A picture of a bathroom with the words, “If you see a toilet in your dream, don’t use it! It’s a trick!”

  • Pudutr0ñ
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    691 month ago

    I use them in dreams all the time and they offer me no relief. Then I wake up and go to the “real” one… That’s right. I know what’s up, machine elves.

    • Davel23
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      261 month ago

      Me too. I’ll look all over for a bathroom (in my dreams) and they’re all either unusably filthy or just don’t work.

      • I have the same phenomenon, and sometimes really weird intrusions, like - a few days ago I had a dream of working in an office building, and out of nowhere during work, there would be a drawer just filled with piss to pee into for the employees - but of course it never works.

        • @yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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          81 month ago

          Just last night I had the pissdrawer dream. I was at a friend’s house for a small, smart-casual suburban yuppie housewarming. Didn’t know where the toilet was, immediately tried pissing in the sideboard drawer in front of everyone. Because thats how that worked. Got kicked out of the party quite quick but was pretty annoyed because everyone just uses the drawer sometimes right? Its no big deal.

          • @Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            41 month ago

            I had no idea this was one of those dream events that others share. I hardly ever remember my dreams, but I remember those because even in the dream it feels weird to be doing it.

  • @halvar@lemy.lol
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    181 month ago

    Last time I really needed to go and indeed there appeared a toilet and indeed I used it. I woke up half an hour later to find myself compeletly dry in my bed and still needing to go to the toilet. I couldn’t believe it either, but I swear I’m not making this up.

    • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      91 month ago

      This is how it should work unless you have some sort of sleep condition or aren’t in deep sleep (which shouldn’t be the case if you’re dreaming). You’re paralyzed in your sleep, that includes the ability to urinate. The only time you should be concerned about urinating in your dreams is if you have a history of bed-wetting.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      51 month ago

      i have this like every single week, best part is that at some point while waking up i realize “oh fuck i hope i’m not pissing the bed”, then i wake up and go “oh thank christ, not even a drop”

      • @biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Bro has dream clock continuity with the real world, isn’t it a paid feature? $10 per month is a big ask for such a minimal DLC imo

    • @yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      131 month ago

      If anything at all even looks remotely suspicious, pinch your nose so you can’t breathe through it. If you can still breathe through it youre dreaming baby, and thats real air passing through your real nose you can feel back in reality!

      The trick is to get into the habit of doing it for anything. Strange car you’ve never seen before? Pinch. You’ve been gaming for 3 hours when it felt like 15 minutes? Pinch. You see the same girl 3 times in one day? Thats a pinching.

      • Aedis
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        141 month ago

        Sleep apnea would like to say hi. Now you can’t breath in dreams either.

    • @bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip
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      11 month ago

      Yup. Had this dream about two months ago while in Vegas with a buddy for a concert, cept it was a urinal, and I was awoken to trying to piss in the corner of the hotel room.

  • @rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    91 month ago

    When I was a kid I did the opposite. I would be using the bathroom in real life and would fear that it’s a dream/hallucination and I’m actually pissing in the classroom.

  • @uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works
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    81 month ago

    I always use them but it never makes the feeling of having to pee go away lol. Then I wake up and really have to go. Never gone in my sleep thankfully lol.

  • @sdcSpade@lemmy.zip
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    81 month ago

    I was about to a couple of years ago, jolted awake and went straight to the real bathroom. I’ve never gone from deep sleep to 100% clarity that quickly. If only we could harness that power…

  • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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    81 month ago

    That’s why I never piss and shit. Whobknows how many layers deep I am at any given moment??

  • Hossenfeffer
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    61 month ago

    Often dream about hunting for a toilet… then I wake and need to go straight to the loo.

  • @58008@lemmy.world
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    61 month ago

    I’m in my 40s and I still occasionally get a dream where I’m using the toilet, and that in the dream I’m making sure I’m really awake by looking around the room reading labels on things etc. People say you can’t read text in dreams, because it looks mangled and makes no sense. Well, if you believe it makes sense within the logic of the dream - that is, whatever switch in your brain that makes you go from “not sure” to “100% confident” gets flipped - then it matters not what lorem ipsum horseshit is printed in melting calligraphy on the shampoo bottle. My brain yearns for a piss-filled mattress and it will not be dissuaded by my feeble attempts at some sort of dreamworld scientific method.

  • @ddplf@szmer.info
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    61 month ago

    Same thing applies if you have some… erotically pleasing experience. But in that case - just go for it, consequences are always worth it.

  • @kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    51 month ago

    I very often have some convoluted dream, where I end up taking a piss, except it just doesn’t stop, then after a while I wake up having to pee really badly

    • @four@lemmy.zip
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      11 month ago

      Saaameee!!
      Also sometimes in the dream I pee in a weird place. Like, someone tells me where the bathroom is and it’s just some room without toilets or anything so I just pee in the corner of that room.

      • Die Martin Die
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        21 month ago

        For me it’s a toilet in the middle of an otherwise empty bathroom (i.e. not even a sink to wash my hands)

        I usually start peeing a neverending stream until I wake up (I don’t pee myself tho, just wake up with an urgent need to pee)