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And it was unnecessarily sexual in all the wrong places
And then every time my parents came in.
most dreams don't make narrative sense already, if anything, people refer them a "weird dreams"
Not even naked in the mall, just your everyday mild experience of inadequacy.
I love bad, as in poor quality, dreams. They beat the pants off stress dreams, as I call them; the emotionally charged dreams that shouldn’t be because nothing emotional happens, that have you wake up feeling stressed for unknown reasons. I also prefer them to nightmares and terrors. For obvious reasons.
But I use shit narratives in novel locations to form my dream town. Every new place I experience in a weird or boring dream gets, like, catalogued for later? Idk how to describe it but it takes another 3-5 dreams about the same place, which will happen sooner or later, to cement its special position in my town.
From there I can visit again whenever I want in lucid dreams. My town is like a hub to fast travel to all the other places I have discovered. So there’s like the garden district, that holds the library and glass gardens, the entertainment district which takes me to a bustling city street full of arcades and social stuff, the weird tall buildings district that has a skyscraper-type dorm I have a room in despite having my own full on multi-dimensional house (no idea where that came from but it’s definitely dorm rooms and most of them don’t have windows.. I think it’s the barracks from naval base San Diego, but it’s much taller and laid out totally differently.)
People who can remember dreams well and in detail like that baffle me. I can barely imagine an apple in my head and you've got a whole town. Can I get an invite to imagination?
Ah, it’s sort of a blessing and curse sort of thing. I have aphantasia, so I can’t see stuff in my mind. Dreams don’t work the same way, apparently, or at least not for everyone with aphantasia, and I get those, incredibly vividly (tho thankfully not all that often, maybe once or twice a month), but because I have absolutely zero experience with “seeing” things that aren’t real, dreams throw me solidly for a loop and I struggle big time with differentiating them from reality. That makes stress dreams and nightmares really really difficult, and I’ve struggled with them for many years.
The well-trodden dream town helps with that because I recognize it as a fictional place, so I choose to spend time there when I can, which reinforces the smaller details of it making it more vivid. It’s why everywhere I dream of repeatedly ends up being part of the town somehow. Not always because I want it there, but because I recognize the place as fictional and part of dreaming. Incorporating all these different places makes them safer; most of them started as bad places, even the glass gardens. That was a college social stress dream originally. I was probably playing some final fantasy type game at the time for the imagery. I got really lucky on that one; it’s a great place to go now.
I did a lot of work, and had to deal with a lot of wildly unpleasant false awakening experiences, to lucid dream enough to get to this place where I have familiar comfortable territory, but I don’t really control things now because taking control tends to backfire.. so I let them happen and use god mode to get out of situations I don’t like. Or sometimes to change zones if, for example, I end up in the dungeon labyrinth or mother’s sections of my house (repeated nightmare content that had to go somewhere.. now pocket floors between other floors, to make it easier to avoid) Sometimes it’s fun to go dungeon diving, and see what’s actually in there (it’s just basements, one after another, full of boxes of stuff and old furniture and shit, super mundane really except it never ends.. like that scene in labyrinth where she meets the trash goblin who keeps loading her up with junk because memories), but sometimes it’s a really unpleasant place to find myself and I just.. need to take the quick route back outside.
But I remember these places and events like they are completely real, and that’s really unnerving. I really want to build it into vr so other people could explore it, and it could actually -be- a real place, but I have no idea how to do that. If I ever figure that out though you are absolutely invited to visit!!
I love bad, as in poor quality, dreams. They beat the pants off stress dreams, as I call them; the emotionally charged dreams that shouldn’t be because nothing emotional happens, that have you wake up feeling stressed for unknown reasons.
Agreed. Worst scenario for me: missing my plane. Often when I'm nowhere near a plane journey, timewise. And no pointers towards what in my day would make me so stressed out. Or maybe I just ate too much salt before going to sleep?
I hate the dreams where I face my guilt and anxiety wrapped in one bouquet, because my brain avoided thinking about it all day
My dreams suck! Oh heres a dream where you get up, have breakfast and go to work. lol! Now you are late idiot! It was a dream!
Its the simple dreams that get me.
I open the fridge in the morning, having dreamt that I'm out of milk. That flat tyre I thought I had? Not a problem.
I dreamt recently that I got all experimental and added a fat squirt of thousand Island dressing to my carbonara. Even in my sleep it tasted fucking terrible, but I finished the plate godammit
Do industrial levels of pot smoking and you'll never be bothered by a dream again!
Three thumbs down! I could do that in this dream.
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