Did you ever confuse a dream with reality?

Did you ever confuse a dream with reality?
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I do this all the time. I don’t remember my dreams often, but when I do, they are usually based on reality. I rarely have a martians invading type dream. So I tend to confuse what people have said to me and can’t figure out which I was dreaming and which is real. Sometimes I’ll just ask the person if they said that or did something, and I’ll simply say (after their answer) that I had a dream where blah blah blah and explain why I asked. I’ve never done anything drastic based on this.
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