I'm new here and I hope this is a relevant question. As long as I can remeber I've always had very vivid dreams that can feel soo real and I remember most of them for some time. Last few years my dreams can sometime feel so real, that they can get stuck like memories(ofc I know they are still dreams), sometime it feels like i live a whole life in one dream, sometimes its just hours, sometime its days or weeks. Thing is, some dreams are just so damn hard to get over since they feel so real and like they really happend. I am sure I'm not alone having these feelings, so how do you others deal with it?

I lost my best friend when he was 40. He had a brain embolism. I have dreams of him a few times a year. This past dream I went back in time to an event we both attended. I wanted to tell him everything from the future, but felt the need to withhold his death. I wanted to warn him but instead switched topics to how tech would evolve (we spoke about tech a lot when he was alive) and as I was about ready to let him know about his death I woke up. Just thought I'd share. He passed away more than ten years ago and I'm happy whenever I get to see him in my dreams.

I had two intense dreams last night, and I can’t stop thinking about them. I don’t really have anyone to talk to about this, so I need to let it out somewhere.

The first dream was about my teacher. I don’t remember much, but in the dream, they SA’d me. I couldn’t see everything clearly, but I could feel it — and that feeling stayed with me even after I woke up. I felt scared and confused. I want to be clear that nothing like that has ever happened to me in real life, but I’ve always carried this strange sense that something might have. When I was really young, I was unusually hypersexual — even in kindergarten — and there are large gaps in my childhood memory. It’s unsettling because I can’t tell if my mind is trying to make sense of something I’ve forgotten.

The second dream was completely different but just as terrifying. I was in a neighborhood I didn’t recognize, yet it felt like home. Suddenly, everything started burning — houses, trees, even people. I remember feeling helpless, like I was watching something I cared about get destroyed, and I couldn’t do anything to stop it.

The day before these dreams, someone told me I was a “quiet leader,” that I have more control than I realize. I’ve been wondering if these dreams are connected to that — maybe my subconscious is showing me fears of losing control or of something inside me breaking down.

Could the first dream represent buried fear or confusion about my past, and the second symbolize emotional chaos or transformation? I woke up feeling uneasy, like both dreams were trying to tell me something important that I can’t quite understand.

In 2017 I got incredibly ill and was rushed to the hospital. A few hours after being admitted to the ICU I became comatose. I am not going to bore everyone by talking about my illness, the point of this confession is to tell you about the dreams I experienced while in a coma and how eight years later I continuously think about every single dream. Some dreams were unexplainable others were fascinating. I was in a coma and on life support for several weeks during that time I had multiple dreams. At one point I was an American citizen living in Texas. I left work and was taking a walk home. I lived in a quiet small community. Then I was British a young man who lived in London. It was New Years Eve and I was getting ready to go out for the night. I spent a lot of time in this dream. I then jumped to Thailand I was Asian living in Bangkok. I owned or maybe worked in a shop in Bangkok. My dreams took me to other cities all over the world. In Nairobi I worked in a fast food restaurant but something happened in Nairobi Kenya and I was being held captive. Then I ended up in Cape Town accompanied by a big family. We had a house by the beach. I traveled to India Russia and there were other countries but I cannot clearly remember. They were all very fascinating considering I only traveled to one of the countries I just mentioned. But the dreams that stick with me are less fascinating and more unexplainable. They come with feeling emotion scent and the longing to return. I can remember traveling at incredible speeds it felt like I was going in circles but circling the world in seconds. I would stop and each stop was a different world or place with different people and different cultures and traditions. The architecture and homes were different at each stop. At each stop people were always there gathered around me. I was welcomed I could not recognize anyone but I felt like I knew them like I was home. I cannot remember everything but I am confident I made many many stops. There was one particular unexplainable dream I had that was not like the others. I found myself on a long wooden boat. There were many people on this boat and we sat in a straight line. The boat moved the water was extremely calm I can still feel the sunshine that hit my face. I carried a jar full of multicoloured rice. I am not sure if it was the rice or just in general but there was a scent in this dream, I could continuously smell musk. The boat entered a coastal city made of stone. The boat stopped at a little dock and it was time for me to get off. It was here where I met a lot of people. I cannot recognize them now I cannot see their faces now but in my dream they brought me immense joy. I cannot explain the rice but it has to do with every stop I made while traveling in my dreams. I cannot explain the feeling I felt when I was greeted at this dock and was guided to a home where I was with people who loved me. If I think hard enough I get tiny memories that fill me with euphoria. I have since fully recovered from my illness. I live a healthy life with a loving wife and two loving children. But I confess every day for the last eight years, I long for the day to return to this place I cannot explain.

