had a dream about like,,, a world where a bunch of people are on like a game show / video game / Hunger Games Media Something where whenever someone hits you, you "die" for twice as long (15 minutes the first time, 30 minutes the second time, 1 hour the third time, &cet). and like there was the broader mystery of how and why and who and stuff which we uncovered, but mostly the thrill of that game. i experienced two perspectives, one where i was a competitor and one where i was watching my friend pat doing a hermitcraft-style "everyone makes a youtube video about the past week ingame" with some famous Pokemon youtubers (pat is not a Pokemon youtuber).
anyway dream memory is so cool. like there were callbacks that made me go "oh ok i remember seeing that and being really confused but now that makes perfect sense". did i actually experience it that way? who knows, it is well known that world-time is not clock-time and I would believe that my worldmaking brain gave me the experience of remembering a chronology that didn't happen. i saw [ridiculous dream image]* and it was bizarre, but it made uncannily perfect sense later-- was that was it because emergent improv can make perfect sense, or because there was a world-making part of my brain separate from the world-experiencing part that had it all planned out, or because concepts just click like that when you go along the lines of a similar words dictionary, or because i have a memory of the chronology that doesn't correspond with the order in which i experienced things in the dream (if such a thing even exists... i think it does, yeah?)
dreams. fucked up
also idk if this is a common experience but in dreams i will consciously go
"and then this happened"
(pause)
"no that's nonsense, it makes better story / sense if this happened"
and only after i wake up do i go "wait why did i accept that i had that much control over the universe"