I would like to both share a few of my dreams and comment some of the things said in this thread. I'll start with what was said at a certain point about dreams including reality, like your dream advising you of its end right before the alarm or something breaking almost at the same time something breaks in real time. I want to share my theory about this.
Your dream telling you dream time is over has a very simple explanation(an explanation which I just thought while reading): your mind becomes so accostumed to your alarm, it's capable of predicting it just instants earlier. I know this because most days I wake up just minutes before my alarm sounds, and if I forget it or in the weekends, I wake up around that time anyway.
And about your mind recreating a scene in which something closely related to the immediate present in real life: while we are asleep, pur brain works much more than while awake(that's what causes dreams), so the speed of our reactions(at least the reaction of the mind) becomes way greater. Meaning your mind is capable of hearing a sound and creating an explanation for it in less than two seconds, since the mind is only aware of the sound and doesn't know its origin.
Now my dreams:
-This is one I've had a lot of times during this last months and has inspired a lot of stories I've written.
I'm me, real me, when for some reason I go to leave in U.S.A. In there I manage to acompliah my dream job and own a videogame company. As years go by, I become the richest man in the world, greatly surpasing Bill Gates(yes, that is included in the dream). In fact, I'm so rich, I buy all that's left of the countries affected the third world war(yeah, you read it right, apparently while I became rich a world war went on). I manage to turn them into countries again and decide to unify them all into my own country with me as its king. After a lit of diplomacy, buying(I probably had infinite money or something) and waging war, I conquered the whole world and was crowned as King of the world.
The dream ended with me sitting in my trhone, putting on a crown made of spines, making a smile that denoted great intelligence and ambition and suddenly dying.
Other recurrent dreams I have are nightmares about my little sister dying or getting away from me, I always try to do all I can to save her but I'm completely hopeless. I guess that says how much I can't bear something happening to her or something amongst those lines. I once woke up with a punch at the wall, and I really am not the violent type.
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