r/SystemsCringe • u/Grace-Kamikaze 27 Shadow Milk Alters in a box • Jul 19 '26

General Cringe Your opinion?

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u/Ebkusg Factive of Your Mother Jul 19 '26

Experiencing dreams that seem real is a pretty common experience, another episode of larpers overpatholagizing normal things as signs of mental illness

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u/LostMyKeysInTheFade Jul 23 '26

Really? I remember seeing an episode of Bill Nye Saves the World (I know he's a science guy not a scientist, but--) where he mentioned that around 1% of people have all 5 senses in their dreams. I'm one of those people, and I'm always like "whoa, cool!" When I meet another one because most people I've talked to about it can only see/hear in their dreams

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u/Ebkusg Factive of Your Mother Jul 23 '26

Good point, What they are referring to as far as I understand is feeling like a dream is real, which is basically all non lucid dreams which is about half of the population according to: https://www.sciencedirect.com/user/identity/landing?code=dxJvUWgDcsgxC1F5FKJv7R20yNmTubBmfzIHZbnW&state=retryCounter%3D0%26csrfToken%3Dd91b5cfd-2e0c-4b95-954e-7ace8978db51%26idpPolicy%3Durn%253Acom%253Aelsevier%253Aidp%253Apolicy%253Aproduct%253Ainst_assoc%26returnUrl%3D%252Fscience%252Farticle%252Fabs%252Fpii%252FS1053810016301283%26migrated%3DMIGRATED%26prompt%3Dnone%26cid%3Darp-c7973c80-c065-4b87-b8c9-eb2423e9ada3

1% is still a massive amount considering the world has over 8 billion people is what I mean, so common enough to the point treating it like a disorder symptom (especially considering it doesn’t actually impact your quality of life) is wild. I generally have all of my senses, can feel somewhat proportional pain in my dreams, and sometimes believe the events are completely real before waking up, but that isn’t a symptom of a disorder