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Dreams are powerful

I usually dream of me wandering around rivers or forests, usually alone, and mostly exploring something. I had a dream of me being near a massive damn located between canyons and mountains, the route was dangerous and it was raining; these dreams are recursive as in they're connected with each other.

There where times when I dreamed something that barely resembled a landscape I get to see in the future for the first time, and other dreams are straight up deja vus, repeating ones at that.

And ive had dream sex... Years ago when I cared about that yeah... Mostly self aware too...
 
I don't know if I've ever told you this story but I'd thought I would share it because idk you might find it interesting.
I was at my dad's house one day, and I was playing a Portal 2 mod at like 2 AM. The mod is called "Aperture Tag" and there's this one level that I got stuck on.
It was a space level. I was really tired and I couldn't figure it out for the life of me, so I went to sleep. What happened next was so bizarre to me that it stuck with me for a long time.

I began to dream that I was playing the videogame. It wasn't a lucid dream, but in the dream, I was playing the game Aperture Tag, still stuck on that level, and still failing at it, but my mind began to do something interesting, like it was running a simulation on this level and doing it until I beat it. I did end up actually beating the level in my dream, figuring out the solution and when I did, well... I woke up. Now awake, in the morning, I remembered the dream and immediately booted up my laptop to go play Aperture Tag, and I cleared the level I was stuck on immediately.

I am fascinated by the brain's ability to do this, because it happens with me a lot. Whenever I'm stuck on something, like programming something, my brain will recreate the engine that I was coding in that day, simulate it completely accurately, tell me what causes errors and what doesn't, as if I had somehow downloaded that engine and stored it into my brain. My brain would create solutions to problems in dreams and they would turn out to be correct.

Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever had a dream that has impacted you in a very meaningful way or has helped you?
long-term memory pillers seething over short-term memory Chads
 
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