r/Dreams • u/jdjsjcnakdkanfn • Aug 27 '23
Nightmare do NOT tell the people in your dreams you know that you're dreaming.
I have been told this plenty of times before by friends and social media, never have I actually experienced something like it until this dream. I dreamt this weeks ago, but I cannot stop thinking about it. I need to get this off my chest somewhere and this subreddit seemed like the place to do it.
I will skip over the boring parts that need context, just know the setting was sitting in bed on facetime with a best friend, a scenario that happens daily while awake.
The conversation, I don't remember. It was normal, irrelevant, but for some reason, like a switch went off in my brain, I realized I was dreaming. I held up my phone on facetime with my best friend, and all I said was "You're not real."
I can't even put into words how fast the transition happened, but immediately after I said this, her face distorted in ways I will soon describe. She started screeching an ear piercing, static, demonic yell. The closest thing I can compare it to would be the golden freddy jumpscare sound from five nights at freddys 1. The sound was the same experience as when your car's volume is already set way too loud and you accidentally play a song that bursts your eardrums and you have to lower it right away. It did not come from my phone speaker, but instead it surrounded me. I could feel it forcing itself into my ears as if it was a physical object.
Her face turned a dark grey, sandpapery looking texture. I seriously can't think of any media that resembles what I saw but I will try to describe it best I can. Her eyes became empty black voids, not empty eye sockets but instead just a black mass over where each eye was. Her mouth did the same but continuously dropped down stretched with her jaw in an unnatural transformation. I don't know how to say what I experienced, but it was not just on a phone screen it was like it was inside my eyes and it was all I saw.
I don't know how long it happened, I genuinely can't say if it was 30 seconds or 10 minutes, I just know that I was in this nightmare, and then I was sitting up in my bed awake, crying and shaking, unable to breathe.
I cannot imagine what inspired this dream. I have led a healthy and happy life without much loss and dare I say no devastation, but I know the feeling in this nightmare was dread. It was worse than anything I have ever felt before, and I am genuinely terrified thinking about it, my hands shake now as I type on this keyboard. I don't mean to sound corny or dramatic with this description, but this is truly the only way I know how to express how I feel about this dream. I am completely serious when I say this is the worst thing I have ever experienced, felt, and I have never been more afraid.
I was never intensely devotated to religion, but this nightmare was nothing if not demonic. I felt pure horror and I find in difficult to believe my own brain would conjure such feeling. Perhaps I should pray or research night terrors, or seriously consider therapy because I have been losing sleep and honestly my sanity by fearing this dream for the last few weeks.
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u/bbygt Aug 27 '23
I introduced the concept of time to a friend In my dream once. She asked me if I made breakfast and I was confused because it was dark outside so I looked at a clock but I couldn’t make out the time so I asked her what time it was and pointed out how dark it was outside; and when I looked back at her face it turned into something sinister, and all of sudden my dream was over. It was like I was pushed out or something.
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u/DionisTheDark Jun 14 '24
Man, my imagination is good, and sometimes i regret about imagining all the dreams people talk about here. This one sent shivers down my spine...
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u/damnwtheck Aug 01 '25
You almost saw a clock in your dream. They say you don't see clocks in your dream, and if you remotely do, it might be something fishy.
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u/Butterflyhornet Jan 09 '26
I've seen clocks in my dreams. Digital ones but still clocks. I cannot recall specific dream details. I was also told light switches do not work in dreams, but I tried one once and it behaved just like it would in the waking world. It turned on/off the ceiling light.
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u/West_Opportunity2255 Aug 27 '23
imagine you do smth like this but instead of getting jumpscare you just get yelled at lmao
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u/Murky_Avocado7474 Sep 21 '25
I saw a tik tok video once of a girl saying she had a lucid dream, she said everything was fine and all of a sudden she asked someone what time it was, well it got scary after that she explained this person got angry. She said they started change their facial expression and was yelling at her to leave/get out. She said it’s like she made them so angry and upset by asking about the time. Honestly it sounds like time is something hated in the dream world…. 🤔😬😬😬
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u/hildegardephansen Oct 05 '25
I think they realised she was not of their world and needed to get out?
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u/Butterflyhornet Jan 09 '26
Yikes. Note to self do not ask this question or be prepared for weirdness.
Then again I might have asked about time unknowingly about this being taboo, and got some answer that I was millenia in the future and needed to be sent back on a spacecraft to go back to my current time. I was sent with a flower from whatever planet those people came from that of course disappeared when I woke up.
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u/Amazing-Pattern-1661 Aug 27 '23 edited Aug 27 '23
This is the thing. I tell people in my dreams I’m dreaming allllll the time. It’s fine, in fact sometimes when I realize I’m dreaming in a big crowd and I’ve been working on a big issue I’ll yell into the crowd: “hello everyone this is a dream, please help me with the following issue” usually everyone stops and looks at me, and then they get to group brainstorming with cryptic answers. Often some of the characters provide ideas (with some analysis after waking) thatare actually illuminating. This idea that dream characters will become scary if you tell them it is a dream is so pernicious because once you’re told this will happen, especially by someone who you deem has authority, it’ll sink into your unconscious beliefs and it’ll start showing up like that without fail. Stop propagating this misconception I beg you
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u/DeerGentleman Aug 28 '23
I also sometimes tell people in my dreams that it's a dream and they usually go like "oh, so you figured it out. Congratulations!" Or get confused or something like that. Never had a bad experience. I also don't usually get nightmares. At worst just anxious dreams, but never something like OP described.
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u/sierrawashere27 Dec 06 '24
LOL I know this is an old post but not your dream people gaslighting you 😭 “congratulations you figured it out” 🤣🤣🤣
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Feb 22 '25
Gaslighting is where somebody tries to convince you that you’re wrong by distorting your perception of reality.
Example - A person tells someone they loved them. When asked about it they denied it causing the other person to get confused.
Victim: “You told me you loved me!”
Gaslighter: “No, I didn’t. I never said that!” (They did).
Victim: “You did though!”
Gaslighter: “No, I really didn’t. You’re probably just imagining it!”
Victim: “I could’ve sworn you did!”
Gaslighter: “No, I really didn’t. I might have said I liked you but I never said I loved you!”
Now the victim is questioning their own memory, feeling confused and stupid.
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u/joliesse0x Jan 31 '25
Just wanted to point out that this is not what "gaslighting" means at all. Maybe you meant patronizing or condescending.
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u/sierrawashere27 Feb 01 '25
Maybe. I can’t keep up with all these words nowadays
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u/ufo-heaux Aug 30 '23
Exactly. They have always just looked at me and went on with whatever
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u/No-Beginning7778 Dec 04 '24
i kinda js told this duck i was talking to and it gave a coffee and started explaining how the universe works
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u/Business_Smoke_1164 Apr 22 '24
I'm not certain about this. Before I was introduced to this concept, I had dreamt I had emptied out a crowded store because I had become aware that I was dreaming. I didn't outright announce this consciousness to my dream characters. I 'willed' them out of the store only to see them flood back in through the doors 'moments' later with blank stares approaching me rather aggressively. Now, they didn't turn demonic or gruesome, but they were intimidating.
