This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said “attention, this is a representative of the fediverse speaking… going into effect today, dreamland itself, err, everyone’s dreams, are now a part of the fediverse; that is all, happy floating on cloud nine” and then suddenly a bunch of Stalingrad ninjas popped out of nowhere and ambushed me (yeah, how would you react if that’s the case). So I guess I’m not even safe from everyone in my sleep.

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This has been a recurring one, but it’s slowly changed as time has passed.

I’m on an endless stretch of road, sometimes walking, sometimes driving. On either side is just an endless ocean of grass. Sometimes I can catch sight of what looks like an old campfire out of the corner of my eye, but I can never look back far enough to really see.

For a long time, it was always this drive to keep moving. Never stop. Something is behind me, and I need distance. Nothing else matters. I couldn’t even look back if I tried.

Over the last year, that feeling of being chased has went away. I don’t wake up panicking. Now, there’s a feeling of destination, and that I’m getting… Somewhere. I genuinely don’t know. But it feels closer. And now, when I try, I can look behind myself somewhat. Not fully, but enough to see that there’s at least more road immediately behind me.

It’s become kinda hopeful. Not trying to read any grand importance into it, don’t think it’s prophetic, but it started to shift as I started taking better care of myself. Makes me kinda wonder if it isn’t some fucked up part of my brain going “Hey, we’re getting better”.

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That’s a very nice progression! I think it’s hard to say with dreams. Sometimes I wake up and was very obviously dreaming about something that was getting to me in real life, or something good that I aspire for in real life, and I can very easily see the path my brain took to want to show me that.

Then sometimes it shows me some insane bullshit that makes no surface sense at all, so it’s hard to say. I think you could relatively safely read something into that, especially if it’s ringing true for how you feel.

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I was on leave during WWIII and trying to.get to my brother who was wounded…found out he was in Hong Kong at a baseball game

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Welp, I just read what’s last in my dream log, and it’s probably not something to be shared.

Just another fucked up dream.

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Do you think that practicing remembering your dreams helps you remember more of them?

I almost never remember my dreams – the other night, one had something to do with half-n-half, but I haven’t remembered any for weeks. My current thought is just that they’re just really boring.

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In my case it actually does. Recently I stopped journaling my dreams and I can’t remember having dream for a while.

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Nope. The last one I remembered is from 2024-03-20

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I’m late but I want to get it down because I just woke up: I was giving relationship advice to Martha Stewart in a midriff top in the living room of my grandma’s old house, on a couch I’ve never owned. She was very insecure and seemed to be tired of the rich type guys. That is all.

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I can’t recall the last dream I had, it’s been years since I’ve either had a dream or had a dream I could remember. Supposedly everybody has dreams, but I can’t ever recall them and I used to recall them pretty vividly.

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Same boat.

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