I don’t often have dreams or remember my dreams, when I do they’re usually either me somehow being back in school despite graduating over 20 years ago, or I’m living some better version of my life that I end up feeling bad about after I wake up. But I’ve had a couple recently that were a bit out of the ordinary for me and are making me wonder if it’s possible to have a dream that, albeit a fictional scenario, seems otherwise plausible and logical.
For instance, the dream I just had involved me arriving at work (which I always drive to because USA), but in my dream I didn’t drive. When I got there I put a blanket down in a parking space, then pretended to pull a car into the space over the blanket, and pretended to also lock up the car afterward. I acknowledged a fellow “coworker” (I put this in quotes because it wasn’t someone I recognize from real life but in the context of the dream I knew them as a coworker) passing by as I “parked” my “car” and they treated it as perfectly normal. As an aside while I type this, I don’t know that I’ve ever driven in a dream I had.
As I approached the store I work at (which was in the location of an old job I had ~20 years ago rather than my current job’s location), there was a sticker on the door saying that the store had changed locations, but didn’t say where or have any other details. Given I had just worked there yesterday this came as a surprise to me and my other “coworkers” outside (quotes again because none of them were actual people I work with).
Among said coworkers was one person dressed in a suit (I work in food service) who was actually like 3 different colored versions of the same person (think of a multiplayer game like Gauntlet where you have like a red wizard, yellow wizard, etc.). He was arguing with someone else that he was a warlock lawyer, the other person was insisting he’s a wizard. As I looked around the crowd of my coworkers gathered outside I saw the only person I recognize from my actual life, my boss’s boss, our district manager, who also was unaware of the store moving location, and was trying to find out more information.
Anyway, that’s where the dream ended, thanks for reading this far if you have. What weird dreams have you had lately? Do you remember having any dreams that just made you go “yeah, that seemed normal, I could see that happening hypothetically?”
Almost never. My dreams are usually “me” (a bodiless third-person observer) drifting through wastelands devoid of life. Some favourites include blue hour medieval cobblestone wasteland, and golden hour desert wasteland.
If there ever is other “life” it tends to be big cats and they’re always hostile. And of course I do have a body for them to hunt in those instances.
Back in my teen years I kept a dream journal and I did have “normal” believable dreams sometimes, but they don’t really happen anymore.