Riddle me this...
I know very little about science and psychology, so... Is there actually a phenomenon where something gets triggered in your brain and you wind up feeling emotions in your dreams that are much more intense than anything you usually feel in real life? (I swear, I have more dreams where I wake up just emotional wrecked for the stupidest reasons...)
I totally dreamed I was one of my own OCs. How's that for self-indulgence? *snerk* And I was totally in love with another OC (as it should be) and then he got transmogrified into a baby panda. So I was carrying him around like that, trying to keep him safe. And then during the course of our wandering, he turned into a rusty tin can. And then an old tupperware container. All of which I was, like, cradling to my lack-of-bosom with increasing desperation and horror. What the hell.
And then I took shelter with my tupperware boyfriend and discovered we were in a shed where The Used were living and Dan had disappeared into the en suite bathroom (Yes, in a shed) with the girl from Ouran Host Club and Jepha was supremely unimpressed and snarking about "I hope they don't think they're fooling anyone..." and I was like "You're being emo? My soulmate is a fucking tupperware."
And then I woke up. X-D
But yes, despite the epic and possibly worrying levels of WEIRD, it wasn't just an abstract 'you are in love with this dude' info-byte... Dream-me was In Love With Him, complete with the entourage of strong emotions that go along with that.
So I guess that's my rambling and poorly phrased question: Are dream emotions real? Do you really experience them? If emotions are something that happen in your brain, and dreams also happen purely in your brain, why wouldn't dream emotions be real? (As opposed to dream injuries, say, which are a physical phenomenon, and so are not actually 'real' despite your brain doing a good job of imitating the effects.)
I totally dreamed I was one of my own OCs. How's that for self-indulgence? *snerk* And I was totally in love with another OC (as it should be) and then he got transmogrified into a baby panda. So I was carrying him around like that, trying to keep him safe. And then during the course of our wandering, he turned into a rusty tin can. And then an old tupperware container. All of which I was, like, cradling to my lack-of-bosom with increasing desperation and horror. What the hell.
And then I took shelter with my tupperware boyfriend and discovered we were in a shed where The Used were living and Dan had disappeared into the en suite bathroom (Yes, in a shed) with the girl from Ouran Host Club and Jepha was supremely unimpressed and snarking about "I hope they don't think they're fooling anyone..." and I was like "You're being emo? My soulmate is a fucking tupperware."
And then I woke up. X-D
But yes, despite the epic and possibly worrying levels of WEIRD, it wasn't just an abstract 'you are in love with this dude' info-byte... Dream-me was In Love With Him, complete with the entourage of strong emotions that go along with that.
So I guess that's my rambling and poorly phrased question: Are dream emotions real? Do you really experience them? If emotions are something that happen in your brain, and dreams also happen purely in your brain, why wouldn't dream emotions be real? (As opposed to dream injuries, say, which are a physical phenomenon, and so are not actually 'real' despite your brain doing a good job of imitating the effects.)