{"id":362,"date":"2009-04-26T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-04-26T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T22:14:32","slug":"dreams-and-life-converge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/dreams-and-life-converge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams and life converge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-365\" title=\"di090426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/di090426.jpg\" alt=\"di090426\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/di090426.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/di090426-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This dream is perfectly natural for a healthy male. Finally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since I have described three strange dreams since I started doing brainwave entrainment, I should include this one. It certainly seems to be the fourth in a series. \u00c2\u00a0As you may remember, the <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/creepy-when-sleepy\/\">first<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/creepy-sleepy-2\/\">second<\/a> dream were terrifying, hair-raising nightmares, most of their horror consisting in them taking place right there in my home, to the point where I had a hard time telling what was dream and what was reality. \u00c2\u00a0The <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/just-slightly-creepy-sleep\/\">third<\/a> dream shared this, \u00c2\u00a0but was noticeably less creepy. Then again, a month had passed. Perhaps my brain is getting used to my messing with it? \u00c2\u00a0Well, tonight it happened again, but this time it was not scary at all.<\/p>\n<p>In my dream, I was in the living room, looking out the window, toward the lawn. The neighbor&#8217;s lawn is also visible from that angle. On their lawn stood the woman who is my neighbor, and a teenage boy who lives there. They were just standing there talking together, and did not notice me. \u00c2\u00a0Actually they wouldn&#8217;t in real life either, probably, since I am inside and it was sunshine, making the windows reflective from outside. \u00c2\u00a0And also, the two of them had indeed been outside yesterday, although so were I (raking leaves off the lawn near the fence). \u00c2\u00a0It was a very ordinary scene, and I only woke up because I had to force my eyes away from neighbor lady&#8217;s sexy curves. \u00c2\u00a0(Sorry neighbor lady! At least it wasn&#8217;t the boy, as I&#8217;m sure people around here would expect from a creepy reclusive stranger.)<\/p>\n<p>I went back to sleep shortly after, and remember no more dreams from the night. \u00c2\u00a0I did notice while I was awake however that there was the telltale spindle effect from sleep phase 2, \u00c2\u00a0just like in the previous three cases.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this means I can start increasing the exposure to low-frequency waves&#8230; On the other hand, I am still not sure why I am doing this, except for the sake of science itself. \u00c2\u00a0Perhaps being self-aware while sleeping is not all that awesome after all. \u00c2\u00a0For instance, don&#8217;t I have more than enough to worry about keeping my eyes in place when I am out and about in the real world, if I don&#8217;t have to struggle with them in my sleep as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dreams seem to become gradually more ordinary. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/26\/dreams-and-life-converge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}