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f1g4 t1_j4hvn13 wrote

Check the work of Carl Gustav Jung. He studied and contributed to "found" modern approach to psychology after Freud. Especially what he called"archetipes", suggesting they could've represented various parts of the "mind" even tho they would be seen through different cultural lenses. These ideas stem from what Jung called Collective Unconscious. But as far as I believe there's really no way to tell if these spontaneous "visions" or "dreams" are indipendently emerged, by Popper's standards these statements are not falsifiable and thus unscientific (e.g. the statement "the tooth fairy is a common myth that indipendently emerged in different cultures across the X century"). Also, maybe we should investigate the past because now with internet and globalization our minds can subconsciously learn things from very different and far cultures.

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gameryamen t1_j4hvtl0 wrote

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Similarly, the experience of getting "domed" on DMT often involves going to a cavernous place and meeting diminutive creatures (gnomes, elves, sprites, etc.) that eagerly ask you to entertain them. Eventually they tire of you and demand more, before sending you back out of the "dome".

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Objective_Regret4763 t1_j4hzy75 wrote

Replying to gameryamen (#1,370,685)

Very cool. I honestly believe this is just a person mentally visiting other parts of their brain and not being able to understand that they’re experiencing so their brain fills things in with something they know to be diminutive. Then they talk to their different selves before moving on.

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JimmyJazz1971 t1_j4ity7t wrote

I always have these bizarre dreams where I desperately have to use the washroom and have to settle for a lone toilet sitting out in the open -- in the front window of 7-11, in St. Peter's Square, in an office lobby just as a car crashes through the plate glass -- all kinds of weirdness. When we talked about such things in previous posts, it seems that this wasn't terribly uncommon.

The other one that seemed really common was getting into a fight in your dream and not being able to hit your opponent. Either you'd always pull the punch, or it would feel like your arm was swinging through molasses in slow motion.

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aliendividedbyzero t1_j4jgwwt wrote

Replying to JimmyJazz1971 (#1,372,296)

I get the washroom one sometimes! But for me, it's that there's hundreds of stalls. The stalls may have a shower, a toilet, or NOTHING, or for some reason multiple toilets in the same (bigger, like the size of 4 normal stalls put together) stall. If the stall has a toilet and isn't a multiple toilet stall, then it's like really dirty or there's no toilet paper or the door is gone or won't lock or something. There's always something. The usable stalls are always occupied, the ones that would be usable always have someone watching. Worst nightmare.

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fuscator t1_j4kdujj wrote

Common dreams for me, anyone else?

Realising you have an exam today and you haven't studied.

Running, but not able to run properly, like you have lost motor control. Mostly running some sort of race, sometimes away from something.

Realising you've gone bald (I have relatively full hair, male)

Realising you don't have trousers or underwear on, in a crowd (not had this for many years, it was when I was younger).

Hmm, it seems maybe I have insecurity issues 🤣

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thataccounttho t1_j4ko5qo wrote

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The inability to run dream is the only reoccurring dream that I have and it’s always really vivid. I often wake up thinking that I have woken from a coma or something and I’m now unable to run.

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