Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[diethx]

I'd say my emotions are roughly what they would be if I encountered an identical situation when awake. The problem is, it's physically impossible to encounter an identical situation, because the rational part of your brain takes a vacation while you sleep. You perceive things differently, because there's no part of your head going, "I know that looks like a 6' tall tarantula, but guess what? Those don't exist. It must be plastic. See, look there, next to the eye. Notice that mechanical bit when it turns just so? Yeah." Obviously a man-sized tarantula is an extreme example, but that general idea applies to perfectly ordinary things like leg shaving too.

This, pretty much. Although with one exception - I once had a dream that I was living in my old best friend's parent's house, but in the attic. Which was full of bugs (including bigass spiders), and when I tried to sleep, they'd crawl out over the walls and over my head. If I encountered a situation like that in real life, I probably would have had a fear-induced heart attack. In the dream I was afraid but also killing them without issue.