Do you have good dreams that are haunting?

[Rocco]

Do you ever have a dream so good that waking up comes with a sadness for reality?

I don’t know how to write the title to express the concept. I woke up about 20 minutes ago from an amazing and wonderful dream.

The dream featured companionship, great music, thrilling situations, and felt so real!

The deep and profound sense of loss only came when I woke up to the realization that it was a dream. There was a feeling of joy and excitement in that dream, a type of happiness that has eluded me for almost a year or possibly many years.
Now, as the fragments of memory and images dissipate from my mind, I find myself trying to hold on to them and not succeeding.
“How soon is now?” By the Smiths was playing in my dream and it fit the setting like a glove.

Do you experience good dreams that make you feel bummed out?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I dreamed multiple times that a childhood cat that had died was still alive. Waking up to realize that he's really dead is always sad.

 

[Dagan]

Dreaming about living on another planet that's awesome and fun...then waking up still here.

Dreaming that I still have (long) hair...then waking up (mostly) bald still.

That kind of stuff, yeah. I has them.

 

[George Newman]

I’ve heard that we only dream about what we have already experienced. Is this true?

 

[Rocco]

My dream this morning never happened in real life and I didn’t recognize any faces as those of people I know.

 

[Cutesie]

I’ve heard that we only dream about what we have already experienced. Is this true?

Our dreams are usually distortions of experiences that we've had. You're unlikely to dream about something completely removed from your reality.

If it's allowed, there's an example of this limitation in the Bible: The Pharaoh was describing the skinny cows that he saw in his dream, then stated, "I've never seen something like this in all of the land of Egypt". He was, say the commentators, giving a rationale for why this dream was "real", a message from G-d. He'd never seen anything like it while awake, so it couldn't be a normal dream.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I sometimes dream that people who have died (and I feel a real loss for) are suddenly alive again and I am filled with joy. Then I wake up.