I had a dream recently where I was guiding a civilisation over multiple thousands of years. Att the end of the dream when they had finally overcome their problems, one of them said to me ‘being a person, when really you’re just a blob of goo, is the most profound thing you could ever do.’
And it hit me so hard. All I am is a bunch of cells held together in a skin bag. And yet I’m a person with feelings and experiences and desires. And I did that, I live it. It makes us all so valuable.
Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?
Do you keep a dream-journal or something, how long are your dreams?
Yes, but I don’t often write in it. I’d be up all night writing.
I tend to have very vivid dreams, sometimes lucid, and they seem to last for a long time. I’ll often wake up exhausted from dreaming.
When my friend came out as trans to me years ago, I reacted poorly at first. A few days after that, I had a dream about accepting her as she is. I guess it was just the result of me feeling guilty but it made me really think it through. Then I apologized and our relationship was great ever since.
Not sure about wisdom but I definitely have creative ideas in my dreams sometimes. Music, art, writing, etc. Which I then do nothing with so it’s a complete waste.
I used to think I had great ideas on my dreams. Even created full complex stories once. I would wake up thinking “man that was a complete story arc with character development and everything, how did I come up with all that on my sleep”.
One day I decided to write it down as I was still half asleep so I could maybe use it later. The result was something like: “David Tennant was one of the Friends. On a fight with Rachel he said 'you want an emotion, I’ll give you an emotion: putting your head against the window on a rainy day”
Fax me some halibut?
that’s pretty cool too
Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?
Not like that, no. But I had a dream once about a specific coding/logic issue where in my dream I came up with a solution that actually worked in reality.
Yes, I’ve had this happen many times. Go to bed thinking about a software problem, wake up thinking “what if…” and then I go implement it and it works
I have the feeling all software devs had that happen to them once, me included.
Yeah. Not the code specifics itself, but definitely the method or code structure.
That makes four of us… at least.
When I was in college I was super stuck on a calculus homework problem. I worked on it futilely for hours before giving up and deciding to email my instructor about it in the morning. That night I solved the problem in my dream, and when I woke up I actually remembered the dream and it was the correct solution. My instructor thought it was hilarious when I told him about it in class.
Oh yeah i have dreams like this when i leave engineering coursework too late but, despite having dream insights that solve my problems, i’ve decided it’s more efficient to just never ever leave those things too late again
ha, i was going to post exactly this… its happened a few times
I rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, they’re normally just boring everyday stuff. Nothing profound to be found
My dreams only remind me on the regular how much i would have loved to fucking murder my father.
More than anything, I find that dreams remind me that I may not truly get over certain things, or in the very least haven’t finished processing something that’s stuck with me.
