Thread: Dream Theme: Finances (restaurants) and Class (Parasite 2019)

It really is interesting – although I can’t say for sure that it really happens more in my lucid dreams than in non-lucid dreams. It may just be that the lucid ones are more memorable. I’d never really given it thought before, but I think it’s mostly that paying for things I take just seems like a nicer way of interacting with characters, which makes the dream a more enjoyable experience. And there was the fact that in my first year or two as a lucid dreamer, I found it very helpful to carry a physical object around to keep more of my senses engaged and to keep myself from waking up too soon, and so looking for a suitably tangible object was often my first impulse upon attaining lucidity. And depending on where I found myself, the nearest stock of suitably tangible objects might have been a street vendor or such.

I don’t really need to do that anymore – but maybe next time I think of it, I’ll try asking what the person I’m talking to would like in exchange for something and see what happens.

Originally Posted by LeaningKarst

I don’t really need to do that anymore – but maybe next time I think of it, I’ll try asking what the person I’m talking to would like in exchange for something and see what happens.

I'm not sure whether I had this thought when I replied here before. Now I'm thinking that it would be interesting to know if what the dream character wants could tell us more about what that part of us as a person also wants, what it needs for survival or what it desires for growth, since currency can be used for both purposes.

i.e. in everyday trade for food etc. (survival) vs. trade resulting in personal fulfilment (growth). It could still be completely random, but I can imagine some meaningful exchange or interaction could arise from this perspective.