{"id":3305,"date":"2020-08-11T19:33:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2020-08-12T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T13:54:19","slug":"intro-to-dream-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/11\/intro-to-dream-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Dream Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I was in college, I remember not being able to recall my dreams when I woke up. I had concluded that I didn\u2019t dream anymore. I was corrected by a friend that everyone dreams1<\/a><\/sup>. A few years after college I started being able to recall my dreams when I woke up. Sometimes I would write them down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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This is a sketch I took about a dream I had in 2015 where I got out of my car in my driveway and saw an ice scraper and a hammer with a rotted handle in the grass. What did it mean?!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I know from speaking to my wife that she often has a plot driven dream, in a way that a task or objective is at hand. I do not have plot driven dreams often (or at least from what I can recall). Nor do I recall any extravagant dreams where I am piloting a giant Donkey Kong mech against a giant tumbleweed to save all the world’s sushi2<\/a><\/sup>. My dreams are fairly mundane compared to my imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I do have dreams they are often like a remix of people, places, or circumstances. I\u2019ve had the dream where I didn\u2019t study for a college exam at all. I\u2019ve had several dreams where I\u2019m driving a car but something is hindering my ability to control the car, like driving from the back seat, or breaks that don\u2019t work. I dream of people I used to know well but no longer stay in touch with. But I rarely can recall a plot of why I am in that circumstance. This has led me to a fun thought experiment or concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I don\u2019t believe this theory at all, I still think it\u2019s a fun way at looking at dreams. I imagine that my subconscious is piercing through a membrane of other realities when I dream. As my subconscious drifts through alternate realities I see another world where something could have happened which explains why I don\u2019t see anything crazy or non-believable. These realities are the closest to my own, which is why often I don\u2019t see any realities where I\u2019m world leader or piloting a giant mech. It doesn\u2019t rule out that I can\u2019t see those dreams, it just means my subconscious would have to drift further out into the Dreamisphere™ which would require further dream energies. When I wake up, I often feel like something<\/em> has changed. It\u2019s similar to that feeling that I get when returning home from a long vacation where home feels slightly (by a small percentage) unfamiliar3<\/a><\/sup>. Did my subconscious move to a new reality that\u2019s almost indiscernible from my own?4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I present to you the Dreamisphere. The only way to travel between realities. Please forgive my bad handwriting. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Like I said it\u2019s just a fun thought experiment. This would be a cool science fiction story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually believe that dreaming is basically the brain\u2019s process for defragmenting and compartmentalizing information. So, basically I\u2019m just watching this when I dream: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now all I want is to dream that I\u2019m piloting that giant Donkey Kong mech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looks like I’m not the only one who had that idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/CatchShiroCX\/status\/1118204214185009152\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
  1. Don\u2019t we all? [Long sigh while gazing into the horizon.] ↩<\/a><\/li>
  2. Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m writing this fanfic. It will come out in 2028. ↩<\/a><\/li>
  3. Not quite this:
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  4. Remember the show Sliders? ↩<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n