Thread: Dreams

Originally Posted by faesce

i don't mean embellished in the sense that it's whacky or exaggerated in conception, i mean embellishment in the transference of that knowledge. and yeah, a "profound experience" might not be transfered exactly as it happened either but at least you were conscious during that experience and have a much better grasp on what happened than in a dream.

I'm not comparing the relative values of profound experiences when asleep or awake, just saying that communicating a dream is like communicating one of those.

You're just as aware, while the dream is occuring, of what's going on in the dream as you are in a conscious experience (not counting hallucinogenics or other party favours), it's only the loss of memory from when you transition between sleep and wakefulness that causes trouble. This can generally be overcome. Also, the longer it's been since you experienced something (even a matter of a couple months), and this is conscious experience, not a dream, the poorer your recollection is of the event, eventually reaching the point where you begin fabricating filler.

i guess a simpler analogy would be like explaining a comic.