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Self-Kidney Removal★★★
April 21, 1997

I was in a class on the second floor and this guy was teaching us some weird stuff. There was a part where we’re supposed to remove our own kidney and I thought “That can’t be real, it must be metaphorical.” But I wasn’t sure. I kept reading the instructions over and over but couldn’t maintain the entire thing at once and was continuously confused. Then we went to another room (I did the first step fine) and were given a complex set of instructions. I kept forgetting, watching others, and copying them. Others were doing horribly as well, getting it all wrong. At times I would stop and go into a subdream about something mildly related, then come back.

Complex Procedures: It is nearly impossible to do complex procedures when dreaming. You have to be really focused to pull this off. It seems the other dreamers were having the same problems as me. This is related to short-term memory resetting again and again from being in the low-context dream state.