Actually, it's only very rarely that I can relate my dreams to any of my experiences, recent or otherwise.
I find it rather amazing how many people's dreams, when they describe them, sound basically mundane, like things that could more or less happen in real life. For me, dreams have always been, not just too weird to possibly mistake for reality, but too weird to make sense of after the fact.
I have one dream in particular which I remember because it was probably the happiest dream I've ever had, and left me in a great mood when I woke up, but if I tried to describe it I wouldn't even be able to explain why it was happy.
I'm like this too, except that I can make sense of the weird dreams: just not with normal reasoning. I wake up from dreams with weird and complicated plotlines with the absolute conviction that the plotline was /consistent in dream-logic/. I usually make the effort to remember an interesting dream when I wake up though, so I have a good database of information to work from.
Dream logic involves things like: if you willed something to happen hard enough, it happens (so you can jump from buildings if you just willed a soft landing into happening), every build...
Given how much you have learned of the techniques of rationality, of Bayesian updates and standard of evidence, of curiosity being the first virtue and being willing to update your beliefs... have any of your dreams been affected by them?
The reason I ask; I'm reading the entirely of the Sequences, and am about an eighth of the way through. And I've just woken from a dream whose plot was somewhat unusual. I had noticed some mildly strange animals and/or people, and upon trying to find out what was going on, discovered a small riverside camp of people who fell well outside what I understood to be the realm of human variation. The person I had started investigating with then claimed to be a god, or if I preferred, a vastly powerful and intelligent alien entity, and offered to do something to prove it to me. I remembered that I had once established for myself a standard of evidence for exactly this sort of question - the growth of a new, perfectly functional limb, in a way outside of present medical understanding... and in a few moments, my dream-self was the possesser of a nice, long tail. I had not been expecting that to happen, and noticed I was extremely confused, and deliberately raised my estimate of the probability that I really was talking to a god-like figure by some number of decibans. At the end of the dream, said deity-figure said that he would offer to split us off from his 'main project', on a few conditions - one of which was 'no more clues', since he had given us 'more than enough to figure out what's going on'... ... whereupon I questioned a few things, and immediately woke up.
I don't recall having a dream of anything like that sort before - and I dream in understandable narrative plots so often that I sometimes dream sequels. So I'm curious; is this a normal sort of thing that happens to LessWrongians?