'Idle mode' and dream recall
I'm a student in Entertainment (digital arts branch) and my tasks during the exam period (now) involve drawing a lot and 3D modelling, animation.
The nature of these tasks is that the creative part is in the beginning and somewhere in the middle it's just... 'doing it'. I can't say it's brainless but it's a lenghty proces and not overly difficult and you can practically 'automate' it.
This causes me to be in a somewhat sleepy 'idle mode', not really thinking of what I'm doing... just lifting my hands n stuff, going about the routine.
Now here's the interesting part: Whenever I'm in this 'mode' I remember dreams from the past, some from a couple of years ago, some from a week ago...
Same thing happened when I was doing a vacation job in a factory, mindless routine and boring as hell. Then my mind is just freestyling and if I don't particularly focus my mind I sometimes recall dreams I've forgotton about. I'm not really sure if I *never* remembered them, because I think I might have remembered them during the night, or when I wake up but then completly forget about them afterwards during the day (or night).
So anyone has this when they're not in a focused mind state? This obviously only happens when I take an interest in the whole dreaming topic, like now.
