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Do you ever have this problem:

Someone needs an item, and you're like "Hey, I've got one of those that you can borrow", but then you realize that it's an item that you only have in your dreamworld, and so it's off in a parallel dimension somewhere where you can't get it.

I usually have a camera with me in my dreams, so that I can take pictures of cool looking stuff to show other people. But then when I wake up, I've accidentally left my camera, with all of the cool photos, in an alternative reality.

There was one time when I was reading LiveJournal in my dream, and I could see all of the posts that the other version of me had written. This was back when I didn't know what to write about, so I was thinking that this was great, because I could just copy the journal posts my other self had written into this journal. (Unfortunately I had forgotten most of them after I had woken up .)

Someone turned up the volume of my dreams in the last month; Also, I'm in Portland, OR right now.

Comments

[sezjasaneh.livejournal.com]

*laugh* That sounds awesome. You should keep a pen and paper by your bed, it might help.

[wickednavi.livejournal.com]

In my dreams often I draw and the dream me tries to show me how to do it, and once I wake up it slowly fades and once I get to paper I can barely remember the form. Always annoying.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Also skills, both "supernatural" and otherwise. Abilities that are so well developed that I actually feel the muscle memory required to utilize them. Unfortunately, as far as I know, altering one's density to achieve flight doesn't work in this particular fiction. Maybe in the next expansion pack.

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

I don't have that problem, but it sounds kind of fun. Yes, I can see how it'd also be annoying, but there's a definite cool factor, as well.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

On the camera issue, you obviously need a cameraphone.


But, beyond that mundane matter...

Somewhat. Not so often items, but as another poster mentioned, skills. I've learned some interesting thigns in my dreams, and it frustrates me to know end that these same principles don't work IRL.... I mean, it was bloody HARD to learn to levitate, thank you, and for that level of effort I should be able to use it.


I've also had one or two dreams that were so vivid, and which matched up with reality so well, I wasn't sure if they'd actually happened or not. Once I dreamt I had mouthed off to an exec at work - an exec who needed to be taken down a peg or ten - and gotten fired as a result. I almost ended up calling in to work to find out if I was still employed or not.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Back in high school, I would have extremely vivid, life-like dreams...about tedious schoolwork. I'd sometimes neglect to turn in assignments since I'd already done them in my dreams.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

In my case, it was wishful thinking. I didn't merely hate that job. I loathed it with every pore of my being; I was actively working to hurt the company and employing every underhanded trick I could come up with to degrade morale. I am "proud" to say I was massively successful....

But still hella weird. My brain came up with a perfectly plausible scenario in which I'd get fired, and managed to make it that convincing.

OR dreamez

[trema-slo.livejournal.com]

Maybe I've got one you can borrow to loan to the person who originally asked ... oh nevr mind! ( : GLAD you made it to P town OR. Please say hi to my friend Erin while you're there (not an lj person, sorry).
Wouldn't that be great to be able to harvest our dream creations, or even just to have multiple dream bodies to get around and do things with? As long as we could actually remember. Great post, gf.
T.L.

[solarbird]

When I do that, it's more likely to be the other way around. Plus, for bonus points, it happens with skills, too. (I can't do math in dreams; I can't fly here.)

[oygevalte.livejournal.com]

I envy people who have vivid dreams. I remember perhaps one dream every three or four months, and most times I wake with no recollection of having dreamed at all. Mine usually fade almost immediately, although there have been times when old, not terribly noteworthy dreams suddenly pop up in conscious memory YEARS after I had them. Strange.

My ex has sleep paralysis and could lucid dream... I can only imagine the endless creative concepts that could come out of that. She also had synaesthesia... She "saw" sounds as colors, in addition to hearing the sound. *jealouses*