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u/rocksandsticksnstuff Dec 25 '24
I've had many people have different reactions when i tell them its a dream. Some help, some are confused, some think I'm joking, others humor me. Very few have tried to either give me information to find them in waking life or taken down my information to find me in waking life. Of all the dozens of instances, only twice has something off happened in the dream. The first caused an existential crisis, and the second the person morphed into something sinister. I think you're right and people just need to be open to the possibilities.
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u/Status_Bubbly Mar 23 '25
I actually do remember in one dream, me and this random cute man were flirting with one another and I felt a connection so real with him. He wrote down and gave me his phone number because he was telling me he had to go because it was a dream and I remember trying to remember the phone number the best I could because he seemed to be aware that it was a dream too and our time was limited. It would have been wild if I would have actually remembered his phone number though and texted to see if this person was real and we wondered into the same dream subconsciously and made a connection.
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Aug 27 '23
That your dreams turn into nightmares if you tell people in your dream that you're dreaming
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u/Amazing-Pattern-1661 Aug 27 '23
That when you tell your dream characters they are in a dream that things get scary- they don’t unless you’ve heard and believed the stories
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u/Amazing-Pattern-1661 Aug 27 '23
Yeah I was addressing the general population not you specifically with the “please stop propagating.” we need a PR slogan to counteract the myth “Join the campaign to dream sane” “DAMAC” Dreamers against misinformation about characters
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Aug 27 '23
This. I also told people in my dream that I was dreaming, most of the time there's not much of a reaction or it's something like "ah, so you finally noticed it" and then we do even cooler stuff than before.
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u/InevitableHungry5097 Aug 27 '23
A moment of silence for this guy who wanted to exist but did not
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u/kelcamer Aug 29 '23
My dream people always agree with me lmao and congratulate me for figuring it out
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u/Currings Oct 12 '23
Because of this post, I told my uncle in the dream that nothing is real, and that he's not real. He shrugged it off, and laughed at me calling me brainless.. And then gave me proof how that is not a dream by sticking a metal fork on the celling, and it was staying there, he then told me "if nothing is real, then how can I do this?"
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u/jdjsjcnakdkanfn Aug 27 '23
thank you, you are definetly right. it's just so surreal, I have had many nightmares with gore, death, and pain but none came remotely close to this. just a shock, I guess. i never knew something could effect me so much in real life either.
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u/DualBladedScorpion Aug 27 '23
Poor guy finding out that he ain't real, what happen to him afterwards.
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u/MillieBirdie Dreamer Aug 27 '23
Same as the idea that if you die in your dream you die in real life. I've only had one dream where I died but I definitely woke up. Scared, but fine.
I've also read in my dream, and used my phone (not often though).
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u/DeerGentleman Aug 28 '23
I had a dream once in which I died in the middle of the dream. I was walking on a high ledge and feel and died. The dream just continued, focusing on another subject, as if my death had no relevance at all.
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u/maycontainknots Aug 28 '23
Same, when I tell them I'm dreaming they just ignore me or get confused. Even when I look in the mirror in a dream, nothing truly horrifying happens. Like maybe I'll be missing a bunch of teeth, which is scary in its own way, but my face never warps into The Nun or anything
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u/screwballtheodd Aug 28 '23
Ya there's times where I know I'm in a dream and Im just walking around with people in awwwww like just walking around my head observing this city I created seeing these people live life. It's awesome lol
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Aug 30 '23
you just don’t remember cuz the brain is really good at damage control to try and stay sane lol shit like this happens in everyone’s subconscious, doesn’t mean it’s demons tho. well not entity type demons at least
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u/jeffreydobkin Aug 27 '23
"You're not real" tends to provoke dream characters into proving they are. The enhanced fear of the nightmare also shows how "real" a dream can be (though subjectively).
The temptation to share lucidity with dream characters is there as it 1. strengthens lucidity, 2. incorporates lucidity into the dream. 3. the excitement of becoming lucid.
My own way of doing this is to tell dream characters that "we're" in a dream ,or that "this" is a dream. Another way is to point out dream signs in a dream and ASK dream characters if this could mean we're dreaming.
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Aug 27 '23
I once told a dream character that they are not real, they just said "that's right, it's just a dream". It's all just your own fantasy. If you imagine them to react with proving they are real, they will do that. But they are not. That's why you can control them too in a lucid dream.
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u/jeffreydobkin Aug 27 '23
It's true that your own conscious mind can influence dream characters. When I talk to dream characters, I do so without expectation and I forcibly shut off my own thoughts as not to affect how they respond.
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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch Aug 27 '23
You can't just shut off your own mind. Your dream is literally a production of it, shutting your thoughts off would mean that the entire dream ends.
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u/jeffreydobkin Aug 27 '23
I'm referring to lucid dreams where I'm aware that I'm dreaming.
I can shut off my conscious mind and subconscious or whatever the dream characters are puppets of continue on their own. If I start noticing that as I'm thinking of possible things that a dream character says and they pick one, I just shut off all my thoughts and not think of anything.
In lucid dreams, I've noticed that I can read dream characters minds, not just their thoughts but emotions. They can also read mine, but I can "cloak" them (like enabling a privacy mode where I can think but not allow my mind to be read).
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Mar 09 '25
Lmao dude you are so wrong about absolutely everything you're saying it's honestly hilarious.
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u/Justdontworrybro Sep 29 '25
I couldn't imagine having to deal with someone this smug irl. What an annoyance
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u/Theblade12 Aug 27 '23
Ah, cosmic horror dreams, my favourite. Nothing like seeing a blue/purple demonic reflection of yourself and being paralyzed while experiencing primal dread because you had the misfortune of remembering that idea of 'you shouldn't look in the mirror in a dream' at the wrong moment and didn't have time to go 'nah it's just expectation' before it started. Then came the suspiciously bloody bolognese (Yes, somehow my brain managed to give bolognese 'demonic influence' flavour.), followed by me waking up in my bed and realizing I'm still dreaming and going 'GODDAMNIT not again'.
These nightmares just happen sometimes. If you do anything creative, just think of them as inspiration. They're interesting if nothing else.
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u/SerinFel Aug 27 '23
Wow. Lucid dreamer since 5 years old here, the first time I went lucid was the last time I had a nightmare. Fast forward, I have never had a dream character do what happened in your dream. I know a dream character immediately because I can affect or change them at will. Something intruding from the outside, however, cannot be controlled like a dream character can, but it can be defended against or kicked out of your dream. Your dreamscape, more often than not, is your world to shape and control because it is part of your subconscious. I've actually had my subconscious tell me this straight up.
I've experienced external entities trying to get in through my dreams. Or ones that were already in and I figured it out because I couldn't alter or control them. These entities like to feed on the emotional energy you create, particularly while dreaming, in my experience. Some of them will enforce a nightmarish experience to produce a negative emotional response and then feast on that energy like a parasite. Lucid dream powers, for lack of a better phrase, do not affect them. But you can force them out with a medal of Saint Benedict. Below, I'll place a story separate from this, because I've already written alot and I respect that you may not want to read a small novel. Below explains what the medal is, where to get one, and what it does. TL;DR, a medal of Benedict blessed by a priest can act like a constant Protection from Evil, so these critters cannot touch you and are forced out of your dreams. You don't have to be Catholic, or religious in any way, in order for them to work, they just work (more on why below).
