I’m not sure what’s confused you. That she wants to make him wake up earlier so (theoretically) he won’t have such dreams? Unlike Lio’s dad, Jason’s mom still harbors hopes of keeping his weirdness under control.
I’m pretty sure jjmcgaffey has it, but I think Bill’s confusion comes from the last panel. After all, why would an earlier alarm prevent dreaming?
I see Bill’s confusion but the idea is it prevents the dream reaching the point where he starts to take over the world. I think the implication is if Jason has slept a little longer he would have dreamt he had taken over the world. As it was, he woke up while he was working on it. And had he woken up earlier he would only have dreamt about soliciting the funds to start robot research.
Of course, dreams don’t work like that.
Worst case dream scenario, which happened to me a few times: Dreaming I was at work, doing work things. Alarm goes off and I have to go to work even though I’ve just done a day’s work in my dream. I’m glad I’m not in that job anymore.
Isn’t there something about when we are able to remember and report dreams? Though dreams may occur at various times during a sleep cycle, only those close to the time of waking will be recalled. Misunderstood, this could be taken to mean dreams only occur towards morning — so forcing someone awake early might be before they had any dreams.
I wish there was a pill to make one NOT dream, at least a few nights a week.
Supposedly the dreams that occur later in the night (assuming you sleep at night) are the ones that are the most vivid and story-like.
Dreams early on in the sleep cycle tend to be rather wispy and lack substance. The later the dreams, the more memorable and more coherent they are.
Whether that’s true or not, I doubt it really figures into this comic strip. The joke here is that Jason had his dream right before he woke up (as revealed in the last panel). Therefore, mom thinks about waking him up earlier, simply to prevent similar dreams in the future.
Andréa, I wish there was a pill that would make you remember your dreams.
If you remember yours, can you try lucid dreaming? My grandson used to have terrible nightmares, and with lucid dreaming he was able to (marginally) control them.
No, I want a pill so that I do NOT remember them. And yes, I’ve tried lucid dreaming . . . no help. I dream in novels; I wake up, walk around the house, go back to sleep and go right back into the dream. One time, I dreamt I was tell my (patient) hubby about my dream, which I usually do, atho I normally wait ’til I am awake to do so. Sometimes I don’t know what is a dream and what is reality, so I have to ask him. I mostly dream about dead people (isn’t that a line from a movie?), or a mixture of dead and live people. Never monsters; always ‘realistic’. After 15 years of retirement, I still dream about my work. And yes, I’m always exhausted in the morning and have to take (DREAMLESS!) naps.
Singapore Bill:
Jason just said something that was strange but total in keeping with his character. Andy is used to his weirdness so her response is supposed to be sarcastic rather that a literal threat as indicated by her calmly returning to reading the newspaper.
Jason is dangerous, amoral and very good at inventing. Andy is afraid that he can make his dreams a reality, and so she is trying to stifle them.
My experience is that the most realistic and lucid dreams are usually the worst ones, so that trick would not work.
For the longest time after we had bed bugs I had no memory of having dreams at night. I presumed I was having dreams as we all do, but nothing stuck in memory. About 3 years I started waking up in terror in the morning based on whatever I am dreaming. When I can remember a piece of a dream it is horrifying. I really would like to go back to not remembering dreaming.
I frequently wake up from a dream, roll over and can feel the memory of it fading away. If I want to remember it, I have to quickly tell myself what it’s about and what happened. It’s literally, I shift position and the memory fades – as if rolling over moves the blood out of the bit of my brain that had the dream and the memory fades as the blood moves.
My dreams are usually adventure stories, often populated by my family – who may or may not look like they do in real life (changes in gender, color of hair or skin, shape…). But I know them, as long as I don’t look at them. I can sometimes read in my dreams too, but I’ve never woken up fast enough to remember what I read. One time I was reading a great book, enjoying myself a lot, woke up and lost everything except the feeling of enjoyment. No idea what the story was, drat it.
Some while ago, I started experiencing what I called “pre-dreaming”, which is having some dreamlike sensations before falling asleep. Mostly sensation of motion and faces or objects, often ones that shift. Occasionally sounds. Sometimes these are enough to startle me back to full wakefulness, which is annoying.
When I looked it up, I discovered that it was called Hypnagogia.
I very rarely remember my dreams, and I occasionally wish that I could. This thread makes grateful that I don’t.
My Mother never remembered her dreams (she claimed to not dream); she was a happy, well-adjusted person. My father had and remembered his dreams; he was not. My hubby and I are the same; guess which is the happy, well-adjusted person, and which is not . . . ‘-)
PS: WW – I’d be glad to give you some of my dreams. Just send an addressed, stamped envelope to . . .
