I had a dream recently where I was guiding a civilisation over multiple thousands of years. Att the end of the dream when they had finally overcome their problems, one of them said to me ‘being a person, when really you’re just a blob of goo, is the most profound thing you could ever do.’

And it hit me so hard. All I am is a bunch of cells held together in a skin bag. And yet I’m a person with feelings and experiences and desires. And I did that, I live it. It makes us all so valuable.

Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
    46·
    9 days ago

    Have your dreams ever had effects on you like that?

    Not like that, no. But I had a dream once about a specific coding/logic issue where in my dream I came up with a solution that actually worked in reality.

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      9 days ago

      When I was in college I was super stuck on a calculus homework problem. I worked on it futilely for hours before giving up and deciding to email my instructor about it in the morning. That night I solved the problem in my dream, and when I woke up I actually remembered the dream and it was the correct solution. My instructor thought it was hilarious when I told him about it in class.

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        I remember a dream study that found if you’re working on a skill within something like half an hour of going to sleep, you’re markedly faster at learning the skill. I think they measured it using a skiing video game or something like that

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          2·
          8 days ago

          A large part of me really wants to believe that skiing video game was SkiFree 95.

          … Because I probably had bad dreams about that yeti as a kid LOL

          • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            Hah! I remember the game, but I don’t think that was it.

            I saw it on a Discovery documentary or something in high school, as I recall. There were a few shots of the test subject playing a sports skiing console game of some sort

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 days ago

      Oh yeah i have dreams like this when i leave engineering coursework too late but, despite having dream insights that solve my problems, i’ve decided it’s more efficient to just never ever leave those things too late again

    • chunes@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 days ago

      Yes, I’ve had this happen many times. Go to bed thinking about a software problem, wake up thinking “what if…” and then I go implement it and it works