Dreams, yo.

[seclark]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

On occasion, I have some pretty vivid dreams. But details fade within moments.
To the point I've sometimes wondered whether, when you're talking about genius level creative people, they might have something that lets them recall their dreams just a little bit longer than others.
It hasn't happened often, and as I said the details regressed so quickly that I can't assess the merit of it, but I remember dreaming something where I knew I was dreaming, but I was also thinking 'if I can remember this, it would be an epic story.'
Other times, I've known I was dreaming something that I realized was important [a problem I was dealing with, or an emotion that was roiling me IRL] and woke with a drive to remember so I could learn something from whatever my unconscious was processing. But it invariably fails to survive so much as getting out of bed, let alone time to get up, get some coffee and think it over soberly.
Ironically, the broad strokes of last night's dream actually stuck with me, although the details reliably fell away. But even now I recall that as I going along I thought was triaging all these emergency injuries for some big tragedy, but somewhere along the line in my dream it occurred to me that I was actually only doing tons and tons of sutures. And I went into a funk, even still in the dream, that even though I was objectively 'helping' I was only doing things any idiot could do. So I trudged along from patient to patient, closing up cuts with a little needle and thread. Make of that what you will. . . .

The ****, dude?
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