Dreams that are real?

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Sometimes i have these dreams where I am unable to tell if they were real or not for weeks. I often have to ask someone if this happened and they can confirm or deny. Sometimes I will say stuff that is in my memory from dreams, like for instance I had a dream my grand parents were visiting which they were at the time and so I woke up in the dream and my grandma asked me if I wanted a turkey sandwhich since they were making turkey sandwhichs. So I woke up and went to the kitchen and asked if they had finished the turkey sandwhichs and they didn't know what I was talking about. This is one example but there are others that bad things happen and I think they are real and I don't ask about it because they are troubling subject I don't want to bring up.

Sometimes this happens alot, usually not that often but just seems to like cycle in and out.

Is there anything to name this? Wow I used the word "sometimes" a lot.

Anyone else get this? Dreams you cannot tell from reality?

Get that a lot too! Comes in cycles like for you. The more "grounded"/self-aware/self-possessed I am at the time,the less likely I am to have those dreams. In times of greater detachment from reality... yes. Also often don't know if I've said something aloud or just thought it. Never the case before,was always very vigilant/ aware of boundary between self and world.Weird to have it happen now.

you mean there's someone else in the world besides myself and my mother who have such intense dreams that it takes a while to recover to realize they cannot really be real?

i do have the awareness that they happened during dreams, usually, though. lol about the turkey sandwich... one exception: if I yell myself awake from a nightmare, which happens regularly these days, I cannot tell whether I yelled for real or in the dream, unless someone else in the house heard or not and could confirm it. It seems to happen both ways (yell in dream or for real) and I don't know which it was.

also- for a while after i wake up, even if i am moving around, i will do weird things occasionally without realizing it that indicate that my brain is not fully woken up- it's happened throughout life. examples: give cornflakes instead of cat food to the cat, pour OJ instead of milk on cereal (these happened when i was a teen); other sillier things that still go on. my housemates or family laugh and say i am not awake yet, and yet here i am walking around in the kitchen. but it takes my brain a while to catch up. (I didn't realize about the cat until I eventually wondered what was that crunching sound going on the last few minutes while I did other things... the cat actually liked the cornflakes! haha!)

I dream about events that will happen - especially deaths.
I feel crazy just typing that, but it's true.

I wish I wouldn't dream about people's impending doom - this is a questionable "gift."

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i can (obviously) come off as really abrupt and my tone can sound sharpish, so feel free to ask me to clarify

I also often have those kinds of dreams - usually just before waking up. I call them "reality" dreams, because they'll be about stupid things, like filling the gas tank. One day I opened the fridge, looking for milk I was sure I had purchased.... I had only dreamed it. Sometimes I'll wake up and have to go looking for a bill or paperwork I dreamed I did something to. I dreamed a photo in my house was in a different place, and was freaked out to notice it somewhere else. These are the worst - because I hate having to sort them out.

I also dream in color, and was told that most people dream in black and white. Are anyone else's "reality" dreams in color?

Seems it's the opposite, people usually dream in color and not black/white.

Unless you got the two confused.

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/155296

http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/article/color-dream

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... reams.html

So whether you dream in black and white might depend upon your age due to exposure to black and white television and pictures, though I'm sure that's not always the case and some might just dream in black and white.

Also I would wager that the youngest generations will dream in more vivid colors because of the tv's and monitors that can display millions of bright colors at once.

Pretty interesting topic to research.

from what i've read, dogs can see in subdued color, trading some color acuity/depth for luminance detail and sensitivity at low light levels. and i also gather that many if not most people dream in subdued color/detail as well. i dreamt in subdued color even back in the 60s when i had never seen a color tv set.

I have this problem, too.

What's worse is when I have a dream and think nothing of it, then the event actually occurs - and happens exactly like it did in my dream!

The only "real" dreams I have are the ones where I astral project.

Supposedly lucid dreamers are more likely to have these "waking dreams".

If you have problems with dissociation, this can cause you to have difficulty distinguishing between memories of dream events and memories of real events, though there are undoubtably causes I don't yet know about.

I have dreams that are often indistinguishable from reality, complete with pain.
I know they're dreams when I wake up though, as I don't bear any wounds or blood splatters from what I dreamed about.