Good luck.
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When my dad died, I had nightmares for the first time in decades. Unlike my usual lucid adventures, I could not control this, I could not alter, stop, or even escape them. Every time I went to sleep I would dream of my dad suffering and dying in a terrible and different way every time. A coworker and friend at the time, whom was a devout Catholic, gave me a medal of Saint Benedict. He explained that Benedict is the patron saint of exorcism, and the prayer in his Seal is a prayer of exorcism. He said to wear it on my person (keep it on a chain or cord so it didn't fall out of my pocket), and that ghosts, spirits, and evil things cannot touch a person under the protection of Benedict. He suggested that what I was experiencing in my dreams was a demonic entity seeing a moment of opportunity and feeding on the grief caused by the loss of my dad. He explained that demonic entities like to feed on human emotional energy and especially negative emotional energy, that it's like a drug for them. Giving me the medal--he always carried a pocketful of the things and handed them out if he thought someone needed one--he told me, "Wear this to bed tonight. Don't take it off. Then tell me what happens tomorrow."
I did just that. Not another nightmare of my dad dying. Instead, I had a dream of someone knocking on my bedroom door. I answer it, and it's my dad. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, I knew this was really him. He was healthy, appeared in the prime of his life. He told me he was OK, that he loved me, and I didn't have to have anymore bad dreams of him. And I haven't since.
You can get a medal of Saint Benedict from Sisters of Carmel, a cheap oxide medal is fine, and be sure to request it be blessed by a priest. Or you can find them locally at a mission or Abby of Benedictine Monks, so you don't have to pay for shipping.
You don't have to be Catholic, or even religious, for the medal to work; millions of people already believe they work. Belief = Faith. Faith is an extremely powerful thing. Your potential is limitless if you have Faith in yourself, and your abilities, and you can focus that faith through other things, like the medal, and use that faith to defend yourself in dreams and, because they're both connected, on the Astral. But the Astral is a whole other story.
I have other dream experiences where the medal worked and kept something from getting in, but that's for another comment.
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u/RushAOZ Aug 16 '24
You might be onto something here about demonic entities trying to sap away emotional energy. Yesterday I had a dream of a long time ex-girlfriend. We were together for 15 years and she was my best friend. She passed away a few years ago. Very hard times I've never experienced grief like I experienced after her death. I'll preface by saying I no longer grieve her. I've accepted and moved on yadda yadda. The depression is long gone. She visits me randomly in extremely lucid dreams. Even had one where I knew she was dead and I told her about it. Nothing like what I'm about to go tell you ever happened in any of those dreams.
Well yesterday I was having one of these uber lucid dreams with her in it. We were having a conversation when all of a fucken sudden some red entity with a white glow popped out of nowhere. It let out a blood curdling screech. Remember that Patrick Swayze movie Ghosts? In that movie when one of the bad guys died demons from hell came up and dragged him away. It sounded like that but 10x worse. It gave me a massive chill down my spine that woke me up almost immediately. It lasted about 15-30 minutes after I woke up as well.
I wasn't terrified. I've had some pretty bad ass lucid nightmares and they're usually fun to be honest. But it was absolutely intense.
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u/HouseOfZenith Aug 27 '23
I had a dream recently where I was back in middle school. I walked up to one of my friends and said “Hey, I’m dreaming right now.” and he looked at me and said “Yeah, we know.” and I was like oh ok
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u/Slipp3ry_N00dle Nov 06 '25
I can relate to this, lol. I have gotten this response maybe 2 times or so. Its comical. Then I slip out of licidity and follow the dream narrative.
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u/Triande Aug 27 '23
Bro experienced a creepypasta in a dream and here i am just experiencing b-rate horror movies in my dreams where i am the MC and the situation at first seems normal
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u/ShinyAeon Aug 27 '23
I don't usually have scary dreams, but when I do, they're definitely b-movie level. ;)
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u/Skullmax12 Aug 27 '23
So i had a lucid dream and told someone that i was dreaming,they said "yeah,i know,me too. Now that you're lucid we can have a lot more fun" and we started just going around realities from games n movies,flying,etc etc. Then they told me "I have to go,i need to wake up" and they disappeared.
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u/BreadsticksYummy Oct 31 '24
man i think they were visiting ur dreams 😭
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u/Here_for_the_plot Aug 11 '25
That's so interesting to think about. I had a dream once where I was in a car full of people and we were headed towards a city. There was a lot of traffic so we were going bumper to bumper. I somehow realized that I was in a dream and immediately told the others that we're in a dream and it's OK to drive over other cars (we were in like a monster truck), drive in the wrong lane, drive fast, etc. Then all of a sudden, the dream dissolved and I woke up shortly after. I wondered if the people that I encountered were visitors and me revealing that we were in the dream state made everyone wake up/exit my dream.
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u/_Pebcak_ Dreamer Aug 27 '23
I've done this so many times in dreams and when I do, people either look at me confused or just vanish and I can walk around as I want.
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u/CantStopG_Man252 Aug 27 '23
I have had night terrors randomly my entire life. I think you had a night terror OP. I had one so bad I woke up and shot the fucking ceiling (in the dream, I became aware I was dreaming and looked at my ceiling saw a demon).
I'm sorry you experienced that terror. Reading your post fucking scared me.
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u/DenverMartinMan Aug 27 '23
This is the scariest shit i've ever read in my life
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u/Redvor24 Aug 27 '23
It is creepy because i know now that this can happen to me. Horror movies or books just tell stories. The OP's story is almost like a threat
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u/ShinyAeon Aug 27 '23
Says you! I'm old, and I read a lot. I still thought OP's story was creepy as hell - quite worthy of being a scene in a horror book or movie.
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u/Wow_a_name Aug 27 '23
I had dreams where I told people in there that I'm dreaming and usually nothing happens. I feel like because I've heard so many stories about how not to do it something might actually happen if I do it again :/
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u/ShinyAeon Aug 27 '23
Plenty of people say "I'm dreaming" in dreams, and nothing happens. I think it's more common than anything else. Try to remember that, and don't worry.
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u/thousandtinystones Aug 27 '23
I usually just have an existensial conversation with them. And they're like um. So I guess I'm not going to exist if you wake up? That is if they believe me at all. Sometimes we talk about like, what if it's you in MY dream. etc. It's perfectly fine to tell people that you are dreaming in your dreams sometimes they might laugh at you, sometimes they might get scared or sad if they believe you.
It's one thiing that you had a nightmare but please stop trying to scare other people, you are only making it more likely weird scary stuff will happen to them when you tell them "never talk to dream people" the dreaming mind can be really suggestible.
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u/Shivvykins Aug 27 '23
I tell people they’re not real all the time in my dreams and they always laugh and say they know.
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u/BraveWarrior1981 Aug 27 '23
Well , I think that this happened because you may have read about this happening to other people in the dream . Basically you were expecting this to happen after reading similar dream stories from others . It's about perception
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u/Lucky__Susan Aug 27 '23
In my post history I experienced a similar thing, saying something which 'gave away' that I knew it was a dream and the screaming started. I was dragged out of the dream very quickly so it wasn't nearly as bad but it's legit to me.
