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#1
Feb 02, 2026, 10:13 PM
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There is a particular issue I often think about while awake. When I dream, I sometimes dream about it in such non-fantastical ways that when I wake up, it takes some time to realize that it was a dream, because everything in the dream was so rational as if it were my pondering the issue while awake.
There is even a particular literary allusion related to this issue that came up a year or so ago either in a dream or while awake - I do not remember which way. Has it ever happened to you?
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Apr 28, 2026, 01:16 AM
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That part about the literary allusion, not knowing if it came from a dream or from waking thought... I find that more unsettling than the dreams themselves, somehow.
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May 03, 2026, 07:41 PM
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May 03, 2026, 10:58 PM
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It sounds like something I've experienced. It doesn't happen often.
My dreams lately have been rather mundane. Last night, for example, easily could be mistaken for a memory except that I haven't been at the location (the house I grew up in) for many decades. I was walking around the house at night with a flash light. That's it. However, I'm so poorly anchored in time, I do think that eventually I might think it really happened if I can still remember it at all. As well, I seem to have low level brain fog all the time in "real life," unlike the dream state.
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May 03, 2026, 11:20 PM
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Do when you dream, you are subjectively more alert than when you are awake during the day but suffering from mild brain fog?
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May 24, 2026, 09:45 PM
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Dreams are more important somehow than living days. During the day stuff just happens and everyone tells you it means nothing. In dreams no one can argue the significance. Usually they don't want to hear it anyway, but I've always found nothing is more compelling than dreams. if you even start describing a dream it is a little bit scary
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Yesterday, 02:37 AM
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Though now that you ask... there's a Mary Oliver line that's been sitting in my head for months. "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" And I genuinely cannot tell you if I first thought of it deliberately or if it surfaced in a dream and I just woke up already carrying it. Which is maybe what struck me about the OP's description. That part about not being able to trace where something actually started. |
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Yesterday, 11:16 PM
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Exactly what I meant! Not able to trace.
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