Topic Talk | Recurring Dreams

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However, the exclusive subscriber button will give you access to the extra two or three episodes.00:00:42JackEach week.00:00:44JackSo make sure you hit that exclusive subscriber button if you want access to the extra episodes.00:00:52JackNow let's get on with the show.00:00:56JackWelcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're doing a topic talk episode and social. The topic is recurring dreams and.00:01:08XochitlI like this one interesting good.00:01:09JackYeah, yeah. Do you have one or do you want me?00:01:12JackTo go first.00:01:13XochitlI have a couple you can do you want.00:01:15XochitlMe to start or?00:01:16JackYeah, yeah, you go ahead and start. Yeah.00:01:18XochitlI one of them that I have is when I was younger I used to have this recurring dream where there were these like little they look like mini M&M's. They're like these bunch of little colored like round things and they're these like witches, cartoon witches and blue capes.00:01:39XochitlThat would like.00:01:40XochitlZAP them or something and that happened a few different times, like I had that dream a few different times. It was weird.00:01:48XochitlAnd and another one that's only been prevalent since I was a kid all the way through adulthood. Still, if I'm really stressed, I get a dream that I have a tooth in my hand and I have to, like, cut it open and get the tooth out like there's a.00:02:03JackWhoa, that's crazy.00:02:05XochitlIt's weird.00:02:07XochitlYeah, it's really, really weird and this is happened every time since I was a kid all the way in.00:02:14XochitlSo now.00:02:15JackOur listeners out there do some research and let us know what that means. A tooth embedded in your hand that you have to take it.00:02:23XochitlIt's like inside. It's like it's like it's like there's a. It's almost like it grew inside my hand and it's like I can X-ray, see through it or something. And I have to cut it up and pull it out and like, it looks like a mouth and guns inside or something. I don't know. It's freaking weird. Like, yeah, it is very weird and very vivid. I have super, super vivid dreams.00:02:36JackWow.00:02:43XochitlI always have since I was a kid, so it's like very strange.00:02:46JackDo you remember your dream?00:02:48XochitlYeah, I remember a lot of dreams. So it's good. Yeah.00:02:51JackOK.00:02:54JackLike, do you?00:02:54JackIs there some sort of strategy that you use to remember them, or is it just something that happens naturally?00:03:00XochitlWell, it happens naturally sometimes. I wish I didn't. I'll like I get sometimes I get tons of crazy dreams in one night and they're like, they're like home movie plots and a lot of times they're like horror movie plots. And they're, like, really intense in detail. And I and I like, wake up and I'll go back to sleep and I'll have another dream like that. And it just keeps going.00:03:18XochitlI'll have like four or five at night.00:03:20XochitlAnd I'm straight. They're like a movie, like a full movie with characters and everything. It's like real.00:03:25XochitlWeird.00:03:26JackAre you always the star of the dream?00:03:29XochitlNo, no, no, no. So I, a lot of times I'm not even in the dream. I'm just watching it like a movie.00:03:34JackOhh so there's like characters. There's like story developments. There's ohh.00:03:38XochitlYeah, it's a whole plot that has nothing to do with me. It's like, imagine that you're watching a movie, but like, I don't see myself watching it. It's like, literally you're seeing it through your eyes and like, you're just observing. You're just an observer to this movie that's unfolding. That's exactly what I am. I'm just observing these characters. And like, their life and stuff. And it doesn't have anything to do with.00:03:59JackWow, that's really interesting because I don't think I've ever had a dream where I'm not. You know, the main character like, it's not. It's. Yeah, it's just me.00:04:05XochitlThere it is.00:04:07XochitlOhh.00:04:08JackYou know, it might be like a a story in a in a movie type thing, but I'm always the main character of my own dreams.00:04:16JackI wonder.00:04:16XochitlThat's so weird.00:04:18XochitlI also have a recurring dream where I would like try to read in the dream, and then I'd be like, wait a minute. I can't read. This is a dream. Like, that's the closest I've ever been to lucid dreaming is like I would try to write or read, but I've I I've only listed dreamt once where I was like. I don't like the plot of this. So I just changed.00:04:28JackYeah.00:04:36XochitlBit because I was bored with my dream, so I like lucid, lucid dreaming for listeners who don't know, we'll do an episode on it another time because I think it's very interesting, but it's like the person can control their dream and do whatever they want inside and they're aware.00:04:49XochitlThat they're dreaming.00:04:53XochitlAnd I