I want to live in my dreams

Does anyone else feel like that? I've felt like that ever since I began having very vivid dreams at primary school age. I feel so many emotions in those dreams and although it can be anything from terrifying or blissful in my dreams, I sometimes wake up sad that I couldn't stay longer. It's like there's a whole world in there.

I don't feel lonely in my dreams, because I meet people and I go places that I couldn't go to in real life. I have adventures - the sort of adventures that you could only...well, dream about of course. It can be depressing. I haven't been remembering my dreams as well I used to and it's really getting me down.

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  • OfTheInvented

    I do too and it sucks when you wake up !

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  • ninjas_and_tigers

    I'm not sure if it's normal but I constantly wish I could be in a dream coma so that I could dream to what it seems like forever.

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  • SwanRage

    This actually made me cry. I had a dream about 2 years ago and every night since then I try to have that same dream over and over again.... but I can't seem to dream it again. That dream was the only time I was scared, alone, happy and in love at the same time. The girl I was with was amazing but I never got to see her face.... only heard her voice. I need that love I felt that night. I'd do almost anything to live in that dream for the rest of my life or to find that girl. If only dreams came true....

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    • PoisonFlowers

      Yeah, I know. I've spent a lot of my time trying to chase those feelings that I've only ever experienced in my dreams. They can be intense, but nothing compares to the real thing, which can be different to how you imagined, but that isn't bad. Life can be full of all that you described - fear, loneliness, happiness, love - but you have to be open to it. A lot can happen in a short period of time I've discovered. Good luck with everything SwanRage.

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  • strigoigirl

    I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes I sleep ten, eleven or more hours and when I wake up I get sad , and I feel lost , it is like I was dead for a period of my life. When I wake up I think " What happened? Where am I ? What I was supposed to do before sleeping? There are moments that I use to be afraid if one day I could not discern what was real and what was dream in my life...

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  • BottledEmotions

    When its very vivid and its like im really there.. Sometimes i will have a nightmare but it dosent start at a nightmare..for example i had a nightmare a few weeks ago and usally i dont remember my dreams, just pieces but this nightmare was rememberable.. There was alot going on in the beginning of the dream and i dont remeber any of it but i was walking and i see my 2 lil brothers and my little sister, so we all get on are dirtbikes and drive down this steep dangerous hill. I make it down first, then my 13 year old little brother, then my sister so i look up after i hear a scream and there a big black cat(panther or a cougar) with a wite face attacking my brother and its dark out so my 13 year old brother starts his bike up and starts to rem it like he was gonna dive but then i said no and i went to go help my brother when the big black cat jumped off him and ran down the other side near my 13 year old brother (by this time my sister dissapered) so i yelled to him come over behind this big round boulder with me and we saw the cat walk around one side while my other lil brother came down the hill hurt, so we told him wait and we walked aroubd the boulder so the big black cat couldnt see us and then we stood there for a few mins and said i think hes gone. So we go to out dirtbikes and my sisters there again and we all get on our dirtbikes and start to drive slowly and the BAM! The big black cat jumps on me knock me off the bike and i tried to run but it got on top of me and put its white face near mine and as it was about to bite my face and kill me i woke up. The scariest part is i just moved to a new city and 4 days after that dream i saw a big tall steep woodsy hill with a big round boulder at the bottom...

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  • SolitarioCisne

    There is absolutely nothing more I could say that you haven't... it is all true about myself. The CLOSEST thing I have ever had is travelling... doing strange things, being in totally unique places and being up high, in nature, or in a plane. I will let you know if I find a solution, it's really hard, but I have visited such amazing places I truly believe it is one whole world! Just look forward to your dreams, no matter what happens day to day in your life, listen to lucid dreaming induction videos on Youtube whilst going to sleep, and sometimes your dreams even really come into your real life! I named that incredible feeling you get whilst on adventures in your dreams 'The Twilight Effect', because it is like that perfect time of the day between day and night that is just magical and incredulous and makes you feel more than alive. I would appreciate if you could help me make it more widely recognised, so people can explain and understand that amazing experience and emotion that is present in almost every dream! Good luck, dream adventurer... ^..^

    "The Twilight Effect..."

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  • Rihyae

    I want to stay in my (pleasant, hot, or anime) dreams too..

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  • j9013

    I really hope it is not normal. I hope I can find in real life what I have in my dreams - a life that is interesting and full of people, adventures, and emotions. Right now, I purposely sleep all day (even after a good night's sleep) just to make the dreams longer, more vivid, and more real (it just seems that the longer I am asleep, the more vivid the dreams get).

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  • 900

    It's not normal or good. You should watch Psychic Influence by Ross Jefferies that might make your awake better.

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  • issues117kfss

    I understand how you feel completely...in my dreams Im happy. Im in beautiful worlds where I can feel truly free. I wish I could stay longer in that world. Ive come to hate being awake and I only feel at peace in my dreams. Everyday I wake up aswell in tears and everyday I try so hard to to remember that place. And to remember how it felt to be with her...happy.

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    • 900

      You could You watch Psychic Influence by Ross Jefferies that might make your awake more interesting

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    • PoisonFlowers

      Aww :( it's the freedom. I think your imagination feels joy that it can breathe too hah..

      Your comment made me sad though. I hope you can find a way to be happy in another way; not just trying to remember.

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  • this is what you do you wright somtin on your hand like dream and every day you check it to see if your in dream if your in a dream it will be totaly different but dont get to excited or your dream will punish you by waking you up and it will also help if you do somthing to signify your not in a dream like pinch yourself ive had many succesfull lucid dreams using this technich yours truly understander

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  • I also. It's always so peacful. Exept for when i die, those arent so great but all my other dreams id want to live in. If i lived in the dream i died in then id be dead.

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    • BottledEmotions

      When i die in my dreams i wake up

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  • missingpiecesofsleep

    Erm....are you me? Haha, you hit the nail on the head there with everything you said about how I feel regarding my dreams, including the feeling down cause you can't remember them better nowadays.

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  • CrazyNiteOwl

    yes i used to do that alot, i never wanted to wake up but then i realised i was dreaming n my stupid brain decided that was the end of dream time, its pretty awesome that dreams can feel that good

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    • PoisonFlowers

      I know right, it's like my drug.

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  • Autofire223

    I do to!!

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  • canthepeopleinpostersseeu

    it feels like half of you sometimes i dream about twilight am only 13 but and i am in the family and you can feel the pain in your dream like if u get a jag and u can smell and taste the food

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  • Amazing. These are the words of a visionary. I hope you live your dreams, PF, really I do ...

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    • PoisonFlowers

      Goodness me. You really made me smile. Merely the ramblings of a dreamer I'm afraid.

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  • unknown2

    this is totally normal. In this situation, dreams are a way of escaping life in the real world. We all have dreams every night, but more often than less, we cannot remember what those dreams are about. However once in a while, we have a dream that we remember. any Disney fan with recognize this quotation: "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartache, whatever you wish for will be...No matter how you keep on dreaming, if you just keep believing, the dream that [you] wish will come true".

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