Do you ever mourn your "dream self"? - And i dont mean some superstition versions of yourself. I mean literally dreams.

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PittyKitty

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So, this is my first main post here.
Had a tooth extraction and got high enough to be brave enough to start my first post here.

So forgive me if its rambling or not deep enough for this board. But i asked this question before irl and just got strange looks or just straight up "no" as an answer... Am i the only one who feels this way?

Often when i wake up i mourn a death of my dream self. I often dream of having different familes, friends i dont know/have irl or live in places i never been too, but its not limited to strangers. Many dreams include peoples from the real life so its not the rule. Those dreams are not always nice, often even they are sad or straight nightmarish and yet, when i wake up i try to cling to those dream experiences.
I "mourn" those people, those places, those things i was doing, i even feel sad about the irl people in my dreams even though they actually are real. I don't know if i make sense.

I dont really understand that, its like a very very tiny part of me died. It doesn't last long, usually up to 2-3 minutes.

Does anyone else have this feeling?

I know we have a new mod, I hope my post is acceptable. If not please feel free to delate it.
 
I don't really remember dreams very much, and if I do they are pretty stupid. I don't really care about them that much. I'm not sure there's much to say except "no".
 
Nah. Killed myself in a dream once, though. I'd been infected by a demon and it was slowly overwhelming my nervous system so I slit my throat and jumped off the roof.

The only emotion I had on waking was immense relief. Otherwise I don't think it's normal to take dreams so seriously that you're mourning them. Maybe improve your own life enough that dreams won't seem so much better.
 
No.
In one of my dreams, I was digging my own grave. Most dreams I observe and very little do I lucid dream.
Family does appear in my dreams, but they act normally.
 
Exigent Circumcisions said:
Nah. Killed myself in a dream once, though. I'd been infected by a demon and it was slowly overwhelming my nervous system so I slit my throat and jumped off the roof.

The only emotion I had on waking was immense relief. Otherwise I don't think it's normal to take dreams so seriously that you're mourning them. Maybe improve your own life enough that dreams won't seem so much better.
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Maybe the use of word mourn is too strong. I just feel like i lost "something", and the funny thing i feel like that even about sad/bad dreams, also it only last few minutes right after waking up.

I dont really understand this myself. Thank you for the answer though :)
 
PittyKitty said:
Maybe the use of word mourn is too strong. I just feel like i lost "something", and the funny thing i feel like that even about sad/bad dreams, also it only last few minutes right after waking up.
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Oh, yeah. That's pretty normal I'd say. If I have a particularly vivid dream it takes a while to readjust to reality and I've heard other people say something to the same effect numerous times.
 
I’m currently accomplishing more than what I assumed in high school, so no, if anything, I got to become dream self

Wait you meant actual dreams, LOL

No not really, I typically forget my dreams within the hour
 
Dreams, even negative ones, tend to be filled with excitement and a sense of propolsion that real life only ever has in brief moments, and seems to become more and more rare as you get older.

When you wake up, and slowly reboot into reality it can be a bit of a letdown, I'm not sure mourn is the right word but to go back into the dream, to think its real again, if that were possible it would be hard to turn down the option.

I'm not a fan of lucid dreaming though. Knowing it isnt real and flying around is dull. What makes dreams interesting is how real they seem, then you wake up and think of how strange things were.

Have you ever woken up and for a moment forget what part of your real life you are in? I've woken up before and for a moment thought I was back camping at like 12 years old, it was only for a moment, like my brain short-circuited and forgot to load up the last few sets of memories. I think it had something to do with the smell of the area connecting me to the past.
 
I feel relieved when I wake up from bad/anxious dreams obviously, but I do often feel kind of let down or disappointed when waking up from more neutral ones, because I know I can't really go back and explore those places any further.
 
Sometimes.
I had a dream yesterday that I was straight - I kinda mourn the loss of that.
Then there are nightmares where I fall off of high places a lot, and all I can do is close my eyes and wait for it to be over - that I don't mourn.
To clarify, I think it depends on the dreamed situation. Most dreams we have we don't remember, and others we try so hard to hold on to and interpret. To me, the subconscious during sleep is like a computer that is offloading its RAM to get ready for the next day. The big difference between the subconscious and RAM is that the computer knows how to handle the info stored within it.
 
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