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I write down my wife’s dreams when she talks in her sleep. My favourite quote so far is ”Elephants are actually yellow, but the government paints them gray”
@ funny you call them that, cause a lot of her dreams involve bananas too xD Another fun one she said is ”Certain colors of bananas should be illegal! Imagine if you saw a purple banana on the road while driving, what would happen then!?”
I write down what my boyfriend says a lot and one time he asked me to get his phone, I was confused and I said “your phone?” And he was like “yeah, the rotary phone in my top pocket” and that’s when I realised he was asleep. Another good one is “Ohhhhhhh. So that really really really cool laser right now? Target. That one? That one? That’s so cool what the fuck. This metal is SO hard.”
Asking, "What was the original question?" After telling a story of that caliber is Adam's magical wonder and awe he presents and lives, it's a beautiful thing
This, truly, is why we're here. Yea, we're here because Adam has amazing knowledge that he literally _gives away_ to humanity, but it's his stories and the way he tells them which really draws us back. I've learned to watch these even if the title doesn't convey a sense of interest to me, because I know he'll still share something funny or profound and THAT will make it worth the time! 😊
I kept a dream journal for a while. I started to wake up after *every* dream, which was a problem. I'd scrawl the relevant points in a notebook by the bed and the day I woke up in the morning to find that I'd written 'The beavers can't get a job' I stopped =D I still remember that dream - it was the cartoon Angry Beavers and the whole dream was them engaged a futile job search.
In my experience, what happens in dreams has no connection to how i feel about what is happening. It's like the feelings are just as random as what i'm seeing and hearing.
As a guy that's written software using a keyboard for 48 years (ugh!) it STILL absolutely freaks the hell out of me that I can carry on a conversation, watch a video, and be slamming out code without looking, all at the same time. THEN when I stop & think about it, I can no longer touch-type for about 20 minutes! 🙂
I'm nowhere near that, but have routinely been on the computer since ~98. I actually learned to type "properly" in school in the early/mid 90s, but that never really took and I was a hunt-n-peck typer for quite awhile. However, since I was online for so much of the day when home, after school, work, or with friends, I ended up developing my own method of typing. I stemmed from gaming, where left hand was on WASD, pinky on Shift; right hand was on mouse but often had to hit enter so my R-pinky was there and the rest were around the J, K, L keys. Thankfully I have looking fingers, so what keys were in "no man's land" could still be easily reached _DESPITE THAT,_ I still managed to be able to be in am online game as needed and without looking, type messages, with perfect grammar and spelling (most typos caught since I was looking at the screen). All this is to say: there were indeed occasions where my mom would step into my room, and my TV (computer screen) was only a few degrees head turn from the door. So she would be talking to me as I was watching her, and finishing a thought in my head in chat. A couple times over the years she had asked "what are you doing?" due to the fact I was typing and looking at her whilst she talked to me 🤣 "Typing a message to
The only advice I give to aspiring creativives is to have an easily accessible, portable, notebook with an attached pen, that you keep with you at all times - so whenever any idea or inspiration strikes you, you can immediately make a note of them. If you don't, you WILL forget it. Whenever you have a bout of creative block, you can just leaf through your ideas and pick something to work on. Such a simple thing and it's given me so much.
This, and you don't even need a notebook specifically. I used to just grab a piece of printer paper and fold it in half, then half again so it was nice and pocket-sized. Pair that with a pen in my pocket (actually two in case one stopped working) and I could easily write down any ideas I had. Which was very handy considering a lot of my ideas would pop up while I was in the middle of doing some sort of mindless work as my mind would naturally wander and start making up stories. Travelling via bus was another time my mind would wander and come up with things, though I had to wait until we stopped to actually write anything or it would end up a mess. But I still have all those many pieces of paper full of ideas, thinking of it now a notebook would be a little easier to keep track of :P (I mean I've had those too, I just used them more in my lunch breaks than when I was in the middle of work).
A few months ago I woke from a dream, grabbed my phone and made a note "Sadness peoples have no kuffles". At the time, it was very important. By the morning, I had forgotten all context, but I leave that note in my phone.
That story about your friend/coworker brought a big smile to my face. I had arrived at the conclusion before you brought it up, but it was still so nice to see the joy of the creator in you as you relived that experience (even if it was a vicarious one). I still remember the joy of discovery and the yearning to understand mysteries while still hoping that more remain out there. Great story, Mr. Savage, I hope to see your dream traveler kit (or whatever it's called) some day. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go attend a baptism. Happy Sunday!
I write down my dreams. Mainly because I often have such vivid and wild ones; moreso than seems to be normal among my peers. Dreams of alien worlds, ghosts, gods, and night terrors. A wonderful, boundless fiction in excess of anything I've been capable of creating in the waking world. Perhaps this is where we differ in our assessment of dreams. While I do not necessarily regard them as a different plane of existence, I do find dreaming largely preferable to waking life. I hold my dreams in very high esteem.
I usually will do a quick audio recording on my phone instead of trying to type something out. I can whisper the thought into my phone and put it back on the charger will little effort.
Dreaming is highly underrated and way more useful than people realize. Especially if you practice lucid dreaming or dream incubation. You can solve problems, practice skills, learn about yourself, get rid of fears or nightmares, become more creative etc. Some of the most world changing inventions come from or have been inspired by dreams
No joke, that's happened to me. I got slightly better at skateboarding from dreaming, and I've learned strumming patterns on guitar just from dreaming about it.
I love how a question is answered with a great answer and then supplemented by a completely different story, still related to the original answer as just backstory.
I remember at least one dream in the morning from the night before. I can influence my sleep on a weekly basis, I can do whatever I want, but often at some point sleep starts to resist and tries to influence what I see. If sleep becomes too distressing, I can turn it into a pleasant one. Once I was trapped in sleep for hours. I heard a dream through when my friend entered the apartment with his own keys and went into the living room. I got out of bed and went to greet him. I woke up again from bed and it was a dream and I went again to say hello to my friend and again I woke up from bed. This went on for hours, and sometimes something strange happened and I realized that I was dreaming, like a giraffe appeared in the living room. Whenever I woke up, it was so real as this reality here, I pinched myself and it felt real. Sometimes I would look at my watch and close my eyes and look again, it showed a completely different time. It was so real and I thought I'd never wake up for real. Luckily I woke up, I guess I'm awake now? I am?:D
"Lathe of Heaven" springs to mind. Some of my experiences, when they've happened/occurred, it turned out that I thought, "hasn't this happened before?" , and then I realised that I had had these things occur in my mind by means of a dream I'd had sometimes decades before! Unsettling to say the least, so having watched "The Lathe Of Heaven" just recently, all I can say is that I'm glad it's just a movie, and dreams are just that, compositions/stories our minds put together out of past experiences, or from novels we've read or films we've seen, especially those that have had a profound effect on us.
