So yesterday I woke up from my 2 hour work nap mid-dream. I used to always wonder why I could remember some dreams and most of the time I couldn't remember dreaming at all, well turns out the reason you remember certain dreams is based upon if you wake during them or not. Now for some reason my dreams at work I can always remember because I guess 1-2 hours of sleep puts me right in the time frame to dream and wake up during them. Now my dreams are far from normal, normally they are just plain crazy with plenty of random and abstract things going on, yesterday's dream was a bit different though.

In my dream I was in front of a classroom of people, some of them my real life friends and some of them just random people. I then started to give the class a lecture about the reasoning/ideas/causes behind the start of World War II, and I'm not talking about the basic this country was allied with this country so when this country did this blah blah blah. I'm talking about a seriously in depth discussion about Germany's reasoning for war. I was a history major in college with an emphasis on post World War era Europe and had planned on being a college history professor, so I wasn't dreaming out of my ass, I knew what I was talking about. The really weird part about the dream though was that I gave about half of the lecture in German, and mein Deutsch ist nicht besonders gut (my German is not very good). Now given when I was in college I took German and I learned it very quickly and was pretty good at it, it's a very easy language for an english speaking person to pick up on because english derived primarily from german, but I haven't used it in so long I barely remember much about it.

This random dream where I suddenly remembered how to speak German and also taught a class on a subject I haven't even thought about in years reminded me of something that happened the other day while playing Rock Band. Before Rock Band I played Guitar Hero I and II and beat both on expert, but when Rock Band came out I ditched the guitar and picked up the drums. After playing the drums so long when I tried to play the guitar again I was terrible at it and could barely play any songs on hard. Then randomly one day I'm playing Rock Band with some friends struggling to play on hard difficulty when I had a mental epiphany and suddenly it just clicked in my head and I could play on expert again, was getting 98% on expert even. Coincidently (well maybe it's not a coincidence) I've been reading a book about the human brain and how your brain functions during/with certain tasks and how the neurons in your brain make certain "pathways" so to speak. If you don't use certain "pathways" often enough they will simply be eliminated as not useful, or as the saying goes "use it or lose it."


What's the moral of this story? There is none, I'm just bored as hell at work and wanted to make a post. Just thought I'd share my story of randomly stimulating a few neural connectors in my brain that I haven't in a long time. Good to know that I haven't lost much of that stuff, cause you never know when some of that might come in handy.

Posted by Toogen on 6/27 at 11:52 AM

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Name:	Josh Unregistered
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What's the difference between a Jew and a pizza?

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Date:	6/27 at 3:52 PM
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Pizzas don't scream when you put them in the oven.

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Date:	6/27 at 7:51 PM
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How do you make an 8 year old cry twice? Wipe your bloody dick on their teddy bear

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Josh, that is disgusting and disturbing, and frankly I'm appalled.

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Date:	6/27 at 11:36 PM
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very good post, I have really messed up dreams and almost every single morning when I'm trying to wake up I'm a mix of pissed off/anxious/confused because I can't seem to come to the quick realization that the dreams were just dreams. dreams are really starting to piss me off... or at least, that I can't just be dreaming all the time, so I guess it's waking up that's really starting to piss me off. reality sucks compared to vivid abstract/absurd, and often horrifying dreams.

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This kinda relates to the book I've been reading called the doors of perception.. Nothing is ever really forgotten. It's an interesting book so far, most of the ideas I've already had, but Huxley is much more eloquent than me.