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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 22, 2024 12:10:21 GMT -5
My wife and I will often have coffee in the morning and recount the dreams we've had the night before. Last night we both had epic dreams with a ton of details. A number of the features seemed to coincide and not particularly crafted from recent experiences, TV shows we watched, etc. I suppose 40+ years of mutual influence factors in.
Anyone else experience this phenomenon?
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 22, 2024 12:28:30 GMT -5
"You have been absorbed..."
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 22, 2024 12:38:04 GMT -5
The frequency that we often finish each other's thoughts or sentences makes me wonder if we're becoming the same person. My poor wife, lol.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 22, 2024 12:52:03 GMT -5
My wife doesn't remember what she dreamed last night.
I, on the other hand, can still remember dreams I had when I was a child.
Great: more useless information cluttering up my memory banks...
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 22, 2024 12:59:56 GMT -5
Many years ago my wife had a tediously boring job in the evenings where I'd occasionally join her and help. We'd have frivolous conversations to pass the time. On one occasion we started to talk about dreams we've had and the process led me into some sort of regressive state where one dream recollection led to another. I started to recall dreams I had when I was a kid. Kinda freaked me out. I realized there was a frequent theme of walking, walking through strange yet familiar towns. Another aspect is the fact that I have an impeccable sense of direction in dreams, contrary to my waking world. Even if a dream is centered in a room I'm left with the confidence that this wall faces north, that wall south...
Dreams. They be weird.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 22, 2024 13:33:03 GMT -5
I realized there was a frequent theme of walking, walking through strange yet familiar towns. Ah: you were already "on tour"! |
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Post by Davywhizz on Jan 24, 2024 3:04:29 GMT -5
Interesting. Freud wrote about it, but doubted it existed, though Carl Jung developed the idea of the "collective unconscious" which we all share, not just people in close relationships.
Sometimes families in therapy talk about shared dreams, but the suspicion is often that it's actually a memory they'd prefer had not happened. Instead it has become one of the family myths, in which the past has been edited to be more acceptable. That's not to say shared dreams don't otherwise occur.
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