Grrl Power #1248 – Do aliens dream of astro-sheepazoids?
Dreams are about processing the day’s interactions as memories are sorted away… is something people say about dreams but which I firmly believe is total BS. If that was the case, why does anyone dream about anything other than the stuff they did that day? Why have I dreamed, multiple times I might add, about walking around the halls of my high school, which wasn’t actually my high school, (but I had that dream knowledge that it was) except instead of lockers, there were glass tanks up and down the walls filled with skinned things. Maybe they were students, maybe they were mutant experiments, the dream knowledge didn’t say. And before you’re like, wow that’s a crazy nightmare – it wasn’t a nightmare. I wasn’t scared in it. I thought it was rad, not because I’m some secret psychopath, but because it was like walking around the set if someone made a live action Splatterhouse movie.
Or, why did I dream about meeting April Ludgate (from Parks and Rec) – not Aubrey Plaza, mind you, but April Ludgate, at a convention, and I told her that when she got married, instead of changing her last name to Ludgate-Dwyer, she should have portmanteaued her last name to LudWire, then tell people that a LudWire is the proper name for a clothes hanger when it’s in abortion configuration, and she said “Oh my god, that’s awesome, babe!”
She said “babe” because she started the sentence talking to me, but finished the sentence talking to Andy, who wasn’t there, because dreams are random nonsense. They have no meaning. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to write a book, or has read a book, or let’s be real, a Facebook post, and is trying to make “knowing things about dreams” part of their personality.
By the way, whenever I dream about going to a convention, which seems to happen about 3-5 times a year, I’m always there on Sunday while all the vendors are breaking down their booths and I realized I’ve missed the convention and everyone I wanted to see. I guess it’s a variation on the “have a test for a class I’ve never attended” dream, which I’ve also had, but thankfully less than the convention dream.
The new vote incentive is up! This is a bit of a weird one as it’s a character that hasn’t appeared in the comic.
It’s my Ifrit Pathfinder 1e monk, Fray! Ifrits don’t really make great monks in Pathfinder, as player characters they get a +2 to Dex and Cha, but -2 to Wis. For monks, Dex is good, Cha is largely irrelevant, but Wis is important as it can add to your AC and also has something to do with Ki points I think. But I didn’t care. I wanted a character with dark blue/gray skin and glowing orange hair, so that’s what I picked. (I don’t think Ifrit even really have dark skin, so maybe she’s 1/4 Drow? Don’t care. I think she looks cool.) Will she show up in the comic? I mean… maybe? Probably in a Dabbler flashback, but who knows?
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Wait, Dabbler has a portrait of her own vote incentive hanging on her wall?
That’s her mother
Does this mean that Lapha will dream/remember precisely where Sydney found her orbs, leading to a team (possibly including Sydney) going back there? I know Sydney pointed out their rough location, but I thought she never coughed up coordinates exact enough for an expedition.
that does raise the question of how well Lapha can remember Sidney’s memories. Or if she copied them all before being forced off.
Human memory is faulty, mostly empty with snapshots of moments and imagination used to fill in the gaps, human memory and imagination being the same part of the brain, experiments have even shown people to misremember things based on new information or situational expectations.
So with what level of clarity can Lapah bring up those memories, she may not have the biological restraints so is she bringing up clear memories or the unfinished snapshots of moments to work with.
Thought they did pinpoint the location, to be in the waters of a foreign country
And from there extrapolated that it was where one of those extinction-level asteroids had hit. So they have a pretty reasonably precise starting point for such an expedition–it’s just, as you note, in foreign waters. I assume Arianna is desperately working behind the scenes to gain legit access to the area without tipping her hand as to why.
I thought Sydney normally had dreams like that.
I mean, doesn’t everyone?
nah, mine are”standing in sort of sun god robes in an ancient temple with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at me”
” … why does anyone dream about anything other than the stuff they did that day?”
All I can say is, I weep for the state of any archive’s cross references that you’re in charge of.
Background noises in REM sleep git my wierdness going. Those tend to be the oddest ones. A clang or something out of the norm of the dream will introduce a change and things go really odd as my brain tries to process it (in the context of the current dream?). Although, total silence will wake me up completely….cause then something is wrong.
Hold on…. *No-one* talks about the most up-front “I dare you” 4th wall break in this episode?!!!
Do tell?
You’re right that dreams aren’t necessarily about your current day. The current day’s events are often involved in sleep processes but dreams aren’t necessarily about them. I’ve watched and interrogated the dream creation process. Internal systems have needs that they try to get across to us during the day and at night. Needs for us to make different choices or perform certain actions. They disagree with each other. They usually have little to know idea about how the physical world works or how social interactions work either. One influencer will push one particular need that will contribute an aspect or two of a dream, another will push another aspect, and another, and another. The details in the dream are the aspects that were pushed. To lucid dream, you just become another pusher of dream aspects. Regardless, half the time the need they are trying to influence you towards in the dream isn’t related at all to what makes it into the dream, due to the pusher not understanding what is and isn’t related. It’s a best shot, not a guarantee. Anyway, that’s why dreams are as weird as they are, and how they would have evolved to what they are today. They are a patchwork of need-based influences trying to direct awake behavior by training you while you sleep with aspects that are often related to what they are trying to direct.
There are reasons that I am glad that I do not remember the majority of the dreams that I have.
1) An over-active imagination.
2) Friends with over-active imaginations that I table-top game with.
3) A bad habit to over indulge in sugar before bedtime (and occasionally add alcohol to that).
The few I’ve ever remembered have been . . . odd, to say the least.
The way I phrase it is, dreams are whatever’s in your brain, weighted towards whatever you’ve been thinking about somewhat lately/been experiencing lately. But they also just randomly access other parts of your brain, so ah. Yeah.