#dream logic

[cantsleep]

run!

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[blinkpen]

Hi ive gotten so into ur funny little guys that they are invading my Dreams

its happened twice now. both times involving CLoA members.

I'm so glad people are so into my funny little guys! It makes the erosion process so much faster

#mog art #artists on tumblr #ask x #i love drawing rebus needlessly menacing for no reason #cyclops #monster people #anthro #rebus #zoetrope #charlie k #eyeball #dream logic #dreams #surreal

[0aestheticallycrying]

I think a big mistake theorists make when trying to explain little nightmares, is by applying “real world” logic to it.

When we dream, something could seem totally normal in the logic of the dream but when you wake up, you think and according to “real logic” it doesn’t make any sense.

for example, irl we know that pushing two apples together would cause them to collide. this makes sense to us. however, dream logic could be if you push two apples together, they become transparent and float into your arms before becoming your brain. that makes no sense using our logic, but in the dream, it makes perfect sense logically.

we keep trying to apply this “real” logic to little nightmares, but it really doesn’t follow it at all. it is a world of nightmares that has become real, and exists. dream logic applies there, and i think that is the reason so many things are left unexplained.

#little nightmares #little nightmare mono #little nightmares six #little nightmares 2 #little nightmares 3 #little nightmares lore #little nightmares theory #little nightmares game #dream logic #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[shadow-the-crow]

I've thought about this multiple times, i don't know if anyone will get it but i just need to put it out there.

The Leitner first seen in ep 4 drops small animal bones "when passed through shadows."

Does this feel like dream logic to anyone else?? This is totally something that could happen in my dreams - a thing doing a thing when passed through shadows. I'm pretty sure something similar has already happened in at least one of my dreams.

More than that, the whole logic... Idk, to me this doesn't make sense in the real world, or in a horror version of the real world. Things being affected by being in the shadows or in the light. To me, this only makes sense in dream logic...?!

Every time i remember that book i feel like i'm remembering a dream.

#does anyone get it by any chance?? #idk what this post is okay #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #leitner books #mag 004 #dream logic

[doomspaniels]

I had a dream that you got a cocker spaniel that looked like Yvaine but with Gwynevere’s coloring and you named her Ms. Frizzle. It doesn’t fit your King Arthur naming scheme but it was such a good name I wanted you to know.

This is wonderful, and I love it. I unfortunately missed The Magic School Bus but from what I know, "Ms. Frizzle" should suit just about any cocker out there ❤️

#ask #Yvaine #Guinevere #ms. frizzle #marvelous #dream logic

[adarkrainbow]

The Perrault fairytales are dreams

Well, I am not using the theory “It was a dream all along!”. Don’t misunderstand me - but there is something that is quite obvious when you read the fairytales of Charles Perrault. And it is the use of the “dream-logic” inside fairytales themselves, to make them feel... well, like dreams. 

This is something quite unique to Perrault. If you look at the fairytales of madame d’Aulnoy, we are closer to the fantasy novel, since everything is explained, the characters given depths, there are socio-political relationships everywhere, a worldbuilding, a (most of the time) coherent succession of events... It is a true “fairy novel”. But Perrault’s tales were unusual in that they tried to stick to their folkloric roots: short, simplified, and overall oniric in nature, with the same dream-logic I talked above applied.

In “Little Thumbling” (what people know by the wrong title Hop O’Thumb), the house of the ogre happens to have a second bed in their daughter’s bedroom - an empty, unused bed, the perfect size to host the seven brothers. Why? It is never explained, but it fits the nightmare feeling of the “at the house of the ogre” episode, where everything seems ready to welcome you and kill you... 

In Bluebeard, the house where the climax takes place is a very weird and strange place. It is a countryside house, the size of a big, rich house - and yet as the tension rises, new elements (such as the tower) appears, that make the house look more like a castle (and in fact many illustrators depict Bluebeard as having a castle, when he doesn’t have any into the original story). It is a typical nightmare-logic where the place gets bigger and more frightening as the tension and horror unfolds. Similarly, the presence of the “sister Anne” is extremely strange - as she kind of appears out of nowhere, or rather is mentioned, but only seems to exist as a way to relay information to her sister, as she is left outside of the rest of the action, not interacting with Bluebeard, not talking with her sister about her discovery. She is briefly mentioned at the beginning and the end of the story, she plays the key role of answering her sister’s pleas for help, but she is such a distant, inactive character, cut off from the rest of the narrative (she isn’t even mentioned to have moved in with her sister in Bluebeard’s house) that it led to many people reading “sister Anne” as actually a double, a sort of hallucinated twin or split of personality of the unnamed wife, who might be all alone and just talking to herself...

