I recently dreamed that I was at a casino somewhere, and I was getting ready to leave, and the dealer, or some employee of the casino, suggested that I play a different game. The game involved a box that opened on one side, via hinges on the other side. Inside the box were equal squares in two rows of four, each row containing a number, 1-8. In the game, I was the player, and I would circle with a marker of some kind, one of the numbers. The dealer would be allowed to watch my hands, but could not see the numbers because I was blocking his view with the "lid" of the box. Then the dealer would be guess a number as I looked down at the number I had circled. If he guessed right, I lost, if he guessed wrong, I win. He made his guess by watching me circle, and watching where I looked as he began his guess.
When I woke up and started thinking about the game, I was surprised that I had basically invented a game during my dream.
Should I have been surprised? Does this happen all the time and I just don't notice? Do you create or invent in your dreams? Is there a difference between creating a place to be in your dream, like flying somewhere or being in a city or place you've never been, and inventing or creating a game or something else? It seemed to me to be a more complex creation for a dream. I don't know. Maybe not.
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I do that sort of thing, often. I make up songs, for example. Sometimes I "live" mystery stories or fairy tales. Some of these are good enough that I still like them after I wake up. A couple I have written into short stories. The one novel I am working on originated in a dream.
Most people feel that original thought and creation can't happen when awake or asleep. All the ideas that lead to what we perceive to be creation are already in our minds. Perhaps when asleep our mind is somehow able to more easily assimilate old ideas into new ones.
But more to the point... no that hasn't happened to me. If I've woken 10 times in my life being able to tell you what I dreamed about that would be a high number.
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