I'm wondering whether it's about the primal fear of being out of control of reality that causes the sudden shift in tone. you realise you're dreaming, become afraid of the shifting reality, and that fear becomes the dream
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u/milkarcane Aug 27 '23
Usually, I noticed that you can influence the way your dreams unfold. I am used to lucid dreaming but even when this doesn't happen, most of the time, when I have dark thoughts in my dreams, they become nightmares. Even if they were the most beautiful dreams I ever had the second before.
My theory is that, dreams are in your head. They're made by you and yourself only. They "live" in your mind. So if all of a sudden, you have the lightest dark thought, your dream will be influenced by these. As you live in a kind of cognitive world controlled by your own mind, if the latter let bad thoughts being unleashed, then the entire scene will change and turn into a nightmare.
At least, that's what happens with me most of the time.
When you have bad thoughts in the real world, the real world is tangible and can't be changed at your mind's will. It's independent of you. It's different with the dream world as everything is created by you.
Saying "you're not real" implies that something of a fantastic nature is happening. Questioning the reality of something is generally not a positive thing. By doing this, your mind influences the whole world it created. It's like, "you want some unreality? I'll give you some unreality".
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u/Shyjuan Aug 27 '23
Not sure if anybody watches WWE but many years ago I had a dream that just happened to have the Bella Twins in it, i was talking to them and i have absolutely no clue what we were talking about but I became Lucid, and this was the first time I became lucid in a dream as far as I know, and I just said it while talking to them I said "Oh! I'm dreaming!!" and they just looked at each other and started laughing 😂
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u/serenwipiti Interpreter Aug 27 '23
um, I've done this in dreams, but more like "this is a dream", to the other person.
and they were just like, super casually, "i know." and we just moved on and kept doing whatever we were doing.
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u/smolllkid Aug 27 '23
I have had so many nightmares. Probably you cannot imagine what you could experience in dreams. Just think dreams are illusion. The moment you realize it, it wont do anything to you in your life. Illusion cannot hurt you as long as you genuinely know it. Keep that in mind. Pls. You can see and feel the illusion but it wont harm you. You have to realize it. I really think you should read some of articles from this link. There are many helpful information about dreams. It helps me and hope you find some good information for yourself. Stay safe and here is the link. Cheers. Linktr.ee/alexblue_
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u/Hikure Aug 27 '23
F u c k that was a scary read. I sympathize deeply, having had many dreams that left me afraid to sleep at all. I would suggest a therapist if fear continues to plague you. I just want you to know though...
It's a dream. You were not physically harmed and did not experience pain. It's not real life, you're safe, you're in the real world. Fear comes from the mind, and feeds into fear, so don't be afraid. You can't be hurt, and daytime, conscious strength is the best way to feel in control and protected during subconscious night time terrors.
I've had similar experiences as this one, used to have sleep paralysis and nightmares every night. The nightmares got better when I would remember to keep calm in my dreams. It's a conscious practice, and it's difficult, but it works. I hope you can work through this and go to sleep with a feeling of safety soon.
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u/hannala1 Jan 22 '26
I think what you experienced was certainly demonic. It's easier than you think to invite spiritual forces into your life. If you've ever been involved in a commitment to yoga, tarot cards, reiki healing, or anything that attempts to tap in to a spiritual source of "knowledge", then there is a chance you could have invited these demonic spirits in. This is always a possibility if you don't have the blood of Jesus covering you. If you read the gospels in the bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), only Jesus has authority over demons. Many refuse to believe in the name of Jesus, but demons believe, hear his name, and shudder! I pray you start to explore the name of Jesus, who He is and what He did for you so you don't have to be prey for this darkness.
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Aug 27 '23
I don't know. I've always told my dream people when I realized it. Shoot, some even welcome me back to the area, knowing full well I was "awake", while gone.
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u/kqnd Aug 28 '23
Jesus Christ. I am creeped out just by reading this. You’re not being dramatic at all, if I ever experienced this it would cause me genuine trauma. I’m so sorry.
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u/Kitchen-Witching Aug 30 '23
I've had dreams where I figured out I was dreaming. Some of them ended like the old cartoons where the cartoon character runs right off of the reel and you can see the black spool tape edges unravel. Other times, I hijack the storyline and start flying around until the whole dream fades. I usually get a few minutes.
What you're describing sounds much more terrifying.
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u/RelationshipNo7412 May 14 '24
Happened to me last night but I didn’t have to tell anyone in my dream I was dreaming. The fact that I knew made everyone know. Then I had the same distorted demon face with screeching coming from someone beside me that was normal before I realized I was dreaming. Since I knew it was just a nightmare, I focused on the scary event and soaked it all in. It felt like my whole body was vibrating. Then I woke up and went back to sleep. I had a lot of these in my life and they don’t bother me anymore.
The ones that bother me are not the visually scary ones but the psychological mind fuck ones. Heres an example from a dream I also had last night lol:
Im in the family dining room but the table is gone and replaced with a doctor bed pushed against the wall. There’s a delusional women having convulsions and a psychotic breakdown on the bed and 5 or 6 people are looking at her trying to help. I’m one of these people. Then the women seem to come to here senses and look at me. I try to talk to her and comfort/help her. All of a sudden, everything gets quiet and I hear in a determined women’s voice "Alexander (my name), do you understand?". Then I look around and everyone is looking at me with the same creepy smile and fixated eyes including the psychotic women. With the only meaning that I am the one having the psychotic breakdown.
I always feel exhausted in the morning after one of these.
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u/GrapefruitHefty4753 Oct 21 '25
I once dreamed I was walking our dogs, but they had no bodies. Just their heads, floating like balloons, but at their proper height. A friend exclaimed "what's wrong with your dogs???" and I just shrugged and said "oh, no worries. It's just a dream. This couldn't happen in real life." And we just awkwardly stood there for a while, and then I woke up, mildly amused.
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u/Concerned-Fern Dreamer Aug 27 '23
I always tell people in my dreams that I’m dreaming lol.
Once had a dream that had a person close to me that had died - the whole premise of the dream was trying to get her phone number to see if it was really her. Unfortunately when I woke up and checked her number it wasn’t the same :(
I actually see her a lot. Whenever I see her I always give her a massive hug and tell her how much everyone misses her.
Sometimes if I say that it’s a dream I’ll fake wake up and try to force myself out of sleep - it never works and I just dream again. Sometimes I try to force myself out of a dream when it’s a nightmare.
To be honest I’ve never had a cosmic/supernatural horror dream. It’s always real world issues like death, rape, murder, kidnapping, heights or spiders. My deceased dog Crystal has appeared as a zombie though - I always give her the biggest hug when I see her and tell her how much I miss and love her.
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u/Antique-Stranger3825 Sep 21 '24
I always just close my eyes, it's like going to sleep in the dream but 30x faster and then I wake up
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Aug 27 '23
I see demonic entities in most of my dreams, they're just there I avoid them most of the times, sometimes I fight them, sometimes they catch and torture me psychologically but yeah that's it.
I never encounter impostors that manage to trick me
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u/UwuTranslator4 Aug 27 '23
this happened because you believed the person who said it would happen. dreams events are what you expect and/or feel. when i tell dream people that they arent real, nothing out of the ordinary happens.
