Have you ever had a dream, or nightmare, that was so real that you woke up thinking it really happened?

Question

Sometimes they are dreams and sometimes they are nightmares.

I have had them both where they were so real that when I first woke up, I tried to assess whether they really happened or not!

Am I the only one that has ever experienced such a thing?

What dreams or nightmares have you had, that made you smile with joy... or, instead... had you going into a sweat induced PANIC ATTACK in horror?

Share with us... PLEASE?

YHL6965 · Accepted Answer

3 Dreams really marked me :
- I went in a wooden shack next to my old house and I found a baby crying in a baby seat, but he had no head (his neck was like in video game when a mesh does not load up, you can see through the body). I called for help and then some nurses came from my old house and took the baby and the seat.
Later, I went to ask the nurses about the baby and then they told me it had a very contagious disease that was transmitted by touch. Then, a nurse accidentally touched the baby and she panicked. During the panic she touched me and I started to feel the disease spreading in my blood and my heart racing. I woke up scared and my heart rushing.

- I was flying in a big helicopter (which was so big it had house rooms inside). Inside the rooms were multiple people from high school attending to a sort of buffet. Because I did not like the temperature, I went towards a radiator to change the temperature. As I touched it, the wall and the whole helicopter disintegrated and everyone including me started freefalling towards the ground with no way of surviving the fall. I woke up as I hit the ground, my heart rushing and in sweat.

- I dreamt that I was a hot girl, and another hot girl was eating me out. the best part is that I could feel what she was doing to me, as if I had an actual vagina. This was really sexy and felt really good.

Clowr · Accepted Answer

Yes. That a big spider dropped down from the roof over me in bed. I did throw the duvet over and packed it in.

Walked naked outside with the duvet in the hand and did shake it quite hard.
Before I went in again and back to bed.

Not only did I dream it, I did also do it in my sleep I heard from the misses. But there was no spider tho.

TarrAva · Accepted Answer

When I was about 3 or 4, I had a high fever and asked my mom if I could sleep with her in her bed.

I remember as if it was yesterday and whenever I think of it, the memory is so vivid I feel like panicking.

It was a very unrestful sleep and my nightmare started when I was like hovering above the ground. The feeling in itself was pleasant but I was unable to control my movements.

Then, out of nowhere, a train appeared at fast speed, its whistle blowing. I was like glued and unable to move. The light at the front of the engine was fast approaching. and despite all my efforts, I was like glued.

My mom told me that I was screaming out loud

"it's coming, it's coming!

I was holding my arms and hands in front of me in a vain attempt to stop the approaching train.

My mother decided to wake me up. I was soaked in sweat, my mouth still wide open from shouting out loud.

She placed a cold, wet facecloth on my forehead and slowly rocked me back to sleep, holding me up on her chest.

I cannot begin to describe the sheer terror I felt that night but ever since that nightmare, I get the shivers when I hear the train horn in the distance and even though I don't have a phobia of trains (siderodromophobia, hint, hint), I am don't feel good when I am too close of an approaching train.

Nina12346 · Accepted Answer

I dreamt my mother died three times, in three years, she's sick, I cry when I wake up until my dad tells me its just a dream, don't worry, and one time I was sleeping on my side and I felt something sink down behind my back, my eyes were shut still, next thing I know, I felt a pair of hand tried to lift me up, one under my upper arm and the other under my legs, I suddenly opened my eyes and got up and ran to my dad's room, but before I can reach there, it grabbed me by my shirt and I couldn't moved at all it was like I was running but I wasn't going anywhere the force was too strong, I started screaming but nothing came out , I called out to my dad but no sound, then I decided to make some noise, I had some books laying around, I picked up some and started throwing, then I pulled with all my might and reached to my electric pencil sharpener, but o no avail, I decided I was going to give up and I pulled as had as I can and ran to my dad's room screaming "daddy!" next thing I know, I dropped on the floor and thing fell on me and my dad opened his door and looked at me, I woke up freaked out, in the same way and position I was laying in, I got up and looked around for something, then I it was all a dream, still terrified, but I calmed myself down and went back to sleep.

DianaWest · Accepted Answer

well, i'll share with you some of the most interesting dreams i've had in my preteen phase. (i don't know why, but i was so damn paranoid when i was 9). anyways: i dreamt that i was in heaven (literally, i saw a golden wall and all and fluffy white clouds. i woke up thinking wow, must be a sign. i must be a real good human). another dream, this one more of a nightmare: (i dreamt i was in a train that was going at top speed on ice. wth? i also dreamt that i was climbing a really steep wall with no harness on. i dreamt that i was getting married in a cemetery, yikes!!! i also dreamt that i was being chased in the subway station by a psycho with a knife. then the classic falling out of an airplane dream. i know i am being dumb describing them, but they honestly paralyzed me with fear. i remember when i was waking up that i felt paralyzed. i think it's called sleep paralysis, where your brain is reminding your body that it's time to get moving again. nothing better than not being able to move when you're being chased by a guy with a knife.

