Sweet Dreams

Ever have that incredible dream that’s super awesome and you immediately realize that you need to tell others about it? You know. How all this CRAZY stuff happened and other people just need to hear about it? Well. I understand. But, I do have a couple rules to keep in mind when you’re slogging through it trying to remember stuff as you’re telling me.

• Keep It Short: Let’s be honest. Hearing someone talk about a dream is like listening to someone trying to tell a joke they only kind of remember. Lots of “wait… yeah”’s in there. I mean. It’s difficult because dreams rarely happen in a really linear and logical timeline. So sure, there’s lots of jumping around. But also, it’s the least mutually beneficial type of conversation. This happened to you, in a dream, and it wasn’t real. I’ll listen but if it goes over 5 minutes, I’m automatically going to tune out. And this leads me to my second point.
• Don’t Expect Me To React: What can I say? It’s hard to empathize with something that was made up by your subconscious. The best you could ever get from me would be, “Wow. Welp, that is weird”. That’s it. There’s nowhere else to go from that. I’m not going to analyze it. I’m not going to ask for more. I’m not going to show genuine concern. It was made up. Better yet, if your dream isn’t really funny in some way, don’t even tell it to me. At least if it’s funny it serves some high storytelling purpose.

Now. I understand that we can be viewed as negative here on this site. And that’s not my intention. It’s really not. I have weird dreams and I like to tell them to people. But I try to wrap them up in 30 seconds or less. Or explain the context of why said dream was weird when it happened at this particular point in my life. Or. If I’m telling someone about a dream and I realize I can’t remember large chunks of it, I’ll just stop and apologize. I won’t sit there and look up while I try to remember. Because, honestly, I don’t care that much. A lot of times I regret even bringing it up. But. That’s just me.