Thread: Real World

Ok, so today, I fell asleep while watching a TV show called Castle. I woke about 2 hours later then fell back asleep. After falling asleep, I started dream, I don't know what kind of dream this was but while dreaming, I saw a motorcycle with flame colored body and golden rims, and riding the motorcycle was someone I would say looked out of the ordinary but unimportant to the story. Anywho, I woke up a while later and a new episode of the tv show had started. A few minutes into the show, I noticed they started to talking about the motorcycle with the flame body and golden rims, so I was kind of taken back. My question now is what was that, did I unintentionally incorporate the outside world into my dreams, is there a term for this?

Um... this is a long shot from the right forums to post this?

Regardless, I'll answer your question. I don't have an answer to that question. These kinds of dreams just come and go, and I don't believe there's a scientific explanation for it. I get deja-vu a lot, and I have a feeling it comes from my dreams, but there may not be a relationship with your situation. Maybe someone else has a different idea?

*Moved to General Dream Discussion*

I've had something like this happen before. It wasn't Castle, but there was some murder mystery TV show that I fell asleep while watching. I don't remember exactly what it was, but there was something in my dream that was almost straight from the TV show. Much like you, I woke up and was somewhat surprised that the stuff from my dream was on the TV.

But it's fairly common to have that kind of stuff happen. That's how some lucid aid headsets work. They beep when they detect that you're in REM sleep. However, you don't always notice the beep because sometimes it's cleverly incorporated into the dream. Other masks flash a light when you're dreaming, and that light can even be incorporated. The sleeping brain is pretty tricky like that.

I get deja-vu a lot

I don't think that has much to do with it Llama. In fact, all Deja-vu is, is the brain trying to associate your current situation with a past experience and failing to do so causing the feeling "I've definitely been here before".

As for the dream, could that qualify as some sort of precognitive dream?

I think that the characters of the TV show where talking about the motorcycle while you were dreaming and your brain simply incorporated it on the dream scenario.
As a former Nova Dreamer user, and as a Rem-Dreamer user, I agree with spelbee2 about how the brain associates some of the external inputs in the dream scenario, and I think it does that to prevent us from waking up. Dream has to last, for certain reasons.

FA are probably the product of the same logic : to keep us in the dream, it makes us believe that we are awoken by creating a very believable dream context. it is clever, if we think that we are already awoken, we don't try to wake up.