h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

May well do at that! So, has anyone else had similar dreams? I have heard that a number of young teenage boys have had dreams about computer games characters, and that - to me - seems just plain crazy.

I mainly dream about abstract stuff, then something really normal happens, and it seems really wierd. Relativity messing with me I guess.

I don't generally dream about fantasy characters, although occasionally I dream about characters in movies or TV shows I've seen.

Really? I've had dreams like the ones described above about finding lost objects, and had dreams about all sorts of weird things, but most are about my childhood and places where I played. Or TV programs I watched then, or toys long since gone. Dreams seem to be a time-machine of going back to younger years for me.

I never seem to have dreams like that at all. Although once when I was a kid I had a dream in which I was an adult.

Have you ever had a dream where you are outside your body, and you just go round and round looking at your body, which you know is You, but the more you look, the more your body changes, and although it's still you, you are a completely different You to who you are supposed to be. Very weird.

I don't seem to be that contemplative in dreams. I have ones where I'm outside my body, but I'm never really looking at it that closely.

I wonder if people who live in places where they don't have mirrors, and so don't know what they look like, still have dreams like that?

Maybe they saw their reflection in glass, or a body of water at some time and always think that's what they look like, even though it was years ago. Or maybe the concept of their own facial features doesn't occur to them. They'd always dream in first person.

But that's what I'm wondering--do they really? Or do they know (or think they know) what they look like in dreams even if they don't in real life? After all, I have dreams where I'm talking to someone I know and then wake up and realize I don't really know them...and sometimes I dream I know _things_ I don't know also. So maybe it is possible to dream you know what you look like even if you don't. But then again maybe it's not. See, that's what's got me wondering.

When I was a kid, once I dreamt with Margaret Tatcher (who had big yellow earrings), and she became my stepmother somehow, and took me from the orphanage. And in the morning I remebered clearly, though at that time I did not speak English at all.

Dreaming of things that I didn't know - that's a weird one alright. Apart from the dreaming of finding a lost item and it turning up somewhere, I've never had anything like that. As for people without mirrors, I guess that they would be able to have a rough idea of what they look like as there would always be reflective surfaces and water to show them - although it may not be accurate. I guess that other people would be able to tell them a description - ie your nose is bigger than hers but smaller than his - and to some extent you can feel your face to see roughly what you look like - but you wouldn't be able to get as accurate an idea as we have with photos, mirrors etc... Unless of course they had good portrait painters.

I guess you're right...they'd always know somehow what they looked like. But it would be interesting, though kind of cruel, to raise someone in a completely reflective-surface-free environment and then see what their dreams are like.

Maybe - but it may be a little hard to sort out, how would you make a reflective-surface free zone, and how would you get people to monitor & interact with the person just for the sake of dreams? It may well be "The Truman Show II: Dream Story"

Yow...this is getting too complicated already. And too creepy.

The more you think about dreams, the creepy the human mind becomes. I'm almost afraid to dream now!

Still having trouble remembering my dreams...stupid alarm clock....

I don't seem to have that many, it's just I'm very good at remembering the few I have. I always seem to be awake - I've great trouble sleeping, which is probably why I read so much. I just never feel tired, and always have to work at going to sleep - it never just happens. So a dream is always a nice, pleasant thing which I always enjoy.

I also have trouble getting to sleep, but no matter how pleasant my dreams are, they get driven right out of my head when I'm awakened abruptly.

Do you ever get a chance to lie in, say, during weekends?
Also, how much light gets into your room through curtains etc?

On weekends I get awakened by my roommate, unfortunately. And there's a considerable amount of light that gets in around the edges of the shades.