Dream Journal

The Sound★★★★
June 14, 2024

I was dreaming I was in the bathroom. There was a sudden loud clack from someone awake in the physical bathroom, and I dreamed my hand flicked and whatever I was holding hit the counter to make that sound — in exact time with the sound.

Rewriting the Past: At the moment I heard the sound, I projected a rationalization of it including the moments leading up to it seamlessly into my dream experience. This required backwards attribution. The flick of my hand was projected backwards as an event preceding the sound to cause it, but was just as much part of the dream as the sound itself. It was assembled into the final experience. We can project rationalizations into the past and it’s not disruptive to the flow of the dream.

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