Having a hard time deciphering dreams from reality

I've been having more and more difficulty deciphering between dreams and reality recently. First it started with emotions. I would have a bad dream and the emotions would intrude on the day. I guess that's normal, right?

But lately I've been having to check if things really happened, or if they were just in the dream. An example would be that I broke a tooth when I was younger (in real life) and I had a dream that it came loose again. The morning after, I had to check to make sure my tooth wasn't actually loose. The next time I remember was dropping something out of the fridge, and having to check when I awoke the next morning whether I really had dropped something in front of the fridge. I didn't. It was just in the dream.

This seems to happen more and more. I'm starting to fear going to sleep because I'm worried the lines will start blurring more, or I'll have more terrible nightmares that make me sad and ruin my day.

Has anyone experienced their dreams intruding their reality?

atomicuniverse wrote:I've been having more and more difficulty deciphering between dreams and reality recently. First it started with emotions. I would have a bad dream and the emotions would intrude on the day. I guess that's normal, right?

But lately I've been having to check if things really happened, or if they were just in the dream. An example would be that I broke a tooth when I was younger (in real life) and I had a dream that it came loose again. The morning after, I had to check to make sure my tooth wasn't actually loose. The next time I remember was dropping something out of the fridge, and having to check when I awoke the next morning whether I really had dropped something in front of the fridge. I didn't. It was just in the dream.

This seems to happen more and more. I'm starting to fear going to sleep because I'm worried the lines will start blurring more, or I'll have more terrible nightmares that make me sad and ruin my day.

Has anyone experienced their dreams intruding their reality?

It sounds like you are just thinking about things too extremely, which comes along with BPD, you need to balance yourself out. You dreams seem real - lots of dreams do, that's normal, sometimes they make us have to think "did that really happen?"
Your dreams are not becoming your reality, you are simply remembering them and they seem real - that is normal. It is also normal for dreams to stick with you throughout the day, especially if they were vivid and real. There is no problem here.

Now if you were talking about real lucid dreams that'd be something different Dreams are not always fiction. But dreaming of random every day things, is simply a subconscious dream. Anyways the lines are not blurring. You are blurring them yourself by thinking too much about it.
Do you have a psychologist?
Try to think of what my psychologist would say, "your just sensitive, looking to far in the extremes and being too hard on yourself." Yup, that's what he always says.

Yes, I have to second guess myself at times. I think it's partly my meds which give me very vivid, strange dreams every night, so I hold on to them and they almost infiltrate into my conscious mind. But, I don't worry about it too much. I think it's normal, especially if you're of a sensitive disposition, and prone to worrying, or have a strong imagination or something. I dunno really.

I have this exact problem. I also tend to have vivid dreams, since I used to be interested in lucid dreaming in the past (still am. I used to induce lucid dreams in an attempt to explore my own head).

I just went through a break-up, and I keep dreaming that little things (like 2 minute conversations) happen with my ex that I know aren't true...but then I'm not sure. I'll dream snippets of conversation that seem realistic enough, and have to critically determined whether they happened or not. It's stressful.

My boyfriend also used to tell me I let dreams affect my mood too much. If I had nightmares all night, my mood would plummet for the day. But good dreams could also bring on a good day.

I definitely think it's a good idea to take dreaming seriously only to the extent where it improves your mood, and not to the point where the bad parts of dreaming take over your waking life. If you can help it.