Thread: is your brain able to create complex narrative structures/ stories

Yes, that happens when I try to change aspects of my life just to see how they'd be. Basically my whole world is changed by me doing that, so it's an alternate reality of how I think my life would be. I'm usually pretty surprised at how I'm even able to come up with some of the things that happen, and how the dialouge of others seem so exact. The amazing things our imaginations can do.

iv also found that dreams expose our worst fears / worries to us, that we may not have realised.
eg, im planning a trip to africa and am leaving on 10th of may. i had a dream where i went off on the trip and NOTHING was organised and i was stranded in africa with no money.
that then made me make sure i was organised for the trip. so the dream actualy helped me in real life. HUZZAR

Actually, I have had this happen to me before. But rather than my mind making up a prequel to some existing story, it made a sort of epilogue - once I dreamt of Gilligan's Island (anyone remember that show?), some time after the events that went on throughout the series.

Basically, the castaways were all rescued, and the newly discovered island was turned into a tropical resort that became a popular vacation location. The dream mainly focused on Skipper, who returned to the island years later with feelings of nostalgia...as well as sorrow for seeing what was his home for so long turned into a tourist attraction. It was pretty deep.

...As for the falling-in-love-with-a-DC thing, it's usually just about me being in the beginning stages of sexing up a pretty girl, only for me to wake up almost immediately (with me desperately trying to fall back asleep and reenter the dream, but to no avail). However, once I dreamt I saw a long-lost childhood friend (nonexistent IRL), and...well, a tsunami of emotions came over me as a result of "finally" seeing her "again"; a profound affection for her (much deeper than your run-of-the-mill romantic love) was one of those emotions. You could imagine my disappointment upon realizing she was just a figment of my imagination...