Scary: awake and drafted into dreams

[Jamie45]

i had some scary experiences the other day. I use to forget my dreams As most People probably do. But suddenly while I am fully awake scenes from old dreams occur WHAM!...weird stuff, but so real. It happens that I feel that I could go crazy and get lost in that weird story so I get little panicked cause it feels as if I get drafted into that crazy dream and never come back to my real Life!... it just takes seconds and I'm not a drug addict nor do I take any kind of medication or Alkohol. Who experienced something like that and what the hell is it??

[insane_alien]

i've never felt that i would go crazy from a dream but i do have pretty vivid ones and tend to remember them (this has been true for as long as i can remember). for instance, last night i got gunned down in a WWI trench except the germans were replaced by people sized yellow rubber ducks. Make of that what you will. felt utterly real, felt myself dying, then moved on to another dream. this time a more sane one, a holiday i went on with some friends a few years ago (with the usual dream like twists, people there who weren't at the real one, different events etc.)

 

I think perhaps it is only because you have recently started to experience(or at least remember) vivid dreams its just that your brain doesn't know how to cope with them. the likely outcome is that the more you have, the better your mind will be able to deal with them sensibly and they won't affect you as much.

[DrmDoc]

i had some scary experiences the other day. I use to forget my dreams As most People probably do. But suddenly while I am fully awake scenes from old dreams occur WHAM!...weird stuff, but so real. It happens that I feel that I could go crazy and get lost in that weird story so I get little panicked cause it feels as if I get drafted into that crazy dream and never come back to my real Life!... it just takes seconds and I'm not a drug addict nor do I take any kind of medication or Alkohol. Who experienced something like that and what the hell is it??

 

If you are describing the experience of dreaming while awake, that state is akin to what we find with schizophrenia and you should probably review your family history and consult a mental health specialist. However, if what you are descirbing is akin to vivid memory of a prior experience, then it is not so uncommon. Your vivid recollections of a dream can occur as most memories of experience do, through environmental cues that trigger your recollections. Essentially, rather than imagination, dreams are interpretations of mental experience.

 

Dreaming is an experience that occurs when the sleeping brain partially disconnects--at the onset of atonia--from the sensory experience of physical reality. Amid that state, the sleeping brain becomes active as a result of the vestigial processes of sleep arising from activations in the brainstem. The now active brain amid sleep interpret those activations in the brainstem as mental experience rather than physical because of the brain's partial disconnect from physical reality. It isn't until we awake that the mental experience of dreaming becomes interpreted by our waking-state brain as the pseudo-physical/material experiences we recall as dreams. Dreams, in reality, are physical/material interpretations of mental experience. They are best understood by prefacing their description with the word mental; e.g., dream foods and homes could be best understood as mental foods and mental structures. I hope this helps.

[dragonstar57]

last night i got gunned down in a WWI trench except the germans were replaced by people sized yellow rubber ducks. ...it felt utterly real, I felt myself dying

thats messed up