Quote Originally Posted by Mylynes View Post
For me, the dream world is often much more vivid, much more beautiful and complex/detailed than the waking world ever is. Many unique experiences have taken place for me in my dreams and have helped to shape who I am today. Especially lately it feels like I have been on the other side much much more than I have been awake. Things have happened and places have been visited which simply do not exist anywhere in the waking world so it is definitely not ALL recycled from the waking world.

Also, as a result of where I spend most of my time I often forget many things from the waking world. I also have memories (usually of past dreams) that for some reason I only tend to remember when dreaming and seem to temporarily leave my thoughts when I am awake.

For me, sometimes the waking world seems more like the dream though this can be hard to explain.
I actually consider even totally alien dreamscapes as recycled from the waking world. Your brain only works with what it's given. You may not be able to consciously pick apart where things are from, but they all have some meaning. The way you describe the beauty of the dream world also sounds like a sensory critique. I was referring to the way the waking world works, like the laws of physics. I've never encountered something in the dream world that amazes me as much as the workings of the waking world, which are always out there to be discovered further, whereas the dream world must work with the knowledge it has (including subconscious, I'm not saying you can't figure out new things about your mind in your dreams).