I don’t know if I’ll get that deep into making such items, but now I really want to do this exact thing in my own way and hide them as gifts. I love that kind of stuff that just pulls you right out of reality like that.
Adam- I love the passion, energy, enthusiasm, and glorious roaming that your story telling embodies! I find myself smiling and laughing when you are deep in a story. Thank you!!
The Apple Freeform whiteboard tool has been FANTASTIC for documenting my ideas and software I’m learning and will partially forget because it don’t use it often. There are other whiteboard apps if you’re not on Apple, but whiteboards are a GAME CHANGER.
You wrote your own "Savromenicon"? You mention "lucid dreaming" I use "active dreaming"; once you realize you are in a dream, you can begin to take active control. This can be changing location, bend roads, skip to a completely different scenario, etc. One way to begin is to visualize your hands in the dream, do something that uses your hands. This can trigger your ability to affect the dream directly, in my experience. In closing, I suffered a Traumatic brain injury in 2015 and after a couple years or so of healing (98% now), I have extra vivid dreams with control and I remember them almost completely the next day, every day. The other big development is that I have been able to re-enter a few dreams! Being a senior I have to wake up middle of night for obvious reason. I have been able to get back into dreams by just focusing on what was going on as I drift back to sleep, and it was eye opening. The depth of my dreams, plot complexity, number and variety of cast members has increased also. Some mornings I delay waking up because the dreams are so interesting... It's a Telegraph Key.
LOL at the senior pee break that triggers a REM/Lucid dreaming state when you get back to sleep. Quickly able to get back to REM at that. Although after a few concussions, it happens much less.
I keep a notepad next to my bed. It’s a grid pad so I can draw project ideas, or write. I don’t want to get on a screen at night and affect getting back to sleep.
Adam, I am SO GLAD you are saying this because I have been doing this for YEARS. Touch typing while in a slumbered state is, weirdly, one of those Satisfying ThingsTM. I also think it is one of those 'marks of a maker'. There are certain things we as makers do because we know we need to be doing something, and I suppose hearing you say this pushes back the Imposter Syndrome a bit ❤️ have a great end to your week.
I don't do it often, but I have very vivid dreams. I have written down a few of them, and one I even published as a short story. I wrote it on my phone, then woke up my (then) teenage daughter to read it to her. She also thought it was pretty good. We went back to bed, and I later took the story to my writers group for polishing. I really should do that more often.
I became obsessed with remembering my dreams around 7-8 years old and dedicated myself to remembering everything I could. Now almost 20 years later most of my dreams are lucid and the ones that aren’t are always grand miraculous adventures that I remember with shocking clarity even days or weeks later
I always love your story of the red box, it inspired my process that when making an object, each part of it must have a reason to it's existance. think of it like when you're making a prop you are also writing the in-universe manual that goes with that prop.
I don't like lucid dreams because it's exhausting for me to control my dreams. I don't want to think, I just want to sleep. Who cares if I can do whatever I want, it doesn't actuallt mattee
@@lessmore444 Careful with that, it’s a bad method to verify lucid dreaming, my friend ended up in a wheelchair cause he woke up in a dizzy state, thought he was dreaming and decided to fly out the window… I’ve found walking through walls is a much better way to check for dreams, just put your hand against the wall, and the phase through it. No risk of getting hurt IRL.
@@njdotson I like lucid dreams, because they feel amazing and you can do anything you want. Besides, what does it matter if it's not real? Many enjoyable things are not "real". TV shows for example, or thinking about happy memories. I don't find them exhausting, more like freedom from daytime activities. But each to their own!
I was so happy to hear the Adam utter the phrase "my personal fountain pen." I think I speak for fountain pen nerds everywhere, what pen and ink combo are we talking about here? We've been down the pencil/mechanical pencil wormhole, now it's time for fountain pens to have their moment on Tested!
I started writing down my dreams every morning and now I can't stop. I almost always sort of wake up after dreaming and I have to "narrate" my dream stories a few times so that in the morning I can remember remembering them. Only once or twice a month do I not remember anything, and some times I remember 3 or 4 dreams. I tried to quit recording them but then I'd have an awesome dream like a nuclear explosion or a beautiful sunset behind the Golden Gate bridge under a rainbow. I've had a couple of good story plots and don't want to miss the next great novel idea. I've dreamed of singing and heard 4 part harmony, sometimes old songs, sometimes new ones. I still have the school dreams where I realize I forgot to study for the exam.
I had a fairly normal 'brain shoves two things together randomly' sort of dream a couple years back, but i was waking up near the end, and by the time i was awake, i realized the idea was so cool i wanted to write it, so i set about cleaning up the nonsense and making it work as an actual thing. And im still working on it.
That story had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video before I could continue watching... they you asked "What was the question again?" sending me into yet more laughter. I'm glad I wasn't drinking a cup of coffee like I usually do while watching TH-cam, otherwise I'd have to wipe down my laptop screen... TWICE!!! WOW, that's a neat story, and it's funny as heck.
Adam, I'm totally with you on the typing. When I went to university, for some reason my crowd hung around the Vax computer room, learning to touch type. Oh my gosh how that education has paid me back over the years. Also small snippet fact - the words afterwards, stewardesses, tesseradecades and sweaterdresses can all be typed with the left hand. But the largest with the right hand is the little old monopoly...
Another idea i use myself, is to have one of those pocket sound recorder, like your doc has. I've used it several times, dreaming solutions and ideas. Cause the whole 'oh i got to remember this' never, ever works...
I think in his case, his wife might be annoyed by him using one (a "dictaphone") 😅 Personally, I use my smartphone. My Galaxy S23 Ultra has a Notes app (nor sure if the smaller, pen-less models do), and I just use Swipe Typing to jot down what's needed. Though, my phone's brightness us almost always at 20% since that's more than adequate for me indoors, and with Dark Theme of means it doesn't emit much light and is easy on the sleepy eyes 😊 Though still, even using Samsung's sound recorder app would work a treat. I'm sure other apps have this as well, but Samsung's has a transcription feature, as well as a "voice" preset to tune the microphones and noise canceling to that type of audio.
My note taking for dreams: Phone set to black & white after midnight (goes away ~6pm) + I use a note taking app that has dark mode. Very easy on the eyes, very quick to take notes
So many great books have been created out of people's dreams💭🛌🏼.. Frankenstein, Peter Pan , Pets Cemetery, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory . Author's dreamed these Books 📚
OMG I don't even think I can make it to the end. For my wife the thought of her dreams becoming easier to access and easier to retain ....quite possibly would be worse than killing her. The horrors of her early life have made themselves real through her dreams and when she's alone in a stressful situation. She does not have whatever we call multiple personalities yet I've seen her 3 times present as a little child. She noticed in looking in the mirror and not recognizing herself. "why was I so old" the way she walked and ignored my good morning. It didn't last long but boogymen are real and they come through her dreams. Be careful what you record...its very powerful in more ways than just good. I've had a lot of "inside your head" therapy. your brain can be a scary place and changing it is way easier than most would believe. Choose happy if you go there.
