I find dreams to be somewhat related to the outside world, and they're still interesting. I say this because they might comprise of memories and feelings, which is nothing new, but I wouldn't claim them to be somehow objective. Case in point, I seemed to have a dream involving a specific forum member here which seemed to reflect not just some particular memories but, also how the existence of said person makes me feel sometimes, apparently. Now that I think about it, the activity in which we were engaged in in the dream also seemed to be related to a particular comment I made about an activity, and although I could have just been being "paranoid", his response which was somewhat unrelated (and in a different thread) seemed to play some role, hence the question of objectivity.
The point is, I mentioned this one dream before in which I woke up to find a weird spider on my wall, and then I actually woke up again. It was interesting because in the dream I woke up, and when I actually woke up it seemed to be in the same exact manner in which I woke up in the dream, although this can be questioned. Maybe I didn't actually physically wake up the same way twice, but what would it even mean if I did? I found it interesting.. Usually you can tell if you're dreaming because the location, while familiar, looks different, but in this case my room looked the same so I didn't know I was dreaming until I saw that weird spider, which definitely doesn't exist "irl". So then, I actually woke up, and it seemed to be in the same exact manner in which it happened in that dream, which seemed to be no more than about 30 seconds prior. Of course, it could have been due to chance or something. This detail could be irrelevant. I suppose there are only so many ways in which one could arise from slumber
. So again, if it could somehow be measured then ascertained whether it was similar or not, how would I manage to wake up into a dream and then later on wake up irl in the same fashion? Of course, anyone would be right to question my memory recollection in this case.
But, about the spider. In the dream, it was on the wall to my left. However long it was prior to this event, there was an instance in which I was sleeping (irl) then managed to wake up at a precise moment: there was a spider (long bodied pholcid) directly ahead of my vision as I was facing that direction. It sort of crept me out to wake to that, so I acted however I did, grabbed a shoe and smashed it. I make effort not to kill spiders nowadays. But, the guts are still on the wall there as I did not manage to clean the mess. So, that dream involving that weird spider could have been somewhat related to this event, although they took place a few months apart, but still, it could have been related to that more or less random memory my brain thought would be good to use or something.
Similarly, there was this one series of dream which I believe to have had about twice. It involved myself running down the street of my parent's neighbor hood, to be joined by a wolf and we would run side by side for about ten seconds then the wolf would depart. I thought it was cool. I think the next day I may have realized what that was. Where I live, down the main street the neighbors have their backyard exposed surrounded by a chain link fence... There's a large dog there. Whenever someone walks by it runs up and barks, and follows along as far as it can before the yard ends, then it stays and stares or barks. Could be mistaken, but the fact that I'd run down the street to be joined by a wolf for a brief moment seemed to be related to walking down the street to have this dog run up and follow you for as long as it could as you made your way down the street. I walk down that street pretty often, so we are familiar with one another. It could have been that, or it could have been something else, if anything that is. Due to the amount of things in the world, I'd suppose, it could be a random correlation.
As far as somehow measuring things to ascertain, certain sequences in dreams seem to make it obvious how one feels about whatever the dream may be referencing.. It seems pretty simple to induce that state. Just, while there's not much going on close your eyes and the lack of external stimuli should allow one to think about various things. If barely concentrating, some semi interesting things are noticeable. On multiple occasions I've found myself to be woken up, but then I'll shut my eyes some quick dreams, rather than for getting extra sleep. Some of the initial things that pop up are slightly random. Sometimes I end up stopping that thought process, snapping out of it, and beginning again. Obviously, if one were truly interested in that state, they would check out various books on the subject of sleeping & brain functioning. Something about the subconscious might also be a bit of an issue.
"On paper it makes sense but apparently there's this unpredictability & uncertainty that comes along with trying to quantify people and behaviors. It isn't like 1+1 where most people would agree it equals 2. Person A will say person B is mad, but person C will argue that he was, in fact, sad not mad.
It's not like you can take "mad" and give it a universally agreed upon value of sorts, then whenever you think someone is mad you can check to see if the values match to make sure they're actually mad and not something else or some combination of stuff. For some reason, I think if you were building a robot and were programming it how to walk you would need values corresponding to whichever movements would be needed like 'right leg up a few inches, then forward and down, and move upper body slightly in accordance, then move left leg';etc "
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