Speaking of sudden apparitions: take “Cinderella”. The fairy godmother randomly appears out of nowhere, with no introduction, as if she had always been here and we are supposed to know her from the start. The wicked step-family leaves for the ball, Cinderella starts crying - and suddenly the fairy godmother comforts her. She hasn’t been introduced to the reader, the other members of Cinderella family do not seem to be aware of her presence, but at the same time Cinderella is not at all surprised to see her - and yet the fairy godmother seems also unaware of the events leading to Cinderella crying... This is literaly a dream-logic scene, where a character pops out of nowhere, and yet it is as if you knew them all along and they were already there.

And “Little Red Riding Hood”? When you summarize it, it is like a nightmare. You dream of a little girl sent by her mother in the forest, the little girl talks to a wolf (and is not at all surprised to hear a wolf talk - talking animals were not always the norm in fairytales, since many characters of d’Aulnoy tales are shocked upon hearing animals speak), and then she arrives at her grandmother’s house, but it isn’t her grandmother, but the wolf disguised - the girl gets eaten, and that’s the end. Summarize it like that, and try to think of it as one of those weird nightmares people get and try to recap while making sense.

This all isn’t just “some oversight” or Perrault “badly writing” as some nasty people might try to say - because we have manuscripts of Perrault’s fairytales dating back to two years before the actual publishing of the tales, so we know he has been spending quite some times working on them - and in those manuscripts, sometimes thing are explicitely spelled out to make them seem more logical, but in the finished version some of those explanations are removed to make it seems more mysterious... and apparently, more “dream-like”. 

This is also why I do think that “The Company of Wolves”, the movie, is perhaps one of the Red Riding Hood movie closest to Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood”. It might be a twist, deconstruction and reconstruction of Perrault’s original tale, with numerous additions and expansions, but it keeps the fever-dream feeling of Perrault’s fairytales by making it all LITERALY a dream. This is aspect can also be found in the old Disney movies that adapts Perrault’s stories: Disney’s “Cinderella”, and in a lesser extent “Sleeping Beauty”, all have dream-sequences or rather scenes and moments with strong-dream feelings, manifesting again this subtext in Perrault’s original style...

(Mind you, this is just my hot take of the day, it isn’t like some true, confirmed, studied thing that dozens of scholars can support - it is just me taking an obvious trait of the tales and spinning a whole tapestry out of it)

#charles perrault #perrault fairytales #dreams #dream logic #french fairytales #cinderella #little thumbling #bluebeard #little red riding hood #the company of wolves

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

oh, the fears [and related artifacts or avatars] operate on dream logic? What I’m hearing is that Gerry can get a hug even though he’s a ghost

#dream logic #tma #gerry keay #gerry delano #gerard way #gerard keay

[wanderrealms]

Had a dream I was part of group on a quest for a magical object. I never learned what, and for some reason this took place in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. We encountered a spirit lady who guarded a park and I had to convince her to help us. Instead I started flirting with her.

#dream #dream logic

[queen-of-empathy]

Whatever I Try to Tell You

it is a common thing to wake up

from one dream into another

I scratch and claw my way out

of a nightmare

into the neutral unconscious

and then again into bed where we left off

words aren’t enough to tell the truth

the rest hangs in breaths and pauses

the weight of your fingertips in my hair

or the pads of your shoes on floorboards

I know it’s you because of the timbre

when I fell to my knees I thought it was just a means of going lower

I only found God because no other word

described what it was

#female poets #female writers #poetscommunity #poets on tumblr #original poets on tumblr #original poem #original poetry #poetry #quotes #poem #love poem #dream logic #god as the unknown #dream symbolism

[papercranes07]

more sam!

nice

#story of my life #stef watches fringe #fringe #dream logic

[crepesuzette2023]

[paul mccartney passes the audition, and yet]

I loved Odontotos by bookofapril.

