What is the difference in how you feel in your dream state compared when you're awake?

[Silver7]

(Maybe I should write a story about dreams & reality)

When I'm awake I feel heavy and depressed sometimes, however when I'm asleep dreaming I feel lighter and happy in my dreams.

What is this big difference in my consciousness and spirit when I'm asleep dreaming compared to when I'm awake? (Is it that our mind is in a lighter and much more transcendent state while we dream?)

[Red_Dog]

All my dreams usually stress me out or make me angry or I have night-terrors. I don't have pleasant dreams often. So much so that I have meds for it now.

[vapidink]

The difference is that certain parts of your brain aren't working or are working in a limited capacity. Your long term memory, for example, is not active which is why a lot of people have difficulty recalling their dreams. There's no mystical or spiritual reason, it's just your higher functions deactivating so they can rest/reset for the new day. It's one of the reasons most dreams are gibberish.

[AshanaArt]

I don’t remember my dreams often, but when I do I usually feel pretty foggy and not really fully aware, likely because only part of my brain is awake, though I’m not necessarily more relaxed. When I’m awake my brain never seems to shut up. I daydream a lot, so I’m not usually aware of what’s going on around me, but I’m always in thought, often making up stories/scenes in head.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Surely that's something that varies not just between people but with what kinds of days you have and what kind of dream you compare too. Do people have nice dreams all the time? I know some people who say they have scary dreams all the time.

[LunarScyphozoa]

Nothing mystical or spiritual, I fear. Like @vapidink said about the long term memory, your critical thinking goes way down as well and you don’t question anything usually. Dreams are just your brain tossing together whatever it can scrape off the underside of the sink while your body is resetting.

[ButterflyEmpress]

My brain just pulls together random things that you're anxious or excited about. I hate driving so I keep getting dreams where my breaks don't work. I watched the 1st ep of Pluto yesterday and scenes from it stuck in my head all night.

Also time moves slower too. I had a dream where my alarm wouldn't stop, even after taking out the battery, and being at work for hours later. Turns out my alarm was only ringing for a minute

[GothickangelStudios]

For me 'dreams' are just made up by my brain for entertainment. I don't get my stories from that form.

I have 3 other categories about sleep or meditative states but thats more complicated.They all have different sensations. And would turn into a blog entry. Like I can retain ancient languages, numbers, written format. Been to places I've never been to in RL. Know things I didn't know. Creeps people out. Etc. I keep journals. I'm Indigenous so rest / sleep state / meditative state can take on a different meaning.

When I 'dream' it seems like watercoloury a bit. And when moving too much like running or going on a bike ride it blurs. As if my physical brain is lagging or buffering to keep up lol. Some can be darker than others like the movie hellraiser kinda bad. Some are fun like being in a video game playing my range class. Senses are dull, emotions run on a pre-programmed story plot.

When I'm awake I see clearer detail, my emotions eb and flow based on responses. I feel grounded and heavy.

[kyupol]

Sometimes my dreams feel so real I don't know anymore which is the dream and which is "reality"

I dreamt I was executed by being thrown to the ground and having metal rods shoved into my hands and behind my right ear. I was a prisoner of war apparently.

Woke up with dents on my palms, reddened right ear, and I was heavily breathing.

I also had dreams where I became lucid. Once that happens, I can get any superpower I want or just "exit" and it all becomes a movie.

Also has dreams of alternate realities. One time I was super poor who had to eat out of the trash. Another I was elite top 3% wealthy who can actually pull strings in the government. I had the power to make the police look the other way to "protect" people I don't want to be arrested. Another I had 9/10 model tier woman as my wife and she was part of a big family... Another I had 2/10 wife and I was a corporal in the special forces...

I can go on and on... Point is, it taught me how to not to be too attached to the "reality" I am experiencing now. Because it's all a vapor.

[kyupol]

Sounds like astral travel or you're accessing past life memories. But then again, what exactly is past, present, future? It operates on the assumption that time is linear. What if it isn't? I dunno...

[GothickangelStudios]

Yes I am well aware what they are. ^.^
And you seem to understand it yourself. It can get crazy at times.
Just many people Ive met have trouble understanding it, unless they have gone through it themselves. So unless I'm in the right forum, I just try to avoid a long detailed blog entry read.

But my stories case, it comes from an alt world / demension. It has nothing related to me. I just seem to be able to connect like a 3rd party perspective camera woman. Or weird connection.

The past live ones are tramatizing.
With the other...... stuff I do help people. Been doing that since I was a kid.

[kyupol]

So... your story comes in "downloads" and you're like it's receiver? Like a TV set receives signals from the TV station?

Do you know who or where the "TV station" is?

[GothickangelStudios]

Downloads? I never thought of it that way before. I guess it does feel like it.
I wish I knew where it was coming from. Started in the mid 90s. It always feels like one on-going dream. I never really thought much about all that. It just makes for good content.
It kinda feels like, your taking a ride as the character at times for some of them in the story.
As if I was a demensional being watching but can't interact or communicate, etc. Just watch.
I find it all confusing. But Ive kept journals of it for decades. Sketches, world map, bios, etc.

[kyupol]

So... it's as if you're looking through a gopro camera on your character as they do all the work?

Just watch... interesting.

I read some Buddhist books that talk about calming your mind as you observe the world like a detached observer. Whole idea is how you're not your thoughts. And it somehow is the path to end suffering by shattering the illusion. Something I don't fully understand.

The Bible also talks about "taking thoughts captive" (2 cor 10:5) and "be still and know" (Psalm 46:10)

And when you actually do it, the world starts to feel "trippy" (at least from my experience). Things happen like I start hearing people speak Tagalog. Then I catch myself and they're talking English again. Because I go "this doesn't make sense. Very few non Filipinos can speak Tagalog fluently on a conversational level but why is everyone speaking it in the supermarket or subway?!?"

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

I'm not even anxious about driving but I have those dreams where no amount of standing on the brake pedal will fully stop the car. And sometimes, I'm trying to drive from the back seat. (Take that & run with it, psychologists!)
Also have the dreams of taking apart a radio that won't stop playing no matter what I do. And always wake up to find the clock-radio is playing the very thing I heard in my dream, & I'm late waking up.