So the other day I was taking a nap at my boyfriend's house, and I had a dream. I don't remember the exact details of it, but in my dream, I was playing some video game with my boyfriend that doesn't really exist. It was a fighting game. I felt like I was going to win because I did this move that was supposed to be really good, when suddenly he did a better move against me and won. It was very unexpected in my dream, and I was shocked and upset at the loss.

I was then woken by my friends right after that because we had to go see a movie, so I wasn't able to rematch him in my dream. I was really angry right after I woke up, and refused to get up to leave for a few minutes until I calmed down a bit. I had tears in my eyes from the frustration of it.

The reason I was so upset about this is that for our actual hobby, my bf and I play fighting games competitively. There's a specific game that he beats me at that frustrates me to no end, and in my dream, it was that same strong feeling of frustration and disbelief.

When I later explained why I was so upset to one of my friends, they suggested I play one of the games I beat him at IRL, but I was like "I dont' want to beat him at that! I want to beat him at the fake game in my dream!" One of my friends also made a comment saying "I don't think I've ever woken up angry from a dream." This made me wonder how others behave when waking up from an intense dream.


So, do you take your dreams seriously when you first wake up?
If so, how long do you hold onto that emotion?
Do you ever want to go back to sleep to finish a dream because of your strong emotions on it?
Have you ever been angry (or another emotion) at a dream version of your friend and then transfered that anger (or other emotion) to your actual friend when waking up?
Discuss.

Ive had dreams like that. Where Ive woken up so angry and all I want to do is go back to sleep so I can give em a what for!

And sometimes, I wake up from a nightmare, and believe it was real, and I'll sit there in my bed, wondering how the hell I got in the bed in the first place if it was real..

Then again, all of my dreams/nightmares are so intense..If I get hurt in my dreams, I actually get hurt. Like, in my dream I'll get cuts and bruises, and I'll wake up and have cuts and bruises in the same exact places, but I never know how I got em O.o cause they're always in places that I cant see myself hurting while Im sleeping..Like my stomach and chest and back, ect..[/rant]

Sorry, got off track >_>

What you should do is keep settle yourself down and forget about the dream..cause if you dont think about it, it most likely wont come back. And its never good to get angry at friends over something that was in a dream.

I've had upsetting dreams before and the emotions of it can last with me for the whole day even more somtimes if it was a really upsetting one. But I also know that you can control what you feel, it just takes alot of practise to be able to be any good at it. I have had dreams where I wake up and they make me forget where I am for some time until I wake up properly and realize where I am.

I don't think I've ever been mad over a dream. My dreams are usually always happy, scary, or sad. Yeah, not a wide range of emotions there. xD

I have had a dream that I haven't been able to shake before though. Sometimes I have dreams that are just so sad that they fill me with an utter despair kind of feeling. When I wake up, that usually sticks with me for the rest of the day.

Sometimes I'd like to go back to sleep not to continue the dream, but to forget it. xD Go back to sleep and try waking up in a better mood, you know?

I have woken thinking that a dream was real and commenting on it but, I have never stayed angry or sad or anything else from a dream. I have had dreams where something bad happens to one or both of my kids, those are tough to take but, I know they are only dreams and I get over it as soon as I wake.

I don't usually remember a whole dream when I wake up, only fragments, so most of the time I wake up confused trying to make sense of what I just saw, even when they're no sense to make of it at all with the pieces I remember.

I once remembered a nightmare pretty clearly, so I woke up crying. Thankfully no one was there to see it and I was able to fall asleep again after I was done.

Actually, I've had a boyfriend dream that I woke up angry from, but I don't hold that kind of stuff against someone considering it's my own subconscious that's making these images.

But my bf had a bad dream about me when I was visiting him once, and he was pissed at me all day!! That was annoying, because I didn't do ANYTHING WRONG! He also had a dream that I pushed him off the bed, which I totally didn't do. But he wound up on the floor, and thought I'd done it! XP

omg, dreams are like a movie to me. it's funny because i can be anything in it, i could even be a dude. but i remember countless dreams in which i wish i could fall back asleep and get to know how the dream ends.

i feel your same distress when wanting to go back into a dream to see how it ends. but i never woken up angry before after a dream. sometimes i wake up and get worried or kinda scared, because some dreams i have could be really depressing. like something bad happening to a loved one.

