Having trouble distinguishing between dreams and real life?

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Sometimes I have a bit of trouble remembering whether or not an event was actually a dream or whether it actually occurred in real life. Generally they are only very minor events, not very major. Something like a small phrase that someone said or did etc. Usually how it starts is the thought or memory will come into my head and I seriously can't remember if it was a dream or not.

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  • McBean
    5 years ago

    When your dreams are mundane and very close to reality, they can sometimes become mistagged in your memory as actually being experienced.

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  • CozmoWank
    5 years ago

    Dream activities don't leave you with a criminal record or std's.

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  • libertybell
    5 years ago

    Yep, sometimes it's memories from my childhood, and other times it's more recently. Did it really happen, or did I dream it?

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  • MalePerson123
    5 years ago

    It happens to me sometimes. As long as it's only minor things, you should be absolutely fine

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  • Ellenna
    5 years ago

    I reckon this is quite common with especially vivid dreams: the ones I find difficult are sexual dreams about someone and then running into them soon after - very awkward for a little while. Also the dreams where someone in your life is treating you badly in the dream but not in real life: hard not to feel hurt when you see them again when awake.

    Actually, I sometimes have a little bit of difficulty separating daydreams and fantasy from real life when I run into the person or people concerned.

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  • RoseIsabella
    5 years ago

    I'm pretty sure the times I flew through the air were dreams, except for when I have traveled by airplane.

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  • paramore93
    5 years ago

    I spent 20 years thinking a memory had been a dream, until my sister told me that it actually happened. Confusing.

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    • Nikclaire
      5 years ago

      If you thought something was a dream why would you hold memories of it for 20 years?

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      • paramore93
        5 years ago

        Don't you remember any dreams you had as a kid? I remember a few.

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        • Nikclaire
          5 years ago

          Just one but it was a terrifying repeating nightmare that I had over and over again.

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          • Ellenna
            5 years ago

            Yeah, me too: I had two terrifying dreams often when I was a child, so terrifying I could never tell anyone what I'd been dreaming. I would have trouble when I woke up believing they had been dreams.

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  • [Old Memory]
    5 years ago

    bedbugs

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  • Nikclaire
    5 years ago

    Early sign of Dementia 😳

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