How can a dream make you wake up feeling so depressed in real life?

Question

It's weird to me how something we see or hear or feel in a dream can effect the rest of the day. This morning I woke up feeling so heavy and sick and depressed from a dream I had, and it wasn't that sad of a dream or anything, but I feel so heavy, the most depressed I've felt in a year. Does anyone have any idea of why dreams seem to be able to effect us so strongly, emotionally wise, once we awake?

Answer 1

I would just say that you do need to search out the meaning of a dream that stays with you in that way, If it is not "Prophetic" (from God) Then It came from within you & is your own subconcious mind sorting a thing out. I believe if it leaves you with a feeling you can't shake, then it is trying to tell your concious mind something, and you should figure out what..
(Just normal, "I had a wierd Dream" dreams are not such but the ones you can't seem to shake)

Answer 2

Many times the depression comes from an attempt to connect what happened in the dream to what is going on in your real life. Interpretation of the dream, as it were.

Remember that dreams are not necessarily divinatory, and not necessarily Freudian indications of unconscious desires. The "not so sad" dream may have depressed you with the fact that it was not true; the horrible dream usually gives relief when you wake up and realize that it was only a dream.

Many people have theories about what dreams really are, and I have toyed with many of them over the years. My current theory is that they are made up of the jumble in our minds, and help in the sorting out process only if we do not take them too seriously.

Answer 3

well sometimes i also have dreams like those where you wake up sick except that mine are not feeling depressed but rather either quiet or bitchy. ii think that your mind is still thinking about whatever problems or whatever is going on in your life therefore you wake up tired or bitchy or whatever because maybe you did not get a good night's sleep. dreams affect us when awake because that is your conscience or part of it involved in your dreams therefore if you had a good dream it will be okay but if you had a bad or dejavu dream then it will make you sick sometimes because of all the worry and all the emotions and events that happened in the dream that were so realistic that when you wake up you can be in whatever mood.

Answer 4

I am not sure but I know my husband can wake up in verey fouls moods from dreams especially iof they involve me and anyone else. I have triedto figure this one out for 6 years now as we have had arguments and then he tells me about the dreams. I know that rarely I have h ad a dream leave me feeling strange and I sjhake it off by telling myself over and over it was just a dream . I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Because often times dreams represent our hearts desires. Waking up from a world in which you have exactly what you want is a tough thing.

Answer 6

its so commonplace. it incredibly is how the each and each individual in that international experience. you are able to desire to be happy with what you have. "for a protracted time it had looked as though it would me that existence replaced into approximately to start-genuine existence. yet there replaced into continuously some impediment interior the way, some thing to be have been given by way of first, some unfinished company, time nevertheless to be served, a debt to be paid. finally it dawned on me that those stumbling blocks have been my existence." Father Alfred D'souza (Austrailian, died 2004) each and all of the terrific. in basic terms smile.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

y in the first place u feel depresed...say Hare Krishna Hare Rama chant and it will leave u for good