Wow, your dream was really interesting actually. I know that feeling of irritation when you are woken from a dream which you are actually quite enjoying, or one that you feel needs to be finished. I often find that when I wake up in the middle of the night, I can get back into the dream if I think about it, do you get that too?
But, in answer to your question, yes. I do get that, and I'll probably hold onto that emotion for anything from just a couple of seconds, to a few hours. I guess it depends how strong said emotion is, and how important it is to me. That's what I get anyway.

sometimes i get upset when i don't get to finish a really, really good dream, but that's about as much emotion that goes into my dreams.

I've had one dream like that, and... it's rather disturbing to me, so I don't really want to say what it is. Every time I think back to it, it gives me a rather bad feeling. D:

...so yeah, I wasn't really angry or anything, just really disturbed. It made me wonder why the heck was I having that dream. Anyway, you're not the only one to have really emotional dreams. ^^

Sounds a LOT like me. XD;

If a dream upsets me enough, I'll hold on to that feeling for...I think the longest was a week. ^^; It's not at ALL uncommon for it to stick with me for a day. Sometimes my dreams are just either so terrifying, or so sad, or even just so damn FUN that I can't forget. And then there are the extremely realistic ones that make me go "...that WAS a dream, right?" If they're bad enough, I'll even check on that. And even after I've checked on it, I'll think "Okay, it was just a dream...but that COULD really happen! What would I do?" This often depresses me for the rest of the day, sometimes longer.

I try not to take it out on my friends, though. Sometimes it doesn't work out well (if the dream bothered me enough)< but usually I manage.

When I was in sixth grade, my older sister was in a car wreck. About a week later, I had a dream that she'd died. And I totally thought it was real. I was walking around school the next day all depressed and sad, and started crying mid day. They had to send my sister over from the High School to come and show me that she was fine.

And I constantly have dreams that I'm trapped in Sears, and there's a zombie uprising. More likley than not, the dream ends with someone raising up the front gate to Sears and the Zombies come pouring in. I wake up, go back to sleep, and start over again. I also can been seen in the dream hiding in the ceiling tiles.

I had a dream that one of Jeanemon's characters had a nipple on the back of his neck.

Just thought I'd lighten things up a bit. <.<

OKAY, SO:
Yesterday, my boyfriend and I were taking a nap and I had this dream that me and him along with a bunch of other family members in... Mexico.
And there was this weird deck where we were all watching two guys try to knock each other off this small platform with beach balls. For some reason, whenever one of them lost, I'd jump in the water. Then I'd have to swim around and crawl back up, and my boyfriend would pull me under the railing and help me onto the deck.
But somehow the railing managed to get too tight for me to squeeze through and my boyfriend didn't help me up, so I just wandered around and eventually found my family.
They told me he had gone to work (somehow, he managed to get to work while in Mexico. XD)
And he didn't even say goodbye or try to find me!

I woke up and thought he didn't love me.

@murron - I think that when you were sleeping, you tossed and turned, giving yourself bruises or scratches, and since you actually felt them, they transferred into your dream. I've transferred commercials and movies I hear into my dream before, but usually when I wake up and check the movie, it's nothing like what I dreamed lol!

@zero dream - I've woke up crying before too, many times. I was always relieved to know it was a dream.

@Sizzla - lol! Now that's pretty funny. I guess he couldn't tell the difference between reality and his dream. x.x

@wasashu - It is distressing yeah? Even with good dreams, I get upset because I'm interrupted. When I try to go back to sleep, I can never end it as well as I think my subconcious would've done it. XD

@Mattie - If it's in the middle of the night, I can sometimes get back into the dream if I sleep again right after. The times I've done it though, the dream changed into another dream that I didn't care about, which sucked. :(

@Fullmetal - I don't think I've carried the emotion for a full week before. o.o Only maybe a day at the most, but I can understand how it's possible to feel that way all week. Luckily, I've always had something to distract me.

@Jeanemon - Although not quite related to dreams, I had something similar happen to me. When I was sick, I was kind of out of it, and my mom went out to get me soup. She took a long time (or what seemed like a long time to me), and I became convinced she had gotten in a car accident and died. x.x Luckily, that was not the case.

