The (il)logic of dreams

[vakkotaur]

Occasionally I have and a remember a dream where I am naked in some public situation. Usually this is in an anxiety type dream, such as one where not only am I naked in public but I'm back in school and can't get a locker open and I'm late for some class or exam. There is one curious thing about this sort of dream, at least for me so far. That is that nobody else in the dream reacts at all. Instead they completely ignore me and my situation and go on about their business. Yet it's one more thing adding to my anxiety.

I'm not sure, but I think these dreams stopped or at least became even less frequent (I didn't have them very often to start with) when I realized that. If nobody seems to care about my lack of dress, why should I let it bother me? Of course, when I'm awake I know it's a dream and I could "get away" with that and not have public indecency charges thrown at me. In the dream, things seem real unless I manage to get lucid enough to realize it's a dream and thus not any big deal.