[The Fox & the Hound]

Plus, I am having troubles separating dreams from reality. It is becoming struggle. I say remember when we did this? And they say, I didn't do that with you yesterday. Last night I thought my mom came into my room, but then she said she didn't. That's how bad it is.This is struggle,& is getting more & more common.

Also, I feel like things happen before they really do. I thought I saw that list before . I swear. It's really weird.

[Thunder Bow]

Dreams are all about feelings. Real Life and dreams can be One.

[LaborIntensive]

Originally Posted by The Fox & the Hound

Plus, I am having troubles separating dreams from reality. It is becoming struggle. I say remember when we did this? And they say, I didn't do that with you yesterday. Last night I thought my mom came into my room, but then she said she didn't. That's how bad it is.This is struggle,& is getting more & more common.

Also, I feel like things happen before they really do. I thought I saw that list before . I swear. It's really weird.

This happened to me when I was a kid (ages 9-14) a few times. All I can say is that one thing that helped me was to keep a notebook by my bed. I would wake up and write down what I could remember from dreaming. It really helps make sense of things and you learn more about your dreams but it takes work so you can't be lazy about it.

In time you may out grow this from happening. Good luck!

[The Fox & the Hound]

Originally Posted by Thunder Bow

Dreams are all about feelings. Real Life and dreams can be One.

What? That's kind of confusing- How dues that relate to me not being able to tell dreams from reality?

[Thunder Bow]

Originally Posted by The Fox & the Hound

What? That's kind of confusing- How dues that relate to me not being able to tell dreams from reality?

Because reality forms our dreams. When we dream, our minds are processing what went on while we were awake. Thus dreams and reality mirror each other.

[The Fox & the Hound]

Originally Posted by Thunder Bow

Because reality forms our dreams. When we dream, our minds are processing what went on while we were awake. Thus dreams and reality mirror each other.

Is this anything to be worried about?

[TheOriginalMe]

When you are depressed, your concentration can really suffer and you maybe don't pay much attention to what's going on around you. The brain still takes in all the usual information from the real world, it just doesn't try to make any sense of it all. That way one day seems very much like the next. So maybe when you think your mom came in it is because you are remembering a different night not last night.

Thunder Bow is right, dreams are just our mind processing all the experiences of the previous day. When one day is as tedious as the next, our dreams can become part of that tedium.

Not being able to concentrate properly and not being able to form accurate recollections is pretty usual when depressed, so it isn't anything to worry about, but Labor's idea of writng down your dreams is a pretty good idea and will help alleviate some of the confusion.

[yumi]

This I am struggling with as well, so you're not alone. It is completely messing up my life I'm isolating now, because its so bad. I don't know what's real, or what's a dream. I don't want to put my loved ones thru what I'm going thru

When I have a really bad PTSD dream, it might take me an hour to come out of it and seperate the nightmare from reality.
And I recently learned that BP affects your memory.

My sleep patterns are very wierd and whoever is living with me knows that when I get up to tell me what day it is, if it is morning or night. I really have no grasp of linear time at all, so that is a break in reality for me.

It probably won't continue but your best bet is to talk to your therapist or your shrink about it and let them advise you on this.

[RTerroni]

I never had a time where I couldn't tell me dreams from reality per se, but there was a time when many of the things that I dreamed about actually happened in the not too distant future (but that ended for me long long ago).

[lizzielight]

I lucid dream sometimes, where I am in a dream and I know that it is a dream. I also get scared sometimes because I wake up from a dream and can see things for 2-5 seconds but can't move my body, like I was paralyzed for seconds

[Thunder Bow]

Originally Posted by The Fox & the Hound

Is this anything to be worried about?

No, however, I would worry if this did not happen.

[Perna]

When you get overlap like that, maybe start saying to others and yourself, "I must have dreamed that." That will tell your brain, conscious and unconscious, that you are paying attention and sorting things and so it might do that for you automatically so you don't have to "self-correct" so much.

It's not bad or dangerous or anything, just annoying but your mother will know if she came into your room last night (action as opposed to just "thought"). If you start remembering whole sequences of things you did, physically (my mother came into my room last night and we had a conversation about X where she said Y and I responded Z. . .) then you might have reason to worry but just little deja vu sorts of experiences where "my mother came in my room last night" and "I thought I'd seen that list before" happen to everyone all the time.

[The Fox & the Hound]

Originally Posted by lizzielight

I lucid dream sometimes, where I am in a dream and I know that it is a dream. I also get scared sometimes because I wake up from a dream and can see things for 2-5 seconds but can't move my body, like I was paralyzed for seconds

I've had many dreams where I know I'm dreaming. Usually when there good, like if I'm getting a puppy, I know it's just a dream, haha.

Originally Posted by Perna

When you get overlap like that, maybe start saying to others and yourself, "I must have dreamed that." That will tell your brain, conscious and unconscious, that you are paying attention and sorting things and so it might do that for you automatically so you don't have to "self-correct" so much.

It's not bad or dangerous or anything, just annoying but your mother will know if she came into your room last night (action as opposed to just "thought"). If you start remembering whole sequences of things you did, physically (my mother came into my room last night and we had a conversation about X where she said Y and I responded Z. . .) then you might have reason to worry but just little deja vu sorts of experiences where "my mother came in my room last night" and "I thought I'd seen that list before" happen to everyone all the time.

I have Déjà Vu a lot. Usually it's with things on the internet,& I swear I saw it before, but I really didn't. It's really weird,& annoying at times

[kjv2acts]

I have horrific nightmares. But the prevailing theme, night after night, is what I call my "failure" dreams. I'm in a play and it's opening night (I was an amateur actor for many years -- too scared to audition now). I not only cannot remember my lines I really don't even know what play it is. I'm at work, usually at a my old law firm, but I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do, just praying nobody notices. My children are babies again and I lose them. You get the picture.

[Sabrinastarrie]

Originally Posted by lizzielight

I lucid dream sometimes, where I am in a dream and I know that it is a dream. I also get scared sometimes because I wake up from a dream and can see things for 2-5 seconds but can't move my body, like I was paralyzed for seconds

I've had this going into sleep and it's so bizarre, you can't move your body at all but you're seeing things as if you were awake. This is called astral projection. whether you 'believe' in this or not, this is what happened to you naturally.

[Hellion]

I have been having trouble sleeping for quite a while...I kinda recently started a medication called mirtazapine for depression, which has a drowsiness effect, so that was kinda helping....but seems I have developed a tolerance to that effect so back to trouble sleeping. But yeah it has become more difficult to tell dreams apart from reality, like I get to the point of wondering if something actually happened, if it was a dream...or if part of it was a dream and part of it was real it can be confusing. Though I try not to dwell otherwise I start obsessing which just makes it worse.

I have had dreams of things before they've happened a couple times, or it was a coincidence.....And if that stuff isn't annoying enough yesterday when I woke up in the afternoon after getting to sleep at like 5 in the morning...my brain was anything but 'quiet' I could hear what sounded like talk radio with annoying static due to not coming in well in the distance....but there was no such radio in the distance it was all in my head don't know what the hell to make of that...........I guess given the trouble sleeping I can attribute it to that.