Non-"cut" scene transitions

[Nazrax]

I've been recording my dreams on and off for years, and I don't think I've ever recorded a scene transition that wasn't a "cut." For example, I might be in my family room, then I'm in the dining room, then I'm in the kitchen, then I'm outside - but I have no memories of actually walking to room. As another example, last night I dreamed I was in my car, waiting at a red light to turn; then I was on the on-ramp; then I was on the Interstate in the middle of a turn; then I was beginning a merge with another road. In each case, the dream cut between each scene - no turning from the road onto the on-ramp, no merging from the on-ramp onto the Interstate, no approaching the merge. I know that these "cuts" are common, and that they explain a lot of why dreams seem much longer than they are. My question is, is it common that I ONLY remember cuts and never natural scene transitions (walking from one room to another)?

[OmegaAlpha]

Yes. I had an LD last night and I remembered cuts, not natural walking transportation etc.

[Rodrodrod]

Almost all my non lucid dreams if not all my non lucid dreams are filled with cuts, but i have several cases of lucid dreams where i have walked from places to places. But yes, it seems to be a natural thing. Maybe has to do with awareness? I don't know...

[fogelbise]

I have had non-lucid dreams with and without cuts...but ponder this! When you are lucid, you can use this to your advantage to quickly teleport. If you "know" you can do it, I bet you can...at least some of the time. That is what my last lucid felt like...one minute I am spinning in bed enjoying the sensation and thinking about how it feels like I am on a roller coaster and next the moment I am hurling through the air along a roller coaster track completely lucid and take off flying from there...only one cut or teleport, but a really fantastic feeling. Due to my experience with HH's versus dream world sensations, in this case, I knew I was already in the dream when I was spinning in bed. Any unintentional scene cuts in LDs tend to flow into FAs for me.

[duke396]

Happens to me all the time too... Unless the next destination is within direct line of sight of where I am or maybe an intense sequence, it seems to cut over especially in non-lucids. My lucids seem to be a little more linear, a lot of times I attribute the cuts in those to lapses in my recall and not necessarily the dream itself. Maybe it's the same cause in both? Never really put that much thought into it. I don't intentionally cut scenes in my lucids just because I enjoy the linear progression (unless you count the occasional door teleport). Maybe in regular dreams our subconscious just does that to "get on with it" and cut out the boring parts.

[Zephyrus]

This is quite common in dreaming, and are caused by dream archetypes, which The Cusp explains very well in this post: http://www.dreamviews.com/nature-dre...eams-made.html Tl;dr Associations in our brain means that a dream will jump from one scene to another, instead of transitioning in a logical sequence, which can be used for dream control.