when I reached the bottom I went into my living room and everything was dark except for a white light hovering over my TV. Nothing particularly terrifying, but it had the most intense feeling of dread ive ever experienced in a dream, like almost a sound giving off vibrations.

Also, to the dreamer who dreamed in Spanish - I have dreamed thing similar where I am reading a book and the words all make sense and have a great story even though I'm making them up myself lol, but the amazing thing is I can read for a long time in my dream and the words come without hesitation, how difficult would that be in real life?

[malachite]

I've had scary dreams where I couldn't go back to sleep.

I had one where I was in bed and heard my cat scooping in his litter box, this went on for a long time, so I rolled over and yelled for him to stop. Only, he was sleeping at the foot of the bed. So, I got up and went into the bathroom (where his litter box is) and saw litter all over the floor with little footprints in them.
Then a crash came from the kitchen, so I went out there and looked in the pantry, something ran up behind me and roared and I woke up. It was 3:00am and I didn't sleep the rest of the night.