SeekerStill · Answer

hi, im a very vivid dreamer, i had a nightmare dream when i was around 11ish i was in the top of a barn there was a young adult man with sexual intentions, his male anatomy was like a pigs tail, now i had no real reference... of male members... within a couple of weeks i was in a take away my parents outside in the car, in the line waiting, the door opened this man walked in, i can still recall my heartbeat changing... i never told anyone... I've met two people just before death, the third i met i found out a few days later he was in near death in hospital but survived, i dont really like having those kind of dreams... xx

Lliam · Answer

I've had dreams that embedded themselves in my memory so deeply that they seemed like actual memories. I didn't remember having the dream. There was just a memory of having actually done it.
I think this has only happened a couple of times in my adult life. It was only after I dissected the (dream) facts that I realized that they were disjointed and contained holes the way dreams do. After looking at them closer and reviewing my actual life, I realized that they could not have happened. But I found it fascinating that the memory seemed so real that I believed the dream actually happened.
(They were not sexual in nature)

Christyville · Answer

The worst for me are dreams, where I know I'm dreaming. I'm completely lucid, but yet in a dream-like state. I had one where someone or something was holding me down, and I couldn't move. The only thing I could think of to make it stop, was to open my eyes. But by then my heart was about the explode. lol

wingattebaby16 · Answer

I have had both types.

I have waken up in the middle of the night, jumped out of bed, ran into the living room coz I dreamed some one was in the house watching tv... no one there.

David tells me I sleep walk a lot too... he has only woken me up a couple times...

WildNekoWolf · Answer

I have had a lot of nightmares that feel real. I had a dream where this skeletal looking dog-like alien thing was chasing me through a lightless Military Command Center (or what I imagine it'd look like) and there was a dead scientist on the ground. I saw the alien thing chewing on the corpse, and when I entered the room with some military officials, the alien thing ran off and we rushed to the exit to escape. I woke up and I was wondering what I just experienced. From a previous dream where the alien thing had skin, I learned it was afraid of lights.

Accidental_Genius · Answer

I had this nightmare
That my parents took me to a mentall hospital for a visit.. They told me U will just visit there and then we will go back home and then they left me there in the middle of all these creepy crazy people.. the lights were green the nurses made me take some pills and then all those crazy people were staring at me and the then I woke up feeling like Im one of those crazy people 😥
I couldnt stop thinking about it till afternoon! 🤷‍♂️

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

I've had one nightmare that startled me awake so much that I actually shot up right and was on my feet with raised fists ready to fight. It was near instantaneous too, one motion of jumping up and rolling right to my feet. That's how I knew it was an intense one (even though it wasn't particularly scary).

Secret6620 · Answer

Girl yes. I was running out of makeup in real life. So in my dream I dreamt that I went to the store to get more and then they gave me this new product that was the most beautiful makeup I've ever seen. I was so happy. Then I work up with nothing. Fucking nightmare 👍 nailed it

SuperTroll · Answer

No, at least after I was a small kid (I think I had some dreams like that as a small child, but not after), I stopped having dreams where I wasn't aware that I was dreaming. I think around age 7 or so, I started always becoming aware when I was in my dream state and also somewhat alter the dream on the fly. So it never felt all that real to me, and more like a simulation where I could manipulate the universe and make it how I want.

311WasAnInsideJam · Answer

My life is a waking nightmare of my own design, but aside from that I have a lot of "falling" dreams and when I hit the ground I wake up drenched in sweat.

I can't remember the last pleasant dream I had.

proteus912 · Answer

Yes I have those dreams. They aren’t nightmares but they do feel real. Once I dreamt that my dog who had passed away was on my bed with me and I was patting him. So I woke up patting him. Then one time I dreamt that my boyfriend was angry with me and then I woke up thinking he really was

naijagurl · Answer

For some reason I have a lot of dream where I’m doing homework so I wake up pretty disappointed when I realize I haven’t done any of the work I thought I did. Other than my homework dreams, my dreams/nightmares are usually too outrageous for me to ever wake up thinking that they’re real.

elite665 · Answer

Twice one time my dream was that I had cancer and died before I woke up I was actually dying in my sleep lol and I was o shocked when I finally realized I’m still alive.

Another was that my best friend has been a serial killer his whole life and all the girls he tells me about that “did not work out” he was hiding in a cement underground network under his house and murdering. When I woke up I actually almost texted him to see if it was true then I figured out it was a dream

Elliegirl · Answer

It’s happened. I usually wake up freaked out that I have a law school assignment or exam that I’ve missed. Then I settle down once I wake up more and remember I graduated years ago!

tonicandgin · Answer

Yeah. I had a nightmare that I failed my finals, and another one where I fucked a guy I didn't really like

1truekhaleesi · Answer

I had a dream that I was pregnant. I woke up sobbing and I was in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

Juxtapose · Answer

Usually when I first wake up for a few brief moments, I think I am still in the dream.