You know you’re good at making sculptures and art when it’s found by someone without the knowledge of what it is and they believe is a genuine artifact from reality. (My English might not have fully sufficed here, but you get the point.:)
Clark Ashton Smith famously used to pick up stones from the riverbank, carve faces or glyphs or stick figure scenes into them, and then throw them back onto the riverbank for someone else to find days or months or years later. A little bit of mystery and magic to the everyday world.
i attempted a dream diary for some time, and discovered a new experience of dreams after using a new sleep medication. i'd remember dreams i'd had, recently and longer ago, as a sort of déjà vu brought on by waking life. 😊
Hello from Tasmania it's me Mr Christopher James Rush I remember seeing you in MythBusters which came to an end and you came back with a bunch of kids for MythBusters Jr it was lovely to watch, I still remember our Aussie bloke as a ninja plus you used Buster The Crash Test Dummy which is destroyed. You may not believe what I tried I tried America's chocolate plus some smores delicious. I also like to tell you I have a hobby in doing films and surprise, surprise did a number of films wearing a costume of America's clayboy Gumby and some creations of making wooden models mainly a model series based on my childhood film in 1991 The Little Engine That Could there's two series plus more. Lastly I tried McDonald's new drink called The Grimace Shake also delicious, I even still use cassette cameras using Windows XP and Windows 11 using a USB Stick handy it is. From TheNewStoryteller.
I used to play drums, was in several bands over a couple if decades. I've never been able to play any other instruments but always loved guitar and bass. I remember having a few dreams over the years where I composed some awsome full band instrumental tunes, with full on lead guitar solos etc, but unfortunately never had any way to document them or get them out being just a drummer, as well as I never remembered anything the next morning. I'm aslo a Mechanical Engineer and Electrical Engineer, on quite a few occassions I've thought of or dreamed of some pretty good inventions, but of course I've never remembered the dreams or actioned my thoughts in the moment, then the idea is gone forever🤣
This is the reason I DON’T get lucid dream goggles. I am scared that I would get addicted and would be focused to much anticipating dream while I should be relaxing for sleep.
I love noting down my half awake half asleep dreams. Sometimes they're great, sometimes they're trash, but they're somewhat useful either way. I have a notebook next to my bed for this reason.
As a lucid dreamer, when you wake up from the dream try to complete the task ASAP. I have woken up at 3-4 am and worked through the issue in REM sleep, walked out into the shop and yep, that works. Hit the loo and back to bed. I rebuild transmissions and has autistic traits (Asperger's)
Fascinating topic, but based on the title, I expected the video to be about keeping hope and pursuing what you really want to do while your day-to-day work and responsibilities are grinding you down!
I hand the same problem that Adam did when I was writing down my dreams. It got to the point where it was messing with my sleep pattern. So had to stop just so I could get enough sleep.
A telegraph key makes a softish tapping sound, a 'sounder' is designed to replicate the keys 'message' and produce a much louder sound that could be heard in a noisy location. Many operators placed a tin can on the sounder to further increase the sound.
I've gotten into the habit of setting my phone with the audio recorder open. One click and I babble just coherently enough to put together later. What I haven't gotten in the habit of doing is actually remembering to get to step 2. I really need to work on the whole recall part. And that's just probably mostly got to do with weed. Thanks for the wake up call!
Years ago, I kept a dream journal for several years. My pc was right next to my bed, and I just kept a Wordpad file open, so if there was something I wanted to type out, it was right there. Later I moved the computer to the living room for room scale VR, so I didn't have that anymore. I thought about maybe some kind of voice recorder or something, but never did that. But I did have one memorable dream that totally seemed like an epic movie plot at the time. I typed out the general outline, then in the morning, reading it, remembered more details and fleshed it out a bit more. Then I realized my subconscious had mostly ripped off the movie Knowing with Nicolas Cage. 🤣
Reminds me of two dreams I have had, one was a Michael Jackson song that has never existed, but was in my dream. I have zero musical ability, yet I wish I could recreate this song somehow. It happened in another dream but was an Oasis song that doesn’t exist. How can my brain be creating music that I have no idea how to produce…
That actually sounds like something I’d do. I’ve always enjoyed leaving weird little relics I’ve carved out of stone, or old letters from antique stores and such, in places to ‘one day soon to be randomly found by strangers’. Last year, before morel mushroom season, I put several wood carved mushrooms in a known mushroom-hunting location for other foragers to find…I only wish I could have seen how it all played out when someone found them! Insert a little random magic and mystery into others people mind and worlds!
I have done this thing with recording dreams too! However in my case it has gone a bit further... when I make an effect to wake up and type or write my dreams whenever I have them, I had periods I would go through where I would start dreaming that I woke up and started recording my dream only to wake up and be frustrated that everything I had just written down had disappeared. And then I would try to type up my dream again, only to wake up *again* because I was still dreaming the first time. Usually by the time I actually woke up my recollection of the dream had change enough that I could remember having a game of telephone with myself where I could remember parts of what I wrote down in each false awakening enough to know that I didn't recall the actual original dream. Another fun one was when I would wake up and be telling someone else my dream... like a relative that died years ago, and then I would wake up and be like "wait a minute, why didn't I realize I was dreaming because they aren't alive now". Even now I still will sometimes have a dream in which I am telling somebody about something that happened in a dream of a prior night ... as if it really happening because i forgot it was a dream and don't realize I am dreaming. But yeah... have done the lucid dreaming stuff in the past, now my brain seems to just amuse itself with nonsense when i'm asleep.
I very rarely remember my dreams after waking up. When I hit my late forties and began getting up almost every night to pee (it will happen to you too) I did start having a lot of water based dreams. I noticed that if I didn't wake up to go early in the dream they would turn from benign to scary to wake me up, like dreaming of swimming in the lake with my grandfather when I was a kid then after a while a shark or alligator would appear. Or even in dreams that weren't water based at first lots of water would suddenly be there.
I've had a couple of dreams that oddly enough were very similar on two different occasions. I wish I were an artist so I could replicate some of what I saw in my dreams. Both times I was in what I when I woke up I classified what I experienced as an art installation. Actually I experienced three dreams. There were normal people like myself wandering around looking at everything. What I saw I think would qualify as a nightmare for some. There were what I can only describe as misshapen humans. Most were sculptures like probably made from fiberglass. One was a line in a wall one creature / misshapen being after another but each one came further out of the wall than the one in front of it, with only an impression of where the last one should be. My only problem was, no matter where I went, I could never find my car in the basement parking garage, thus I couldn't leave. I wasn't scared of the creatures I saw but I was frustrated that I couldn't leave. I swear I've seen either drawings or sculptures of these types of people or creatures somewhere during my lifetime, but can't find it.
