Have you ever mistaken a dream for an actual event?

[MrScorpio]

I've done it now and then

[Cabcere]

1. Yes

and usually it's a dream about me getting up, dressed, & ready for the day...then I wake up and I'm still in bed, and also usually running late. x( I have also had dreams regarding other events, though, and I've occasionally mistaken those for reality. :shrug:

[femmocrat]

5. I have had that one too.

Also, that I have failed to call in for a substitute, and I'm still trying desperately to get to work.

[Archae]

2. You mean like last Thursday?

When you were dreaming about the Lions beating the Packers? :rofl:

[rbnyc]

3. Yes.

I have a sleep disorder and get confused all the time. It sucks.

[femmocrat]

4. Yes!

Have you ever heard of people having vivid dreams about being abducted by aliens, but it is really a type of "paralyzed" condition in which they are semi-awake and dreaming and cannot move? I know that has happened to me, but not about aliens! It has happened when I have fallen into a deep sleep in the daytime. I can hear others moving about the house, even though no one else is at home. It's kind of spooky, because you don't know what is real and what is imagined.

[SeattleGirl]

6. I do quite often.

My dreams are usually very vivid, and there are countless times I will wake up believing the events in my dream happened in real life.

Sometimes, it's good when I wake up and realize I was only dreaming.

Other times, not so good.

[SPKrazy]

7. Yes!

I have had some realistic dreams

especially regarding remembrances of actual events with some changes

or

despite the fact that I've not smoked pot for 24 years, I sometimes dream I've smoked it all along and have been hiding it from myself :silly:

Or sometimes I wake up thinking I've missed an exam and have to remind myself that I'm not in school and haven't been for 20 years.

Or

Sometimes I dream that I never quit a job I had in college and am still on the schedule and I am trying to decide whether to go.

I wake up and it takes me a while to convince myself this isn't true.

These are recurrent dreams.

One timers that seem real, well, yeah I have them too.

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

8. Yes, and you were great last night. :P

[caty]

9. Many years ago,

shortly after Harold and I got married, he was going to take me on my first camping trip. We would be leaving early on a Friday morning. Thursday night we went to bed and I fell asleep with camping on my mind. I dreamed that we were in sleeping bags laying on the side of a highway with our legs out on the driving lane. I actually opened my eyes, but was still asleep and dreaming. I had an old clock radio with a round time face that lit up. That round light in my dream became the headlight on a truck that was coming and was going to run over our legs.

I woke Harold up (really) and said, "We have to move. A truck is coming and it's going to run over our legs". He said, "Well, lets move then". I tried to move but my leg had gotten wrapped in the sheet and I couldn't get it unstuck. I told Harold and he leaned over and was pulling on my leg trying to help me get unstuck. As he was doing this, I woke up. Realizing all of this was because of a dream, I told Harold to stop and go back to sleep because I was just dreaming. He said, "Oh no", and laid back down and went right back to sleep. I got up for a while to calm down before I could go back to sleep.

The next morning at breakfast I told him I was really sorry I woke him and got him involved in my dream. He didn't remember anything about it. He had still been asleep too.

[Skittles]

10. yes

I thought I had seen a tornado when I was a very small child but my dad told me it was a dream I had :)