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?

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    I’ve had some truly memorable ones before. I can’t ever figure out how to influence them though.

    Lately I’ll dream that I’m stressed at some ex-job again, with surreal situations (like a restaurant cut in two, but the kitchen was far from the seating area, so I had to run a tray like 100 meters across the open desert in the middle of the night from side to side and people were pissed)

    I’m sad that when I see my late dad in my dreams he’s usually a bit angry at me over something.

    But a lot of the time it’s just a random cacophony of random fleeting things that felt like 3 seconds and suddenly my alarm is going off. :(

    I do miss my weird not-nightmare dreams…