And my pillow was gone

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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."

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In grad school I had math dreams that were like the sort of visualizations I would make while (awake and) following a math proof. I studied topology and geometry, so a lot of it was "shapes" (as opposed to, say, algebra). So it would be structures and "well, then that implies that we can smooth out this mapping here, and then we can do a covering translation and then look at the quotient space, and so that has the following homological properties, and therefore we can apply this theorem to say that ..." but it never went anywhere.