I finally broke my own rule about dream anxiety

Last night I dreamed my car brakes failed halfway down a hill near my house in Austin. In the dream I just accepted it like "welp, this is how it goes" and woke up totally calm. But then this morning my actual car started making grinding noises when I hit the brakes. I ignored it for like 10 minutes thinking it was just leftover dream nonsense. Has your dream logic ever bled into real life and made you do something dumb?

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hill.margaret27d ago

But honestly, haven't we all gotten a little too hung up on dream logic at some point? I mean, the grinding brakes are a real thing you should probably check, but blaming your morning hesitation on a dream feels like a convenient excuse for procrastination. Sometimes a dream is just a dream (dramatic brain noise) and your car making noise is just your car being old and needing attention, not the universe sending you a spooky memo.

marywilson27d ago

Got locked out of my own house once after a dream about losing my keys, felt like the biggest fool walking to the neighbor's in my pajamas.

the_lisa27d ago

3 years ago I had a dream my front door lock was broken and I spent the whole next week double checking it every time I left the house. It got so bad I actually bought a new lock even though the old one worked fine, just because my brain wouldn't let it go. That's the weird thing about dreams (at least for me) they can mess with your sense of what's real versus what you just imagined. It's like your brain files the dream memory right next to the real memory and sometimes they get mixed up. The grinding brakes thing is spooky though, I'd probably get that checked out just to be safe.