The myth of Lennon/McCartney superimposed on the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice, with elements of, and I say this still reeling with satisfaction with how well it works, body horror.

Whether there is a happy ending is up for debate— (it does not end like O/E)—but it’s an excellent ending, with one of my favorite last sentences ever.

However, for those experiencing heartache and dark emotions after reading:

Here is young Paul McCartney posing with his toothbrush. It’s all good.

#fic rec #mclennon fanfiction #horror #body horror #paul mccartney #john lennon #George Harrison #seductively whispering snakes #dream logic #orpheus and eurydice

[hobo-rg]

I have trouble understanding speech over any amount of background noise. It probably counts as a sensory processing disorder. Anyway, last night I had a dream where someone was trying to tell me something in a noisy restaurant and I couldn't understand them.

Think about that for a hot minute.

My brain made up a guy and some words for him to say to me and then refused to process his words on account of the background noise which it also made up.

#dream logic #brains #sensory issues

[uhhhhmanda]

Last night I had a dream that I was Jiang Xuening and Xie Wie was mad at me for going somewhere without telling him and then narrowly escaping some kind of catastrophe. He had his boys run a lie detector test on me and he demanded to know why I went to wherever it was I had gone. "To get you that thing you wanted for your birthday." Oh. Well then how did you get back so quick? Did you have Yan Lin with you? Or Zhang Zhe? Was the catastrophe your plan? "Nie Mingjue sent me home on his dragon." That deflated him. He wasn't going to pick a fight with Chifeng-Zun.

#lol #dream logic #my subconscious says for the purposes of this dream it's all one jianghu #the jianghu cinematic universe #the lie detector was a little brass poker on a modern telescoping steel rod #like a fucking radio antenna with bling #they just poked my upper arm with it #sopk #story of kunning palace

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

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[magicturtle]

Godzilla: Room Kaiju's Threat

So last night I didn’t sleep very well, but the time I did sleep I kept dreaming about a kaiju. My wife has been really into Godzilla lately so that’s who I’m blaming for this.

Anyway this Kaiju is brown, humanoid, but, like, a big dumpy guy like godzilla. But the gimmick of this Kaiju is that it has… A ROOM.

Apparently a giant wooden door appears and the Kaiju comes out of it. Now, as I’m dreaming this I’m like “this is kinda stupid” which the human characters (in what is now a full on, 70s Godzilla movie) seem to agree with.

Room Kaiju is not as powerful as Godzilla, but every time it starts to lose it can go into its room and rest, then come out and fight Godzilla again with full energy. Everyone, including Godzilla treat Room Kaiju as a nuisance. At this point the dream has evolved to include an actual antagonist to Godzilla, but one of the characters is like “We should investigate Room Kaiju’s room”.

So they send in a team and the room (which is Kaiju-sized) is fully wallpapered and carpeted and has furniture, although it’s specifically weird, nonsensical, colossal furniture. The idea is that they will try to trap the actual, dangerous, antagonist kaiju in Room Kaiju’s room, or in a similar dimensional space, at which point I was like “ok, that’s enough of this” and woke up.

#kaiju #godzilla #room kaiju #dream #dream logic #dream movie

[tiltedsyllogism]

The other night I dreamed that an old grad school friend and I were cooking together, and I looked into the cabinet to see a large ant (like a full inch long) wandering across the bag of flour. Because it was a dream, my friend perceived it at the exact same moment I did, and he reminded me that obviously the ant wanted to get back outdoors, so I went over to the window and waited for it to come close and then opened the screen so it could go outside. At this point my friend said to me “you know, the Old German word for ‘ant’ translates literally to ‘robot god,’” and dream-me was like “oh right of course”

Anyway now that I am awake I am 99.9% sure that this is wildly false, but it is also so hilarious that I feel obligated to contribute this non-fact to the tumblr information ecosystem

#dreams #dream logic #ants #specious etymology #dubious entomology #about the author #fast times at casa de syllogism