Comments on: My dreams seem like movies

By: Doris

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:40:39 +0000

Hi Lui,
You are not alone! It seems like lots of people have dreams that feel like movies, but they are caused by a lot of different things.

What you do in your waking hours can impact them, as can stress or worrying about what is happening. That might be why you dream about the restaurant that you manage. Do you worry about things at work? Do you find yourself being anxious about it? That will often reflect in our dreams when we are worried about things in real life. What do you fear? Check out this video and accompanying Life Lesson to look a bit more at this topic. http://powertochange.com/studies/facing-fear-up-a-tree/?section_id=100&ft=BSG-OS

By: LuiScrewy

LuiScrewy — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:05:49 +0000

I have dreams that feel like movies a lot. This is the first time I googled it. A lot of times am never in them. I see my dream in 1st or 3rd person view, but am not a dream story characters. They don’t look like me. Sometimes I am but must it some random person I don’t ever know. Not from tv, in real life or games I play . All I know is that sometimes I do feel tired in the morning, but I don’t know if its the dream or the long hrs I put in to work. I work like 13 hrs days some times. What I do know is that they are my Fav type of dreams. Also I have a lot of dreams about work. I the manger of a polish resturant and have lots of dreams about it. Any toughts way?

By: Rasheil

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:19:01 +0000

Hi jahjazki -

It’s interesting that you have action-type dreams and then wake up feeling tired. Are you active in your waking hours? I wonder if it would help you wake up feeling more refreshed if you had exercise regularly, and perhaps still dream but not sleep restlessly if you are waking up feeling tired.

By: jahjazki

jahjazki — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:55:24 +0000

Glad to know am not alone in this. It is entertaining but . . .
I so hate the puffy-eyes tired look i get when i wake up
especially coming off an action-adventure type of dream.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to wake up coz i get so into
it at times. Yeah its probably my repressed thoughts in
life and in myself plus having an artistic mind adds up the to the
vividness and colors. Oh well,as long as this aint a serious
disorder, then am fine with this. :)

By: Doris

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:45:56 +0000

Sounds like you really do have a very vivid imagination Georgia!! I didn’t think that I did but some of my dreams are pretty ‘out there’ too! You shouldn’t be surprised that you are tired when you wake up…sounds like you are very active in your dreams so your mind isn’t getting much rest.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:32:59 +0000

This is crazy, I’m exactly the same. Sometimes my dreams are like movies, sometimes they’re like very extended video games; in those ones I’m usually lucid, and as I’m quite determined I always have to go back and re-do them to get the right result. They’re so much fun! My dreams always have an element of saving someone, and I’m usually the main character. They’ve been like this as long as I can remember, but over the years they’re becoming more and more complex ;) I do have a very vivid imagination, and because I’m 18 I don’t have a hugely strong sense of self… I’m also really tired when I wake up, and sometimes I can barely remember the previous day, as if I’ve lived a whole lifetime in that time. I can return into a dream if I wake up in the night. I love it!

By: Jamie

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:26:41 +0000

So how do you feel about that Mike? What does your daughter feel like when she has those dreams?

By: mike

mike — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:55:07 +0000

I have been having movie like dreams since I was 5. I am 30 now and like some you I feel I can write a movie. My daughter is 9 and she has same type of dreams. Some of the stuff she dreams are thing’s she doesn’t understand yet or are not on TV.

By: Doris

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:30:14 +0000

Rafael and Charlie, sounds like you have quite the vivid imaginations! It is interesting to try to figure out why we dream what we dream, and what it is that makes some people have such vivid dreams and others not have them.

Illness can contribute in some cases ie when a person is running a high fever they often have vivid dreams. Some medications also can contribute to more violent or bizarre dreams.

However in the case of this particular question the dreams were linked to issues in their childhood growing up and these are the kind of dreams that indicate that there are issues that we need to deal with in order to no longer have those dreams.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:03:25 +0000

I have movie like dreams almost every night, sometimes with ridiculously complex plots even I couldn’t think of If I was writing it. I wake up feeling unrefreshed maybe even worse off than when I went to sleep, it is getting ridiculous heaving myself out of bed in the morning. Had a cool one the other day – zombie apocalypse movie, was crazy