I had a dream about my alternate universe family.
In that universe I have 5 kids. I only dream about them about once a year. It’s weird, happy and sad all the same time.
Discussion
Glad someone else can relate to having these periodic recurring and continuing dreams.
I have dreams that have been continuing since I was just a kid. I may only return to them once or twice a year, but I always wake with a sense of loss and appreciation.
I wonder if, in a way, if life continues after death, it would be similar.
Waking to a new reality while retaining the fading memories of successes and losses in another life.
Same fam/kids each dream? Kind of beautiful to get to “visit” at least 🫂
Anything consistent about when you have the dream - time of year, moon phase, state of mind, etc?
I’m somewhere in between “maybe eating that particular dinner when you’re stressed gives you weird dreams” and “maybe when the northern lights are visible outside of the far north, a portal opens” and I’m not sure which view to hold 💜
I’m not sure about any particular time. Nothing felt different except one weird thing that happened last night.
Prior to going to bed I fell asleep on the couch. I was awakened by my wife’s voice calling my name really loudly. I jumped up immediate out of my sleeping state and went to see what she wanted only to see that she was sleeping. It freaked me out.
I have weird dreams sometimes where I'm someone else somewhere else. One I remember the most was being a soldier crawling slowly through a field of bodies. I wasn't me though and all I cared about was crawling through all the bodies to get to the other side without being seen. I remember vivid details that I usually don't recall from dreams.
They are the weirdest fucking dreams. The brain is interesting and terrifying sometimes.
The most interesting thing for me with these dreams is the feelings I have when I wake up. I can still feel whatever the person was feeling and it's like I have that trauma even though it wasn't real. Unfortunately, they're usually fucked up. Some of them have stuck with me for years like they're memories now. I can remember crawling through that field but I know it wasn't real. It still makes me sick to think about crawling through the bodies. Most of my dreams aren't like that.
I've wondered if this is where some ancient beliefs come from. I feel like I was these people but not. I can see how people would have interpreted similar feelings as visions, reincarnation, other worlds, etc.
Já sonhei sendo burro, matando gente rsr
I think that dreams have many dimensions of meaning, but the one that interests me the most is that each element in the dream is a symbolism of the unconscious. Each of your children in this alternative reality, based on this conception, would be some aspect of you - that is familiar and that you have only had contact with in dreams, but that are with you, exist in you, but somehow are not manifesting themselves when you are awake and conscious. You can look at the details and what you feel about them to enrich the observation.
This does not mean that they do not also have other mysterious meanings.