more weird dreams

[snoozenstein]

Dreamed I was still out having adventures with e-pals, only we weren't in toronto. For part of the trip we were on the el, if the el weren't situated in the loop and went in a straight line for miles and miles alongside futuristic neon lights and billboards. A guy on our car was notorious for being an asshole and the human representative of the

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[_fluffy]

Dreams are your brain sorting through memories and randomly mishing-mashing them together. You're not supposed to remember them, either, it's just a quirk of how you wake up that you happen to remember the last five minutes or so's worth of mishmash, and then because of how memory is stored associatively in the brain to begin with, you end up with things which are all internally consistent, even if it makes no logical sense.

Hence the feeling of familiarity, and the feeling of there being potentially a lifetime of backstory or many days' worth of stuff happening in what's really the course of about 5 minutes.