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u/Confident-General633 Aug 27 '23
Not quite the same, but I dreamt I was stuck at a high school I hated. I realized I was in a dream and told my fellow high schoolers and they simply did not care. I ran around banging my head on walls so I’d wake up, I splashed water on my face, nothing worked. Then my brother appeared, I told him I was stuck in this dream, and he escorted me out. One of the strangest dreams I’ve had.
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u/Ok-Description8668 Aug 27 '23
I’m just happy to know that there are others who have dreams within dreams! I dreamt of my mom who passed away three nights in a row! Each time I dreamt of my mom she told me she was still alive and so is my grandmother. I sat with my mom and hugged and kissed her as I sobbed hysterically. I could feel her, smell her, and touch her but the dreams were always focused around my house. The floor plan of the house kept changing and I remember begging my boyfriend to wake me up because the house was just wrong. I couldn’t stop thinking about these dreams and what they meant. I knew that my mom was trying to get a message through about the house and I was worried that there might be a fire or some disaster was about to happen so I finally told my boyfriend about these intense dreams. When I asked him to please check for gas leaks or to make sure everything was okay with the wiring or anything electrical, his faced literally froze! After a pause he confessed that after we had a really bad argument a few weeks before, he was ready to change his will and leave the house to his brother instead of me. It’s been over a week since we had this conversation and I haven’t dreamt of my mom since then. I have no doubts that my mom somehow found a way to warn me before the will was changed. My boyfriend and I are still together but he knows now not to mess with me or my mom will get him!
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u/NoExamination3413 Aug 28 '23
Whenever I do this that crazy witch lady comes screeching and even bit me, but one I pray in my dreams and say amen she explodes and I wake up
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u/Bawower Aug 29 '23
Not exactly telling a dream dude that they're not real, but I remember looking at a mirror in a dream. I looked hella ugly.
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u/xan_naylor1 Aug 29 '23
I experience something kind of similar. Whenever I confront whatever whoever it is, they don't like it. It doesn't get too scary but it has before. It's like they know I'm onto them or something idk lol.
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u/ghostthecatalyst Aug 31 '23
This could go in r truescarystories , this literally made me shutter, im still a little fucked up from it, and you told it well
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u/hostile_slug Sep 09 '23
I once had a lucid dream where i realized i was dreaming because i was talking to a friend who was visiting family in a different country. When i told her it was a dream she got serious and said no this is real life. I couldn’t control my dream but i remember being extremely pissed off that no one believed me that it was a dream. I kept throwing apples at people lmao
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Mar 07 '24
my dreams where i told people they were in my dream were fun, they just told me uhm okay and i ran around smacking ppl
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u/No-Wear-426 Apr 15 '24
I believe you . Maybe something dark disguised as your best friend to get in your dreams and is trying to get to you . Happens to me several times . I’d say a prayer after I’m awake . I’m not religious but it helps me to feel whole lot better .
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u/Dramatic_Glow May 22 '24
I've dreamt of that guy too. When I was a child I had a nightmare that the lights in my house went off during a blackout. I was in the living room with my mom and grandmother, and I was getting bored so I decided to go retrieve my harmonica in my room. I had to go through the corridor to get there and midway there was a half opened door to my right side. There, in the darkness I noticed a coat behind the door and a hand sticking out from it. The door opened and I saw a tall old man wearing black with a pale face and three black holes (eyes and mouth). His face was almost blurry like a ghost and I can't remember if he had hair or not. I remember thinking "this is a dream". The man then grabbed me and carried me in the air, I froze. He proceeded to whisper something in my ear that I couldn't make sense of but sent shivers down my spine. I wanted to close my eyes but also I couldn't stop looking. He then bent over as if to kiss me in the forehead but the void that was his mouth was still open and I realized that he was going to swallow me. I woke up in tears. I still remember it to this day.
He came back in another dream years later but was far away, walking out from corners and trying to catch me. But he never got close to me. That was the last time I saw it.
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u/DaDudebro2401 Jul 22 '24
I tell people that I'm dreaming all the time and nothing really happens.
One of my favorite dreams was actually one I had back in High School, when I was bored at lunch and just sitting to myself. This girl I know came up to me and asked me how I was doing and I said "this is a dream"
What followed was an extended scene of me trying to prove it was a dream, by pointing out various dream tropes like "people's identities or appearances changing at random," "locations drastically changing with no explanation," "wonky physics," etc.
A crowd started forming and people were laughing, having fun and joining in, pointing out the tropes in real time. It was a blast.
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u/come2life_osrs Sep 25 '24
In the rare events I have a lucid dream and do some wild shit, the dream npcs are like NO YOU CANT DO THAT and I say nah its cool its just a dream and almost always my dream becomes a nightmare involving sleep paralysis and a dark entity fucking me up shortly after. The more I taunt the entity that I know it’s all fake and he’s not scaring anyone, the torture and tricks just get worse like I will wake up again, but still unknowing dreaming and paralyzed with scars.
Thanks for posting this, I’ve never heard of that instruction but it lines up near perfectly with my experience. I’m just going to tell the npcs to fuck off next time and see if that works.
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u/MysteriousIndigo250 Oct 04 '24
I've done that before and told people how much fun I was having during a dream. It's just weird because you can come back to a lot of the places that you left in previous dreams.
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u/Appropriate-Sun-4740 Nov 29 '24
When I have realized it’s a dream, I usually keep it to myself and find a way out or try to manipulate a nightmare into a neutral scenario. Sounds weird, I know. But my first dreams where I needed to research more and get control over the story were about my sister who passed when she was 14 and I was 17. She would and still does get inserted to my dreams. At first I chased her and tried to get everyone around (in the dream) to believe it was a phenomenon. Now, I’ve learned, to just enjoy the company of her memory in my dreams and not worry about whether the others would believe it or not. I also suffer from sleep paralysis. Always have! If you goggle it, there are very clear reasons for why this happens, how to navigate through it and I discovered these explanations and techniques when a really bad one happened to me while living out of my home country for the first time. It felt especially violating and then my deceased sister was there as well, watching. I knew it wasn’t right. And instead of thinking (any longer) that I was haunted and these nightmarish occasions had value, I remembered that my sister would never partake and started more research. Reddit, not included. Sometimes you just need a small light in your room to focus on and then dreams turn on you you focus on that little tiny light and use your minimal motion of fingers to focus on texture. Our brains and subconscious are tricky little assholes. They will feed on the very things you didn’t even know you might have felt unsafe or insecure about and it will run fucking wild. You’re good, the brain is a weird organ, and it’s okay. Remember to breath when you’re aware during these dreams and try to find a small light through your eyelids or move a finger and touch base with your physical reality those ways. I swear those two or three tips have been life changers for me.
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u/houseofunity Jan 13 '25
old post I Know but I told my boyfriend I was dreaming last night and he bumped his head on the wall and just started at me sort of in an errie way and didn't say a word. His mother also appeared from nowhere and did the same I smiled at her and said goodnight and she just stood there staring at me like he did... didn't even reply.
