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a private theater where your brain rehearses chaos you'd never survive awake
means a sequence of images, thoughts, and sensations that play out in the mind during sleep — or, by extension, a cherished hope or ambition you reach toward while awake
from From Old English 'drēam,' which curiously meant joy, mirth, and music — not sleep-visions at all. The 'sleeping vision' sense likely arrived under the influence of Old Norse 'draumr' and related Germanic words (Dutch 'droom,' German 'Traum'), all pointing back to a Proto-Germanic root for a vision in sleep. Scholars still debate whether the 'joy' word and the 'vision' word were one word that shifted, or two that collided and merged — a fittingly dreamlike origin for the thing itself.
- timing
- vivid dreams cluster in REM, mostly before waking
- blind dreamers
- people blind from birth dream in sound and touch
- forgetting
- most dreams vanish within minutes of opening your eyes
- paralysis
- your body is temporarily frozen so you don't act them out
- strangers
- every face you dream you've actually seen before
inception — 2010 film by christopher nolan centered on entering and manipulating dreams