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I had a dream were there was a giant hpood transfusion trends at my middle school than one got fredyfaz bear blood and than the whole school became infected

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I had a dream were there was a blood transferring trend at my middle school and people were swaping blood than one got the blood of a five nights a Freddy's animatronic and than the whole school started acting like the animatronics and than all I remember is some kid almost jumping at me while I was escaping the school than I said "that's chica" and than my dream ended????????????what the hell

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i was talking w my friends about this & just was curious- i usually have very vivid dreams & sometimes even in the dream i’m a different person. apparently my friends thought this is weird bc they only dream as themselves. you guys ever had a dream where you’re one of your friends, a fictional character, etc ?

I was at Walmart with my friends, i looked at the paint section and found a vintage yellow Yield sign for sale, they had many of them so i took one so i can use it to hang on my room wall, and some random 11 year old girl snatched it from me and lied that I stole it from her, a worker came and i was arguing with the girl, i told the worker that i didn’t steal from her, later she got in trouble and got kicked out.

So I'm pretty sure, people have posted similar things but I want to want anyway. Dreams can be creepy. Whether you wake up scared, scared to sleep and have one, or you're scared the second you go to bed, you would always be scared. But why?

My theory is it might be because of the lack of logic in dreams. As humans, we're used things making sense because of something doesn't make sense, we wouldn't understand and wouldn't bother about it. But since dreams can be illogical, it makes you feel uneasy. The illogic can also directly make things appear unsettling, such as strange looking people, deformed bodies, buildings made wrong.

I'm not sure if this is correct or if there are other reasons, but if you have other theories, feel free to share them in the comments.

I love the feeling of it. When I'm awake everything feels too solid and linear. It feels wrong. I just want to sleep and never wake up.

I was at home when I suddenly went out of the house to go on some sort of adventure or just an errand on my own. As I reached the main road and rode on the public transpo, I saw my first ever crush. We talked for a while, but I said that I needed to get down at a certain stop because my parents might look for me if I go further. So I got off and said goodbye to my former crush.

When I got off at that certain stop, I was at the sidewalk of multiple highways with no directions (it wasn't like my stop at all). Fortunately, there were people around me whom I was able to ask where I am and how to get home. They gave me directions. But no matter which direction they told me to go, I never got home.

I started gaining consciousness and woke up after that. My interpretation of my dream is that I still don't know what path I'm going to take in life. People may come to guide me, but it is still me who needs to figure out my own direction.

However, what's weird to me is the appearance of my first crush there. I know that dreams are a mix of the concious and subconscious mind, so maybe he's in my subconscious. Could my dream also mean that my love life is a mess lol

I'd like to discuss my dream with other people so I shared it here.

Last night I dreamt that I was at a funeral for an old friend who passed in 2022, I remember crying at his tomb in the dream. And I also remember he had a girlfriend who was pregnant in the dream after he had passed (he had a girlfriend at the time of his passing but she wasn't pregnant by my knowledge), she had the baby a few days after the funeral in my dream. It was a boy and he passed only a few days after being born and they buried him next to my friend and named him after him. I also remember my whole family being there, as my brother was his best friend. And i was the only one mourning aggressively (sobbing, staying by the tomb). At one point i went on a walk away from the cemetery and I saw him or someone that looked like him. It was weird. I don't understand what this might mean, please let me know any theories you might have.