I'm one of those unlucky people who not only doesn't remember their dreams but is also unaware of having had a dream at all. The good thing is that I also don't have nightmares but I think I'd probably trade that to experience what it's like waking up and thinking, even for a fleeting moment, what a weird dream I'd had. As it stands, sleep is basically just power-saving mode.
For me, I used to use my iPad when my wife was alive at night i would type manually,under the blanket so not to wake her, some gibberish but now I dictate using my iPad, voice recognition that I’m using right now it doesn’t always work right, but like you say, it gets the thought through the idea.
Odd this video drops today when last night I woke up once in the middle of the night punching my pillow, and woke up at another point mid sentence. I then proceeded to finish the thought. Don’t remember now exactly what was going on
I wish I could remember my dreams better. I might try writing them down when I wake up-thanks for the tip. I actually did this once and had a similar experience to yours: I opened the note on my phone expecting to find a brilliant idea to refine, only to discover something barely comprehensible and not worth the kilobytes it took to store it.
I've definitely had dreams that either contained or sparked really good story ideas. Unfortunately, some of them were to IPs that don't belong to me - like a semi-conclusion to the series Angel; or backstory for Doctor Who. There was one thing I had been working on for ages, and one night I had this dream where I was the main character, and I climbed what was supposed to be my bedroom window and onto the roof where I just sat and talked with the character's love interest in the story. Mind you, nothing like that existed in the story up to that point; nor had I ever done anything like that. My room/house wasn't even laid out the way it was in my dream. And I remember waking up thinking, "shit, that'd be a really cool plot point;" where they could be they realize they live next door to each other and that's part of how their romance blossoms. They start hanging out on the roof together. So I definitely incorporated that into the story. I do a lot of community theatre and direct school productions; and it never fails where I have some kind of weird theatre dream at some point during a production.
Re: The "hide them in people's attacks" line from ~9 minutes: When I got my first 3D printer, I just couldn't stop so I started making personal gifts for my coworkers based on their interests or something that resonated. I would just plant them in their office or on their desk and have to wait for the testimony of witnesses to hear the response.
Regarding dreams and our psyche... Most of my lucid dreams have always been the typical whacky/nonsensical theme, or the occasional "intimate" one; however, after we lost my dad 16 years ago to a heart attack, a new theme emerged... The details were always different, but the general theme was that dad was still alive, but had either: - been lost in the wilderness for many years and suddenly found his way out and back to us - left my mom and would occasionally come around for whatever reason (that detail escapes me) - ... I had a rare third one, but a sudden brain fart has taken it from me lmao Anyways, yea, it's super weird to experience those ones. My mom and dad had a perfect marriage, so for them to be divorced just wouldn't happen in real life. He was also a hunter and so getting lost in the woods just want him, either, _(which is actually when he passed away... sat down to eat lunch at his favorite spot on my cousin's property in Montana and that was it; truly no better way to go and that's always heh the silver lining to losing him so young [59])_ In the dreams, though, he'd always be trying to catch up with me, and unfortunately I would always be annoyed with him for being absent... even when it was a "he's been lost in the wilderness" dream where logically he wouldn't be at fault for the absence. Despite that, I still liked having them since I got to "see him". Been a few years since I recall having one and yea, wouldn't mind having one again 🥲 Dreams sure are a curiosity, aren't they? Only to be made _all the more curious_ given *so many* other species also dream! 🤯 If you've made it this far: Thanks for attending my ramble! 🍻
Iv had dreams where exactly this happens and it happens alot so I got my phone and jotted it down. Only to wake up the next morning and find out that the whole thing was a dream and I don't have anything written down
An artist that makes sculptures that have to be hidden in attics, is such a great idea. Museums ruin a lot of artwork which would be way more interesting and better to experience in other settings.
I always thank my mom for insisting I took typing in high school (old manual, non-electric). But what that means is I actually don't know where the damn characters are on the keyboard, so trying to text on a phone is maddening.
I just started a “goal bowl” for my family to try to inspire my parents to expand their imagination a bit as they’re getting older and I worry narrow minded
My dream last night involved some sort of hunger games/Olympics in the Colosseum. I was afraid and trying to hide. I was nearly escaped and on a hill and realized if I left in fear, I’d be fearful forever. So I forced my dream self to stop; I turned, and as the sun came out on the hill, I stripped naked for everyone to see 😂 Royalty, slaves, onlookers, everyone in the Colosseum erupted. Not quite sure what it alludes to in real life yet 😅
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I write down my wife’s dreams when she talks in her sleep. My favourite quote so far is ”Elephants are actually yellow, but the government paints them gray”
That’s funny
She knows about the bananaphants? Clearly a woman of subtle insight.
@ funny you call them that, cause a lot of her dreams involve bananas too xD Another fun one she said is ”Certain colors of bananas should be illegal! Imagine if you saw a purple banana on the road while driving, what would happen then!?”
@@beaconofwierd1883 "Purple banana"? Dude...
I write down what my boyfriend says a lot and one time he asked me to get his phone, I was confused and I said “your phone?” And he was like “yeah, the rotary phone in my top pocket” and that’s when I realised he was asleep.
Another good one is
“Ohhhhhhh. So that really really really cool laser right now? Target. That one? That one? That’s so cool what the fuck. This metal is SO hard.”
Asking, "What was the original question?" After telling a story of that caliber is Adam's magical wonder and awe he presents and lives, it's a beautiful thing
Indeed. This was beautiful and wonderful (in the very literal sense!).
This, truly, is why we're here.
Yea, we're here because Adam has amazing knowledge that he literally _gives away_ to humanity, but it's his stories and the way he tells them which really draws us back.
I've learned to watch these even if the title doesn't convey a sense of interest to me, because I know he'll still share something funny or profound and THAT will make it worth the time! 😊
That could really be the title of these Q&A’s
@@flatTangent 🤣 I wouldn't mind that!
"What was the original question? | Adam waxes poetic"
Does anyone know if Adam’s light switches are rocker or toggle? The non-industrial ones, of course. Thanks!
I kept a dream journal for a while. I started to wake up after *every* dream, which was a problem. I'd scrawl the relevant points in a notebook by the bed and the day I woke up in the morning to find that I'd written 'The beavers can't get a job' I stopped =D I still remember that dream - it was the cartoon Angry Beavers and the whole dream was them engaged a futile job search.
In my experience, what happens in dreams has no connection to how i feel about what is happening. It's like the feelings are just as random as what i'm seeing and hearing.
