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Fleeting Dream Memories

I'm sure this has been covered before, but I just woke up from a semi-delirious fever dream. As I did and tried to get my bearings on what was real, most of my dream-memory quickly vanished even as I tried to remember how silly it was. This happens with most of my dreams usually. If it's not WILD or scary or something, I won't remember it unless I immediately concentrate it.

As my dream memory spilled away from me, it simultaneously answered my question of "Did I make plans to see so-and-so?". As reality set in, I knew what was real and forget everything else. In my dream I must've made plans with my friend, as I asked that, but I have no memory of it.

Maybe that's why we hardly remember dreams. Even people that say "I ALWAYS remember my dreams" (bunch of liars! ), don't really because we have A LOT of dreams as we sleep and only remember parts of some. Maybe as we grew up, our minds efficiently picked up on the difference between dream-sensation and reality-sensation, and that the only useful memory was reality. Without even trying to, it immediately tosses aside most of the false-sensations when you're back to real-sensations. This way you don't think Uncle Jimmy has a colony of intelligent ants living in his belly button, and you don't wait outside your friend's house for plans that were never made.

Sometimes you'll remember the dreams anyway, because maybe your conscious mind was enthralled, or your conscious mind laid in bed concentrating so it didn't forget the dream. And sometimes things just pass through anyway, and you have moments of confusion. "Hey...did we go to the movies last week? We did! Oh okay, I knew it....wait, while we were there, did I refuse to take the stairs and instead lassoed to the exist? ...I didn't? Oh okay, I DID dream that."
  • I very much disagree
    Have you ever had a dream, where you knew you were dreaming... and it was so vividly real that you truly were 'awake while dreaming'. at the time I had a dream like that, I laughed at the thought that someone might be overhearing my conversations in my dream and seeing my gestures. But even with consciousness, the dream did not disapate or elude.

    So, if you were conscious in a dreamt reality, how would that effect how you do things in that dream? I know the actions I took in the dream would be by no means considered ethical.

    raising the question.. for truly psychotic people, perhaps they have simply 'awoken' from the 'dream of reality', and find no further bearing in any action they take.
    Voted for by god-o-eraweb.
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