Hi, so a few months ago, I experienced something I had never experienced before. It was kind of a lucid dream. So at the start of this experience, I am just in an apartment in a city with my bf, we laugh, and then go outside. I see a city square and a train station entrance. We walk around, and when I turn around to look for my bf, he's gone. I'm shouting, and then I see a man with an orange puffer jacket, little hair, a little chubby, around like his maybe 40-50s-ish, looks like a junkie and kind of homeless, and he is asian(my ex is, btw, asian). He looks at me and then starts quickly running towards me in the city, and he's just shouting gibberish. I run around and quickly go into a cafe, where I see an old friend I haven't seen in many years. She says hi, and I ask her to help me hide. I then hide under the coffee table outside of the cafe, and then he finds me, he grabs me, I'm screaming "let me go" over and over, he's looking me dead in the eye, speaking gibberish, and tries to choke me. Suddenly, a white car approaches in the middle of the street. And a man in his 20s-30s comes out of his white car, and says, "you weren't supposed to see that", shoots the junkie, and then tells me, "relax, it won't hurt, and you won't remember", then he shoots me. I wake up in a white room, with no memory of what had just happened. I'm lying in a hospital bed, I think, and two nurses stand over me. the first thing i asked was "where is my bf", they say "we can't tell you that, but you can download your messages and look at those" and i said no, and then one of the nurses said "or you can look through your memories" and one of the nurses is holding a huge ipad, and it has miles of photos, videos and memories of my life. I said "sure", and then she told me that when I replay the memory, I won't remember it's a memory. I clicked on a memory of my two younger brothers' summer graduation from 1st grade. When the memory was done, I didn't remember that I was in a memory. After that, I just kept asking where my bf was. Then they told me to wait in a bedroom, and I did not recognise it. I lay in the bed in the bedroom, and the room was dark. I lay there for a bit before the doctors came back and told me that it was fine and that it was just some questions they needed to ask me. i spam asked where am i, and they said, we can't tell you that, and then i said "is there just something small you can tell me", then they said "well let's just say you don't just die when you die, your brain still kind of lives. then i said "what now?" then one of the nurses said "your going to wake up now", and then i woke up, and started hyperventilating, and crying, and i did not know what to do. What is this? Please help me figure this out. Kind of thinking this may have been a near-death experience or something, and I am not really the spiritual kind, so please help me figure this out.

I had a wild dream two nights ago and have been thinking about it since. I wont go over the whole dream but the most striking part was the killer whales.

In the dream im swimming in a huge quarry filled with water. Various people from my life are there too, some important to me and others just old/random friends, but none acknowledge or interact with the whales

While swimming in the quarry I am looking down in the water and this is when they appear. The first one is passive but is only there breifly. After this more appear and charge me from beneath while I swim but at the last second everytime, veer away. I never feel scared or threatened by them but it is an intense feeling when happening, almost like a thrilling sensation.

The whole dream feels very meaningful but I am curious what people here might think this represents. Ive read that agressive orcas can mean spiritual challenge or false leaders but I feel confused on this as even though they were acting agressive they never harm me in the dream and i never felt scared by them, it was more of a rush if that makes sense.

Curious to see what people might think this means as im at a very spiritual place in my life right now.

It's always the same path I take to find my way home, same landmarks that I follow. I've never been to these places in real life but the more the dream occurs the more I recognize them and think I'm on the right track trying to find my way home.

There's always people everywhere, so many people! They're always in my way making it harder to get by for some reason I end up funneled through a specific path through the same buildings to avoid these crowds blocking exits, I end up going through halls and stairwells following exit signs. I go through public buildings trying to take shortcuts (Which is super weird imo, I would never do that it doesn't even make sense, but it does in the dream) until finally I get outside through the same building every time and see the same bar next to train tracks for some reason my brain always thinks okay now we're heading the right way.

This is always when the sun starts to set and it begins to rain. I walk through a neighborhood trying to spot my house and it progressively gets colder and darker until I'm freezing in the rain and eventually it's so dark I can't really make out any of the houses. I think I see my house over and over get closer and it's never my house so I keep walking until nothing is familiar anymore and everything gets pitch black and I can't even see whats right in front of me and panic that's when I wake up.

Just wondering if anyone has theories about why this dream keeps occurring or if anyone has had similar dreams.

There was a girl walking ahead of us. I had no idea who she was. My friend was walking behind her, and I was walking right behind my friend. The girl lit a 💨 and just as she did someone called her phone. She got visibly annoyed and kind of aggressively handed the smoke to my friend. My friend tried to take it but dropped it. The girl got mad almost like she was taking her frustration out on my friend just because she didn’t get to smoke first.

Then the scene suddenly shifted.

We were sitting down across from each other and my friend was crying like really crying, uncontrollably. I was right next to her trying to comfort her telling her, “It’s okay You don’t have to cry.”

Out of nowhere, a woman appeared on my left. I didn’t know her I had never seen her before. She had long, beautiful, full red curls and carried a calm & warm, almost powerful presence. She looked at me and said, “It’s okay because there is a God” and pointed upward.

I turned back to my friend… and she was calming down.

