It’s getting really hard to differentiate my dreams and reality apart I had to wake up 3 times before I realized I never even was awake and still dreaming it’s all lucid and I feel in control but I am not and the dreams are psychological messing with my waking hours, just small things for now but those details never existed and it’s pissing me off
My dreams are messing with my reality
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When I’m dreaming, it feels like I’m living my life in an opposite reality, but everything in the dream is exactly the same as it is here. The difference shows up in small details. For example, I’ll dream that we bought bananas, and I remember it clearly, but when I wake up I realize that never actually happened. The problem is that those dream memories linger. After I wake up, some details from the dream blend with real memories, especially on days I forget things. That’s when I get a lot of déjà vu like my brain recognizes something from a dream and mistakes it for real life. It makes my everyday memory feel mixed up, even though I know the confusion started in the dream. And it’s only getter worse I’ve been having these for a few months
Welcome to just a small (and yes, as-annoying-as-you-let-it) aspect of dreaming, which can be looked at like mind-tuning/exercising. I've had tons of these ultra-realistic alternate reality dreams, and even recorded one where I dreaded having to deal with a clogged/clogging shower drain that day, and it was only when I saw it drain fine and tried to match the realities of what I was seeing there in front of me with the "reality" of me seeing that problem develop that I caught the particular dream memory masquerading as a real memory. It is a certainty that there are many more of those that I don't "catch" and just shrug off and confidently adjust my waking mentality as needed.
For a while I let that entwining/entangling reality bother me, as if I were somehow vying for a reality that I needed to control -- until I realized that control comes in the attitude and the ability to *take advantage* of certain things (to learn-benefit from them). So, I turn them to my advantage, in that I am always analyzing the smallest, most nuanced of things (both in understanding how they work and the reasoning/interconnections/consequences of them, which is an ability needed for helpful wisdom), and the dream-figuring/analyzing gives me even more to work with than my actual waking examples. I am no historian needing perfect accuracy (hint: actual historians are never accurate either but more like unwitting propaganda servants), but a deep-growing person needing to see and understand a constantly evolving "big picture". When incorporated and worked through in the right spirit, I have found these dreams to be helpful, not harmful, so I hope my personal experience can help with yours. Cheers.
For a while I let that entwining/entangling reality bother me, as if I were somehow vying for a reality that I needed to control -- until I realized that control comes in the attitude and the ability to *take advantage* of certain things (to learn-benefit from them). So, I turn them to my advantage, in that I am always analyzing the smallest, most nuanced of things (both in understanding how they work and the reasoning/interconnections/consequences of them, which is an ability needed for helpful wisdom), and the dream-figuring/analyzing gives me even more to work with than my actual waking examples. I am no historian needing perfect accuracy (hint: actual historians are never accurate either but more like unwitting propaganda servants), but a deep-growing person needing to see and understand a constantly evolving "big picture". When incorporated and worked through in the right spirit, I have found these dreams to be helpful, not harmful, so I hope my personal experience can help with yours. Cheers.
Hey Paul your book got here and I've started to read it. Its cool. So far so good. I've only read the first chapter so far. Echoes of this same sort of issue right?
Dreamboi you sound a bit bothered by it. I wouldn't worry though it'll sort itself out I think. Cool that you're kinda getting the multidimension thing.
Dreamboi you sound a bit bothered by it. I wouldn't worry though it'll sort itself out I think. Cool that you're kinda getting the multidimension thing.