This has happened to me probably 5 times in the last month, and it bums me out every time. I just woke up from a 4 hour nap drenched in sweat and disappointed when I realized the cute assertive tall girl with green hair that I met at an Underoath concert wasn’t real. Felt like a spark that I haven’t experienced in real life in almost 10 years. :deeper-sadness:
Not a dream, but I once had a DMT trip where I was a miner on another planet. I was married, and right after I passed the threshold we were on our way to the mine in a minecart going down. The gravity was weird, making the cart jump higher than it would on Earth. My wife was also a miner, next to me in the cart, and she was smiling at me, an incredibly happy smile. I remembered our whole life together - our house, our love, and so on.
Eventually I came back down to reality of course; and when I did, for a minute or so I still wasn't remembering my real life, and I was so sad I lost my "wife". Like as sad as you would be if your real wife died. I was crying. Then slowly it hit me: I actually have a wife in real life, and we're happy and I love her dearly. Still think about that trip regularly though; the picture of my interplanetary miner wife smiling at me is seared into my brain.
Dang that’s really intense! Sometimes after these dreams I’ll think about that imaginary person over the next day or two and reminisce on events that never happened, but felt real at the time.