Which is more painful; waking up from a good dream and realizing it was just a dream, or having a nightmare in your sleep and believing it is reality?

[marish01]

waking up from a good dream and realizing it was just a dream

having a nightmare in your sleep and believing it is reality

[ohsheeT]

Yeah I have many many dreams and I wake up quite often looking around wondering what happened and I realized it was just a dream but it was a positive dream so that's all that matters


I believe all dreams try to tell us something and I would rather have a positive dream than a nightmare dream any day

[AviatorTom]

I woke up last night from a nightmarish dream where I lost my phone. It took me a few minutes to realize it was only a dream... and I wondered why the dream was so bad. I rarely use my phone. If I lost it, it wouldn't be so bad.

[marish01]

Lol yes. Not a tragedy. But we sometimes feel horrible in our dreams

[Anonymous]

for me, nothing is worse than finding out a good dream was just a dream, and then i have to go back to my normal life without that good thing in it.

[marish01]

Yes. Once I hada dream where my dream came true. I said in my dream "I'm so glad this is not a dream"
I was certain it was real. Waking up made me feel sad for sure

[Guanfei]

Had both, and first is the worst by far.

I remember having a dream in which I spent years with a family, from the moment I met my "wife" to when my "daughter" got older. Everything was exactly what I wanted.

Then I woke up, alone, in an empty bed. I had everything I wanted, and lost it. That really depressed me for a whole week.

[Joshydavid25]

Definitely the second choice.. You don't know how good it feels to wake up and realize that the nightmare wasn't real..

[Nikki1989]

Nightmares are always worse.

[marish01]

Waking up from them then realizing it was a dream is bliss.
But I know what you mean. Once I had the most horrible nightmare. A serial killer at night caught me, tied me and slowly tortured. I was crying but not screaming. That was my exact voice. That was how I would sound if I cried from enormous physical pain.

[NathanDavis]

sleep paralysis is not fun at all... lol

[Flower7]

Bad dreams are much worse.

[Rohaan2020]

I guess nightmare is worse

[Jerre]

The nightmare dream. Has been many years

[eagle1951]

nightmare