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The badge came loose.
Anyway I had another ILE dream last night - this is getting
ridiculous. OK it was tangentially related to ILE but still. I also
remembered Ethan's bride in the previous dream as being Mel.
― Tom, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Last night I dreamed I was the protagonist a Haruki Murakami novel, accused
of some crime I hadn't committed. It was getting pretty hairy, what with all
these sinister Japanese secret societies on my case, but someone told me that
his books always ended up with people like me being all right. I can't
remember if it did, but the dream I remember involved my aunt going missing
and everyone being really upset. Then Lucy woke me up by playing Radio 5 too
loudly as she made whale-like splashings in the bath.
― Nick, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
eighteen years pass...
Does anyone else double dream?
By double dream, I mean where you have a dream that at some point "ends" or "rewinds" and starts again, sometimes with slight variation from the first and sometimes with a feeling of deja vu or realization that you are dreaming.
I dream a lot and this happens to me quite often (at least 10% of the time). The first time I remember it happening was in my late teens or early twenties and it seems to happen more as I've gotten older.
My theory is that dreams are just your mind taking short-term memories out and storing them in long-term memory. Since our memory works by building connections to other existing memories, the dream is our mind* making these associations in broad categories (i.e. the names on the filing cabinets or folders, like "work", "father", "vacation", "home"). This is why so often a dream mixes places/people like when you dream about your adult house but it looks just like the house you grew up in: your mind is associating your current "house/home" memories with much older "house/home" memories and has to activate them to make that connection. Similarly I find people are transposed in dreams, such as where a co-worker appears but your sleeping mind "knows" within the dream-logic that the person is someone else.
I wonder if the double dream is the final part of the associative process where your sleeping mind, having made the initial connection between memories in the first dream, re-reruns the dream to ensure the connection or tighten the bond between the memories.
*Whether this process is done by your sleeping mind as part of the dream, or your waking mind instantly upon waking and trying to recall the dream, is probably a discussion for another time/thread. I tend to go with the view that dreams are mostly non-narrative (which is why they are so weird) and it is only your waking mind, attempting to make sense of the dream, that adds the narrative after the fact.