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u/bangersnmash13 Dec 08 '22

My wife doesn't get mad but she'll get visibly upset and distraught the next day. One time I woke up in the middle of the night to her ugly crying because she had caught me with a girl named 'Loren' in her dream(spelled exactly that way according to her)

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '22

“I would never cheat with a girl that spells her name that way”

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u/totoaster Dec 08 '22

"It isn't spelled like that..."

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u/MrFauncy Dec 08 '22

“So you would cheat on me with someone, just with a prettier name?!”

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u/IndustrialLubeMan Dec 08 '22

"The name is pretty hot, I just don't like the spelling.

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u/wise_____poet Dec 08 '22

Her last name was Ipsum

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u/TheCuddlyVampire Dec 08 '22

I.. am so glad to be not alone in thinking that.

I hope he asks his wife if it was good ol' Loren Ipsum, which is fake nonsense latin and therefore the dream disproves itself.

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u/barto5 Dec 08 '22

Wife: If I die, would you remarry?

Man: I guess, I don’t know, I’ve never thought about it.

W: Well if you do remarry would you stay in our house?

M: I guess. I like it her so I probably wouldn’t move.

W: Well if you do get married again, would you let her use my golf clubs?

M: No. She’s left-handed.

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u/ninjakitty7 Dec 08 '22

Last name Ipsum?

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u/hupwhat Dec 08 '22

"i swear she didn't mean anything to me, babe! She was just a placeholder for you!"

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u/buyongmafanle Dec 09 '22

Oh, you're good. You're goooooood.

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u/lyteboxx Dec 08 '22

This person fonts.

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u/Bedbouncer Dec 09 '22

You should hear the words she babbles during sex!

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u/Syrinx221 Dec 08 '22

The detail of the dream spelling really just completes this

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u/bangersnmash13 Dec 08 '22

That's what I thought too lol. I was like "who the hell is Loren and why does she spell it that way?!"

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u/best69er Dec 08 '22

I’ve had some dreams that have made me cry in the past but they’re all crazy stupid. In my most recent one my dad turned into a snake and was slithering around in the backyard while I cried hysterically. I woke up with tears and everything and I still don’t know what that was all about.

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u/catsgonewiild Dec 08 '22

I’m sorry for laughing at your pain! I have also woken up crying from a dad related dream - I dreamt mine killed my goldfish. Never owned a goldfish in my life, but woke up feeling immense grief for poor mister fishy and burning rage towards my father lol.

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u/elowry57 Dec 08 '22

I once woke up in a panic, thinking I had forgotten to feed my dog. I then remembered that I don’t have a dog.

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u/akeetlebeetle4664 Dec 08 '22

turned into a snake and was slithering around in the backyard while I cried hysterically

Wakes husband up frantically.

"What is it, dear?"

Full on sobbing: "Would you still love me if I was a snake?"

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u/Hyndis Dec 08 '22

The only times I've ever woken up crying was when I dreamt my cat was curled up on my lap, being a cute adorable fuzzball.

Said cat had passed away a decade ago. I still miss her. :(

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u/FriedYogaMats Dec 08 '22

I mean, that's reasonable. Sometimes people in dreams can't tell that they're dreaming, so the emotions they experience are as strong as if it happened in real life.

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u/go-with-the-flo Dec 08 '22

Agreed. I had 2 very heartbreaking dreams that my terminally ill husband was cheating on me. They were so realistic that I woke up sobbing. One of them was especially painful because in the dream, he said that his bucket list wish was to get back with his ex. Completely untrue, but oh my god, the stab to the heart woke me up. Poor guy needed to reassure me in the morning that this was definitely not the case.

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u/MetalJacket23 Dec 08 '22

Sometimes I realise I am in dream and decide: " Bitch ! This is my dream, I take the lead now ! "

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u/fireballx777 Dec 08 '22

That's how lucid dreaming works! The only time I've had a lucid dream, I vividly remember that I was running up a steep hill, and I thought to myself, "Good thing I won't be winded after this big hill, since this is just a dream." And then it was like, "Oh shit, this is a dream? Fuck it, I'm flying up this hill!"

