Dreaming Breaks Science...

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[al-che-ra]

Lucid dreaming is what intrigues me the most because it's something entirely on another level compared to normal un/semi conscious dreams. When I first learned how get inside them, the near indistinguishable resemblance to waking reality and having all 5 senses intact with full consciousness and control changed my life forever. I have a feeling in the future some breakthroughs may finally be made when we discover more about human consciousness.

[satgurs]

The weird part about dreams for me is how you can just sort of 'know' some things. Like, it doesn't have to be related to anything in the real world. You could imagine that children were originally cats and turned into humans as they grew up, and your mind would just accept that as a fact. It really makes me wonder how many things we just make up and our mind just doesn't question them.

[laineysays]

What really fascinates me is how we sense time in a dream. I often have those dreams that feel like hours or days have gone, when in reality i just had a 15 min nap.

[blm]

One thing that fascinates me about some dreams. (A rasta in the movie John dies at the end explains this) Say you are having a dream and in that dream someone is about to blow you up with dynamite. When the dynamite explodes you wake up to the thunder and lighting or maybe some other loud bang. Now how did our brain know to time the event so perfectly. One of those things that makes you think about time and how it might really behave.

[prod.blizzrd]

I've had lucid dreams on a couple occasions and whenever I mention to the people in the dream that they are in fact not real, they always got really angry with me. Like I wasn't supposed to know that it's a dream

[tomowhawkk]

it gets weirder when you dream something that ends up happening in real life that same day. has happened to me on a few occasions where i have a vivid dream that i just shrug off, but then that same day i find myself experiencing the situation i dreamt of almost exactly. taught me to pay closer attention to my dreams

[natebit]

This reminds me of the time I was writing a story, and after I went to sleep, the main character came to me in the dream and we sat around a fire together, eating fish. They described a few errors I've made in the writings compared to their sheet, and gave me advice on how to write them better. After taking time to apply their criticism the next day, I've found that writing them became a lot more fun, and others enjoyed their characters a lot more.

[PrettyDamnDandy]

I've "experienced" death multiple times in very vivid dreams (car crashes, being shot/stabbed, falling and not waking up just before impact, etc. ) and have unironically felt that those dreams have traumatized me in a very mild but noticeable way, it's fascinating to me and was what prompted me to read Jung's works. The most memorably terrifying one I had so "realistically" emulated the pain of being non-immediately but fatally shot in the head so well, writhing, shock, feeling of coldness, and all, that I still get chills/minor anxiety when I recall it as I would an actual traumatic experience despite knowing it never happened. An abundance of those types of dreams (and positive ones) have driven me to a point where I firmly believe the line between reality and dreams is much more blurred than most people think but to what extent we unfortunately just do not know.

[dialog_box]

"I decided my door wasn't locked" is the most quintessential lucid dream experience for me. I think there's some ambiguity about what qualifies as a lucid dream. Like I know some people who say they always lucid dream because they're always aware that they're dreaming, but they've never had the power to control it. But for me, it's the experience of just going "Oh, this is all in my head, so I can just make things up."

[Cookie_Department]

2:11 "it was revealed to me in a dream" is actually a reliable source now

[Amonimus]

I think dreams are just the imagination on autopilot. When you are really tired, when you think of something with eyes closed, it gets more vivid.

[junebeedle]

the craziest thing about lucid dreaming to me is what happens when you tell the people in your dream that it is in fact a dream.

for me, i’ve lucid dreamed only 2 or 3 times in my entire life. after the first time, and after seeing stuff online about other people’s experience with telling the people in their dreams, it became a goal of mine.

the next time i had a lucid dream, almost as soon as i realized, i got a little too excited and started yelling at everyone that they weren’t real and that they’re in a dream, almost like i was rubbing it in. turns out, this maybe wasn’t the best idea. everyone stopped. they all just stared at me. they had this creepy look on their faces, like they were slightly mad. it was super creepy.

the excitement over the fact that i was lucid dreaming woke me up pretty soon after this, but i would’ve liked to stay and find out if the people in my dream would have ever gone back to acting normal or not.

[qoxx]

the weirdest thing about dreaming is how you know things you never learned irl, like seeing a dream where you're a college professor giving a lecture on a subject you're completely clueless on irl, but everything you say makes sense and is the only thing you fail to remember when you wake up. happened to me once and i woke up thinking "i knew a fact in my dream that i don't actually know and i can't really remember it to fact check it".

