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And my pillow was gone
It occurs to me that, at least for me, the cinematic - or even literary - depiction of dreams is as consistently technically incorrect as the depiction of computers. Does anyone really have dreams that are picture-perfect flashbacks of things that happened earlier to them in waking life? Or that are even recognizably flashbacks at all?
I'm a little more willing to believe stories about recurring dreams, but I don't think they're really all that common. When I hear someone on the screen saying "I still see her face in my dreams every night" I'm like "No you don't, you liar. Last night you dreamt of a penguin wearing a bikini that was trying to give you a green lollipop but you wanted a purple one and suddenly you were making out with it, and maybe in retrospect you figure that the penguin was supposed to be her, but it's rather an oversimplification to abstract the whole deal as 'her face'. But, whatever."
I'm a little more willing to believe stories about recurring dreams, but I don't think they're really all that common. When I hear someone on the screen saying "I still see her face in my dreams every night" I'm like "No you don't, you liar. Last night you dreamt of a penguin wearing a bikini that was trying to give you a green lollipop but you wanted a purple one and suddenly you were making out with it, and maybe in retrospect you figure that the penguin was supposed to be her, but it's rather an oversimplification to abstract the whole deal as 'her face'. But, whatever."
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Actually there are times I'm not even in a few of my dreams. It's as if I'm watching a movie with a whole different cast of characters I've never really seen before.
Other times I'll have dreams with me and other people I know in them but the setting would be all different -- I'd be in a different house (not necessarily a big luxury house .. but often not a house I'd remember ever being in before) with people I may or may not have ever lived with before. One or twice I tried to remember what the architecture was of the dream house.
Once, when I was on FurryMUCK a lot I had a dream entirely in text with the sound of a clicking keyboard in the background. I decided to cut back on MUCKing after that. *some say you cannot read in a dream .. that is incorrect
For a time whenever I had 'flying' dreams I had a hard time flying right-side up. I think that was due to my sleep position of lying on my back.
o yeah
but, since I've had intense, and worthwhile, conversations in that context, I'm not about to swear it off if my brain wants to process it further during the alpha waves.