My favorite nightmare though, was when I was being chased by some small but formidable monster and turned around to attack it when I got fed up. I felt confident and in control, but then the dream quickly ended.

MadBoy · Answer

I've had both happen actually. One was just being with friends and having fun, and a girl I had a crush on saying she likes me back and cuddling with her. Another, the nightmare, was me being ran around like hell at my workplace before snapping and tearing the place apart.

TacocaT6969 · Answer

The most recent one was a dream where I woke up from a dream and was laying in my bed.

I could open my eyes but couldn’t move. I could hear the shower running downstairs and the closet door was opening and closing by itself.

For a good 10 minutes of dream time I was just pinned to my bed home alone with that freaky stuff happening.

I woke up with the same view I had in my dream and was terrified.

The first thing I did was go see if the shower was wet.

It wasn’t.

Thank god...

Clo917 · Answer

Plenty of times. I only have nightmares and man, they're overly vivid some times.

Theft · Answer

I had some pretty amazing dreams but they never got me going... on the other hand. Nightmares... I have had a few that I had to make some space to be able to calm down from them...

douride2 · Answer

You mean like the ones where you wake up in a cold sweat & your frozen with fear.

Finchie40 · Answer

I had them as well , its crazy shit sometimes we get so into r dreams that it makes it seem real , just like when a girl. dreams that her man cheated on her and she wakes up and beats his ass lol

Danny_dan92 · Answer

Yeah, I had a dream that I had a near death experience on my motorcycle where a big truck blew a few inches past me.

Then later that day when I was out on my motorcycle the same thing happened in the dream only the truck smashed and T boned a car

I_smell_Ducky · Answer

I only ever have the one dream. Just me, and him. And I'm holding his head under the water until the last bubble goes "bloop"

KissesAndKiwis · Answer

Ah, Yes. One of my worst nightmares was receiving a butt-load of money, Shoving it into my pocket, I searched my pockets only to find nothing I was so sure it was real I searched my room EVERYWHERE

DJKnows · Answer

Ok, so I did have a nightmare (this is back when I had a deadly fear of heights, like I'm talking paralyzing levels) that didn't wake me up but when I did wake up I was shaking violently and curled into a ball...

yucel_eden · Answer

I have nightmares, sometimes real flashbacks so I wake up and throw a punch or attack aggressively or something.

Like I punched a wall once while sleeping and almost broke my hand. Lucklily the wall was soft and the wall dented instead

BirdFan360 · Answer

Deep stuff.

BabyPagan · Answer

I have both dreams and nightmares like that. They are very common for me

Onepiece_fan2000 · Answer

Yeah I have , it just felt like it just actually happened I start crying and sweating.

Jean-Marie_Céline · Answer

It happened, and it took more than a moment for me to realize it was all a dream.

blondfrog · Answer

Yep it's amazing how powerful that chemical DMT is that our brain produces in our sleep along with Serotonin. I had one 2 days ago that was so silly with my brother in it, yet I still believed it.

Scarecrow13 · Answer

Yew and it can take me several seconds to cone to reality,. There have even been times where I suspect its a dream while in the dream but am then convinced its not.

loveslongnails · Answer

I've had nightmares that seemed real, but I always woke up knowing it was just a bad dream. They don't predict the future.

biffthewonderdog · Answer

No but. I got. Out of prison to come straight back asking to be let in they didn't know what to make of me

Hurdleez-Swampede · Answer

Yes. Most of my dreams about so vivid that I think they are really happening and sometimes I know I am sleeping in my dreams.

pizzalovershouse · Answer

yah many times usely to much pizza vefore bed time or foods that have high fat

Nadim171 · Answer

I once dreamt I was in America and by the time I really wanted to go there... so i wake up so happy and realised i was just in my room...

Animagis · Answer

I once had a nightmare were I murdered my parents with a knife, which freaked me out

kazeita · Answer

I could feel her soft lips and her smooth hair. But when I woke up, she doesn't exist.

Paris13 · Answer

Yes... Three Weeks before Mom died. xx

PrincessGrail · Answer

Both A and B. Cool graphics.

JosyJosy · Answer

Yes, and then it happened anyway a few days later

MackToday · Answer

It's been so long I can't remember much.

Kwikkwekkwak · Answer

I just dont dream when i sleep

Guardian45 · Answer

Yes. I have had realistic nightmares.

Tim-loves-it · Answer

I have.. but not G, PG or R rated...

ivanhunterjo · Answer

Yes, when I was younger

needhelp777 · Answer

Yes I have

LesbianBusinessWoman · Answer

Had one about prison

Kelly6 · Answer

Yes.

queenrxse · Answer

Yeah

adamski24 · Answer

Both A and B for me

Razal · Answer

Once or twice

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