The Fluent Mind ESL Podcast Topic Talk | Recurring Dreams
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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about their recurring dreams.
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Jack
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Jack
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Jack
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00:00:56
Jack
Welcome to the 80s English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're doing a topic talk episode and social. The topic is recurring dreams and.
00:01:08
Xochitl
I like this one interesting good.
00:01:09
Jack
Yeah, yeah. Do you have one or do you want me?
00:01:12
Jack
To go first.
00:01:13
Xochitl
I have a couple you can do you want.
00:01:15
Xochitl
Me to start or?
00:01:16
Jack
Yeah, yeah, you go ahead and start. Yeah.
00:01:18
Xochitl
I one of them that I have is when I was younger I used to have this recurring dream where there were these like little they look like mini M&M's. They're like these bunch of little colored like round things and they're these like witches, cartoon witches and blue capes.
00:01:39
Xochitl
That would like.
00:01:40
Xochitl
ZAP them or something and that happened a few different times, like I had that dream a few different times. It was weird.
00:01:48
Xochitl
And and another one that's only been prevalent since I was a kid all the way through adulthood. Still, if I'm really stressed, I get a dream that I have a tooth in my hand and I have to, like, cut it open and get the tooth out like there's a.
00:02:03
Jack
Whoa, that's crazy.
00:02:05
Xochitl
It's weird.
00:02:07
Xochitl
Yeah, it's really, really weird and this is happened every time since I was a kid all the way in.
00:02:14
Xochitl
So now.
00:02:15
Jack
Our listeners out there do some research and let us know what that means. A tooth embedded in your hand that you have to take it.
00:02:23
Xochitl
It's like inside. It's like it's like it's like there's a. It's almost like it grew inside my hand and it's like I can X-ray, see through it or something. And I have to cut it up and pull it out and like, it looks like a mouth and guns inside or something. I don't know. It's freaking weird. Like, yeah, it is very weird and very vivid. I have super, super vivid dreams.
00:02:36
Jack
Wow.
00:02:43
Xochitl
I always have since I was a kid, so it's like very strange.
00:02:46
Jack
Do you remember your dream?
00:02:48
Xochitl
Yeah, I remember a lot of dreams. So it's good. Yeah.
00:02:51
Jack
OK.
00:02:54
Jack
Like, do you?
00:02:54
Jack
Is there some sort of strategy that you use to remember them, or is it just something that happens naturally?
00:03:00
Xochitl
Well, it happens naturally sometimes. I wish I didn't. I'll like I get sometimes I get tons of crazy dreams in one night and they're like, they're like home movie plots and a lot of times they're like horror movie plots. And they're, like, really intense in detail. And I and I like, wake up and I'll go back to sleep and I'll have another dream like that. And it just keeps going.
00:03:18
Xochitl
I'll have like four or five at night.
00:03:20
Xochitl
And I'm straight. They're like a movie, like a full movie with characters and everything. It's like real.
00:03:25
Xochitl
Weird.
00:03:26
Jack
Are you always the star of the dream?
00:03:29
Xochitl
No, no, no, no. So I, a lot of times I'm not even in the dream. I'm just watching it like a movie.
00:03:34
Jack
Ohh so there's like characters. There's like story developments. There's ohh.
00:03:38
Xochitl
Yeah, it's a whole plot that has nothing to do with me. It's like, imagine that you're watching a movie, but like, I don't see myself watching it. It's like, literally you're seeing it through your eyes and like, you're just observing. You're just an observer to this movie that's unfolding. That's exactly what I am. I'm just observing these characters. And like, their life and stuff. And it doesn't have anything to do with.
00:03:59
Jack
Wow, that's really interesting because I don't think I've ever had a dream where I'm not. You know, the main character like, it's not. It's. Yeah, it's just me.
00:04:05
Xochitl
There it is.
00:04:07
Xochitl
Ohh.
00:04:08
Jack
You know, it might be like a a story in a in a movie type thing, but I'm always the main character of my own dreams.
00:04:16
Jack
I wonder.
00:04:16
Xochitl
That's so weird.
00:04:18
Xochitl
I also have a recurring dream where I would like try to read in the dream, and then I'd be like, wait a minute. I can't read. This is a dream. Like, that's the closest I've ever been to lucid dreaming is like I would try to write or read, but I've I I've only listed dreamt once where I was like. I don't like the plot of this. So I just changed.
00:04:28
Jack
Yeah.
00:04:36
Xochitl
Bit because I was bored with my dream, so I like lucid, lucid dreaming for listeners who don't know, we'll do an episode on it another time because I think it's very interesting, but it's like the person can control their dream and do whatever they want inside and they're aware.