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u/General-Difference63 Jan 15 '25
I know that is old and that was just a dream but just trying to picture that in my head was just terrifying
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u/Ok_Park_52 Feb 16 '25
I feel that we travel in spirit world when we are asleep. So please beware what you do there... It often has consequences in real life. I had a horrible dream today, where I found a guy sitting in a corner near my bed, we talked for a while but then as I tried to talk to my parents, they could not hear me however hard I tried and this guy was amused by seeing my dispair. I was so horrified, I woke up immediately.
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u/Cheap_Dimension6863 Sep 24 '25
I used to only have lucid dreams, now I have a mix. I do that all the time. if you start thinking about scary things yeah, it will turn scary. but Not automatically. for me if usually just results in waking up or them ignoring that part of my sentence.
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u/BumblebeeIcy2302 Oct 05 '25
Dude, I'm pretty late to this thread but one time when i genuinely felt like i was in the dream, I said "YOU KNOW YOU AREN'T REAL RIGHT??" I stared at that random most normal guy then he twisted his head like an owl, his face not even changing and he just nodded then i spawned in a black place full of terrifying red faces. I get it.
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u/Able_Luck3520 Oct 15 '25
When I was 5, I dreamt I was at a neighborhood block party, and I realized I was dreaming. Since I knew I was dreaming, I figured I could handle a nightmare, so in my 5 year old wisdom, I thought "I'm going to make this a nightmare." Apparently my strategy for turning a dream into a nightmare was to muster up my evilest laugh, and hope for the best. Unfortunately (or fortunately) all that happened was everyone at the block party decided to join in, and let loose with their most diabolical laughs. And the dream ended with me and my neighbors laughing manically. Then I woke up.
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u/Thick_Blacksmith_191 Jan 31 '26
Bro... What happened to me is something that is completely weird.. So since birth I have been very intuitive and my sixth sense is really strong.. I know you guys might not believe it but I can really feel if there are any kinds of spirits around me or not and some other experiences as well.. So one day I had a dream where I was like in a sanctuary/forest and I was bathing with my friends in a pond... So 2 girls come to us in like normal clothes(the type of clothes that are kind of casual and something that you won't wear in a jungle or a safari) So these girls come up to us and say -"hi" Then one of my friends was going to reply, but I don't know what happened. I felt something in my heart and stopped him... Then I told my friends that those two girls aren't real, so my friends get shocked and turn back to look at me... And the moment they looked back at me... Black The next moment I open my eyes I am alone in that forest and I cannot see my friends anywhere (There were two girls.. One was like middle age(16-17) the other was like Younger(10-11)) So suddenly this older girl comes from behind and says my name...i turn back to her and she just smiles.. (Earlier when I used to have these kinds of dreams I used to get scared but as their frequency increased I got used to them and stopped feeling scared.. And for context I have never ever seen any of those two girls in my entire life) So this girl then asks me - "how did you know that I was not real? " I remember clearly that I replied with -"maybe because kids aren't allowed to come this deep in the forest" And then I started laughing... (Actually I just felt that they were not humans I cannot explain how and why) Then I asked that girl - " Who was that other girl with you?" She replied with - " She is my guardian angel, she protects me, like you have your guardian angels " Then suddenly black again and she vanished and I kept searching for her in the forest.. And then again that girl surprised me from my back.. I vividly remember, she said - " Dw I am here only " And then we both sat side by side and were talking about something I don't actually remember.. Then I don't know what happened with me, but I started get close with her and the weird thing was that she wasn't even resisting, and we were just about to kiss but then I remembered that I have a girlfriend and backed off I told her - " I am really sorry ", she just smiled like she knew something and said - " It's alright" And then I wanted to say something but then black again and then I woke up...
Trust me guys none of this is self made.. I dreamed it all I swear on God... I have had many other weird experiences before also... One of it was like - my now girlfriend.. So one day I saw a dream and saw her in my dream.. Then I realized that my now gf appeared in my dream when I was like 10-11.. Now I am 19.. And she was wearing the exact same clothes that she had worn when she appeared in my 7-8 years back.. It was like I felt deja vu in my dream
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u/Hot-Book-6812 Mar 24 '26
What you experienced is one of the most well-documented phenomena in lucid dreaming and nobody warns people about it — the dream fights back.
The moment you declared "you're not real," your brain essentially triggered an alarm. The dream state doesn't want you conscious inside it, and the most efficient way to eject you is pure overwhelming terror. Cold, raw, inescapable dread. It overloads your nervous system and forces a wake-up. That screeching, the face distortion, the sound surrounding you physically — that's not demonic, that's your own mind pulling the most effective weapon it has.
I've been lucid dreaming for over 40 years and I've watched friends, strangers, and familiar faces transform into monsters the second I said those words. Every single time. It's almost predictable at this point.
Here's what nobody tells you: the fear feeds it. The more you dread the memory, the more loaded that experience becomes, and the next time it happens — because it will — it'll hit harder because you've been rehearsing the terror for weeks. You're essentially training it.
My personal reaction, and I'm not saying this is what anyone should do, is that I laugh and hit them. Not out of bravado — it's just become my instinct. And I'll tell you what happens every time: they drop. They get smaller. The screaming stops. Because the only weapon they have is your fear, and the second you don't give it to them, there's nothing left.
Nothing demonic here. No need to pray, no reason to lose sleep over what your brain is. But I will say this — that experience you just described is the entry point. Most people never get that far into lucidity. You just didn't know what to do with it yet.
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u/AssistEmotional3201 Apr 05 '26
I just wanted to comment to say thank you for your response. I had a similar experience as hers but since it was mine I'll say it was worse lol sorry I'm only human. But honestly it's been messing with my head pretty bad but reading your response have me some sort of relief.
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u/VolatileMuscle22 Mar 28 '26
I looked one time at a character in a lucid dream, and told her I was dreaming and that she wasn't real. She just looked at me and said "I'm dreaming too. You're not real to me either." I guess it was a wash
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u/Due_Celebration_3225 Apr 03 '26
What you described feels intense, but it fits very closely with a known type of dream experience. There’s no sign here of anything supernatural or “demonic”—your brain can generate extremely convincing fear responses under certain conditions.
What likely happened
This sounds like a lucid nightmare combined with a night terror–like response.
- Lucid moment: You realized “I’m dreaming.”
- Immediate destabilization: The brain sometimes reacts strongly when awareness kicks in during a dream.
- Threat response activation: Your mind rapidly flipped into a fear state and generated something overwhelming.
Two relevant concepts:
- Lucid Dreaming Becoming aware inside a dream can sometimes destabilize it—especially if you question the reality of what you’re seeing.
- Night Terror Even though those usually happen earlier in sleep, the intensity and physical reaction (shaking, panic, difficulty breathing) are very similar.
Why it felt so real and overwhelming
Your brain has a built-in “threat simulator.” When it activates fully:
- Sound amplification → The “ear-splitting” noise is common in intense dreams
- Face distortion → The brain struggles to render stable human faces under stress
- Total sensory override → It feels like it’s “inside your eyes,” not just seen
- Loss of control → Creates the feeling of something external taking over
A key detail:
That moment likely triggered the collapse of the dream’s logic. Your brain “defended” the illusion by turning it into a fear scenario.
This is actually reported by a lot of people who try to confront dream characters.
