Question: should you tell people about you weird dreams they appeared in?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m not sure why, but over the last several days I have been having some VERY wacked-out dreams. Such as:

Dream #1 - I am getting dressed for some sort of elaborate Asian ceremony (possibly a wedding, althouh I am not the one getting married). My clothes, which are some sort of elaborate Japanese costume, are being loaned to me by the family of a young Asian woman who is a personal friend. She looks (or is) just like Hoshi on “Enterprise.”
So, Hoshi and I are sitting on a concrete floor talking after both of us are garbed in these elaborate outfits. And she starts telling me that she’s really not sure she loves the man she’s involved with. She implies that it’s ME she is attracted to. The man she is involved with is my ex-roommate IRL, a
personal friend in both the dream and in real life. And that’s all I can remember.
The odd things about this dream are, a) I only just recently watched a whole episode of “Enterprise,” and the ep focused on Hoshi. b) My ex-roommate really did have a preference for Asian women. c) When i was in college (and this is the strangest parallel by far) the girlfriend of a friend told me she was thinking about breaking up with him, and wanted to know if I was interested in dating her afterward. I told her no. It turned out later to be a sham; she neve4r intended to break up with him. She was just worried that I was “too flirty” and wanted to test me. My friend knew about her doing this, too.

Dream #2, and much more simple: IRL, my sister-in-law is pregnant with twins. I dreamed, just last night, that they found out that it really wasn’t twins, but one baby and a “mass of placental tissue” that had been mistaken for a second child.

So. Should I tell my ex-roommate or brother about these wacked dreams?

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Definitely not #2 - parents-to-be worry enough about their unborn children without hearing freaky dreams predicting horrible things.

I believe Miss Manners’ advice on the subject of relating dreams to someone is that it should only be done to the person who would typically be there when you awaken. Her reasoning is that normally most dreams are far more interesting to the dreamer than anyone else, though one’s partner/spouse might be interested - and is sufficiently close to the dreamer to hear any very personal details.

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There’s nothing more boring than having to listen to other people’s dreams, so keep that in mind.

But sometimes I myself find one I just have to tell about or it will keep running around in my head. And the other person is booored!

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:smack: D’oh! I’ve never really considered it this way, but it makes perfect sense.

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I like telling people about dreams I had which they were in. But, I try to keep it realy short (too boring!) and only tell unincriminating things.

Don’t tell if it involves things which are too disturbing (#2) or weird (like those dreams in which you have sex with a random person–don’t tell them that!). I’m not the only person with random-sex dreams, am I?