• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I regularly have dreams where I’m trying to use a smartphone but can’t do anything because I can’t read the screen and Pacific because it feels like I’ve been hacked.

    My vape also regularly falls apart in dreams, and back when I smoked lighters never worked.

    I think that the part of our brain that processes these mechanics are shut down when we sleep, so when our dream self tries to use them they just don’t function.

    Could come into play where punching in a dream is impossible and running is difficult.

    I ain’t no brain doctor, or nothin’.

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      1 month ago

      My dreams are usually pretty communicative and applicable to things going on in my life. Glasses breaking when I was starting to have a drinking problem, bombing theatrical performances when I wasn’t acting authentically in my relationships, etc.

      Not saying it’s applicable for every dream, but I think our unconscious mind is pretty communicative with us when it has something to say.

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        1 month ago

        Was that meaning there or did you apply it post facto?

        With confirmation bias it is easy to apply meanings to things that aren’t necessarily there.

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          22 days ago

          It’s usually pretty explicit and on the nose. Not much room for alternative interpretation in many cases.