00:04:49
Xochitl
That they're dreaming.
00:04:53
Xochitl
And I was, I think I've only really had it happen. Super, super like.
00:04:59
Xochitl
I know 100% that I lose a dream does only happen.
00:05:02
Xochitl
Like once for me.
00:05:03
Jack
Yeah, well, you have a strange dream life. I mean, the fact that you're that you remember your dreams, that you have long form stories and plots and things like that. The fact that you're not the star of of all your dreams like the main.
00:05:04
발표자
Yeah.
00:05:19
Jack
You're.
00:05:20
Xochitl
Yeah, I'm ******* not.
00:05:21
발표자
You're. I think you're you're.
00:05:22
Jack
Yeah. You're kind of outside the norm. I think when it comes to dreamlife.
00:05:26
Xochitl
Ah, interesting. I didn't know that. I'm curious to hear from our listeners. Are you guys like me? Have you had dreams where you're not the star, which especially recently has been a lot of my dreams? Do you have dreams like you don't know any of the characters or people or plot involved like me? And do you remember your dreams?
00:05:47
Xochitl
Are you a vivid dreamer? Do you lose a dream? I'm really curious to hear from our listeners about this. Nothing.
00:05:53
Jack
Yeah, I am too, because.
00:05:56
Jack
I I just think that like UM.
00:05:59
Jack
I I thought, but you know, maybe it's just because that's the way it is for me. But I thought most people.
00:06:06
Jack
Kind of it like, I'm not always myself in my dream. I might be a different person, but I'm still controlling the actions of the person or whatever. You know, I'm like I'm.
00:06:18
Jack
The IT I see it through that the lens of of that person, but it's it might not be me exactly, but usually it it it always feels what we say in English like first person, you know, like it's me. I'm doing something and I'm moving around and so.
00:06:33
Xochitl
Right.
00:06:38
Jack
But I for me, I forget my dreams almost immediately.
00:06:44
Jack
Now if I write it down, I might be able to remember it, but I'm too lazy to, you know, wake up in the morning and take a sketch pad and and write down notes about my dreams, which is actually one of the strategies for lucid dreaming. If you want to practice lucid dreaming.
00:07:01
발표자
OK.
00:07:04
Jack
You've got to keep a dream journal.
00:07:06
Jack
That's like a really important thing, yeah.
00:07:08
Xochitl
That's interesting. I'm actually curious to to, like, make a dream journal and see if I can make a plot out of the movies that I like. See cause I think I could. Honestly, if they're so cool, like I could just if I could make a movie out of the movies that I see in my dreams, I think they.
00:07:26
Xochitl
Would be really popular in the horror genre because they're very weird.
00:07:31
Xochitl
I remember my used to tell my room. My roommate used to in college used to.
00:07:37
Xochitl
Be very excited to hear my dreams the next day.
00:07:39
Xochitl
Because.
00:07:40
Xochitl
That's a movie I would watch. Just watch this. She she'd be like I didn't have a weird dream. She was always curious about about that.
00:07:43
Jack
Thank you.
00:07:49
Jack
This is the total. This is a total aside, but I you know, Elon Musk is developing something called neurolink. You know where they you can kind of put a computer chip in the brain of a of a human being. That's like one of his ambitions.
00:07:49
Xochitl
But what about?
00:07:52
발표자
Yeah.
00:08:04
Xochitl
Alright.
00:08:04
Jack
And I was always. I always thought, like in the future, instead of film makers.
00:08:12
Jack
They'll figure out a way to record dreams like a movie, you know, through a person's brain. And then there will be professional dreamers like you. You would be a good candidate for a professional dreamer.
00:08:16
Xochitl
You're right.
00:08:25
Xochitl
Haven't have you seen that movie? There's a movie based on that. It's called it's like the green dealers or some sleep dealer or something. I'll, I'll. I'll tell. I'll send you a message and Jack and I can leave it in the description or something for our listeners are curious, but it's about like.
00:08:28
Jack
Oh, is it really? I've never.
00:08:42
Xochitl
It's weird, I I saw it when I was really young. It came out and my dad had me watch it. But it's like a movie based between Mexico and the US and I think.
00:08:50
Xochitl
They have like.
00:08:53
Xochitl
It's like a side hustle or something and they do exactly what you're saying. Like, they record these dreams and they, like, sell them or something weird. I don't know. So there was some. It's something like that, but.
00:09:01
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:04
Jack
Well, people that people that dream in in like story form that has like a whole, you know, uh, a kind of cinematic movie like arc to the story.
00:09:16
Jack
If you could, if you could do that in your dreams, you could. You know, you could become like a essentially a director, like a film, like a filmmaker. So yeah, maybe in the future that will be a technology that will be available.