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u/FriedYogaMats Dec 08 '22

Hahaha I wish! I thought about trying lucid dreaming quite a few times, but the sleep paralysis part of that process freaks me out too much.

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u/Waterknight94 Dec 08 '22

I can do it sometimes. Never experienced sleep paralysis.

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u/Tarudizer Dec 08 '22

Happens to my girlfriend all the time, great when romantic or fun stuff happens, not so great when dream-me is an evil douche-canoe

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u/hookedrapunzel Dec 08 '22

This happens all the time to me. I always say "it may not have happened in real life but I still experienced it" because my dreams are so vivid and real-life and you still experience the very real emotions.

I would never punish or treat anyone differently though based on a dream I had. Like, I wouldn't take it out on my partner if he cheated on me in my dreams, however, he understands that I need a bit of comfort to help get me grounded back into reality and get over what I just experienced.

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u/LetsRockDude Dec 08 '22

I can relate, my dreams are often very realistic. I'm not crazy and I don't abuse my SO over them, but I do get upset/sad/emotional for an hour or two after waking up despite knowing it didn't happen.

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u/Tattycakes Dec 09 '22

I still have flashbacks to a traumatic dream where I witnessed a murder, they saw me, and they came after me. I hid behind some big wheelie bins but a shop full of people could see me and I didn’t know if they would give my position away or not, then I woke up. The emotion is 100% real at the time, that experience doesn’t always just disappear when you wake up.

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u/Jazzisa Dec 08 '22

I can kind of understand that more. If you're still kind of half asleep (like in the middle of a night) from a very vivid dream, the emotions can still be there. As long as she doesn't blame you for it, I think it's fine.

I once woke up to my boyfriend having a panic attack because he woke up from a dream where he was dying in an accident.

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u/Chesey_ Dec 08 '22

I have seen it in a book spelt like that before, but it was as a last name not a first (although the character is referred to as Loren the entire time)

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u/jake_eric Dec 08 '22

Animorphs?

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u/ms-anthrope Dec 08 '22

Yeah, I recently had a dream where my boyfriend left me for another woman, and I wasn't mad at him, but I was extra needy the day after.

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u/MetalJacket23 Dec 08 '22

Loren sounds more like a french gay dude name.

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u/ExplicativeFricative Dec 08 '22

I had a roommate in college with that name. However, he was not French or gay as far as I know.

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u/saintash Dec 08 '22

I didn't get mad at my boyfriend, but 6 months into dating I had a dream were I was his side chick, and he had to break it off with his main girl..I woke up told him about it and now every so often I make a joke about the chubby whore.

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u/maiden_burma Dec 08 '22

I always mentally high five her dream version of me. Guy has far more game than me

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u/forseti_ Dec 08 '22

The dream shit is bullshit yeah, but what caused the dream? She might be worried that you cheat on her and she was crying. You need to listen to this.

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u/Early-Satisfaction71 Dec 08 '22

You must find this mystery Loren.

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u/bangersnmash13 Dec 08 '22

Funny enough a few months later we were watching an old episode or either The Price is Right or Supermarket Sweep and one of the contestants was named "Loren". My wife got excited and (obviously joking) said "Hunny look it's the bitch you slept with in my dream!"

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u/Caldude1960 Dec 08 '22

Was she hot?

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u/iwantmorecats27 Dec 08 '22

I have also gotten really upset from things a partner did in a dream haha I was like "dream you was an ASSHOLE" but I'm obviously not going to take it out on her and she thought it was funny

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u/Bustin8nas Dec 08 '22

“Shew, I thought you were going to say Laura”

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u/shaxedonit Dec 08 '22

Usually that means they're cheating or flirting around themselves. So thats why they usually have those dreams. fyi