As a guy that's written software using a keyboard for 48 years (ugh!) it STILL absolutely freaks the hell out of me that I can carry on a conversation, watch a video, and be slamming out code without looking, all at the same time. THEN when I stop & think about it, I can no longer touch-type for about 20 minutes! 🙂
I'm nowhere near that, but have routinely been on the computer since ~98. I actually learned to type "properly" in school in the early/mid 90s, but that never really took and I was a hunt-n-peck typer for quite awhile. However, since I was online for so much of the day when home, after school, work, or with friends, I ended up developing my own method of typing.
I stemmed from gaming, where left hand was on WASD, pinky on Shift; right hand was on mouse but often had to hit enter so my R-pinky was there and the rest were around the J, K, L keys. Thankfully I have looking fingers, so what keys were in "no man's land" could still be easily reached
_DESPITE THAT,_ I still managed to be able to be in am online game as needed and without looking, type messages, with perfect grammar and spelling (most typos caught since I was looking at the screen).
All this is to say: there were indeed occasions where my mom would step into my room, and my TV (computer screen) was only a few degrees head turn from the door. So she would be talking to me as I was watching her, and finishing a thought in my head in chat. A couple times over the years she had asked "what are you doing?" due to the fact I was typing and looking at her whilst she talked to me 🤣
"Typing a message to
"...just your brain singing to itself." - LOVE that description! XD
The only advice I give to aspiring creativives is to have an easily accessible, portable, notebook with an attached pen, that you keep with you at all times - so whenever any idea or inspiration strikes you, you can immediately make a note of them. If you don't, you WILL forget it.
Whenever you have a bout of creative block, you can just leaf through your ideas and pick something to work on. Such a simple thing and it's given me so much.
This, and you don't even need a notebook specifically. I used to just grab a piece of printer paper and fold it in half, then half again so it was nice and pocket-sized. Pair that with a pen in my pocket (actually two in case one stopped working) and I could easily write down any ideas I had.
Which was very handy considering a lot of my ideas would pop up while I was in the middle of doing some sort of mindless work as my mind would naturally wander and start making up stories. Travelling via bus was another time my mind would wander and come up with things, though I had to wait until we stopped to actually write anything or it would end up a mess.
But I still have all those many pieces of paper full of ideas, thinking of it now a notebook would be a little easier to keep track of :P (I mean I've had those too, I just used them more in my lunch breaks than when I was in the middle of work).
A few months ago I woke from a dream, grabbed my phone and made a note "Sadness peoples have no kuffles". At the time, it was very important. By the morning, I had forgotten all context, but I leave that note in my phone.
Somehow this feels profound to me. I can just *almost* tell what it means
@ I think you've written a beautiful description of almost every dream.
That story about your friend/coworker brought a big smile to my face. I had arrived at the conclusion before you brought it up, but it was still so nice to see the joy of the creator in you as you relived that experience (even if it was a vicarious one).
I still remember the joy of discovery and the yearning to understand mysteries while still hoping that more remain out there.
Great story, Mr. Savage, I hope to see your dream traveler kit (or whatever it's called) some day. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go attend a baptism. Happy Sunday!
You absolutely could not ask for a better collaboration between artist and spectator/viewer/discoverer. Great story.
I write down my dreams. Mainly because I often have such vivid and wild ones; moreso than seems to be normal among my peers. Dreams of alien worlds, ghosts, gods, and night terrors. A wonderful, boundless fiction in excess of anything I've been capable of creating in the waking world.
Perhaps this is where we differ in our assessment of dreams. While I do not necessarily regard them as a different plane of existence, I do find dreaming largely preferable to waking life. I hold my dreams in very high esteem.
I usually will do a quick audio recording on my phone instead of trying to type something out. I can whisper the thought into my phone and put it back on the charger will little effort.
"What was the original question?" Would be good on a Tested T-shirt and other merch.
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What a fantastic story. not knowing if your art will impact anyone, The hope alone is enough. people enjoying the art is the cherry on top
Dreaming is highly underrated and way more useful than people realize. Especially if you practice lucid dreaming or dream incubation.
You can solve problems, practice skills, learn about yourself, get rid of fears or nightmares, become more creative etc.
Some of the most world changing inventions come from or have been inspired by dreams
No joke, that's happened to me. I got slightly better at skateboarding from dreaming, and I've learned strumming patterns on guitar just from dreaming about it.
Flubber....
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I love all of your videos, they often have great insights and advice-this one brought me pure joy
I love how a question is answered with a great answer and then supplemented by a completely different story, still related to the original answer as just backstory.
I remember at least one dream in the morning from the night before.
I can influence my sleep on a weekly basis, I can do whatever I want, but often at some point sleep starts to resist and tries to influence what I see.
If sleep becomes too distressing, I can turn it into a pleasant one.
Once I was trapped in sleep for hours.
I heard a dream through when my friend entered the apartment with his own keys and went into the living room.
I got out of bed and went to greet him.
I woke up again from bed and it was a dream and I went again to say hello to my friend and again I woke up from bed.
This went on for hours, and sometimes something strange happened and I realized that I was dreaming, like a giraffe appeared in the living room.
Whenever I woke up, it was so real as this reality here, I pinched myself and it felt real.
Sometimes I would look at my watch and close my eyes and look again, it showed a completely different time.
It was so real and I thought I'd never wake up for real.
Luckily I woke up, I guess I'm awake now? I am?:D
Are you though? 😅 I have a similar dream occasionally
@@AmbersDaintyThrowBlanket Everything I wrote was absolutely true.
"Lathe of Heaven" springs to mind.
Some of my experiences, when they've happened/occurred, it turned out that I thought, "hasn't this happened before?" , and then I realised that I had had these things occur in my mind by means of a dream I'd had sometimes decades before! Unsettling to say the least, so having watched "The Lathe Of Heaven" just recently, all I can say is that I'm glad it's just a movie, and dreams are just that, compositions/stories our minds put together out of past experiences, or from novels we've read or films we've seen, especially those that have had a profound effect on us.
As a fellow creative, that is probably the most beautiful story I’ve ever heard. That needs to be made into a short film or even a movie.
I don’t know if I’ll get that deep into making such items, but now I really want to do this exact thing in my own way and hide them as gifts. I love that kind of stuff that just pulls you right out of reality like that.
Adam- I love the passion, energy, enthusiasm, and glorious roaming that your story telling embodies! I find myself smiling and laughing when you are deep in a story. Thank you!!
Shane's experience with the red box is probably the best experience that an art piece can have. I'll bet the Germans have a name for the emotion😅
Tell me when the Germans get here. I’m curious. 😅
The experience reminded me of a ghost in the shell episode, the theater in a brain case.
