Good dreams

there are a million dream threads but none about the sort of dreams i assume other people also have where the good feeling from the dream bleeds over into conscious life, giving it a soft-focus feeling and making day-to-day bullshit feel less pressing for a little while or maybe even for a month or two if the dream is that strong. i had one of those dreams last night. i won't try and describe it because i think recounting dreams is mostly pointless and it would sound ludicrous, probably even creepy if i tried. anyway, i feel like it's nice enough when it happens that a thread about it might be cool. the dream felt like i was trying to fulfill the the kind of longing described in this excerpt:

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I’ve had 3 dreams in my life like this, and in two of them the color green was somehow significant.

The first one was when I was maybe 14-15 and in the dream I was married to a dark haired guy who wore a distinctive emerald green sweater - that was the main visual I woke up with. But the feeling I had after that dream - like you said, hard to describe but I felt *right* and kind of... buoyant? for several days.

It didn’t occur to me to a couple years after we got together, but my husband is dark-haired and his absolute favorite color is deep forest green (I mean, ABSOLUTE - he had a green-themed birthday party when he was like 4, that’s how serious he is about this color).

my strongest dream like this came when i was maybe 20 or 21. the good feeling lasted for a few months and was bolstered every time i recalled certain parts of the dream. but eventually like all dreams most of it faded. i used to want to memorialize it somehow but that seems silly now.

So crazy, I had my first one I these in years last night and woke up to this thread but was too busy to post about it.

In the dream I was with an old gf and the feeling evoked was that of the absolute halcyon days of our relationship, after the courting days but when love was still new, and the feeling of kinship and connection and intense friendship was so strong it even eclipsed the feeling of romantic love, it was like us against the world and I felt like it didn't matter what ill befell me because I had someone irrevocably and unconditionally on my side.

I woke up glowing drum that feeling, but also sad that it was no longer a reality in my life, and pondered how much I must really miss and need that if my subconscious is going to work to conjure it up again.

Anyway it did change me. Just knowing id had that in the past sort of strengthened me and made all the indignities life throws at us daily a little easier to deal with.

i'm glad i started this thread, thanks for sharing.

For me the dreams like that that linger are ones of deep, deep peace. I'm looking out the window at an astonishing view of beautiful forest or farmland, or at my grandparents back garden, and I just feel the sort of peace I sometimes wonder the dying must get to. Like, "never in real life" levels. Nostalgia mixed with a sense of home/belonging? Have had a few like that.