As I was waking up this morning, I thought "man, it feels like this dream was written by the internet". I'm not quite sure what that means, but I don't think it was a compliment.
I was going to ask as a joke, but perhaps it is a serious question...
I wonder if your dream had captions in it?
Although, even more serious question: for the most part, any activity that we do regularly will eventually find its way into our dreams. (I have lots of dreams about riding the bus, for example).
So there should be a lot more dreams with internet, in it? A couple hours a day should embed itself in our sub-conscious.
So why do I have dreams about seeing a bicycle train that holds 20 people, and drinking beer before work, and making out with people I just met on the residential side streets of SE Portland, and being about to fly to Belgium? None of those are regular activities for me.
Did you use to live on the East Coast (near Washington DC, or in Florida)? Amtrak's Auto Train carries bicycles and cars both ways.
Or did you read Tintin as a kid? The author lived in Belgium, and much of the comic strip was set there. [He was also apparently near-misogynistic, but I digress.]
No, and no. And by "bicycle train", I mean basically a bunch of surreys chained together into one unit, with everyone pedaling. But I do think about bicycles a lot.
Also, that reminds me that I STILL haven't gotten anywhere with my surrey-convoy-across-the-country plan. I really want to do that someday, but apparently not in such a way as to cause me to take any of the steps required to get there.
My dream world doesn't seem to need captions, probably because I'm not really doing auditory processing so I don't need to compensate for my weakness there with them like I sometimes do when watching media. Sometimes I dream that I can't understand people, but usually I have much better auditory comprehension in dreams than in waking life.
When I was unemployed in 2002/2003, I went on a major Sims-playing binge and I would dream in Sims interface. That was kind of freaky. So far, I'm more likely to dream about whatever it was I was reading about on the internet rather than the internet itself. Perhaps this is because my internet experience is mostly text.
I wonder if your dream had captions in it?
Although, even more serious question: for the most part, any activity that we do regularly will eventually find its way into our dreams. (I have lots of dreams about riding the bus, for example).
So there should be a lot more dreams with internet, in it? A couple hours a day should embed itself in our sub-conscious.
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Or did you read Tintin as a kid? The author lived in Belgium, and much of the comic strip was set there. [He was also apparently near-misogynistic, but I digress.]
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But as for your examples:
Bicycles and transportation are both familiar from your life.
As is drinking beer.
As are the residential side streets of SE Portland.
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When I was unemployed in 2002/2003, I went on a major Sims-playing binge and I would dream in Sims interface. That was kind of freaky. So far, I'm more likely to dream about whatever it was I was reading about on the internet rather than the internet itself. Perhaps this is because my internet experience is mostly text.
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