brian_jaress comments on Dreams with Damaged Priors - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brian_jaress 09 August 2009 03:38:06PM 1 point [-]

It's dangerous to take any lesson from your own dreams, except a general warning that the mind plays tricks.

My dreams are disjointed, incoherent, frustrating sequences of events that could never happen in real life. For example, wandering through an indoor park full of acoustic shells and bumping into a killer whale, walking on its tail.

The closest thing to what you describe was dream in which I kept "waking up" just enough that, within the dream, I collapsed with fatigue and taleported into a bed (not my own).

Despite my actual dreams being bizarre, I've several times had false memories of banal dreams in the form of Déjà vu.