Okay, this is a very quick summary of a very long arguement I had with someone in my WoW guild.
He said that:
If you have never seen an object, never heard of it, never even knew it existed, you can dream of that object and have it be recognizable, realistic, and accurate.
That's complete bullcrap. That's against all logic.. That just makes no sense.
That means a blind man would be able to have fully detailed dreams.
Or maybe I misinterpreted him, and he meant: You never have seen it, or heard of it, or new of its existance, but you still can dream it but NOT recognize it. I guess this is a possibility. Like you've never known cats exist, right. Then in one dream you see this fuzzy-four-legged alien thing ( to you ) and you are like.. "Hmm, that's funny."
But what're the chances of your mind procuring something that extremely accurate when it has nothing to base itself off of? He kept bringing up creativity, but I don't think dreams have anything to do with creativity. I said dreams are compilations of your memory and thoughts, he said it was a manifestation of what you want.
I had a dream when I was three that King Kong was chasing me through a nuclear power plant, I ran outside and hid inside a McDonald's playgym. I remember crawling through the tubes and thinking I was safe, then seeing his enormous eye peer at me and I'd scramble through the network of tubes to get away from the atrocious ape.
I can say with complete honesty that I don't want that to happen.
However, I do agree that " a manifestation of what you want " is a subcategory inside a dream, rather than being a fitting definition of "dream"
Dreams are awfully weird things, and I think they hold a -lot- of potential that we have yet to unlock. ( I think it might be a skill that's learned ~ level 50 or something.. We just need to get there. )
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