Strange dream.

[Ickarus]

Hey everyone, I have been having some real strange dreams lately. here's what I mean. It's like real life kinda, umm i know that vague but bare with me. I'm dreaming or at least i think im dreaming about what i am actually doing at the time. for example. Just last night I was about to go to bed, but i ran a system scan on my computer beforehand and was laying in bed waiting for it to finish. I had dozed off and in my dream I was waiting for (it kinda changed in the dream) something to finish downloading. When I thought whatever I was supposed to be downloading finished in the dream, I woke up. I have also had similar dreams like this, and I always wake up right after they finish. They are very realistic and kinda spook me out cause before very recently I have never had dreams like these. Any Idea on what's going on?

[DanielVX]

I've heard that dreams can be a way for the mind to go through the events of the day and weed out the useless information (committing useful information to memory, getting rid of unhelpful stuff) - some of this information slips from the 'trip to the waste basket' in a manner of speaking, and manifests in the form of a dream. You dozed off when you were doing a system scan, so that was on your mind - so according to the hypothesis your mind was sifting through the garbage information, and your most recent incidents (the system scan) slipped through and manifested as a dream, or so the theory goes. Nothing to worry about. The real question is, are you dreaming right now and I'm just a ficticious character created by your mind telling you that you're dreaming?