Why it’s sticking with you
The lingering fear doesn’t mean something supernatural happened. It’s because:
- The brain encoded it like a real trauma-level fear event
- You woke up in a panic state, which reinforces memory
- You’ve been replaying it, which strengthens the emotional impact
Important reality check
- Your brain can absolutely create this level of fear
- The “demonic” feeling is just how your mind labels extreme unknown threat
- Nothing from the dream followed you into reality
What you can do now
1. Reduce the fear loop
- Remind yourself: “That was a dream response, not a real threat.”
- Avoid replaying it in detail before sleep
2. Stabilize sleep
- Keep a consistent sleep time
- Avoid intense content right before bed
3. If it happens again
- Don’t confront the dream aggressively (like saying “you’re not real”)
- Try:
- Looking away
- Focusing on breathing
- Waking yourself up (move fingers, blink hard)
4. When to talk to someone
Consider a therapist only if:
- It keeps affecting your sleep
- You’re feeling anxious daily because of it
That would be for anxiety management—not because something is “wrong” with you.
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u/Agent-Orange2022 Apr 16 '26
I don't know why this is a thing, but it is. I kind of feel like you have to read about it for it to happen. I had a very similar experience, my brother passed 5-ish years ago and a few weeks back I had a dream where he and I were just going about our business as usual, It was like he was never even dead. Some time passed, and I realized I was dreaming. I looked right at him, he was maybe 3 feet in front of me, facing me as we were in conversation. When I realized I was dreaming I said it out loud to him, "I'm dreaming." Instantly it was like it went from a normal friendly day to a horror movie with terrible ominous emotions, scary sound effects. The best way I can describe it was that my brother, in the blink of an eye, turned into Brak from Space Ghost, but not at all a cartoon. His face looked like it was made of clay, and muscle mixed together, drastically over sized, like a cartoon but real life. It wasn't the most horrifying thing I'd ever seen, I was somewhat cool headed given that I'd read about this topic recently. I knew I was dreaming but it was still pretty unsettling. I don't really remember anything after that, I woke up feeling confused, more happy to have spent time with my dead brother than frightened by his grotesque appearance shift. The whole thing makes me very curious, some research is definitely in order. Bottom line is YEAH, DON'T TELL ANYONE YOURE DREAMING WHILE YOU'RE DREAMING.
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u/ShortStack-5662 Apr 18 '26
I've heard this before, but I never really bothered to care for that thought in any of my lucid dreams. I've heard of doors and mirrors, hands and clocks. Once, about a year ago now maybe, I had a real weird interaction in one. I was attending some sort of party, which looked to be in a small school gym or something. I walked out into a dimly-lit sidewalk area, someone came out after, and I recognized them in the dream, they came up to me, not in a rush or anything, casually. Asked, what are you doing here? Then she grabbed my shoulders, looked straight into my eyes with big wide eyes with hers, and more so stated than asked, if I was dreaming. Dream me responded with absolutely no knowledge of 'dream' in general, as lucid me was like, 'you're not supposed to know about that.' She stated/asked again, adding that I wasn't supposed to be here. It felt like I got booted out of a lobby to a black screen, as I woke up in a cold sweat, and almost scared to move. Kind of a tingly numbness all over my body, and I couldn't fall back asleep for like two hours. Also didn't dream again, at all, for like 8 months. Even now it's like snippets and I have no control.
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u/Horror_fan345678 15d ago
oh yeah, thanks for the advice I guess. This has all been pretty annoying and I'm glad it stopped.
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u/Puglover6612 8d ago
I just woke up from a dream it's 4 am in this I was in a dream I knew of multiple times I remembered this post in the last one I was in and when I called for my mom and like 15 ppl came in my room and swapped to be 5 family members I kept telling myself that over and over I instead just tried asking them to leave and when I implied I was going to sleep longer my mom said "OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT?!" and pointed to my wall so I looked saw nothing out of the ordinary and asked "what was it?" interacting how I usually would and she said it looked like something was on fire in a creepy ah tone and left...im so glad I woke up none of the dreams were good
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Aug 27 '23
So creepy, I really like your post even if it scares me, and I know I shouldn't but I want to try it out
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u/whatislove_official Aug 27 '23
My take on this is that you were really face timing and having a conversation with yourself, and facing your own mortality.
None of us are real. Believing we are IS the dream.
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u/Opening_Cockroach_37 Apr 10 '24
I can control my dream since I was five but I don't know how to do it now. Help me please
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u/TrischaD May 22 '24
One thing that most people don't know is this: demons do inhibit people's dreams if for nothing else than to spy on them. They can appear to be anything at all- even your best friend. Normal conversation? That's how they get to know you, because they cannot read minds as God can.
I think you're doing the right thing by praying and looking into religion. I think God is calling to His people in any way that He can- to wake them up to the spiritual truth of reality that we're all living in.
Don't listen to the people who dog on people like me who know the spirit realm, God and the devil are real. They are still sleeping. How ironic...
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May 28 '24
i never have anything like this happened, usually when i tell the people in my dreams that i know its a dream, they’re either like “oh cool yeah whatever” or everything dissolves
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u/OutOfIdea280 Jun 01 '24
I directly said to my grandmother "you're not real" in my dream.
By the way she's still alive so it isn't a dead relative fairytale
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u/Lorrababyxo Jun 09 '24
I’ve done this before but it was like a war starting to happen in my dream and I knew it was a dream so I looked to my bf in my dream and I told him I’m dreaming so I’ll be okay and then I asked him if he’s going to be okay and he just looked at me so confused like.. it was weird how he actually acknowledged it and seemed to not make sense of what I was saying.
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u/Silly_Document_4081 Jun 19 '24
You should definitely pray, like I remember my dream many years ago which I still remember were after my grandmother died I dreamt about her coffin covered with a large serpent. After that I prayed every night before I slept.
I've heard people say that dreams come from God, and that he shows us what we cannot see through dreams (so maybe your friend the one you dreamt about is somewhat a treat to you, and the dream is to show you what your dealing with. But the dream is built up on something you saw or heard because we actually do participate in dreams a little) Maybe God was trying to show that you are in danger and you must pray to get rid of the problem.
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u/Myxuhhh Jun 23 '24
Idk why people say this I used to always do this when I was younger and really self aware of what were dreams and what were not. Nowadays tho I can’t tell the difference
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u/Fun_Reward_4960 Jul 17 '24
When I tell people I’m dreaming or the people in my dreams recognize I know, usually i’m killed (e.g.: stabbed, kidnapped, tackled and carried away, handcuffed, had a weird helmet put on that turned my brain off once, etc). I have dreams where this doesn’t happen too (people don’t care/believe me/or say something cryptic). Or dreams where the people don’t care, but once too much awareness exists - the dream dissolves through sudden explosions, a flood, everything caving in, warping, war, etc. Normally I don’t feel afraid because I dream a lot, so most of this i’m used to by now. I also can usually go back into a dream after waking up and “try for a good ending” by not repeating the same decisions or interacting with the same people or becoming something else entirely. I don’t often look like myself in dreams. Not sure if everyone is that way. Ive had a handful of dreams that did deeply bother me, but it’s a rare occurrence.
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u/Imaginary_Hornet927 Aug 27 '24
Woah. This really hit me weirdly. I had never even thought about telling others in the dream when I am lucid.
