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Do you ever dream ?

Cullpepper

I'm just sitting here on the couch at home. I must have dozed off and was thinking i'd gone to have a haircut. The barber was cutting someone elses hair, and i was the only one waiting, until an old man came in and sat next next to me. We spoke to each other for a few minutes, just passing the time of day. When the barber finished his customer and was getting paid, he looked over to me and pointed to the barbers chair. I said to the old man 'my turn', i stood up and took two steps across the room before i realised i was in my own lounge, i turned around to look at the old man i'd been talking to, and he wasn't there.

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  • Precisely for that reason I invented a medium for my imagination, a system where it happens. otherwise it might be difficult to tell

  • in reply to Mariusz

    Ah you have a failsafe? I’ve heard that if you try to read something properly in a dream you wake up. But I suppose you have to be lucid to do that test

  • in reply to Shardovan
    Shardovan said:
    if you try to read something properly in a dream you wake up

    Reading in dreams is certainly weird. The words often change or are not in real English - I guess kind of like those AI art images where the faces and hands aren't right... Although I had a dream as a teen where the dream was like reading a novel, sort of being aware of text and story/images at the same time, but the text was in a code alphabet I had invented. That was a strange one! 

    Numbers are worse, especially with phones. I have phone anxiety anyway, and there have been a few times where the numbers on the phone in my dream let me down, for example where I had to dial the emergency services on a phone with no number 9!

    I haven't had the thing where reading something woke me up, I don't think, but I did have one where someone asked me to summarise history and my answer was getting detailed and probably accessing my actual analytic side and that did wake me up. Also that has happened with languages, like one where I was speaking Norwegian in the dream and trying to remember the right words woke me up.

  • in reply to AuTriker

    There's a great depiction of that sort of thing in the Doctor Who episode The Zygon Inversion, where Clara, imprisoned in a dreamworld while posessed, thinks she's at home, watching telly. But then she goes to brush her teeth, and the tube says something like 'this is toothpaste' on it, and the paste comes out black. So she starts to feel things are just a wee bit off. 

  • in reply to AuTriker
    AuTriker said:
    sort of being aware of text and story/images at the same time, but the text was in a code alphabet I had invented.

    I do that with my older memories. For some reason my memories lose speech component after some time. Maybe because of how many times I was hit in my head as a kid. But I started adding 'subtitles on demand' to important memories, if I still remember what was said. Weird to explain. Other sounds don't disappear, only speech.

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  • in reply to AuTriker
    AuTriker said:
    sort of being aware of text and story/images at the same time, but the text was in a code alphabet I had invented.

    I do that with my older memories. For some reason my memories lose speech component after some time. Maybe because of how many times I was hit in my head as a kid. But I started adding 'subtitles on demand' to important memories, if I still remember what was said. Weird to explain. Other sounds don't disappear, only speech.

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