Thread: Do Plants Dream?

I suspect my plants are sleeping, they haven't moved or spoken in a very long time. I'll make sure to ask them when they wake up.

I suspect my bonsai dreams of being a centerfold model. It's dropping all it's leaves no matter what I do.

What would a plant dream about though? Their behaviour can as far as I know be completely described in terms of genetics. So they don't really "do" anything. Everything is automatic. Maybe they remember their past lives, and they dream about that. Maybe I'm a plant dreaming this world...

haha

I tend to think a bit about what I hope it would be like to be different creatures. For a long time my favourite idea of plant existance has been that time would be sped up so that it gets really intense. That way when I am a plant it would be like a super dramatic game:

OH HOLY SHIT! WE HAVE HIT A HUGE KALSIUMRESERVE TO THE LEFT OF ROOT 52! HERE IS MY CHANCE TO OUTGROW THAT SUNLIGHT HOGGIN PIECE OF SHIT NEIGHBOUR OF MINE! EVERYTHING IS A CONTEST TO THAT BASTARD!!! GRAB IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!!! BWAAAARGH! FUCKING SNAILS! I NEED THOSE LEAFS!"!! And it's like that for a while and then you die and go do something else.

I like to think about that when I am in nature and get that psychedelic connection to the tranquility of plant life, it would be hilarious if they were actually super stressed out and screaming at each other in plant telepathy.