• bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I love that the brain still relies on real-life data on the world it creates, and when it gets you into shit you’ve never experienced even remotely, and thus doesn’t know how to handle, the simulation just kinda freezes.

    Oh, you were just thrown a few hundred {yards,meters} by a trebuchet, but don’t know how it feels to be squished to death? Ok, happy walking away with a strange feeling.

    • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I love that the brain still relies on real-life data on the world it creates

      I’ve heard that the brain isn’t really capable of creating unique faces, so when you see people in a dream - even if they seem random to you, they’re probably just someone you saw in passing (on the streets, online, etc) which is interesting!

      Realistically there isn’t a way to reliably test that theory, but it definitely makes sense to me at least.

    • brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      I love that the brain still, relies on real-life data on the world It creates

      Yeah me too, totally, you fucking psycho. That’s the best part of nightmares…

    • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Did you read too many SCP articles before bed? Because that’s exactly what this story reads like lol

      • lunachocken@iusearchlinux.fyi
        2·
        1 year ago

        You’ll only find mlp plushies that are rather cute, at least for me.

        Which makes it even more like where the actual fuck does actual pure nightmare fuel come from.

        I really don’t want a repeat of that shit. I don’t care if it’s being chased by a monster, getting caught doing tax fraud or falling off a cliff. At least it isn’t psychological trauma in a dream.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Don’t worry, people’s brains only do combat readiness drills if necessary. Your life is clearly peaceful and worry-free with no impending disasters.

  • Sunfoil@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Mine last night was being bombed, kept having to get down to avoid them as I tried to find cover.

  • megane-kun@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m not so sure about what my brain considers “combat readiness drills”.

    I’ve had nightmares where I was woefully unprepared for an exam that I went to school, running late, without any pants nor underwear on. And as I sat for the exam, I felt so nervous I wanted to pee. And so I did, right in my seat. Thankfully, I was able to wake up before I peed in my bed.

    And then I’ve had a recurring nightmare where I was exploring an endless staircase, with a team of like-minded people. We kept going down and down, as some of our teammates eventually succumbed to fatigue, and then thirst as our supplies dwindled. In some versions, we ended up in the same place we began. In another version, we ended up at some large underground facility, totally dark except for the staircase where we came from.

    The only nightmare I could ever consider “combat readiness drill” is a nightmare where I found myself to be a civilian caught in a crossfire inside an abandoned factory, much like what you’d see in action films. How I ended up there, I have no idea, but I eventually got shot as I was trying to escape, and died.

  • Limitless_screaming@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Under extreme circumstances too. A place you have never seen, while your running is slower than your real life walking, your punches barely do anything, and If you fall from your height, then it’s game over. Also color? what’s that?

  • MrMamiya@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am so totally prepared to be told “this isn’t your room” in a house with seemingly endless rooms.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t have nightmares until I started work as an aircraft repairman.

    I used to dream about exploring places. I remember one where I was swimming through this large building, I could breathe underwater but it was underwater, and it was just “let’s see what else is here.”

    Now I dream of inevitable threat. One I remember pretty vividly was being trapped in this cave, there was no way in or out of this 30x30 foot room, and in the middle of it stood a gallows dangling a noose over the head of a …man? Who turned and started slowly stomping toward me, and the gallows shifted around to keep the noose over his head, making a repetitive clanking sound. Weird imagery on the typical “thing slowly chasing you” dream.