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People who have a good sense of direction, do you still have it in your dreams?
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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Like, do you know when you're facing North in your dreams?

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Shellofbiomatter lemmus.org Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org
Joined: 2026-03-04
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Unknown, i almost cant see dreams at all and the handful per year i do see are forgotten within minutes after waking up.
So i cant guess how good my sense of direction is in something i almost cant see.

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ComradeSharkfucker lemmy.ml sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-07
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This question was made for me. I have a notoriously good sense of direction and I often have dreams that I remember very well. In short, no, I actually get lost a lot. Getting lost is like a feature of my dreams

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mrsemi lemmy.world mrsemi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
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Suck_on_my_Presence lemmy.world Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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Holy frijoles, that's so scary! I have called myself a homing pigeon my whole life because of my innate sense of direction - so having this happens sounds utterly awful. I can only imagine how wrong everything must feel.

As I'm now approaching my 30-somethings, I have a new and extremely niche fear unlocked, haha

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Suck_on_my_Presence lemmy.world Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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It's a little hard to answer for me as this gets into some weird stuff.

  • To begin, I am almost never the main character of my dreams. Either I am embodying some random person, or it's like watching a movie/ third person mode for some random.
  • Secondly, I suppose, is that my dreams don't often involve needing to figure out how to get places? Usually we just... go.
  • And lastly, I'm thinking my sense of direction is so innate to me that it doesn't feel like it's a sense I lose in a dream. It would be like dreaming about losing my sense of smell or touch. That's just... N/not really something that happens as far as I'm aware or remember.
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mrsemi lemmy.world mrsemi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-22
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Holy frijoles, that's so scary! I have called myself a homing pigeon my whole life because of my innate sense of direction - so having this happens sounds utterly awful. I can only imagine how wrong everything must feel. As I'm now approaching my 30-somethings, I have a new and extremely niche fear unlocked, haha
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arin lemmy.world arin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Dreams are too random for directions

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 slrpnk.net Nemo@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-01
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That sounds awful. But you still can tell relative directions, yeah? Your right from left, up from down?

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BradleyUffner lemmy.world BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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It's never really come up, but I'd expect the non-euclidean nature of my dreams would win in the end.

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socsa piefed.social socsa@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-08-20
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It really depends on the type of dream, because there are definitely stress dreams where all of the conflict comes from me being hopelessly lost in a world which seems to shape shift, and all of the maps are wrong and I can't use my phone, and my crush was like "hey my parents aren't going to be home for a few hours" but I can't get to their house even though I've been like 1000 times before, and then I wake up in a cold sweat wondering why the primary plot device is not age appropriate.

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