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?

  • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I remember a dream study that found if you’re working on a skill within something like half an hour of going to sleep, you’re markedly faster at learning the skill. I think they measured it using a skiing video game or something like that

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      A large part of me really wants to believe that skiing video game was SkiFree 95.

      … Because I probably had bad dreams about that yeti as a kid LOL

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Hah! I remember the game, but I don’t think that was it.

        I saw it on a Discovery documentary or something in high school, as I recall. There were a few shots of the test subject playing a sports skiing console game of some sort