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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have vivid dreams to the point I've had to mourn entire lives that were never even real.

Like Roy from Rick and Morty.

The worst ones are when it was a very fulfilling life and then I have to wake up and accept it never actually happened.

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

If I may ask, what was an example of a detail of that fulfilling life? And is it not possible to attain in this one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

A life without all the trauma and self harm. A life where I had all the support I needed to actually thrive and make something of myself. Sometimes it's just a life with a past love where everything turned out okay. Other times a life where I chose a more profitable career because I didn't need chaos to feel normalcy.

I'm a very broken individual so it's not really hard for me to dream up a scenario that's infinitely better than my reality.

That's part of what hurts so bad waking up and realizing I'm back in my own life.