Wow, cool
I dreamed that my house had somehow acquired an extra bedroom.
Then I woke up, realised that was silly, got out of bed –
Then I woke up. Extra points for a dream-
(On the minus side, second time this week I've overslept. I need to get better at using this alarm clock…)
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OTOH, when I have an early start for something important I do often dream I'm waking up having overslept (then wake up properly and check the clock). This typically will happen a good few times.
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It's a strange feeling.
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When I finally did wake up, I had quite a prolonged "omg am i a butterfly" moment.
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Painkillers were quite scary. I don't think I had ever had a more realistic dream - I could feel the insides of my shoes.
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I once had a dream where I kept waking up and finding I was still in the dream in exactly the same place I was before I woke up and no matter how many times I woke up I kept finding I was in the same place and couldn't get out of the dream.
It was very odd, but I did wake up properly eventually... I think. Either that or I eventually found a discontinuity upon waking up.
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Perhaps it was the thorough mundanity that you never quite achieve in dreams. Why did Neo, when first removed from the Matrix and waking up in the real world, not immediately wonder if he was in another layer of Matrix? Because if he had been, Trinity would still have had an excuse to wear tight PVC. When he saw her in floppy blue wool, he knew he'd hit bottom.
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That left me feeling quite strange at least until the early afternoon.
(Hmm. I need a "recursion" userpic.)
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After that things get a bit odd, so if corridors start appearing move out. Or at least don't investigate.
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It's rather like tail-recursion optimization, only backwards.
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If this makes it sound like a strange and infuriating book, that's because it is. It's also an absolute doorstop. Enter at own risk.
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Perhaps it's most accurate to say: our dreams don't simulate enough of the world, well enough, for questions like "is such-and-such within that dream an experience of X happening or a dream that X happens?" to have answers. (Just like there might not be an answer to questions like "Was that thing you dreamed about really an old enemy of yours who had turned into a dragon, or was it a dragon pretending to be your old enemy?" or "What was on the other side of that door that kept moving away every time you turned towards it?".)
But I bet that neurologically the dreams from which you eventually pseudo-wake-up into other dreams are no different from the ones from which you wake up properly, into the real world.
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I can see that for some purposes dreams and deliberate fiction are very different things, but for the purposes of me waking up afterwards and going "wow, that was really cool", I'm inclined to treat dreams as basically a kind of improvised fiction...
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To a great extent we're arguing about words rather than facts here...