Dreams with "systems"

System dreams is how I think of these - a certain type of dream I have every so often when I’m in a world or place that has “rules” very different from the real world that affect daily life in some way. It’s like… stumbling into a strange culture, where although everything on the surface may look normal, if you delve deeper, things are very unfamiliar!

I had one of these again just this afternoon (but haven’t finished typing it up yet), which is what prompted this post. To give you an idea of what I mean by “systems”, I’ll post an excerpt from the dream here:

What examples of system dreams have all you guys had? I’d love to hear! :content:

Wow, nothing that complex. If it’s too complex, I’m too likely to forget what the rules originally were.

A simple example I can think of was when I played 2 rounds of some fighting video game against my sister. Each time we both chose a set of Dance Dance Revolution songs at the beginning, and this would determine what characters we could chose. Both times I chose songs by Naoki so I could play as some guy called Metal Gear (later became “Keith Garre”…). The controls of the game were pretty consistent, mostly like Virtua Fighter 2.

My October 5th-6th dream has some rules… I’ll post them :happy:

Wow, Rodrigo! That sounds like a very intriguing society, one that you could make a great adventure story out of! It reminds me a bit of all those “lost tribe” stories you read when you’re little, despite the fact they had guns and everything. Great!

That’s funny, Storm. Bet the Yang guy was the nice one. :wink: Usually Yin symbolises a woman. A gay pair lmao. Just kidding.

Those rules were quite mean though. If I had been your friend in that dream, I would have been insulted.

I don’t really remember encountering any rules in my dreams, though.

Yeah :happy: It was pretty nice. Take a look at the entire dream when you have some time. It was a very cool one.

its not quite as good of an example as yours, but i had a dream in which people (i think including me) used to race emergency services to the scene of the emergency. i think the dream was set in something like center parcs in brazil!

So thats kinda a rule…

Coincidentally, I just had a dream this morning with a “system”.

The American flag was ‘God’ in the eyes of the citizens, and was to be worshipped as such. There was even a code of conduct and [5] commandments, as I recall. A deviance in conduct, or any violation of the commandments was punishable by death.

It wasn’t excessivley complicated… just peculiar.

We can all probably recollect our past dreams and extract “systematic” elements from them, though. As if each dream scenario holds within it its own ideology…