There are just so many things that just don't make sense about dreams. I'm not referring to the fact that they're basically like free acid trips that you can never remember perfectly. I'm talking about how weird it is that they even happen. Scientists still aren't entirely sure why exactly we dream, although they're pretty certain that it has to do with resting the brain and dumping out all the useless, stupid thoughts in your head, although this apparently doesn't work for a lot of people.*
I just find the whole thing a bit strange in general. I mean, sleep is already sort of weird, isn't in? It sort of works if you think of it as some sort of cool down time for your brain, but that only kind of sort of sounds like it makes sense. But then, while your brain is resting, your brain also decides to have vivid, often terrifying hallucinations. Or really awesome hallucinations, depending on how lucky you are. Objectively, that seems to be, as the great Orson Welles once said, "pretty freakin' weird".**
And then there's lucid dreaming, which is basically where you know that you're in a dream, and you can control what you're doing within it. Some people can even control the entire dream world, like some really boring version of Inception.*** It seems like we should have that kind of control all the time, right? Because it's all in our heads, right? Right?
Wrong, because dreams don't make any goddamn sense.
*Zing.
**You know, probably.
***I wish there was some crappy movie about dreaming that was out right now so I could make a clever joke here.
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