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It makes sense, and it seems related to some anecdotal experiences. I've had variations of this dream's plot several times: I am at my living room talking to s
by bikamonki 10y ago
It makes sense, and it seems related to some anecdotal experiences. I've had variations of this dream's plot several times:
I am at my living room talking to someone. I tell this person that someone else is going to call on the phone. Then I walk towards the phone knowing that it will ring once I reach and grab it. Sure enough, as soon as I do it the phone rings, but it rings in 'reality', in other words I am already awake and I actually hear it ringing.
At first I tried to explain it by assuming that while still sleeping I hear the first ring which triggers the dream's plot and I actually wake up to the second ring. But it was hard to explain why the plot's timing was so precise as to match me grabbing the phone to the instant I wake up and hear it ring.
Then I had 'single events' that matched the dream's pattern: event E will happen in the future and I would dream plot P that would end at the exact T time of E happening in 'reality'. For example: I was dreaming I was in a gathering and someone came from behind, gabbed my shoulder and it was my mom waking me up. Or once I was dreaming that I was moving a heavy box which I dropped and the instant it hit the floor I woke up to a door slamming in my house due to the wind.
As in this experiment, I think that my brain built the dream's plot in milliseconds after unconsciously experimenting the actual event, wake up, boot up and play back the plot.