[brobungee]

I love finding great channels before they blow up

[EmJay_okay]

When I was around 10 I used to dream every night for months that I had a family in a house at the top floor of an block of apartments i had never seen before. Every night however we would do new things, I got to know them more and better, and I even started to figure out my way to school from there cause I would go there in my sleep. It got to the point were reality of here and the reality of my dreams were mixed up and I wouldn't know how many days passed in my sleep and how many days passed when I was awake. Finally there was this big fight in my dream family. They all told me I had to leave. I asked them why but sadly i do'n't remember what they said. After that night I never had that dream again. I was devastated. I think i even tried to go back to the apartment in my dream but it was empty. It always freaked me out how detailed the dreams were and I always wondered why and how it happened. So its cool to know science has no clue either.

[Simulacruel]

When we are awake, our brains are simulating a representation of the outside world. Dreaming is the same thing that happens when you are awake: Neurons fire, filling in the details of experience, and simulating an internal reality.

[kelleemerson]

While your body/brain rests, your consciousness is not needed and plays.

[GabrielFury-mgdu]

I'm a sucker for finding misspelled words and I really appreciate that you go out of your way to misspell every word you can that it makes sense to misspell. Genius level subliminal engagment

[billboballsaggins]

When my great grandfather died back in 2020 I felt so guilty for not spending as much time with him as I felt like I could have. School, work, and life just got in the way of me visiting him and by the time he was on his death bed I couldn't muster the mental and emotional strength to see him one more time. I felt awful and I worried that in his last moments of life he would wonder if I actually loved him or not. Cut to a few weeks later I'm still an emotional wreak. I go to sleep on night and I had such a realistic dream that I was walking up his drive way and he greeted me out in his front yard. He was wearing a white polo-shirt and some light brown maybe khaki golf pants and he was holding a glass of wine. He looked much healthier and even a bit taller than he was before he died. I walked up to him and was just like "Hey you dead?". I don't remember everything he said but I very clearly remember him giving me a hug, kissing me on the head and saying "I'm doing great Willy". I tried making sense of this dream in a rational way. My grandpa loved golf when we was younger and he was an avid wine connoisseur so I just chalked those parts of the dream up to my brain just taking the aspects of what I knew him for and put that into my dream.

A few months go by and I'm still upset about his death but I'm feeling a bit more at peace with it when I had another dream where me and my grandfather were walking along this levy near where I live. Now in real life this levy has a trail and its a shithole. Garbage is everywhere, there's lots of homeless people around, its not somewhere you'd wanna go walking alone at. But in this dream the trail was so clean and it was almost like it was the middle of spring. These beautiful flowers were growing along the sides of the trail and the river was so blue and beautiful. My grandfather was walking with me along this trail and we were just talking. When I talked to him during both of these dream I can't recall exactly what we talked about but I always tell people the overall meaning of the conversation if that makes sense.

From what remember we was telling me to stop feeling bad about not seeing him. He completely understood why I didn't go and that he was having a great time where ever he was. I have this idea that he told me he was with his family and his old doctor buddies we worked with back in the day and that everything was fine. I've told this story to people who tell me there's a logical answer to it and for all I know they are completely correct. But I truly feel like I was actually talking to my grandfather and whatever force there is in the universe whether that's god, some kind of cosmic force, the flying spaghetti monster, it doesn't matter. I have absolute faith that life doesn't end when we die and we do see those we love again.

[KatyKatetheLeeKaylee]

What always perplexes me as well is the fact that the mind can simulate things that aren't at all possible, but FEEL possible. Like flight, retaining that weightlessness you feel in pools or when going down a sharp hill, but your brain sustains that experience to mimic what it could feel like. Breathing water but still functioning has always thrown me off, because it's a feeling I literally can't describe. I'm sure it's terrifying, realistically. Even then, I've had a dream SO intense that it woke me up from a purely unexplainable full-body feeling. I literally can't explain it because I've never felt anything else in my life to compare it to. It wasn't pain, pleasure, muscular paralysis, drunkenness, nothing- it was its own separate unique experience. I'm also a lucid dreamer, and have actively taken myself out of uncomfortable situations sometimes by waking up, but then I would go back to sleep to start right where I left off simply because I was curious about the outcome.