Poll of the Day > Do you think people who can remember their dreams....have some kind of 'edge'?

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Sorry for the long explanation, but it's important to understand the poll's question.

You obviously don't have to participate.

Anyway....I'm a big fan of dreaming. I think dreams are fascinating and kind of a big deal. But they're also mysterious. Like....all those people who NEVER remember their dreams. But then you got those people who go on crazy adventures every night and can remember dreams they had years ago.

So I was thinking....

People who can remember their dreams really well....the people who can hang onto them when they wake up....feel and experience crazy things on a nightly basis......do you think...in some weird sorta way....they have lived a longer life than the people who never dream?

You lay down to sleep....and you go nowhere. Just a timeless void....and 8 hours later you wake up and go about your day. You experienced nothing. Nothing you can remember, anyway.

vs.

You lay down to sleep....and you go on a crazy adventure where you talk to dead loved ones, fight mutated versions of your middle school teachers, lick entire galaxies like they are made out of ice cream.....and fly like Superman so vividly that you can feel the wind on your face, the blood rushing to your feet, and all the juicy organs in your body lurching around when you turn really fast.

Don't you think the latter person experienced more? Don't you think that benefited them in some way, beyond just entertainment value?? Don't you think that experiencing such things on a nightly basis might have some longterm effects on them that the dreamless people don't get??? Like it makes them more emotionally in tune with themselves? Deeper? Maybe even...wiser? Any benefit at all? Some kind of 'edge' over the non-dreamers???


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dreamers, they never learn

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Have you ever had a dream and you want him to do you so much you can do anything?

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My dreams are too abstract to understand or put into a memory. Everything makes sense in the moment, of course, but later on they're too gibberish to even summarize. Like alternate rules for reality.

Must be programmer dreams. I start dreaming up a program, and that program becomes so abstract that I forget how I started, and then it gets so abstract that there is no takeaway and I only wake up happy that it was all going so well. I vaguely remember being happy that things were doing things that I predicted they would be doing. I think in the end I'm just looking at a big circuit with little pieces that do strange things.

I used to have nightmares where there was a puzzle in my head that I couldn't figure out, and the puzzle was so abstract that the only thing I could take away from it was that it something in my brain tried to combine things and ideas that didn't even exist on top of being incompatible with each other. Like hurting yourself by turning the oven on with a bike pedal and getting hurt on the spikes, when the oven doesn't exist and that's not what you're supposed to be doing right now, and you're not supposed to be doing anything at all, and you don't know why you're doing it or how to stop.

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Idk what use I'd have from them. They just kind of represent what I was thinking about during the day while parts of your brain shut off and do maintenance. I think a lot about AI and software so I get big logic puzzles.

Really if you want to explain why you don't have dreams, you probably just don't remember them. The part of your brain that creates long term memories is shut off while you're asleep.

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