Blue_Opossum

Morning of October 20, 2018. Saturday.

Dream #: 18,933-02. Reading time (optimized): 2 min. Readability score: 58.



In the first part of my dream, I am in the backyard of the Cubitis home with Zsuzsanna. We are sorting a big pile of laundry in the area near the southeast windows.

Over time, I realize we are in a different world, without considering how preposterous that is (subliminal awareness of the dream state). Eventually, we walk a short distance east, now being in the Stadcor Street house’s kitchen.

An unfamiliar dark-haired man of about thirty years old, implied to be a denizen of this “other world,” looks on as I try to copy a structure for serving a useful purpose for the length of our stay. From what I know so far, the denizens make large metal frames, though I am not yet sure of why. Mine turns out to be a wooden bed frame, though my dream self does not viably make the association (with either beds or sleep). I had mentally created it without lucidity. I study it for a considerable time, puzzling over how the wood is not perfectly straight from different viewpoints, yet I do not feel concern or a sense of incompetence.

“I am good at building houses,” I say with confidence, as I place the wooden bed frame in about the center of the Stadcor Street “kitchen” (still perceived as being outside in a rural area). My dream self does not consider that this wooden bed frame could not serve as a foundation for a house.

“You’re not making it out of metal?” asks the RAS simulacrum (the unfamiliar dark-haired man of about thirty years old), seeming somewhat puzzled, his expression and words causing me to consider if I need to make a metal one as a legal or social requirement. I slowly wake while thinking about what I need to add to our “house.”

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solution

a common factor of communication with the RAS simulacrum is its effort to get me to realize I am dreaming - but it only intrusively dominates when there is not a viable threshold (enigmatic space) thread

the bed frame that my dream self is going to use as a “house foundation” in my dream is wooden though our real bed frame is indeed metal

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dream factors

two locations incorrectly and uniquely combined
west area of Cubitis backyard > Stadcor Street kitchen (east)
directional orientation correct

indoor-outdoor ambiguity (simultaneously being indoors and outdoors)
Stadcor Street kitchen is also outside in “another world” in a rural area
Cubitis backyard is also an indoor area in the first scene

subliminal appreciation of the dream state as being “another world”

incorrect placement of Zsuzsanna in an American setting

dream state indicator as laundry (as I do not wear clothes when I sleep), representing the subliminal recall of having discarded clothes before going to bed

dream state indicator of literally “making the bed” (subliminal awareness of being asleep)

RAS simulacrum does not typically dominate the waking process when I am in first-level dream state indicator space even if I am not lucid

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