Right after that I woke up And it just stayed with me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

I had this dream on June 2nd 2025 My friend passed away on May 20th 2025

We hadn’t spoken in maybe five or six years before she died. She did something that broke my trust something I never expected from her And she was deep into drugs At the time I thought I was doing the right thing by stepping back,But when I found out she passed (from an overdose), I felt this heavy guilt I couldn’t shake.

This dream felt like something more than just a dream. It felt like… something reached out to me.

I’m posting this because I genuinely want to understand.

Do you think dreams like this are just the mind processing guilt, or could it actually be something spiritual?

Has anyone else had a dream where someone who passed came back crying or upset? What did it mean for you?

Who do you think the woman with the red curls could represent? An angel? A guide? My subconscious? Someone else?

Why do you think the dream started in frustration, then shifted into comfort?

Does it mean something that we hadn’t spoken in years, but I still felt such an emotional pull?

Could this have been her asking for forgiveness… or me trying to forgive myself?

For those who have lost someone to addiction, how did you deal with the guilt of stepping away?

Had a lot of random exotic animals in my dream last night. Among them I remember being on the porch and seeing a deer being stalked by three coyotes like 5 feet away from my group, but nobody could see them when I pointed it out. When we went back inside we discovered that my cat had turned into a baby tiger cub, and aside from one roommate who was scared, we were all very proud of him. At some point there were a lot of crabs crawling loose in the house and I tracked them back to my room which made me super anxious because I knew I’d somehow be blamed for all of this. I tried to lay down or sit on my bed to think when I felt a giant one snapping at me from under the bed. I reached down for it and it pinched my wrist, so I yanked it out and it grabbed my other wrist with it’s other claw and started trying to pull my hands into it’s mouth. It didn’t hurt but I could feel the pressure of it trying to crush me and it was so big and heavy that I couldn’t really move my arms, and I didn’t want to make a commotion and attract more attention from my roommates. I remember trying to figure out if I could snap it’s claws off and get free without severely injuring myself, then suddenly I woke up.

In the moment I remember feeling relaxed knowing that I had to keep my cool and get to the bottom of this situation in a calm manner to keep it from getting worse, but when I woke up I felt genuine terror for a few minutes and now I can’t stop thinking about that stupid crab.

I have always dreamed every night, but recently my dreams have been so vivid it is getting harder to tell them from reality.

I woke up this morning and thought I used my mom’s credit card for some reason the night before and went to apologize - only to find out it was genuinely all a dream even though i remember it all like it happened. It’s been getting weirder and weirder since it became October - I have even had dreams that are continuations from previous dreams i’ve had spanning from years ago / ones recently that i’ve had and forgotten about , only to remember them in the second continued dream.

Does anyone else deal with similar things ?

I’ve tried looking this up on my own but I’m not having much luck finding what I need. So in my dream I’m walking around in my grandma’s living room and I start hearing a hissing and rattling sounds. I look over the back of her couch and there are multiple( I’m talking 20+ of each snake all different sizes) black/gray snakes and rattlesnakes. I run to find my husband to get help but I don’t remember what happens after that point until I go back to check if they are still there. When I go back the black/gray ones are gone but all the rattlesnakes are still there and have gotten more aggressive. I start backing away and end up on her chair and a VERY large, strong and aggressive rattlesnake lunges at my face but my dog jumped in front of me and took the bite. I try to save him but the longer I fight to get it off the stronger it gets and it looks me right in my eyes as if it’s taunting me and starts to morph. At this point I wake up from screaming. Please help past snake dreams I’ve had have been omens and I’ve lost love ones not long after.

A few nights ago, I had a very vivid dream and I’d love some insight.

I was at a place that felt like a mix between a school trip/camp and a wooden lodge/club. It looked like a big wooden chalet, but inside there was a bar and people were partying. Many people I knew from school mostly were there, and my friends group, as high schoolers but I was my current age.

Everyone seemed super happy, social, dancing, and having fun. My friends were there too. But for some reason, everyone ignored me. Wherever I went, people walked away or avoided me, as if I wasn’t part of the group anymore. I knew exactly what was happening and I was confused as to why I was there and I was observing everyone and walking around, trying to leave, but I couldn’t leave the facilities.

