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I saw a post on Tumblr asking if anyone has been having really vivid dreams lately.

UGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGGHGHGHGHGHGHG YES My dreams have been so vivid as to be unrestful. Like yesterday's last dream, where I dreamt I accidentally went to work at the Academy instead of my current job, and the whole neighborhood was 1) arranged the way H^2 is and 2) all dug up to swap out the sewer lines and so 3) the bus stops were all moved and I couldn't catch a bus to get back to my actual workplace, and so after a bunch of frustrating tries I climbed up for a better view (or something, dream logic) and I fell but I started flying but it wasn't FUN flying it was scary and careening, and I told myself, "ok, I have to wake up now! 3, 2, 1, wake up!"

and I did, feeling like I had landed on my face in my pillow from a great height. I was exhausted all day.

Fucking overly vivid and uncomfortable but not-actually-nightmare dreams.

Anyone else?

Current Mood: frustrated

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bikergeek

Not necessarily all that vivid but unusually, I've remembered mine the last couple of nights on waking, which I don't usually do.

If I believed in newage-y type woo, I'd say something's fucky with some kind of mass unconsciousness or something.

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baranduin

Yup, last three nights. Last night I was back at UCLA in one of the libraries making people mad because they wouldn't wear masks. They thought I was nuts. So I walked home to Seattle but had to turn around and go back to get my car.

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darkmarcy

Oh yeah. This has been a reported phenomenon during the pandemic/lockdown. (Does not sound like something ominous from a horror story at all... Worldwide killer virus hits, the survivers hole inside and have intense nightmares... What comes next?)

I do remember my dreams and dream during naps too, yesterday in one of my nap-dreams I was so frustrated I screamed. I mean the dream me in the dream screamed, not the physical me, at least flatmate didn't hear any howling from my room.

Dreams are our brains handling and sorting stuff experienced during the day, and even we try to distract ourselves with Netflix and what you have, the terror of a global pandemic is always there. No wonder this stress, fear and uncertainty get churned into wilder night visions than usually. No wonder old traumas lift their ugly heads up (oh yeah I have had some Back in school dreams as well... Hate those) and shake hands with the current horrors. Good luck to us all trying to sleep tight with that :/

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acelightning

I almost never remember any dream that isn't unpleasant/vivid enough to wake me up. I haven't had any notable dreams recently, but it makes sense that people's lives are so disrupted that disrupted dreams are to be expected. The last time I had that kind of dream was when I was in serious financial trouble and I got served with a summons for non-payment of debts. I dreamed that my father came to me and said that he'd make everything all right for me, but in my dream I was aware that he had been dead for six years and the dead don't really have any powers to change things in the world of those who are alive and awake. I guess I'm not having dreams like that because my subconscious knows full well that I am an adult and I have to solve my own problems myself.

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sabotabby

So many! But I mostly forget them when I wake up. One involved finding out that my downstairs neighbours were neo-Nazis, but that's the only one I can remember from the past few days.

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amaebi

Stay-at-home has meant that I'm getting as much sleep as my aging body wants, in contrast to getting up super-early so I'm sane and watered before I wake Chun Woo to breakfast and catch a 6:35 school bus. And that has meant remembering more dreams, which is a pleasure.

I really, really don't have nightmares. I dream situations that are nightmarish, but those are problem-approaching dreams, not nightmares.

But the night before last, shortly before waking, I dreamed that I was with Sheeyun's parents, who were low-key persistently dissing me. I stood up and said that that was enough, I was out. And Mr. Park said that he understood, but it was hard, and wept a little.

It was odd.

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dira

I've been having vivid dreams but not especially weird or upsetting ones, and mostly not reflecting lockdown/pandemic anxiety in any obvious way--a few nights ago I had a really fairly nice dream about needing to hurriedly marry the cat-alien-guy I'd just met because we weren't allowed to touch otherwise, and also the Iron Bull from Dragon Age was there and I was a little confused about the IP crossover situation. This morning, though, I woke up and thought "oh, well, now I've had one of THOSE dreams" but I can't remember what it was now. Yay?

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purlewe

My dreams have mostly been full of crowds and lots of puzzle solving, which I always associate with my brain trying to make sense of things. They are SUPER vivid lately. But not so very horrifying. The crowds thing,.. I think it is my brain trying to process the fact I don't see people anymore. Trains, buses, people at work. Not seeing them my brain has decided to make some up.

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lindahoyland

I'm having very vivid dreams too. I often feel I've not rested at all.

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vettecat

Apparently this has been happening to a lot of people. Sometimes I wake up exhausted from what I thought I was doing in my dreams.

See https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/06/metro/whats-up-with-our-dreams-lately-sleep-researchers-cite-extraordinary-circumstances from today's paper.

Edited Date: 2020-05-06 09:45 pm (UTC)

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lb_lee

No more than usual. But then again, this is kinda my baseline state.

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claudia603

holy crap, so many of us having bizarre and kind of similar dreams (as you know from reading my last post)! My flying dream recently was terrifying. I can't even articulate why, it scares me to write it out!

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annonynous.livejournal.com

I'm afraid (or maybe glad?) I don't have much to offer here. There were a couple of occasions over the years when my spouse would gently wake me up because I was calling out or yelling in my sleep. But generally I rarely remember having been dreaming, and it's even rarer that I remember something about what I was dreaming. I guess this is not a complaint.

Ann O.