Is it normal to cry after waking up from dreams?

I've had some dreams where someone I love dies brutally then I wake up and cry even though I know it's not real.

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Based on 37 votes (31 yes)
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  • I had a dream where I had a baby small enough to fit in my hand, but it was completely healthy. I went to the market with it and it started choking and died!! I woke up and bawled my eyes out, even though I have no kids.

    Totally normal!

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  • perfectly normal (in my eyes) it happens to me a lot...

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  • My nightmares include things that you people would see as something happy. In my nightmares I experience love, happyness and am thought free but then I wake up and realise how pathetic the nightmare was and have to go on the whole day feeling pathetic.

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  • Chillpill

    I think it's unusual. I'm usually extremely relieved when waking up from a bad dream and disappointed when it was a great one.
    IMO emotions felt in dreams can be very intense and powerful, as your rational part is not present to make sense of them or put them into perspective. I guess you just get shaken up from the experience.

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  • gloomydust

    Sometimes I have dreams of my boyfriend cheating , and wake up super angry and take it out on him. There's been a time where I hit him and dry humped him really hard cause I was that mad..

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