Imagine thinking you were in Sheffield and then realizing it was just a dream. Oh the relief.
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Everytime I see something like this I think back to that episode.
Batman can’t read in a dream but maybe you can.
Please wake up! We don’t know what to do anymore. If you receive this message, please wake up! Also, whatever you are dreaming right now, look behind you NOW!
Theres a wall
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Ahhh like an old favorite of mine
DON’T PLEASE DON’T JUST COUNT YOUR FINGERS PLEASE
Genuine question, why not?
The problem is mirrors don’t have a certain appearance, they change texture based on what’s in front of them and because of that the brain doesn’t have a static model of it so the brain just mixes everything you’ve ever seen in a mirror together while trying to render it
Some people see just normal things some people see nothing and some see real fucked up shit like their face getting torn apart or something. If you panic while looking at a mirror in a dream, your brain knows what you fear way more than you
Another thing to consider is the human brain being also able to render really high quality images and animations.
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t consider that, by the way is the brain really capable of reproducing life-like experiences or do we just fool ourselves into believing that our dreams were somehow more organic than they truly are?
I don’t know and we might never know. Brain creates the image and watches the image
But in my experience with lucid dreams objects have really high quality textures. You can even feel the bumpiness when you touch them it’s mind blowing
I hate to say it but I have an IQ of 130 maybe that’s why my dreams are extremely high quality
Only stuff with complex random patterns which you don’t see regularly in real life have sections you can’t remember. Sometimes those sections are filled with other parts of the object, sometimes they are filled with a generated pattern. These “filled” sections are generally blurry or smudgy
Some experiments I made:
- If you try to “load” a lot of these complex objects world just starts shaking and crashes.
- You don’t wake up at morning if the world crashes, you just wake up at the middle of the night. And if you have a smartwatch the sleep graph shows that you jumped from directly REM to Awake, skipping light sleep
- I set up a recording of myself saying “can you hear me inside the dream” to play while I’m in the REM cycle. You can hear the real world inside a dream even when you’re not lucid
- When you tell dream characters “you’re a part of my dream. You’re not real” they panic and scream in fear while running around which “crashes” the dream
- I generally create a “god” which helps me manage the world much easily. One time I asked that “god” to show me a color I’ve never seen. It was beautiful, kind of close to magenta but words can’t describe the beautiful color I saw there (or maybe thats what my brain wants me to think)
- Computers and phones doesn’t work. Icons and text look garbled
- Physics are glitchy. Objects fall in fixed speed unlike the real world. There’s literally no impact response. Collisions either feel like you hit an immovable object or cussions
- Light is not simulated as individual photons. In other words your brain doesn’t have RTX. Reflective objects like mirrors dont work. Turned off screens and cars simply dont reflect anything, they just look either matte or glossy.
I feel like I’m writing a bug report to god lmao
Those are my personal experiences anyways. Idk if everyone’s dreams work like that
That’s actually really cool, I never experienced lucid dreams so that’s why I was asking.
I feel like I’m writing a bug report to god lmao
Got it, removing dreams altogether in the next patch, enjoy the void suckers ;)
Gold mine of a post thanks for sharing your experiences.
when you tell dream characters they aren’t real they panic and scream in fear
This one is particularly interesting, do you have any further details like what exactly they scream or why this might happen. Are dream characters psudo-sentient consciousnesses like tulpas that literally have an existential crisis when you point out the nature of their reality?
Have you ever tried to render and touch a highly complex mathematical/abstract object like the Mandelbrot set? This may be a good way to test just how much ‘resolution’ your brain can render since fractals contain infinite detail.
Well we don’t know what consciousness is yet but I think if the human brain can handle one “consciousness” it can handle multiple partial ones, especially when in dreams where your brain can run much more efficient. But as I said we need to know what consciousness is before we can answer this question
I also think multiple personality disorders prove that human brain can simulate multiple people
Some characters don’t panic and calmly ask questions like “Will I die if you wake up”, “Is my whole life a lie, am I just an actor to you”. It geniunely makes you feel bad for simulated characters inside your brain. That’s why I don’t do that much
Have you ever tried to render and touch a highly complex mathematical/abstract object like the Mandelbrot set?
Imma try that next time but it will prob just crash or look blurry. But the brain doesn’t work with maths, it’s more similar to an image generation AI
Why doesn’t the brain just enable ray tracing ? Is it stupid ?
edit: bruh I just read your next comment and you have already kinda made the joke
How can you be so sure the time will be different? As far as I know we haven’t discovered the laws of the dream world.
Funnily, the couple of times I do remember my dreams, my mind likes to use the changing time against me to turn them into nightmares
Bro… That’s just life and it’s called ageing.
Oh.
i’m hungry, everything is awful and i wish i was asleep again… yeah, definitely awake.
I spent the first 12 years of my life or so, needing glasses without knowing, so I got good navigating rooms on instinct not sight. So now the number one way I realise I’m dreaming is when a room layout is off, even a little bit. Yay, lucid dreams.
But somehow, my phone/laptop/tech not functioning the way its supposed to never tips me off… I blame windows and Android. Boo stress nightmares.
Every sign has a story and I’d love to hear that one.
The guy who hung it printed it out and taped it up just before snapping the photo. Really cool story honestly.
Story: prop for internet memes
Looked at my watch a minute ago and it was 2:12. Just looked again and it’s a completely different time, 2:13
Welp this day is a stupid dream I guess
Hear is an easy hack, try screaming out of fear, you won’t be able to scream or hear yourself screaming, and you will wake up on the spot.
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perseverance is key. if you keep at it a few will join you , and the rest will follow , that’s just how societies work.
I don’t wanna wake up though
If I was dreaming I would not be able to read that sign. Words would be all blurry and jumbled.
Not always, I find words perfectly legible in dreams but the text will change if I look away and look back again.
I Google stuff in my dreams all the time and it legible. But then when I submit the query it wakes me up because my brain is all like “dude you are the computer simulating this entire dream world you ain’t connected to the internet. Googling is just asking yourself the same question again”. That kind of breaks the immersion
I can never get electronics of any kind to work in dreams.
Same
So would the ⌚
I pinch my nose and attempt to inhale through it, if successful, I’m dreaming.
Shoutout to my piece of shit brain that figured out that trick and decided to simulate accurate nose pinching physics.
But if you’re in control enough to pinch and inhale, are you asleep enough to be really dreaming? Or is your mind just wandering half-awake?
Personally, if I can get to “I think/hope this is a dream” I’m already starting to wake up.
And it’s usually because I suddenly recognize a familiar dream-trope, like “the reason I’m wandering this disgusting public bathroom looking for a toilet that’s not overflowing with X-crements is because I need to wake up and go pee.”
Or the one where I know I’m drowning and I can only hope it’s a dream because I’m trapped and the only way out is to die and wake up gasping.
But I can’t change my actions in the dream itself unless I’m already coming to the end of the natural sleep cycle, and then it’s basically do I wrap this up or extend it a little?
Or sometimes I haven’t fully fallen asleep and maybe I realize this scenario is at a beach or on a cruise ship or in a dock house or a half-lit indoor pool and I’m like, NOPE!
But pinch my nose, check my watch, look in a mirror? I might as well try to run.
You pinch your nose while awake as well, let’s say whenever I stop at a red light, I pinch my nose, can’t breathe, if I dream and see a red light, I’ll remember to pinch my nose based off the prior habit. The marker you leave to remind you while asleep is a habit built while awake.
Yup. In dreams I cannot achieve anything no matter the effort. And that failure loops.
The fact that I can post this means I’m not dreaming.
Bro that’s when you’re awake
