# It was a dream! It wasn't me! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-dream-it-wasnt-me/91859 "2001-11-06T21:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-dream-it-wasnt-me/91859/21 "2001-11-07T21:48:36Z")
[hijack]Millington and Margret…I love that site. Be sure to check back occasionally - he really does update it with new stuff periodically.[/hijack] I occasionally wake up ticked off at my SO for something that happened in a dream. Worst part is that fairly often, I can’t figure out for a while if it was a dream or if it really happened. And sometimes it works the other way - I’m the one in trouble for something that never happened. We usually talk about it & once it’s sorted out (e.g., dream, not real), it’s all OK. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-dream-it-wasnt-me/91859/22 "2001-11-07T23:08:12Z")
This week, my GF grilled me about what I meant when I said “I have _never_ spoken to you before.” in my sleep. I think she assumes that I was addressing her (in my dream.) What can you say to that? **[Café Intellectual Mode]** According to Thomas Hobbes, we continue to dream while we are awake, and confuse our dreams with reality. > [@](#): > > The decay of sense in men waking is not the decay of the motion made in sense, but an obscuring of it, in such manner as the light of the sun obscureth the light of the stars; which stars do no less exercise their virtue by which they are visible in the day than in the night. So your wife might have a case. 😉 **[/Café Intellectual Mode]** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-dream-it-wasnt-me/91859.md?page=1)