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Dreams are boring

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SweetStrawb · 22/06/2020 14:48

I find listening to other people's dreams so tedious and boring. I can't figure out why as people are always telling me I'm a good listener. The thing is, when I remeber one of my own dreams, I want to tell someone about it and I can tell the other person finds hearing about them as tedious as I doGrin. But maybe my dreams are just not that interesting.

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SadSisters · 22/06/2020 15:12

YANBU - There is absolutely nothing as tedious as hearing other people’s dreams! I always resist the impulse to share mine even when I find them fascinating.

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ThatLibraryMiss · 22/06/2020 15:19

If we're being honest here, other people's holiday photos are boring too.

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Picklypickles · 22/06/2020 15:20

Other peoples dreams tend to be boring, mine are usually terrifying or really, really fucked up so I tend to keep them to myself lest people think I'm completely deranged.

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Time40 · 22/06/2020 15:25

Oh, I don't know ... some of my dreams are hilarious.

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SweetStrawb · 22/06/2020 16:57

@Time40

Oh, I don't know ... some of my dreams are hilarious.

Try me. I'm all ears Grin
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Janek · 22/06/2020 16:58

I've had to make the rule that dd1 isn't allowed to tell me about her dreams because they're too boring. Dd2 never tries to tell me.

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FunTimes2020 · 22/06/2020 17:13

@Picklypickles

Other peoples dreams tend to be boring, mine are usually terrifying or really, really fucked up so I tend to keep them to myself lest people think I'm completely deranged.

Ditto! Grin
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IwishIhadaMargarita · 22/06/2020 17:27

@ThatLibraryMiss

If we're being honest here, other people's holiday photos are boring too.

Oh god I remember a full afternoon of a boring friend showing me her whole life’s holiday photo’s ‘that’s me, my mum and my sister....’ yes I know who you are! Mil downloaded me snd DH’s holiday photos onto her tablet to show her friends. How bored they must have been looking at holiday pictures even Mil hadn’t been present at.
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Sparklesocks · 22/06/2020 17:29

I think that’s a pretty common thing - dreams are normally only interesting to the dreamer!

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SecretWitch · 22/06/2020 17:30

The last dream I remember included me being shot in the head. I actually felt the bullet going in.

Turns out, coming of Celaxa can do strange things to,

Like Stevie Nicks sings, I keep my visions to myself.

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BeingATwatItsABingThing · 22/06/2020 17:31

I only tell people my dreams when they’ve featured in a weird/funny way. I don’t tell them the whole thing. Just their specific bit. Regular dreams are boring but sometimes dreams can be funny. Depends on the storyteller as well. Some people are better at retelling than others.

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beefthief · 22/06/2020 17:31

"I hate listening to people's dreams. It is like flipping through a stack of photographs. If I'm not in any of them and nobody is having sex, I just don't care."

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TrickorTreacle · 22/06/2020 17:46

I kinda agree. Dreams are only interesting if it's relevant to the listener.

Same goes with the holiday photos example. Again only interesting if it's relevant or recent.

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