00:09:26
Xochitl
Yeah, for sure.
00:09:31
Xochitl
The thinking was, do you have recurring dream, Jack, do you have recurring dreams? I forgot what?
00:09:35
Jack
Yes, I do have recurring recurring dream and this one is really common among a lot of people. But what what it is basically is that I.
00:09:51
Jack
I have registered for a course. It could be a high school or a college course or something. And let's say I sign up for five classes.
00:10:01
Jack
And then I forget to go to 1.
00:10:04
Jack
Or I can't find the classroom on the whole semester. I spend my time walking through this like labyrinth like a A. A very.
00:10:15
Jack
A large building with lots of rooms and a kid just can't find my room and I've already paid for the class and the course and everything. And then when I finally find the classroom, I've missed, like almost all of the lessons. And then it's time for the test and I'm totally unprepared for it. And I'm sure there's a meaning to this dream.
00:10:33
Xochitl
Terrible.
00:10:37
Jack
Like there has to be some kind of meaning to it.
00:10:41
Jack
But I I don't know what it is exactly.
00:10:43
Xochitl
I think it's.
00:10:43
Xochitl
Just a stress dream. I mean, I I remember when we studied dreams in psychology, there was like two types of content and one is like what you visualized in the dream and the other content is what you feel in the dream. So the feeling is what really what you see in your dream is supposed to be random neural firings or something. And what you feel in the dream.
00:11:04
Xochitl
Is supposed to be related to your real life. So I think that level of stress is like what it is supposedly on some level. But but if you think dreams have meanings, which I also sometimes.
00:11:13
Xochitl
With. Yeah, I think that's relevant, I definitely.
00:11:18
Xochitl
Have dreamt that once before at least, and I remember being so devastated when I woke up, I was like, thank God that was the dream I was so worried I had, like, failed this math course because I just skipped through it.
00:11:29
Jack
Yeah, is I wake up with I I feel.
00:11:33
Jack
Intense anxiety. And then I wake up and I just have like, this huge sigh of relief because it's like, ohh, I didn't just destroy my life, you know, I didn't just waste all this money on a class and then never show up and fail.
00:11:46
Xochitl
Yes.
00:11:49
Jack
That, but it's a it's an awful feeling. It really is an awful feeling.
00:11:54
Xochitl
Bad. Yeah, I get those kind of stress dreams. I I've only had like one or or two. Like school type dreams since I left school. Well, at least in the last five years. No, wait. I only graduated like, three years ago. Well, it feels like I graduated five years ago. So, yeah, I I think I.
00:12:11
발표자
Right.
00:12:15
Xochitl
I don't really get those dreams much anymore, but I I get what you mean and and I remember one of my professors in college saying even her mom was like in her 60s. I had a dream like that and she was like it just shows.
00:12:26
Xochitl
You.
00:12:26
Xochitl
How traumatic school is because the learning task isn't so like anxiety inducing that we still dream about it years later, you know.
00:12:29
Jack
Yeah.
00:12:36
Xochitl
It's like really weird.
00:12:38
Jack
I I I.
00:12:38
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:12:39
Jack
Do a lot of things like I have a lot of we say in English irons in the fire like I have. I do a lot of projects a lot.
00:12:46
Jack
Of things going.
00:12:47
Jack
On I think maybe it's just the anxiety of.
00:12:51
Jack
Forgetting to do something that I need to do when you have a lot a long list of of of things that you need to take care of and when they start to pile up and you start to fall behind, that's when I get those dreams is that I'm. I'm I'm. I'm not doing something that I'm supposed to be doing and I or I forgot something important.
00:12:59
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:13:04
Xochitl
Yeah.
00:13:11
Jack
And yeah, that's a real a really terrible feeling. So yeah, that's my recurring dream.
00:13:19
Xochitl
That's crazy, listeners. I'm really curious to hear what your recurring dreams are, or if you have recurring dreams. I think we'll do a couple of different podcasts just on dreams, cause this is such a fascinating subject to me, but I'm. I'm so curious to hear about your guys's experiences and just what your dream life looks like.
00:13:30
Jack
Yeah.
00:13:38
Xochitl
Because Jack and I have have different ones, I I've even gotten to the point where sometimes I don't know if something is a memory or a dream because my dreams are.
00:13:45
Xochitl
So vivid.
00:13:46
Jack
Right, right.
00:13:48
Xochitl
Yeah, it's it's really, I'm really curious to hear how you guys experienced dreams. So let us know in a comment down below at AZ englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail. We love reading you guys listener.
00:13:58
Xochitl
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Xochitl
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Xochitl
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00:14:20
Jack
Bye.
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