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Have you ever fallen in love in a dream? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A recent greentext post about an imaginary wife made me think of this.

Have you ever had a dream, where you fell in love with a dream character?

I've had at least a couple over the years that I can vaguely remember. The dreams were so vivid, and the feeling of love for this imaginary person was so strong, that I woke up feeling rather heartbroken and a sense of longing.

Anyone else?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, once or twice.

It’s really disturbing, and I generally dislike them because of the emotional leftovers.

The emotion is real, and the worst part is that it tends to stick around. Most dreams you just forget. But for some reason the one or two of these I’ve experienced it has left a longing and a desire to sort of go back to that dream, the person in it, the level of feeling I got, which of course is impossible. I have a family and love them all, so I don’t know why my brain threw this at me. It’s not like I’m lonely.

I wonder what the psychology and brain chemistry is with that. Why your brain makes up the person, the feelings, and why it sticks around when all the other dreams generally vanish.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're just seeing a partner from another slice of the multiverse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. But that also means the bad dreams are me suffering somewhere. That’s not so great.

On the plus side, I’m a superhero in at least one and have the power of flight!