Lets ask @laurakampf !
The Apple Freeform whiteboard tool has been FANTASTIC for documenting my ideas and software I’m learning and will partially forget because it don’t use it often.
There are other whiteboard apps if you’re not on Apple, but whiteboards are a GAME CHANGER.
You wrote your own "Savromenicon"? You mention "lucid dreaming" I use "active dreaming"; once you realize you are in a dream, you can begin to take active control. This can be changing location, bend roads, skip to a completely different scenario, etc. One way to begin is to visualize your hands in the dream, do something that uses your hands. This can trigger your ability to affect the dream directly, in my experience. In closing, I suffered a Traumatic brain injury in 2015 and after a couple years or so of healing (98% now), I have extra vivid dreams with control and I remember them almost completely the next day, every day. The other big development is that I have been able to re-enter a few dreams! Being a senior I have to wake up middle of night for obvious reason. I have been able to get back into dreams by just focusing on what was going on as I drift back to sleep, and it was eye opening. The depth of my dreams, plot complexity, number and variety of cast members has increased also. Some mornings I delay waking up because the dreams are so interesting... It's a Telegraph Key.
Can you still do this?
@@zackbrown1865 Yes
LOL at the senior pee break that triggers a REM/Lucid dreaming state when you get back to sleep. Quickly able to get back to REM at that. Although after a few concussions, it happens much less.
I keep a notepad next to my bed. It’s a grid pad so I can draw project ideas, or write. I don’t want to get on a screen at night and affect getting back to sleep.
I would buy a copy of that book. PUBLISH IT ADAM!
Adam, I am SO GLAD you are saying this because I have been doing this for YEARS. Touch typing while in a slumbered state is, weirdly, one of those Satisfying ThingsTM. I also think it is one of those 'marks of a maker'. There are certain things we as makers do because we know we need to be doing something, and I suppose hearing you say this pushes back the Imposter Syndrome a bit ❤️ have a great end to your week.
A terrific taIe. I have a few moments from childhood that stuck with me. Discoveries... what fun. 💙🌻💙
I don't do it often, but I have very vivid dreams. I have written down a few of them, and one I even published as a short story.
I wrote it on my phone, then woke up my (then) teenage daughter to read it to her. She also thought it was pretty good.
We went back to bed, and I later took the story to my writers group for polishing.
I really should do that more often.
I became obsessed with remembering my dreams around 7-8 years old and dedicated myself to remembering everything I could. Now almost 20 years later most of my dreams are lucid and the ones that aren’t are always grand miraculous adventures that I remember with shocking clarity even days or weeks later
I always love your story of the red box, it inspired my process that when making an object, each part of it must have a reason to it's existance. think of it like when you're making a prop you are also writing the in-universe manual that goes with that prop.
I love lucid dreaming - cant do it all the time but I quite often can fly- go from walking around to jumping up and taking off flying around.
That’s my go to move to confirm dreams once the lucidity begins to creep in, take to the sky. Next trick is to avoid spoiling it by waking up
I don't like lucid dreams because it's exhausting for me to control my dreams. I don't want to think, I just want to sleep. Who cares if I can do whatever I want, it doesn't actuallt mattee
@@lessmore444 Careful with that, it’s a bad method to verify lucid dreaming, my friend ended up in a wheelchair cause he woke up in a dizzy state, thought he was dreaming and decided to fly out the window…
I’ve found walking through walls is a much better way to check for dreams, just put your hand against the wall, and the phase through it. No risk of getting hurt IRL.
@@njdotson I like lucid dreams, because they feel amazing and you can do anything you want. Besides, what does it matter if it's not real? Many enjoyable things are not "real". TV shows for example, or thinking about happy memories. I don't find them exhausting, more like freedom from daytime activities. But each to their own!
One of the most amazing stories ive ever heard. We need to see this trunk!
I would love to see that piece if we can do a video about it, or at least part of a video. Maybe Adam's favorite "Art" pieces he still has?
That story reminds me of the podcast episode Hyperfixed - "Casey Wants to Believe"
It's about a lost artifact that has a more than 1 story to tell.
I was so happy to hear the Adam utter the phrase "my personal fountain pen." I think I speak for fountain pen nerds everywhere, what pen and ink combo are we talking about here?
We've been down the pencil/mechanical pencil wormhole, now it's time for fountain pens to have their moment on Tested!
I started writing down my dreams every morning and now I can't stop. I almost always sort of wake up after dreaming and I have to "narrate" my dream stories a few times so that in the morning I can remember remembering them. Only once or twice a month do I not remember anything, and some times I remember 3 or 4 dreams. I tried to quit recording them but then I'd have an awesome dream like a nuclear explosion or a beautiful sunset behind the Golden Gate bridge under a rainbow. I've had a couple of good story plots and don't want to miss the next great novel idea. I've dreamed of singing and heard 4 part harmony, sometimes old songs, sometimes new ones. I still have the school dreams where I realize I forgot to study for the exam.
I had a fairly normal 'brain shoves two things together randomly' sort of dream a couple years back, but i was waking up near the end, and by the time i was awake, i realized the idea was so cool i wanted to write it, so i set about cleaning up the nonsense and making it work as an actual thing. And im still working on it.
That story had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video before I could continue watching... they you asked "What was the question again?" sending me into yet more laughter. I'm glad I wasn't drinking a cup of coffee like I usually do while watching TH-cam, otherwise I'd have to wipe down my laptop screen... TWICE!!! WOW, that's a neat story, and it's funny as heck.
Adam sure has *_thee best_* stories, and tells them in the most amazing ways! 🤣♥️
Adam, I'm totally with you on the typing. When I went to university, for some reason my crowd hung around the Vax computer room, learning to touch type. Oh my gosh how that education has paid me back over the years. Also small snippet fact - the words afterwards, stewardesses, tesseradecades and sweaterdresses can all be typed with the left hand. But the largest with the right hand is the little old monopoly...
3:42 omfg this is something I could absolutely see Adam have doing lmao that's incredible
what a great story, thank s for sharing
I dictate into my Apple Watch - it’s always on. I use Drafts app to capture.
That was a great story! Thank you for sharing.
Another idea i use myself, is to have one of those pocket sound recorder, like your doc has.
I've used it several times, dreaming solutions and ideas.
Cause the whole 'oh i got to remember this' never, ever works...
I think in his case, his wife might be annoyed by him using one (a "dictaphone") 😅
Personally, I use my smartphone. My Galaxy S23 Ultra has a Notes app (nor sure if the smaller, pen-less models do), and I just use Swipe Typing to jot down what's needed. Though, my phone's brightness us almost always at 20% since that's more than adequate for me indoors, and with Dark Theme of means it doesn't emit much light and is easy on the sleepy eyes 😊
Though still, even using Samsung's sound recorder app would work a treat. I'm sure other apps have this as well, but Samsung's has a transcription feature, as well as a "voice" preset to tune the microphones and noise canceling to that type of audio.
