mechanismj wrote:The logic hole. Yes. That gets me, too.
Do any of you find that, as you get older, it is harder to tell if the dreams you had when you were really young were dreams or actual memories? A lot of my earliest memories are just about as hazy as any of those early dreams. The older I get the harder it is to distinguish those things. Starting to get mushy, old person brains apparently.
Yes! Kind of. It's hard to tell the difference between what you felt in the dreams vs what you felt in reality when looking back in hindsight. Gets even harder if you brought feelings of the dream into reality along with you. Maybe a long-term memory thing?
Now that I'm older my brain will completely do away and forget about the dream after the first twenty minutes of waking up, then if something happens that ends up reminding me of a random moment in said-dream, boom. Entire dream suddenly remembered, feelings, environment, everything. Weird stuff, all it takes is a little reminder.
I've always been under the presumption that the reason we have dreams is some sort of self-preservation-preparation. Basically survival-practice. What would we do in these situations? How would these situations affect us if they were to happen? It is just the brain throwing already-known information right back at ya after all.