zzz - dream

never had a dream in a fantasy-like setting. they've always been places i've been before and solving dull problems like having to catch an appointment or having to cram for an exam next period.

maybe my imagination is just soykaf .

>>1723
For me, I don't even solve puzzles or relive anything, random stuff just happens, like gibberish or random still images of things I know popping up.

>>1722
All of my fantasy dreams are based in an hellish version of fantasy.
E.g.: I'm a mermaid. I get kidnapped by fishermen and I later run off and find and island of stowaways. Then we become pirates and steal a ship. Here's where it gets good. I'm gunfighting another captain that got on my ship but instead of me or him shooting each other, a wooden skeleton on the Captain's cabin door jumps out and shoots me in the back of my head and I die.

>>1722
I agree that it's not representative of most people's dreams, my own included. But I'm sure I've experienced a few fantasylike dreams, although they are rare. I usually think of images like yours as being more polished versions of dream scenes, not necessarily faithful reproductions of the original.

I have had a few dreams where things got really fuarrrking weird landscape wise. Other than that it's usually like you said. Reality but things are just a little off.

they're shown that way because it tends to grab the most attention, and it is a quick and easy association

I've had some where I realise my super abilities.. ie. powerful psi and strength, also I realised I could jump through time pretty easily, allowing me to pass through solid objects! That was really cool until 'agents' showed up trying to stop me. I just beat them up, destroying the strange building they conjured me into... I can fly as well ~ I guess all this could be associated with imagery in movies, like in a fantastical sense... Though psi is something more of an oddity

>>1730
AKIRAAAAA

I was watching The Sarah Connor Chronicles yesterday and Cameron the cyborg, who does not dream, is looking at a Dali painting and asks John if dreams are really like that. The thing is, I don't believe Dali meant to paint direct imagery from his dreams but rather something that would point the brain of the viewer in that direction by suggesting certain things, because it's pretty much impossible to capture a dream on canvas anyway. These fantasy landscapes might be seen as an attempt at something similar (though I will admit they don't do anything for me on a subliminal level even if some of them are kinda pretty to look at).

I think that the content of most dreams has to do with the mental associations people have with things. People who think about fantastical things or movies a lot, who describe their perceived realities in terms of the books they've read, or ideas they've had, can project those ideas in the dreamscape.

>>1730 You sound like you've watched the Matrix.

>>1722
I feel like I have had a lot of dreams with things that were very strange. Like if any moment you paused the (dream)world and took a snapshot it would defenitly not look like real life to anyone but those who are blind. I have a lot of dreams where the world is really wierd seeming. Certainly there are some where all that seems to have happened is that I am at school and something happens strange (where probably the background could be grey for all I care), but there are some where certainly everything seems very wierd and this sort of scene would not be too strange in principal. I agree, with the general assesment of alpha-game-iness. Things can be wierd often absurd, and certainly they do not make sense. This scene, at first glance looks pretty polished and therefore implausible.

However, after looking at more than just the thumbnail image I noticed that I liked this picture rather a lot more because it is really bad in a lot of ways. It looks more polished than a dream, still, perhaps (but a dream seems sort of like a wierd self-polishing thing that cannot really be takes at one frame and evaluated), but it defenitly is flawed in many ways.

Therefore, too me, this picture seems like a fine generic representation of dreams. Certainly it is fantasy, but the principal of it is that it looks alright at first. But really it is pretty screwy.

>>1722
My dreams are always this hazey mess of things I know IRL, but much more realistic than fantastical

However that's not always the case. I've had a few dreams where the setting was fantastical: strange white mists in a forest, massive alien waves engulfing the Earth, being below a relatively vivid waterfall/rock face, very bright settings, nonsensical urban environments that are possible but not present IRL

I can say that geography is out the window, like when my current home is across the streets from my elementary school