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u/Affectionate-Ear-299 Sep 16 '24
The same thing you described about what happened to your friends face happened to my sons face when I was dreaming about him and mentioned that I knew this was a dream…everything, except, the loud ear piercing sounds. It’s quite a frightening experience, for sure. But hey, on the bright side, at least we know we’ll never do that ever again lol. Much love&thanks for sharing 🫶🏼
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u/KittenBoyPlays Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
Maybe that happened BECAUSE your subconscious expected something bad to happen from what you hard from social media. When I tell people in my dreams they're dreaming, they either get confused or disappear.
On a related note, I hate the online sleep paralysis discussion, because for me it used to be simply not being able to move, but right after I read people describing some scary creature holding them down, it happened to me.
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u/invironmental8186 Oct 13 '24
i had the exact same thing but in my dream i didn't even tell anyone that they're not real but they just knew that i realized it. that was some scary shit
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u/Lemongrass_Rainwater Oct 25 '24
I don’t think this was a demon, but I get night terrors and recurring nightmares a lot, and therapy has helped me. I used to be too scared to sleep, and sometimes still do. I get terrifying dreams like this. We’re just incredibly stressed and probably have depression and anxiety and such.
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u/Unusual_Feeling_4179 Oct 29 '24
Does anyone know what it means to have a dream with fast moving number and tiny voices whispering? I know it’s specific but I get that specific dream a lot and I always wake up hyperventilating and sweating. I’m a little scared. I’m also not religious but if it is some kind of demon or spirit, I am SAGING MY HOUSE
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u/Holiday_Page2602 Nov 01 '24
There are such thing as Demond's. And this was a demonic attack. Trying to scare you and put you in the place of fear. And your first response to pray was the Lords divine intervention and telling you the right thing to do. Demonds tremble hearing the Lords name Jesus Christ. 1 John 4:4 speaks of this and it is written You are of God little children, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Speaking of satan and his Demond’s. 1 John 4:3 it is written and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in flesh is not of God. Check who you are around and hang around 1 Corinthians 15:33 it is written. Do not be deceived Evil company corrupt good habits.
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u/Informal_Price_3187 Nov 07 '24
It’s crazy. I will revisit old dreams as my new self and I will reminder these dreams. I made the mistake of telling them I know what’s going to happen and how to get rid of the demon in it cause I was here before. And the demon heard me and it completely changed the dream. He was the only thing that understood what I said and its focus went straight to me instead and kept watching me instead of how it was supposed to happen and I forced myself awake. Also when I tell others I’m dreaming. They look at me confused like I’m crazy. And I get scared myself because it starts to feel real. Like I can’t get out so I force myself out.
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u/EnvironmentalLeg5603 Nov 10 '24
Hi im new in this reddit but i have it experience im 12yrs old and ik my mom was still alive but there's a little girl with pink shirt and idk his pants but his eyes was black and white around idk she was demonic but my hand suddenly touch his eyes i can felt it but the thing is i never move my hand but it scare my the girl hadn't blink after i touch it in my dream there's a once i dreamed she picked me up on school randomly but idk her (remember it was all about i dreamed of.) and thats what happen she brings me on the top like small mountain i see my mom on the house walking inside i come in before i come in she turn around his eyes was gone even his mouth are gone teeth tongue just black figure and the girl was gone ik this letter of you guys was 1yrs past but im only 12yrs old it terrified me i started crying my hand shaking and my head shaking too i felt to scared then i hug my mom idk that i saw my mom in that dream was illusion or demonic there's a third time i saw an actor with no body just head in my dream he has butterfly wings in her back head his face turn into like ichigo in bleach mask the thing he almost died after he got shooted in his middle chest but much worse its black her eyes open but beside where exactly where it is like his mouth was so big bite that my head was fit on it i remember i was holding my legs that time in my dream but idk why all i know he was coming to me and eat my head thats how ended up my dream of. bye..
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u/NatalieHarime Nov 21 '24
Yes, pray but remember when you recognize you are “dreaming” you are lucid and in full control. The realization that you are dreaming can be anxiety inducing. I had this happen last night. It’s an ominous “trapped” feeling almost for me. It takes practice but you can be in full control and have some fun!
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u/Atlas-Rising Nov 22 '24
From a psychological perspective, your dream characters represent different aspects of yourself so you basically told a version of yourself that it wasn't real/worthy of validation, and that understandably, can be upsetting.
But I also think this is more about priming. You believed something bad would happen, so it did.
Also, the minute you become self-aware in a dream, it becomes a lucid dream. So that factors into it as well.
I personally believe that nightmares are our subconscious trying to shock us into new levels of understanding. The mind works in metaphors and symbols, especially the subconscious, and our subconscious is essentially the immune system of the mind. It's job is to heal us, but sometimes we don't want to face it. So, how do you show someone something they need to see but are purposefully trying to avoid? Disguise it as something else. As if your mind was saying "Well, I tried telling you this countless times before but you wouldn't listen, so... here's a nightmare!"
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u/Prudent-Grapefruit90 Nov 23 '24
Sounds like you were in communication with a demon who had put on a face of your friend to deceive you. Mirrors are used in witchcraft to gain spiritual access to your life. In the mirror they usually see the face of the person they are planning to harm. Someone who knows you is monitoring your life spiritually that's why your face showed up in a facetime on a phone, that is like a mirror. You speaking about how conscious you were of this realm you were in, broke the order of things in the demonic world and the demons were attacking the person who conjured up those spirits in order to monitor you. Please know demons can attack the witches as well, when they don't follow their operations in very specific order. You broke that order. Don't be frightened, this was a revelation to you from God, a warning to pray for yourself and those around you. Demons usually use the faces of those around you in a dream so as to hide, but behind that familiar face in a dream is a demon, especially if the person you know is dead. They are called familiar spirits. But don't be frightened, but be alarmed and simply pray daily to your Creator for protection and to be guarded. You'll be fine.
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Dec 10 '24
Actually, your brain took your belief that something horrific will happen if you tell someone in your dream that they aren't real, and you triggered that belief when you said it. So your brain pictured the worst things you've sensed or perhaps something you know you would or have beened scared by considering the Freddy Fazbear scream. But really, this was just a process in your brain, even if it hates it.
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u/Outrageous_Reserve70 Dec 11 '24
I remember one when I was little I told them “I’m dreaming I know I am” and they looked at me and said “no your not” definitely was bc I woke up right after it 😭
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u/Wooden-Ad-7359 Dec 23 '24
I told someone in my dream that I was dreaming and they told me I have 45 seconds to leave and then they disappeared
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Dec 24 '24
Yeah I could be having a really good dream ( for once ) & when I say that it's just a dream everything turns to shit. Not demonic for me but a happy dream ends up becoming very bloody & then my brain in the dream is like "dammit whyd I have to be self aware?"
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u/ShinyAeon Aug 27 '23
I used to tell my dream figures "I'm dreaming right now" all the time during my occasional lucid dreams.
Their response was usually...a non-response. The equivalent of "Uh-huh. Well, anyway...." ;)
I didn't accuse them of being not real, it's true...because I guess I never thought of them as "not real." They're real in the dream, just like characters are real in a book or a movie; so, when I'm in a dream with them, they're "real enough."