Last night I had one of the most vivid and emotionally intense dreams I’ve ever experienced, and I think it may have been one of my first lucid dreams.
In the dream, I was walking through a busy area and brushed past a man. We both stopped, lingered, and looked at each other, and there was this immediate feeling that we somehow knew we belonged together. We stood there making eye contact and said hi almost like we had finally found each other.
Later, the setting changed to what I think was a pool. He was carrying me, and we were kissing and talking. The connection felt incredibly intense, more intense than anything I can remember feeling in real life.
The strange part is that he looked like a famous singer I’m not particularly a fan of, don’t follow closely, and rarely think about. At one point I stopped him and said, “By the way, I know this is a dream,” and he replied, “So do I.” I then told him that in real life he was extremely famous and I was just a normal person, but it felt like none of that mattered to him.
I “woke up” and then had another dream where I was telling my sister about the original dream. When I woke up again, the emotional intensity was still very strong.
Out of curiosity, I looked at the singer’s Instagram afterward and happened to land on a close-up photo of him wearing a shirt that said, “In your dreams,” which completely baffled me, although I still don’t think who that person looked like really matters.
I’m in a loving relationship, so waking up feeling disappointed and emotionally affected also brought up some guilt and confusion. It made me wonder whether the dream was reflecting a craving for a certain level of intensity, serendipity, or attraction that I am no longer experiencing in the comfort of my relationship.
I’m especially curious about the fact that I knew I was dreaming, told him, and he claimed to know too. Has anyone experienced something similar, where a dream felt like an actual encounter?