Dreaming about what's going on around you.

In My Humble Opinion
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I had an add experience tonight. I went to bed early, and my wife was watching TV while I was asleep. She likes to watch ID channel, the true crime investigation stories. She was watching this, and I kept having dreams about unsolved murders, DNA tests on different suspects, and things of that nature. I woke up a few times in the middle of the night because of this. Have any of you had similar dreams, where you dream about events that are going on around you while your asleep? Sorry if I posted anything that sounds bizarre, but obviously I’m tired this late night/early morning :stuck_out_tongue:

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I do this a lot. Sometimes I will fall asleep with a podcast or a Teaching Company lecture running on my computer in the background. I’ve been weaving Greek mythology or popular cosmology into my dreams a bunch of times. It can get pretty weird.

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I used to do it when I had my alarm clock set to have the radio turn on, I would start dreaming film clips.

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I do a lot of sleeping on airplanes. (Well, not as much as I used to.) I almost always have this dream where the plane can’t get up to altitude and has to fly under high-tension electric wires. Or I often have a dream where the plane lands on a highway somewhere and has to travel down the road to reach the airport. I worry that the plane won’t be able to clear the wires or will be too wide to go under bridges, but somehow it makes it.

And then I do a lot of recursive dreaming. For example, when I sleep on an airplane I dream that I am sleeping on an airplane. And before anyone asks, no I don’t know what I dream that I dream about.

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All the time.

Once, I fell asleep watching a ST: TNG marathon. It was probably some of the coolest dreams ever. I was screwing around on the holodeck, partying with folks in ten-forward, and I even transported myself to see what that was like.

Then my dreams took a serious nose dive. I went from hanging out on the Enterprise to being in some sort of hellish infomercial. It was so disturbing, it actually woke me up! And when I opened my eyes, sure enough, theirs Ron Popeil trying to sell me a set of kitchen knives.
When Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was still on Hulu, I used to switch that on in continuous play right before I nodded off. It always gave me pleasant dreams. Which is why I was beyond pissed when they took it off.