LogFAQs > #944182989

Sorry for the long explanation, but it's important to understand the poll's question.

You obviously don't have to participate.

Anyway....I'm a big fan of dreaming. I think dreams are fascinating and kind of a big deal. But they're also mysterious. Like....all those people who NEVER remember their dreams. But then you got those people who go on crazy adventures every night and can remember dreams they had years ago.

So I was thinking....

People who can remember their dreams really well....the people who can hang onto them when they wake up....feel and experience crazy things on a nightly basis......do you think...in some weird sorta way....they have lived a longer life than the people who never dream?

You lay down to sleep....and you go nowhere. Just a timeless void....and 8 hours later you wake up and go about your day. You experienced nothing. Nothing you can remember, anyway.

vs.

You lay down to sleep....and you go on a crazy adventure where you talk to dead loved ones, fight mutated versions of your middle school teachers, lick entire galaxies like they are made out of ice cream.....and fly like Superman so vividly that you can feel the wind on your face, the blood rushing to your feet, and all the juicy organs in your body lurching around when you turn really fast.

Don't you think the latter person experienced more? Don't you think that benefited them in some way, beyond just entertainment value?? Don't you think that experiencing such things on a nightly basis might have some longterm effects on them that the dreamless people don't get??? Like it makes them more emotionally in tune with themselves? Deeper? Maybe even...wiser? Any benefit at all? Some kind of 'edge' over the non-dreamers???


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