If you dream something vividly and the same way every time and you remember it as if it happened when awake but you know or at least suspect it never happened what is it?
If you have a reoccurring dream of the same person(s) or place(s) that you recognize as having dreamt of before but would recognize in person if you saw them(it) even though you have never actually seen them(it) in the flesh is it the same as real?
If you have a dream that is etched permanently in your memory that can be recalled the same as any other memory is it the same as a real happening . If the experience can be recalled as if it happened does it count as experience. If motor skills that are developed in dreams work do they count?
I dream in color. I dream whole stories beginning, middles and ends. I dream of friends and acquaintances in new settings and situations and never in a bad context but sometimes uncomfortable. Sometimes I remember all of them but usually only little pieces here and there just like real life is remembered. I have seldom dreamed bad things like monsters or falling. If fact the only bad thing that I remember was the spider episode but that might have had to do with alcoholic beverages. The same with the fire episode. My wife (SWMBO) says that I dreamt those things multiple times back in the 80's but I only remember once and that because I took a head first dive out of the bunk onto the mess table. I am not afraid of spiders so I don't know what that was about. I am told of things that I did that I don't remember at all but I have to accept them because with a little prodding I sometimes do remember at least partially which puts my not remembering in doubt. As I said before that may be linked to the enormous amounts of gin I drank in those days.
The worst of the bad dreams was showing up for work without all or part of my uniform or being unable to call in (as required) because I couldn't remember the number or dialing multiple times and being unable to get the dialing right. That was always happening with a rotary dial. That happened many years ago when I was living a double life.
I am happy with the memories of my dreams but I sometimes wonder if my memories are of dreams or of something that really happened and which is which. I suspect it does not matter.
Photo may be Bremerton, Washington degausing anchorage aboard the USS Mansfield DD728 "I think" that was a long time ago and seems like a dream. 1960 or thereabouts.
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