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Re: Is it strange to miss people from dreams?
Strange mixes of previous sensations. Just like you can imagine new sights and sounds (artists do it every day, there would be no music without it) together. The only difference is that it occurs when you're sleeping, where it seems real instead of just being a 'voice in your head' which is clearly quieter and distinquishable from reality.
Calling it memories makes no sense-- This subway was not like any of the ones I have been on. I can say that as a fact, I've been on four or five (depending on how you look at it) trains in my life, and that was not one of them. MARTA and Hartfield terminal trains, Dallas-Fort Worth, the Monorail at Disney World, and a 'haunted train' thing. Yes, I've seen ragged clothing; but how would that equate me to feeling what it would be like to wear? How could my brain make a GUI that looked fairly good, without having any sense of style or taste, and without directly copying something?
Your example itself is proof that you can dream about things which you have never experienced before.
I'm not going to argue that your thoughts and experiences can and do impact dreams, that's obvious. But it's possible to have dreams about things which are just plain completely nonsensical and unreal too.
I mean, explain why I once had a dream about a friend getting run over, for one. Nothing had happened recently (I'm fairly sure I hadn't even talked to them in awhile), I hadn't seen anything about a car crash anywhere, and I certainly didn't connect the two topics.
It makes no sense unless you admit that the brain is capable of imagining things without conscious direction. And from there, there's no reason to assume that it needs to be linked to anything concrete-- either the brain can imagine, or can't.
Strange mixes of previous sensations. Just like you can imagine new sights and sounds (artists do it every day, there would be no music without it) together. The only difference is that it occurs when you're sleeping, where it seems real instead of just being a 'voice in your head' which is clearly quieter and distinquishable from reality.
Calling it memories makes no sense-- This subway was not like any of the ones I have been on. I can say that as a fact, I've been on four or five (depending on how you look at it) trains in my life, and that was not one of them. MARTA and Hartfield terminal trains, Dallas-Fort Worth, the Monorail at Disney World, and a 'haunted train' thing. Yes, I've seen ragged clothing; but how would that equate me to feeling what it would be like to wear? How could my brain make a GUI that looked fairly good, without having any sense of style or taste, and without directly copying something?
Your example itself is proof that you can dream about things which you have never experienced before.
I'm not going to argue that your thoughts and experiences can and do impact dreams, that's obvious. But it's possible to have dreams about things which are just plain completely nonsensical and unreal too.
I mean, explain why I once had a dream about a friend getting run over, for one. Nothing had happened recently (I'm fairly sure I hadn't even talked to them in awhile), I hadn't seen anything about a car crash anywhere, and I certainly didn't connect the two topics.
It makes no sense unless you admit that the brain is capable of imagining things without conscious direction. And from there, there's no reason to assume that it needs to be linked to anything concrete-- either the brain can imagine, or can't.
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