I have intensely vivid dreams. From what I gather from having talked to people over the years, they tend to be more vivid than many people’s dream and I am often given more agency within the dream than most people claim to have (meaning, I can make choices that change the story or nature of the dream), and I can read one to five words at a time (book titles, street names), and retain it upon waking. Reading signs and books in dream tends to be especially hard for most people (but not all people), if they even think to do it (knowing what something “says” and “reading it” are two different things in dream).
I had a series of especially vivid dreams last night and I have a little experiment I think might be interesting to try out. One of you was in one of my dreams last night. The dream space took place in an old theater and we were sitting in red, velvet-covered seats in the dark. I eventually pointed to the stage while leaning over to you and whispered, “Watch. See. This is important.”
If you want to play along with this very unscientific experiment, name two significant features or actions that took place before I whispered, if you had a similar dream last night.
If someone tells me one accurate significant detail (preferably two) and is the person I had a sense you were, I’ll privately confirm the matching details and discuss if they want to have that shared or remain anonymous. Telling me that the theater was dark or providing other non-significant details doesn’t count. I’m thinking of several actions or notable details (i.e., you had a black eye; just as an example) that seemed important while the dream was happening.
For the record, I don’t expect the right person to stand up or (if they do) provide me with matching details. I will accept that the sense of the person I thought was in a dream with me might be wrong as well. It might not be anyone from here.
Thanks in advance if you pipe in. Consider it a fun game where there are no winners or losers, just the act of playing a game so that I can test something.
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