was, I think I've only really had it happen. Super, super like.00:04:59XochitlI know 100% that I lose a dream does only happen.00:05:02XochitlLike once for me.00:05:03JackYeah, well, you have a strange dream life. I mean, the fact that you're that you remember your dreams, that you have long form stories and plots and things like that. The fact that you're not the star of of all your dreams like the main.00:05:04발표자Yeah.00:05:19JackYou're.00:05:20XochitlYeah, I'm ******* not.00:05:21발표자You're. I think you're you're.00:05:22JackYeah. You're kind of outside the norm. I think when it comes to dreamlife.00:05:26XochitlAh, interesting. I didn't know that. I'm curious to hear from our listeners. Are you guys like me? Have you had dreams where you're not the star, which especially recently has been a lot of my dreams? Do you have dreams like you don't know any of the characters or people or plot involved like me? And do you remember your dreams?00:05:47XochitlAre you a vivid dreamer? Do you lose a dream? I'm really curious to hear from our listeners about this. Nothing.00:05:53JackYeah, I am too, because.00:05:56JackI I just think that like UM.00:05:59JackI I thought, but you know, maybe it's just because that's the way it is for me. But I thought most people.00:06:06JackKind of it like, I'm not always myself in my dream. I might be a different person, but I'm still controlling the actions of the person or whatever. You know, I'm like I'm.00:06:18JackThe IT I see it through that the lens of of that person, but it's it might not be me exactly, but usually it it it always feels what we say in English like first person, you know, like it's me. I'm doing something and I'm moving around and so.00:06:33XochitlRight.00:06:38JackBut I for me, I forget my dreams almost immediately.00:06:44JackNow if I write it down, I might be able to remember it, but I'm too lazy to, you know, wake up in the morning and take a sketch pad and and write down notes about my dreams, which is actually one of the strategies for lucid dreaming. If you want to practice lucid dreaming.00:07:01발표자OK.00:07:04JackYou've got to keep a dream journal.00:07:06JackThat's like a really important thing, yeah.00:07:08XochitlThat's interesting. I'm actually curious to to, like, make a dream journal and see if I can make a plot out of the movies that I like. See cause I think I could. Honestly, if they're so cool, like I could just if I could make a movie out of the movies that I see in my dreams, I think they.00:07:26XochitlWould be really popular in the horror genre because they're very weird.00:07:31XochitlI remember my used to tell my room. My roommate used to in college used to.00:07:37XochitlBe very excited to hear my dreams the next day.00:07:39XochitlBecause.00:07:40XochitlThat's a movie I would watch. Just watch this. She she'd be like I didn't have a weird dream. She was always curious about about that.00:07:43JackThank you.00:07:49JackThis is the total. This is a total aside, but I you know, Elon Musk is developing something called neurolink. You know where they you can kind of put a computer chip in the brain of a of a human being. That's like one of his ambitions.00:07:49XochitlBut what about?00:07:52발표자Yeah.00:08:04XochitlAlright.00:08:04JackAnd I was always. I always thought, like in the future, instead of film makers.00:08:12JackThey'll figure out a way to record dreams like a movie, you know, through a person's brain. And then there will be professional dreamers like you. You would be a good candidate for a professional dreamer.00:08:16XochitlYou're right.00:08:25XochitlHaven't have you seen that movie? There's a movie based on that. It's called it's like the green dealers or some sleep dealer or something. I'll, I'll. I'll tell. I'll send you a message and Jack and I can leave it in the description or something for our listeners are curious, but it's about like.00:08:28JackOh, is it really? I've never.00:08:42XochitlIt's weird, I I saw it when I was really young. It came out and my dad had me watch it. But it's like a movie based between Mexico and the US and I think.00:08:50XochitlThey have like.00:08:53XochitlIt's like a side hustle or something and they do exactly what you're saying. Like, they record these dreams and they, like, sell them or something weird. I don't know. So there was some. It's something like that, but.00:09:01JackYeah, yeah.00:09:04JackWell, people that people that dream in in like story form that has like a whole, you know, uh, a kind of cinematic movie like arc to the story.00:09:16JackIf you could, if you could do that in your dreams, you could. You know, you could become like a essentially a director, like a film, like a filmmaker. So yeah, maybe in the future that will be a technology that will be available.00:09:26XochitlYeah, for sure.00:09:31XochitlThe thinking was, do you have recurring dream, Jack, do you have recurring dreams? I forgot what?00:09:35JackYes, I do have