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The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by enricozb »

lrossi wrote: post #56

Do you ever dream about programming? I sometimes dream about code or debugging, especially when my team is working on a deadline. A few times I dreamt of solutions to problems we had. It felt good on the spot, calming and relaxing. Unfortunately, after waking up, they don’t make any sense.

In the vaguest sense possible. Dreams for me feel very concrete but definitely aren't. If I was debugging something in a dream and became lucid, and attempted to read the "code" on the screen, it would be impossible. Just a swirl of letter-like things that made no sense whatsoever.

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by NovaJehovah »

as1mov wrote: post #59
NovaJehovah wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how these kinds of dreams are affected by dealing with the underlying anxieties. I remember having the "naked in public" dream in the past. I've also had a fair amount of body shame for most of my life. But after getting in better shape and spending time on nude beaches and in the occasional (mixed gender) nude sauna in the last few years, my body shame pretty much disappeared. I now feel almost no self-cons…

I guess this does make some sense in my case. Unfortunately my issues can't really be fixed by getting in better shape.

Getting in better shape did make it easier, but I think just being naked around others and seeing that no one really cares that much what your body looks like is the more important ingredient.

I guess it's a form of de-conditioning. We've been trained to expect this extremely negative response from others when we take our clothes off. Doing it over and over and receiving no negative response whatsoever seems to eventually alter the expectation.

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Post by softwaredoug »

nprz wrote: post #45
as1mov wrote: post #19

Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook. I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories - 1. I suddenly find myself…

Only recurring dream I have is I'm back in college and it's the end of a semester, suddenly I realize there's some math class I haven't been attending and I have just a few days to cram everything I've missed in time for the final.

Wow I have this dream constantly as well

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Post by drusepth »

lrossi wrote: post #56

Do you ever dream about programming? I sometimes dream about code or debugging, especially when my team is working on a deadline. A few times I dreamt of solutions to problems we had. It felt good on the spot, calming and relaxing. Unfortunately, after waking up, they don’t make any sense.

I actively try to fall asleep every night working through a problem or designing some intricate/problematic code in my head. I'm not sure if it's that cognitive work right before falling asleep or the dreams (where I'm usually working through and/or coding that problem a few different ways, often for what feels like hours in my sleep), but I almost always wake up with enough of an idea to get started and/or some revelation that'll help in some way with the high level design.

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Post by mortenjorck »

as1mov wrote: post #19

Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook. I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories - 1. I suddenly find myself…

For years, I’ve had a recurring dream where I’ve returned to a location of many fond childhood memories, my grandparents’ home. More recently, the dreams focus on the impossibility of my being there again after all these years, the paradox resolved by some handwaving of my subconscious.

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by timonoko »

lrossi wrote: post #56

Do you ever dream about programming? I sometimes dream about code or debugging, especially when my team is working on a deadline. A few times I dreamt of solutions to problems we had. It felt good on the spot, calming and relaxing. Unfortunately, after waking up, they don’t make any sense.

I have solved various unsolvable issues in a dream.

And I actually remember one solution because I constructed a mental model so I would remember the unique groundbreaking solution I have just invented.

Thus I now remember a ball with curved arrows coming in and out, but I do not understand what it means and what problem it solves.

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by carabiner »

as1mov wrote: post #19

Just curious, does anyone here have dreams with some recurring themes? I've tried googling for this but sadly most of the content seems to be related to spiritual/mystical "explanations" of it. And I don't bring it up with anyone in real life so as to not appear like a kook. I don't usually remember my dreams, but when I do there's a great probability that it falls into these 2 categories - 1. I suddenly find myself…

I've had the naked dream a LOT, usually taking place at work. It's the place where I'm most anxious and insecure.

Another I've had is being at the top of a very tall skyscraper that starts shaking from an earthquake, and I have to get down somehow. Like everything around me is about to crumble and it's totally out of my control.

Re: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

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Post by allemagne »

hntrader wrote: post #3

Would it be interesting to fine-tune GPT-3 on these?

Sometimes when I try to force the AI in AIDungeon to do something specific, the reaction is often weirdly reminiscent of the behavior of dreams.

For example, I once kept trying to force an elf to teach me how to say certain phrases in their language (in an attempt to see if the AI could invent an imaginary language to some degree of consistency), and the character kept "laughing it off" and abruptly changing the subject.

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Post by mortenjorck »

lqet wrote: post #12

I would like to know what small children (1-2 years) dream, but we can of course never really know for sure. My daughter (2 years) definitely seems to have nightmares. She also seems to have conversations in her dreams, as she often speaks answers to questions while sleeping. Personally I very strongly remember some wild dreams when I was very young, probably around the age I started remembering things at all, so aro…

I remember a few vivid dreams from around kindergarten. One even had music that, I kid you not, I remember to this day. My working theory is that I actually heard that music somewhere and the dream just cemented it in my memory.
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