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Storytelling while asleep

About a billion years ago in college, I used experience every dream trope (false awakening, lucid dreaming, and just extremely vivid, movie-like dreams), along with sleep paralysis (which is kind of like dreaming, but you’re awake). Now I mostly have somewhat vivid dreams if I’m lucky, and the most I can lucid dream is detect that I’m in a dream or wake up on command, but can’t control it or stay asleep.

Dream Terminology

False awakening— A dream where you wake up…but you’re not actually awake. You’re still dreaming and you dreamed you woke up. Bonus if you’re stuck in a false awakening loop. 😑

Lucid dreaming— The ability to control your dreams and be aware that you’re dreaming. When I had this, I basically stopped having nightmares because I could control the outcome.

Sleep paralysis— Not really dream-related, but you feel like you’re dreaming. Sometimes you might wake up and realize you can’t move or open your eyes. And YMMV on this, but a lot of people sense an evil or malevolent entity nearby. IIRC, this really isn’t paranormal, but more psychological.

  • Dreams: It’s all About the Webdevs

    Dream #1: Web Developers and Their Guinea Pigs

    I was watching a video on guinea pig care. One of the things they warned about was when a guinea pig was doing something to them, that the owners not interrupt them, otherwise it would disrupt the relationship between guinea pig and owner. Ex. there was a shot of a GP jumping up and down (which last time I checked, was physically impossible for them to do?) on their owner’s back, which shows that they have a “web developer relationship”.

    (I then woke up thinking “Aww man, I don’t want to go to school!”)

    Dream #2: I Wonder if These Guys Have Guinea Pigs…

    An OC Jedi Master and Padawan team (“original character”, not “Orange County” :P) were at the Jedi Temple. The Padawan was a computer programmer/developer. She was also being bullied by another Padawan and she couldn’t figure out why. Eventually she found out he once had a girlfriend (another Jedi) who was also a programmer, who uh, died while coding. I tried to figure out why he would bully the other apprentice, unless if *gasp* he actually has feelings for her and didn’t want her to end up like his late girlfriend! :O (I also wondered why everything has to end up in romance.) Eventually the victim’s Master had a talk with the bully, who walked out like a cheerful little daisy, promising to do good in his studies and impress the other Masters. And that meant no bullying.

    (These dreams took place on different nights, btw.)

  • Dreams: Mocha’s Bizarre Adventure

    Mocha (yup, that’s right, my guinea pig) was trapped in an alternate reality and in order to escape it, she must create another with her mind.

    ( ._.) Guinea pig’s first epic dream adventure. 🥺

  • Solving Math Problems in My Sleep One Year After Graduating…FML

    A few days ago, L was having trouble with her algebra homework. She asked our mom for help, but the problem was so hard that not even our mom (math/business major and was really good at it) couldn’t figure it out, mainly because kids in her generation weren’t taught this kind of math.

    She asked me, but since I haven’t been in a math class in a couple years (ToT now I’m starting to feel old), I didn’t know (even though I tried solving it in my sketchbook). Worm88 explained eventually, but I wasn’t there to hear what he was saying.

    Just last night, I ended up dreaming that Kindaichi (from The Kindaichi Case Files) was given an extremely complicated equation to solve, which would lead to the identity of the murderer in a case he was involved in.

    Uhh…I was pretty sure he figured it out, but I woke up before I saw him solve it. But the instance I woke up, the answer came to me…

    And if you plug 0 in as y, you get 11*0 = 13*0 which be 0 = 0.

    Now the question is, where were these dreams when I still in school? D:

  • Dream: Graduation Prep Stress

    And the college graduation dreams continue. :O

    Only this one was a bit more stressful than the rest. XD The entire dream was about me trying to find my cap and gown, since Commencement was supposed to start in about an hour. Apparently, the students have lockers in a warehouse in this dream, so I went over to see if I could find my stuff in my locker. Nothing there. Then L’s friend’s mom said I might be able to find it at her house (which was also combined with some kind of wild animal exhibit and a food storage/warehouse area for a grocery store).

    There was nothing unusual about the storage area (other than it was part of someone’s residence), but the wild animal exhibit…ehehehe…

    It had hyenas. And other animals, like parrots. There was also a path that led to the storage area, going right through the exhibit (which was a shortcut from the kitchen). You could also buy meat like frozen spare ribs from the butcher there (either to give to the hyenas or to take home for dinner…). Just to increase the nightmarish aspect a bit, there were also animal parts from herbivores who were unlucky enough to get too close to the hyenas. There weren’t just body parts. There were chunks of body parts (ex. a part of a parrot head). X_x I only went in there to see if I could find my stuff there. Whenever I was in there, I always bought meat and ended up having to give them to the hyenas so they wouldn’t come after ME. O_O

    Pretty much the only reason why I was so bent on finding my grad gear was so I could actually walk in the ceremony and if I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t be able to graduate. Then I would have to wait a whole ‘nother year until I could finish school. :O (Even IRL, I would still be able to get my diploma, even if I wasn’t present at the ceremony ^^;)