unbelievably vivid dreams, have them?

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Last night I dreamed I held a glass over my head and let it fall hoping it would break on my head. (Self-injury.)

It bounced off my headintact but shattered on the floor and got glass everywhere and everywhere I stepped I got shards in my feet and it hurt EXACTLY like it would in real life.

My brain apparently accessed stored sensations of actual times I've walked on broken glass and replicated it exactly. There was neurologically NO DIFFERENCE between what I felt in the dream and what I felt in real life. It was very painful.

I also spent twenty-thirty mins in the dream picking up shards and each hadtheir own unique shape and size. Might have even been exactly replicated from individual shards I've picked up in real life.

I get these as a side effect of withdrawal from antidepressants. I kind of enjoy these dreams cause it's like the most intense and all-sense-encompassing movie but this glass dream was horrid cause it REALLY REALLY hurt.

I tend to have intense dreams, but the most intense dreams I've had were while on Celexa - I recall standing on a beach and being able to make out individual grains of sand just by looking, for example. It was more detailed than reality.

The only time I get really vivid dreams is when Im stressed and when I stop smoking marijuana for a while. It can be quite distressing sometimes and often affect me for the rest of the day after.

Sometimes they are just plain weird though, as in the one I had the other day where I went on a caravanning holiday with Dot Cotton and Bill from Eastenders. Very strange.

I really enjoy having vivid dreams even if the dream subject wasn't that nice. I have vivid dreams very often and I love it when I remember them in detail.

unbelievably vivid dreams have what?


"unbelievably vivid" sounds almost like an oxymoron to me.

at a certain level of "vividity" (i will coin that word for this purpose), belief must surely follow.
so "unbelievably vivid" means "not vivid enough to instill belief in it's entity of vividity" i would have suspected if i thought about it.
but i did not think of it because i am ferally interested in a new idea that is not ready for me to manipulate just yet so i am just waiting and posting while i wait..

i have to think and not talk so i am gone from here.

It felt real because it was real.
These replies you're reading aren't real.
This is the dream, and I'm just
a figment of your imagination.

Shouldn't the title of this post be "believably vivid dreams"
It's the vague and ambiguous dreams that one's mind refuses to believe.
The vivid, detailed ones you describe are frightening because they are believable.
Oh, I see b9 has already made that point.

I rarely have vivid dreams. The two subjects that are most vivid are
interacting with with women my age, and sickening disasters
(usually not in the same dream, thank goodness).

well..... it does not matter to me because i am off to bed.

I have really vivid dreams. I get the part about enjoying the dream even if the subject isn't nice. I had one about being trapped in the house of a serial-killing couple (I'd recently been reading about the Wests) and it inspired me to write a short story.

I had and still have very vivid dreams and also had hallucinations, but they were/are side effects of lamotrigine that I have to take for my partial frontal lobe seizures. They very much subsided once I reached the therapeutic level.
I never in my life tried any psychoactive drugs and after these dreams I started reading up on effects and trip experiences.
To my astonishment I found a clip on youtube which 'shows' one of my dreams, .
The only difference to mine is the colour - I dreamed mine with a black background and luminescent green grid patterns unfolding. Fancy that, finding one's own dream on youtube ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRtj0eabApo&playnext=1&list=PL97466C4AA0225545[/youtube]
I also had a few dreams where I experienced very intense emotions, positive and painfully negative, but no physical pain such as you describe.

In the dream they're pretty believable but once I'm awake I think "did I really just spend one hour of real time asleep and dreaming an accurate game of hearts the card game?"

I can't believe when I'm awake that my sleeping mind is that organized and logical.

Yep, I have incredibly vivid dreams every night. It's one of the reasons I wake up feeling very unrested despite having many hours of sleep. However when a good dream comes along it does feel great that one can experience it on the same level of being awake. So it has pros and cons.

I've had several vivid dreams in the past year. I wonder if it's due to puberty?

I always find myself unable to realize that the dream is not real while I'm in it, but when I wake up, it becomes extremely obvious that it was only a dream. My dreams rarely ever have any sort of logic in them, so no, I do not consider them to be vivid.

Generally yes; they're extremely vivid and sometimes vivid enough to affect me for a day or two afterwards. Like last night's dream has.
They're rarely weird - just intensely detailed and related snippets around some common theme, like dipping into a film, and if I'm really lucky they're lucid dreams - but they're so easily broken.
I was on Clomipramine a couple of years ago and that guaranteed a light show on the inside of my eyelids and an intense dream every single night, so I guess things have calmed down a bit since then.

Citalopram gave me the most intense and vivid dreams; real marathons that would go on all night. Believe me, that becomes most tiresome after a while. I quit the medication and the dreams have faded back to were they belong.

Yeah, I get really vivid dreams sometimes, I'm scared to sleep occassionally because of how real they are and they're in English and sometimes in Irish (depends what language I'm thinking in before I go to bed). They're more life like than video game graphics and I'm talking X-box 360 graphics here Sometimes they cause me to shout in my sleep and once I've changed outfits in my sleep due to a dream that I was having.

The most vivid dream that I had was that someone very close to me had died and in the dream I was watching the events that were leading up to it. "Fiction" by Avenged Sevenfold was playing in the background the entire time. The colours were really vivid and I felt like I was watching with camera angles. The funeral was really realistic and I felt like my heart was breaking. I woke up crying afterwards and even when I saw this person that morning I believed that he was a ghost. It took me a day or two to realise that he was real.