I have plenty of dreams where I'm a penguin wearing a bikini, or such. But I also have some extremely literal dreams. And my dreams are almost always populated by people I know, looking exactly like themselves. (Though they don't always represent the people they look like, of course.)
I've also had a couple of recurring dreams that have been spread out of years. One that I've had since I was 15 I continue to have every few months even now, and it's totally based on a real life event. And the faces in that dream are always very clear.
But most of my dreams are sort of what you're talking about. I think of movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind or Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask as being more representative of how most of my dreams feel.
But, you know, I think everyone dreams different, as is apparent from the other comments here. I don't think you should discount other people's accounts of dreams just because they aren't like yours.
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Date: 2007-05-02 04:08 pm (UTC)I've also had a couple of recurring dreams that have been spread out of years. One that I've had since I was 15 I continue to have every few months even now, and it's totally based on a real life event. And the faces in that dream are always very clear.
But most of my dreams are sort of what you're talking about. I think of movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind or Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask as being more representative of how most of my dreams feel.
But, you know, I think everyone dreams different, as is apparent from the other comments here. I don't think you should discount other people's accounts of dreams just because they aren't like yours.