And to the sears + zombie thing, oh man, I know what you mean. I've had dreams where there are zombies and I'm trapped somewhere. That scared feeling sticks with me for awhile after.

@Lovvy - I've had dreams where I felt my bf didn't love me because of what happened in the dream. I'd have to have him reassure me again so I'd feel better.

Not too long ago, I had an awkwardly depressing dream, which kind of frustrated me. I was going out to see my dad [I live with my step-dad], but in reality, he hasn't been making arrangements to let us out, so in my dream, the house had changed so much since me and my sister had seen him last. So I got upset. And wouldn't talk for the next hour after the dream.. And I slept in an extra 4. >:
But I know what a frustrating dream feels like.

And sorry to rant on, but my sister has the weirdest dreams that frustrate her! Like, she'll be putting on a sock in her dream, and get all mad and wake up crying.. Then she'll laugh at herself.<3

when i get bad dreams i worry about it happening in real life all day

I woke up one morning and the first thing I thought was "Good god, why am I in girl's bedroom?!" xD

I'd been dreaming as a boy again. I dream as both genders in any different ages.

I've had a few very intense dreams. There are two in particular.

In the first one, I got out of my car and was greeted at the entrance of a park by a group of smiling, friendly people. I went into the park, but when I came back out, All the people were lying on the ground. One of them told me these words "He didn't even stop his car" they were so clear in my dream that they send shivers through me still. Then the man died and all the other people were already dead. Awful, I was jumpy and nervous for days afterwards.

The second one was disturbing from a whole different angle. I was at a mall and there was blood everywhere. A psycho was going around and killing everyone. I captured him and turned him over to the police. He explained that he'd been killing people with a little green disc the size and shape of a contact. I said in fascination "That's how I'd do it". Without thinking and in front of the police. He turned and stared into my eyes and said "We are the same". I was nervous with myself for days.

So, do you take your dreams seriously when you first wake up? Nope, not at all, I don't remember most of them ;D
Do you ever want to go back to sleep to finish a dream because of your strong emotions on it? Not really, but I do play with the story and with what's happened so far when I was asleep.
Have you ever been angry (or another emotion) at a dream version of your friend and then transfered that anger (or other emotion) to your actual friend when waking up? I'm usually not in my own dreams o____o;;

my dreams are usually too weird to be taken seriously.. like aliens and demons involved :3 heh..

I do get upset though a little if I've dreamed about my boyfriend doing something evil to me, like cheating on me or something :(

but mostly, dreams just get me thinking..

Normally I have odd scary apocalyptic dreams. I normally wake up and become extremely restless. It results in me being very tired the next day.

Okay, this dream is messed up xD

The next morning was a monday morning and I stayed up very late that night. When I fell asleep I dreamt about my boyfriend. We were at my house with one of my friends and two of his friends. They're names were Evan and Jordan (not really, figured I'd change the names). Anyways, as the dream rolled out, I ended up crying in my best friend's arms because my boyfriend left me for Evan.. I was crushed in the dream.
Everytime I saw my boyfriend with Evan I would cry.

Then one night I was home and my friend called me and told me that my boyfriend and Evan broke up. I was happy until she told me that he left Even for Jordan. So I was crushed again.

So then I went to this party and my boyfriend was sitting on this big chair with Jordan. He made a motion for me to go sit with them, so I did. He then proceeded to start playing with my hair and as he did this, he started to whisper in my ear:
"Don't worry, just six more months. Be patient. Just six months."

When I woke up I wanted to cry. I couldn't believe it! I didn't sleep for the rest of the night because I was too freaked out. xD Sorry that was so long.

@Sanctuary - I've been other people in my dreams before too. I'm not too sure if I've ever switched genders or not though. As for your two dreams... wow. Those are super scary. o.o;; I'd hate to have dreamed those. The first one is sad, but the second one I think is most disturbing. I bet you were happy to know they were dreams at least.

@stuffed - That dream was pretty confusing to me. xD So your bf in your dream left you for his two guy friends? That's so strange. Actually, I had a dream kinda like that, except my bf left me for one of my guy friends. In my dream, I was really sad and angry at both of them for betraying me like that. I think I kept ignoring them and running away, and they tried to talk to me, chasing me in a truck or something. o.o