My note taking for dreams: Phone set to black & white after midnight (goes away ~6pm) + I use a note taking app that has dark mode. Very easy on the eyes, very quick to take notes
So many great books have been created out of people's dreams💭🛌🏼.. Frankenstein, Peter Pan , Pets Cemetery, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory . Author's dreamed these Books 📚
OMG I don't even think I can make it to the end. For my wife the thought of her dreams becoming easier to access and easier to retain ....quite possibly would be worse than killing her. The horrors of her early life have made themselves real through her dreams and when she's alone in a stressful situation. She does not have whatever we call multiple personalities yet I've seen her 3 times present as a little child. She noticed in looking in the mirror and not recognizing herself. "why was I so old" the way she walked and ignored my good morning. It didn't last long but boogymen are real and they come through her dreams. Be careful what you record...its very powerful in more ways than just good. I've had a lot of "inside your head" therapy. your brain can be a scary place and changing it is way easier than most would believe. Choose happy if you go there.
You know you’re good at making sculptures and art when it’s found by someone without the knowledge of what it is and they believe is a genuine artifact from reality. (My English might not have fully sufficed here, but you get the point.:)
Clark Ashton Smith famously used to pick up stones from the riverbank, carve faces or glyphs or stick figure scenes into them, and then throw them back onto the riverbank for someone else to find days or months or years later. A little bit of mystery and magic to the everyday world.
i attempted a dream diary for some time, and discovered a new experience of dreams after using a new sleep medication. i'd remember dreams i'd had, recently and longer ago, as a sort of déjà vu brought on by waking life. 😊
Hello from Tasmania it's me Mr Christopher James Rush I remember seeing you in MythBusters which came to an end and you came back with a bunch of kids for MythBusters Jr it was lovely to watch, I still remember our Aussie bloke as a ninja plus you used Buster The Crash Test Dummy which is destroyed.
You may not believe what I tried I tried America's chocolate plus some smores delicious.
I also like to tell you I have a hobby in doing films and surprise, surprise did a number of films wearing a costume of America's clayboy Gumby and some creations of making wooden models mainly a model series based on my childhood film in 1991 The Little Engine That Could there's two series plus more.
Lastly I tried McDonald's new drink called The Grimace Shake also delicious, I even still use cassette cameras using Windows XP and Windows 11 using a USB Stick handy it is.
From TheNewStoryteller.
I used to play drums, was in several bands over a couple if decades.
I've never been able to play any other instruments but always loved guitar and bass.
I remember having a few dreams over the years where I composed some awsome full band instrumental tunes, with full on lead guitar solos etc, but unfortunately never had any way to document them or get them out being just a drummer, as well as I never remembered anything the next morning.
I'm aslo a Mechanical Engineer and Electrical Engineer, on quite a few occassions I've thought of or dreamed of some pretty good inventions, but of course I've never remembered the dreams or actioned my thoughts in the moment, then the idea is gone forever🤣
This is the reason I DON’T get lucid dream goggles. I am scared that I would get addicted and would be focused to much anticipating dream while I should be relaxing for sleep.
I love noting down my half awake half asleep dreams. Sometimes they're great, sometimes they're trash, but they're somewhat useful either way. I have a notebook next to my bed for this reason.
Lovely story, plus I have been saying, for half a century, that the best thing I learned in school was how to touch-type.
As a lucid dreamer, when you wake up from the dream try to complete the task ASAP. I have woken up at 3-4 am and worked through the issue in REM sleep, walked out into the shop and yep, that works. Hit the loo and back to bed. I rebuild transmissions and has autistic traits (Asperger's)
Fascinating topic, but based on the title, I expected the video to be about keeping hope and pursuing what you really want to do while your day-to-day work and responsibilities are grinding you down!
I hand the same problem that Adam did when I was writing down my dreams. It got to the point where it was messing with my sleep pattern. So had to stop just so I could get enough sleep.
A telegraph key makes a softish tapping sound, a 'sounder' is designed to replicate the keys 'message' and produce a much louder sound that could be heard in a noisy location. Many operators placed a tin can on the sounder to further increase the sound.
I've gotten into the habit of setting my phone with the audio recorder open. One click and I babble just coherently enough to put together later. What I haven't gotten in the habit of doing is actually remembering to get to step 2. I really need to work on the whole recall part. And that's just probably mostly got to do with weed. Thanks for the wake up call!
I don't recall explicitly dreaming after 2017 but it was a meaningful whopper about our grandfather.
Hi Sir Adam 🤠
Can you do some videos on how to become Psychic & Start Remote Viewing Journey?
Thank You 🙏
Years ago, I kept a dream journal for several years. My pc was right next to my bed, and I just kept a Wordpad file open, so if there was something I wanted to type out, it was right there. Later I moved the computer to the living room for room scale VR, so I didn't have that anymore. I thought about maybe some kind of voice recorder or something, but never did that. But I did have one memorable dream that totally seemed like an epic movie plot at the time. I typed out the general outline, then in the morning, reading it, remembered more details and fleshed it out a bit more. Then I realized my subconscious had mostly ripped off the movie Knowing with Nicolas Cage. 🤣
Reminds me of two dreams I have had, one was a Michael Jackson song that has never existed, but was in my dream. I have zero musical ability, yet I wish I could recreate this song somehow. It happened in another dream but was an Oasis song that doesn’t exist. How can my brain be creating music that I have no idea how to produce…
That actually sounds like something I’d do. I’ve always enjoyed leaving weird little relics I’ve carved out of stone, or old letters from antique stores and such, in places to ‘one day soon to be randomly found by strangers’. Last year, before morel mushroom season, I put several wood carved mushrooms in a known mushroom-hunting location for other foragers to find…I only wish I could have seen how it all played out when someone found them! Insert a little random magic and mystery into others people mind and worlds!
I have done this thing with recording dreams too! However in my case it has gone a bit further... when I make an effect to wake up and type or write my dreams whenever I have them, I had periods I would go through where I would start dreaming that I woke up and started recording my dream only to wake up and be frustrated that everything I had just written down had disappeared. And then I would try to type up my dream again, only to wake up *again* because I was still dreaming the first time. Usually by the time I actually woke up my recollection of the dream had change enough that I could remember having a game of telephone with myself where I could remember parts of what I wrote down in each false awakening enough to know that I didn't recall the actual original dream.
Another fun one was when I would wake up and be telling someone else my dream... like a relative that died years ago, and then I would wake up and be like "wait a minute, why didn't I realize I was dreaming because they aren't alive now". Even now I still will sometimes have a dream in which I am telling somebody about something that happened in a dream of a prior night ... as if it really happening because i forgot it was a dream and don't realize I am dreaming. But yeah... have done the lucid dreaming stuff in the past, now my brain seems to just amuse itself with nonsense when i'm asleep.
