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The dream where my car only worked if I clapped twice before starting it
Last week I had a dream where I was driving my old Honda Civic, but it would only turn on if I clapped twice in a specific rhythm, like a secret handshake. I spent the whole dream trying to remember the clap pattern, and people were staring at me in the parking lot. Then I realized the rule was that the clap changed depending on the color of the sky, which made perfect sense at the time. Woke up and actually tried clapping at my real car key, felt like an idiot for a second. Anyone else have dreams where objects have weird activation rules like that?
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corablack1d ago
Wait actually that's a really cool dream but I think you might be misremembering how clapping works with cars lol. In real life if you clap twice at a Honda Civic it doesn't do anything obviously but in dream logic the clap pattern itself is what matters more than the sky color. I had a similar dream where my toaster only worked if I hummed the first ten notes of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the exact right key, and when I woke up I actually tried it too, felt so dumb. The thing is though our brains love making up these complicated little rules for simple objects because it's basically testing us in our sleep to see if we can figure out random systems. Yours sounds way more frustrating than mine though because at least my humming pitch stayed the same, you had to check the sky every single time which is just exhausting.
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karen_sanchez491d ago
right? the toaster thing is hilarious though because at least you could control the humming, but with the sky thing you have no say at all. it's like your brain is running some kind of secret lab experiment on you every night and you're just the tired subject stumbling through it. i swear dreams love making you jump through hoops for stuff that should be super simple, like imagine waking up and your real car actually needed a specific number of claps based on cloud coverage, that would be a nightmare. honestly the more i think about it the more i think our brains do this on purpose just to make us feel crazy when we wake up and realize none of it matters. but then you still try it anyway because what if one time it actually worked, you know?
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Honestly, you gotta just log it like a scientist the next time this happens. I've had a similar thing where my brain made up a rule that I could only unlock a door by tapping my left foot twice then spinning around. So now I write down the rule as soon as I wake up before it fades. It helps you realize how dumb and random your brain is being, which makes you less frustrated when you catch yourself checking the sky outside your actual car. The clapping thing is rough though because at least with humming you can be quiet about it in public, but clapping in a parking lot draws way more attention.
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