recurring recurring dream and this one is really common among a lot of people. But what what it is basically is that I.00:09:51JackI have registered for a course. It could be a high school or a college course or something. And let's say I sign up for five classes.00:10:01JackAnd then I forget to go to 1.00:10:04JackOr I can't find the classroom on the whole semester. I spend my time walking through this like labyrinth like a A. A very.00:10:15JackA large building with lots of rooms and a kid just can't find my room and I've already paid for the class and the course and everything. And then when I finally find the classroom, I've missed, like almost all of the lessons. And then it's time for the test and I'm totally unprepared for it. And I'm sure there's a meaning to this dream.00:10:33XochitlTerrible.00:10:37JackLike there has to be some kind of meaning to it.00:10:41JackBut I I don't know what it is exactly.00:10:43XochitlI think it's.00:10:43XochitlJust a stress dream. I mean, I I remember when we studied dreams in psychology, there was like two types of content and one is like what you visualized in the dream and the other content is what you feel in the dream. So the feeling is what really what you see in your dream is supposed to be random neural firings or something. And what you feel in the dream.00:11:04XochitlIs supposed to be related to your real life. So I think that level of stress is like what it is supposedly on some level. But but if you think dreams have meanings, which I also sometimes.00:11:13XochitlWith. Yeah, I think that's relevant, I definitely.00:11:18XochitlHave dreamt that once before at least, and I remember being so devastated when I woke up, I was like, thank God that was the dream I was so worried I had, like, failed this math course because I just skipped through it.00:11:29JackYeah, is I wake up with I I feel.00:11:33JackIntense anxiety. And then I wake up and I just have like, this huge sigh of relief because it's like, ohh, I didn't just destroy my life, you know, I didn't just waste all this money on a class and then never show up and fail.00:11:46XochitlYes.00:11:49JackThat, but it's a it's an awful feeling. It really is an awful feeling.00:11:54XochitlBad. Yeah, I get those kind of stress dreams. I I've only had like one or or two. Like school type dreams since I left school. Well, at least in the last five years. No, wait. I only graduated like, three years ago. Well, it feels like I graduated five years ago. So, yeah, I I think I.00:12:11발표자Right.00:12:15XochitlI don't really get those dreams much anymore, but I I get what you mean and and I remember one of my professors in college saying even her mom was like in her 60s. I had a dream like that and she was like it just shows.00:12:26XochitlYou.00:12:26XochitlHow traumatic school is because the learning task isn't so like anxiety inducing that we still dream about it years later, you know.00:12:29JackYeah.00:12:36XochitlIt's like really weird.00:12:38JackI I I.00:12:38XochitlYeah.00:12:39JackDo a lot of things like I have a lot of we say in English irons in the fire like I have. I do a lot of projects a lot.00:12:46JackOf things going.00:12:47JackOn I think maybe it's just the anxiety of.00:12:51JackForgetting to do something that I need to do when you have a lot a long list of of of things that you need to take care of and when they start to pile up and you start to fall behind, that's when I get those dreams is that I'm. I'm I'm. I'm not doing something that I'm supposed to be doing and I or I forgot something important.00:12:59XochitlYeah.00:13:04XochitlYeah.00:13:11JackAnd yeah, that's a real a really terrible feeling. So yeah, that's my recurring dream.00:13:19XochitlThat's crazy, listeners. I'm really curious to hear what your recurring dreams are, or if you have recurring dreams. I think we'll do a couple of different podcasts just on dreams, cause this is such a fascinating subject to me, but I'm. I'm so curious to hear about your guys's experiences and just what your dream life looks like.00:13:30JackYeah.00:13:38XochitlBecause Jack and I have have different ones, I I've even gotten to the point where sometimes I don't know if something is a memory or a dream because my dreams are.00:13:45XochitlSo vivid.00:13:46JackRight, right.00:13:48XochitlYeah, it's it's really, I'm really curious to hear how you guys experienced dreams. So let us know in a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail. We love reading you guys listener.00:13:58XochitlEmails at A-Z, [email protected] and join the WeChat and also groups to talk to.00:14:03XochitlJack and I.00:14:03XochitlDirectly and if you guys feel so inclined, then you have $1.99 to spare. Please make sure that you join our exclusive episode podcast.00:14:12XochitlBecause that helps us create more content and make new source content for you guys. See you guys next time. 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