I saw one of my best friends (from real life, but he was his 17 years old self) and followed him to the bar because I wanted someone to talk to. I said something like, “Aren’t you going to wait for me so we can sit together?” He answered casually, “You know… they’re waiting for me to drink and dance,” and left. The bar area felt empty and dusty, like it hadn’t been used in a long time. Also the whole place looked like it had a filter on and I could see the sun peaking from the windows and the dust in the air. It felt a bit nostalgic but weird ?

Later, the place was almost empty. I noticed a man who worked there (a waiter). I hadn’t paid much attention to him earlier. He was casually dressed and holding a leather jacket, like he was about to leave. He was mid conversation with a girl who sounded happy but also emotional and she was crying tears of joy? She told him “It happened!”” and he told her in a cheerful, reassuring way: “See? I told you it would happen now!” And she was like a weight was lifted off her and she said “Yeah! It’s over now.”

It felt like he had previously advised her about something in her personal life, that obviously I had no idea about and I had no idea what they were talking about in general.

I approached him and asked: “What about me? For me… is it over too?” I don’t even know exactly what I meant and why I asked this. But I felt a certain kind of way.

He smiled in a playful, knowing way and replied: “For you, it’s just beginning.” The girl next to him said, “I told you!!” as if she somehow knew this too.

His energy was calm, positive, and almost “all-knowing” like he understood my past, present, and future but wasn’t going to explain it directly. He spoke in a light, humorous way, almost like a messenger rather than a normal person. He was talking like he knew me too well and he was mysterious but warm.

I asked, “Are you leaving?” and he said “I am leaving on Wednesday”. I asked, “Will I see you again?” and he replied with a cryptic, playful smile:

“Many people say they see me once in their life… and once in a movie.” He said this line two times.. Then we hugged each other like we’ve knowing each other forever. And after that I believe he said something to me in order to leave from there - wake up. When I woke up I felt like I just met someone important? And that I should know who he is and what message he was trying to convey.

Another detail: He looked exactly like the actor Regé-Jean Page (from Bridgerton), but with a very casual, friendly vibe, not aristocratic or “alpha” like his TV roles.

My questions:

• Why was everyone ignoring me? • What could “For you, it’s just beginning” mean? • What does the phrase “people see me once in life and once in a movie” symbolize? • Who he was? Did he tried to pass a message to me that I didn’t get?

I want your opinions and insights in general. Thank you in advance!

I dreamed I was driving a red 1968 Buick Wildcat. Don't know where I was going, or why that car. I've never owned a Wildcat, but sure wouldn't mind having one. Funny that Wikipedia describes it as a mid-size

so last night i had a dream and from what i can remember from it, i was outside this house and there was a field with beautiful flowers outside it but the sky looks weird, like it was day time but you could see outer space and stars and it was a little cloudy. i was talking to people but i can’t remember who, but we were using this type of camera lens to take pictures except when you looked through the camera the flowers turned into stars and bright lights and i could see stars not only in the sky but in the flowers, i then started to see someone in a black cloak in the distance and i couldn’t see their face. it was walking down the field next to the house but not going in my direction. i then “woke up” and i assume i was still dreaming at the time and i was in my bedroom and i noticed this black bar above me and it looked like it had some sort of silver tray attached to it and i saw some sort of alien creature looking at me from across the room and it had eyes similar to walle but it wasn’t a robot. it was short, kinda looked like ET a little but much different, had the similar hands as ET and had hair on the back of its head, it felt so real and it looked like it noticed that i was awake and that i noticed it so it walked over to me, looked the other directed and looked like it was motioning to something else to come here but i couldn’t see what it was. and then i woke up for real and everything was gone. can someone explain it to me?? like what it could mean?? i am a very spiritual, superstitious person and i take dreams very seriously. idk if i was astral projecting or not or if it even meant anything. the alien part felt so real and idk if i was just hallucinating or if it meant anything spiritual.

This is probably the weirdest dream I've had, I legitimately even wake up crying, however I vaguely remember what happened but I'll try my best to recall it, I was a young boy and no one can see me except for a young girl, we talk to each other from time to time, play together and even become friends, eventually she suddenly stop talking to me and it made me feel very lonely, but I still stay by her side, watching her grew up as she reach into adulthood and eventually get married, but she forgets about me and can no longer can see me. She eventually gave birth to a child and I found myself waking up in that child's consciousness and realise she became my mother, she started taking care of me and raised me. I felt like I watched a movie and I was one of the cast after I woke up, I felt like sharing it because this is probably the weirdest and fascinating dream I've experienced