I use a digital voice recorder to take notes on dreams or sudden ideas. Now adays, u can upload voice recordings and have them transcribed to text
I very rarely remember my dreams after waking up. When I hit my late forties and began getting up almost every night to pee (it will happen to you too) I did start having a lot of water based dreams. I noticed that if I didn't wake up to go early in the dream they would turn from benign to scary to wake me up, like dreaming of swimming in the lake with my grandfather when I was a kid then after a while a shark or alligator would appear. Or even in dreams that weren't water based at first lots of water would suddenly be there.
I'll be tying this one!
I've had a couple of dreams that oddly enough were very similar on two different occasions.
I wish I were an artist so I could replicate some of what I saw in my dreams.
Both times I was in what I when I woke up I classified what I experienced as an art installation. Actually I experienced three dreams. There were normal people like myself wandering around looking at everything. What I saw I think would qualify as a nightmare for some. There were what I can only describe as misshapen humans. Most were sculptures like probably made from fiberglass. One was a line in a wall one creature / misshapen being after another but each one came further out of the wall than the one in front of it, with only an impression of where the last one should be.
My only problem was, no matter where I went, I could never find my car in the basement parking garage, thus I couldn't leave.
I wasn't scared of the creatures I saw but I was frustrated that I couldn't leave.
I swear I've seen either drawings or sculptures of these types of people or creatures somewhere during my lifetime, but can't find it.
that was a wild ride.
I'm one of those unlucky people who not only doesn't remember their dreams but is also unaware of having had a dream at all. The good thing is that I also don't have nightmares but I think I'd probably trade that to experience what it's like waking up and thinking, even for a fleeting moment, what a weird dream I'd had. As it stands, sleep is basically just power-saving mode.
For me, I used to use my iPad when my wife was alive at night i would type manually,under the blanket so not to wake her, some gibberish but now I dictate using my iPad, voice recognition that I’m using right now it doesn’t always work right, but like you say, it gets the thought through the idea.
Learning how to type without looking in high school, fascinating. We youngins learned how to do that in kindergarten in 2001. 😅
Loved this
Great story.
I think this is probably now my favorite story of yours.
Odd this video drops today when last night I woke up once in the middle of the night punching my pillow, and woke up at another point mid sentence. I then proceeded to finish the thought. Don’t remember now exactly what was going on
I wish I could remember my dreams better. I might try writing them down when I wake up-thanks for the tip. I actually did this once and had a similar experience to yours: I opened the note on my phone expecting to find a brilliant idea to refine, only to discover something barely comprehensible and not worth the kilobytes it took to store it.
Great story!
Great video ❤
I've definitely had dreams that either contained or sparked really good story ideas. Unfortunately, some of them were to IPs that don't belong to me - like a semi-conclusion to the series Angel; or backstory for Doctor Who. There was one thing I had been working on for ages, and one night I had this dream where I was the main character, and I climbed what was supposed to be my bedroom window and onto the roof where I just sat and talked with the character's love interest in the story. Mind you, nothing like that existed in the story up to that point; nor had I ever done anything like that. My room/house wasn't even laid out the way it was in my dream. And I remember waking up thinking, "shit, that'd be a really cool plot point;" where they could be they realize they live next door to each other and that's part of how their romance blossoms. They start hanging out on the roof together. So I definitely incorporated that into the story.
I do a lot of community theatre and direct school productions; and it never fails where I have some kind of weird theatre dream at some point during a production.
To gather the strength to keep chasing dreams, first we presume one has dreams.
Re: The "hide them in people's attacks" line from ~9 minutes: When I got my first 3D printer, I just couldn't stop so I started making personal gifts for my coworkers based on their interests or something that resonated. I would just plant them in their office or on their desk and have to wait for the testimony of witnesses to hear the response.
I feel like I never dream. There are never even moments of forgetting when I wake up. I wake up 99% of the time feeling like I didn’t dream once.
Regarding dreams and our psyche... Most of my lucid dreams have always been the typical whacky/nonsensical theme, or the occasional "intimate" one; however, after we lost my dad 16 years ago to a heart attack, a new theme emerged...
The details were always different, but the general theme was that dad was still alive, but had either:
- been lost in the wilderness for many years and suddenly found his way out and back to us
- left my mom and would occasionally come around for whatever reason (that detail escapes me)
- ... I had a rare third one, but a sudden brain fart has taken it from me lmao
Anyways, yea, it's super weird to experience those ones. My mom and dad had a perfect marriage, so for them to be divorced just wouldn't happen in real life. He was also a hunter and so getting lost in the woods just want him, either, _(which is actually when he passed away... sat down to eat lunch at his favorite spot on my cousin's property in Montana and that was it; truly no better way to go and that's always heh the silver lining to losing him so young [59])_
In the dreams, though, he'd always be trying to catch up with me, and unfortunately I would always be annoyed with him for being absent... even when it was a "he's been lost in the wilderness" dream where logically he wouldn't be at fault for the absence. Despite that, I still liked having them since I got to "see him". Been a few years since I recall having one and yea, wouldn't mind having one again 🥲
Dreams sure are a curiosity, aren't they? Only to be made _all the more curious_ given *so many* other species also dream! 🤯
If you've made it this far:
Thanks for attending my ramble! 🍻
Iv had dreams where exactly this happens and it happens alot so I got my phone and jotted it down. Only to wake up the next morning and find out that the whole thing was a dream and I don't have anything written down
False awakenings. I experience exact type often
An artist that makes sculptures that have to be hidden in attics, is such a great idea. Museums ruin a lot of artwork which would be way more interesting and better to experience in other settings.
I would highly recommend Obsidian over Evernote for note taking.
awesome story
Like flaming globes!
"What was the original question"😂😂😂😂
I started to keep a project jurnal for this reason.
I always thank my mom for insisting I took typing in high school (old manual, non-electric). But what that means is I actually don't know where the damn characters are on the keyboard, so trying to text on a phone is maddening.
I just started a “goal bowl” for my family to try to inspire my parents to expand their imagination a bit as they’re getting older and I worry narrow minded
We need a 3D printed statue of of Adam sleeping while holding a pen and a book. xD
My dream last night involved some sort of hunger games/Olympics in the Colosseum. I was afraid and trying to hide. I was nearly escaped and on a hill and realized if I left in fear, I’d be fearful forever. So I forced my dream self to stop; I turned, and as the sun came out on the hill, I stripped naked for everyone to see 😂 Royalty, slaves, onlookers, everyone in the Colosseum erupted. Not quite sure what it alludes to in real life yet 😅