Dream or Reality

Has anyone had a dream, where you wake up in bed but the dream felt real and later found out it was a memory of something an alter did? Or is a dream a dream and a memory a memory? Understanding this is important to me.

I always have that fear that some dream I had actually happened. I ALWAYS later find out that it was not only impossible for whatever I dreamed to have happened, but completely illogical of me to even think so. I personally can't tell the difference from a dream or a memory so I struggle with this a lot. The thing is to stay calm and look at the situation clearly and investigate to see if what you think happened was even possible.

Sometimes I remember stuff in my dreams - nothing to do with alters (don't have 'em) but once I had lost some instructions for a watch and I dreamed how to fix it, tried in real life and it worked. On occasion I dream stuff before it happens but never anything big. I have some memories/dreams and dunno which they are, and have on occasion taken a few hours to work out that dreams weren't real.

Hi I get this all the time it's so upsetting for me,a good post

Regards and thanks
Jk2833

I'm not sure if this will directly answer your question, but we have problems differentiating between if something happened in a dream or real life or alter life....

Emberlynn

when this happens/happened to me my treatment providers called it many different things... lucid dreaming, psychosis/delusions/ depersonalization/ intrusive thoughts, dreams....

here where I live and work treatment providers believe this kind of thing where a person has trouble telling the difference between dreams, reality and memories normal brain activity..

the brain forms dreams out of a persons feelings/emotions/perceptions of what they have encountered / stress/ sensory perceptions...

therefore its pretty normal that a person mentally disordered or not will have dreams that feel so real that they are hard to differentiate between what is real, part of a memory, part of something they experienced, or just an average dream not meaning anything...

I know many people non mentally disordered and mentally disordered that have this problem where their dreams are so meshed with the elements of memories, feelings/emotions, reality, non reality that they wonder whether they are sleep walking, going off the deep end, tapping into their paranormal sides, tapping into their alters memories ...it happens with normal people, DID people and with all other mental disorders too in some way or another...

my point is you're not alone, I go through lucid dreaming, (or what ever term for it that is used in your location) as does many people that I know.

I want to thank everyone for their reply. I usually know what is a dream and what is a memory. For some reason I have this one dream that I was afraid was a memory. I did work with my t on it and that did make me feel better but it is difficult when my mind isn't sure. It is not something that happen often. Usually I can search around and find the answer. But not this time. It's unnerves me a bit. Thanks again to all.

Happens to me all the time....... therefore, I am always asking the people closest to me if this or that really took place or not.