Andréa, I’m not quite sure the correlation holds up…
jjmcgaffey, I DO sometimes remember the contents of the book. I’ve also done crossword puzzles in my dreams.
I’m happy and well-adjusted. 100% correlation!
‘-)
My question would be: Which came first, the personality, or the dreams (or lack of remembering thereof)?
I think there’s probably a correlation between having memorable dreams and being happy and well-adjusted, but I suspect the cause and effect are reversed.
You remember the dream you were having when you wake. If your mind is troubled, you wake early, and often. If you are at peace with life, you sleep through the dream and wake after the dream has faded.
And to think I pay my therapist $60/hour for this . . . and it’s only ONE person . . . this is better. And cheaper.
So would this be a good time to bring up your bill? It’s past due… we haven’t seen a payment in quite some time.
Virtual therapy=virtual payment.
or perhaps – as we’re discussing on ‘I Got You, Babe’ – you’d like to try to hack into my bank or credit card accounts. Be forewarned, I have a MAC . . .
James, can’t that also depend on whether you wake up gradually and natural, or you’re woken suddenly by an alarm clock?
” you’d like to try to hack into my bank or credit card accounts. Be forewarned, I have a MAC”
All those ads that Apple ran that suggested a Mac was more secure than a PC were pure horse-leavings.
Macs had fewer malware attacks because only about 3 or 4 percent of computers were Macs, so there was more money to be made attacking Windows or Linux. Aha! you say. Fewer attacks! Sure. But it does you no good to be attacked only 3 times rather than 30 if about 1 in 3 succeeds.
“James, can’t that also depend on…”
I suppose that depends on whether or not you’re the type of person who sleeps through alarms, or one of the type of person who wakes up two minutes before the alarm goes off.
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I’m not sure what’s confused you. That she wants to make him wake up earlier so (theoretically) he won’t have such dreams? Unlike Lio’s dad, Jason’s mom still harbors hopes of keeping his weirdness under control.
I’m pretty sure jjmcgaffey has it, but I think Bill’s confusion comes from the last panel. After all, why would an earlier alarm prevent dreaming?
I see Bill’s confusion but the idea is it prevents the dream reaching the point where he starts to take over the world. I think the implication is if Jason has slept a little longer he would have dreamt he had taken over the world. As it was, he woke up while he was working on it. And had he woken up earlier he would only have dreamt about soliciting the funds to start robot research.
Of course, dreams don’t work like that.
Worst case dream scenario, which happened to me a few times: Dreaming I was at work, doing work things. Alarm goes off and I have to go to work even though I’ve just done a day’s work in my dream. I’m glad I’m not in that job anymore.
Isn’t there something about when we are able to remember and report dreams? Though dreams may occur at various times during a sleep cycle, only those close to the time of waking will be recalled. Misunderstood, this could be taken to mean dreams only occur towards morning — so forcing someone awake early might be before they had any dreams.
I wish there was a pill to make one NOT dream, at least a few nights a week.
Supposedly the dreams that occur later in the night (assuming you sleep at night) are the ones that are the most vivid and story-like.
Dreams early on in the sleep cycle tend to be rather wispy and lack substance. The later the dreams, the more memorable and more coherent they are.
Whether that’s true or not, I doubt it really figures into this comic strip. The joke here is that Jason had his dream right before he woke up (as revealed in the last panel). Therefore, mom thinks about waking him up earlier, simply to prevent similar dreams in the future.
Andréa, I wish there was a pill that would make you remember your dreams.
If you remember yours, can you try lucid dreaming? My grandson used to have terrible nightmares, and with lucid dreaming he was able to (marginally) control them.
No, I want a pill so that I do NOT remember them. And yes, I’ve tried lucid dreaming . . . no help. I dream in novels; I wake up, walk around the house, go back to sleep and go right back into the dream. One time, I dreamt I was tell my (patient) hubby about my dream, which I usually do, atho I normally wait ’til I am awake to do so. Sometimes I don’t know what is a dream and what is reality, so I have to ask him. I mostly dream about dead people (isn’t that a line from a movie?), or a mixture of dead and live people. Never monsters; always ‘realistic’. After 15 years of retirement, I still dream about my work. And yes, I’m always exhausted in the morning and have to take (DREAMLESS!) naps.
Singapore Bill:
Jason just said something that was strange but total in keeping with his character. Andy is used to his weirdness so her response is supposed to be sarcastic rather that a literal threat as indicated by her calmly returning to reading the newspaper.
Jason is dangerous, amoral and very good at inventing. Andy is afraid that he can make his dreams a reality, and so she is trying to stifle them.
My experience is that the most realistic and lucid dreams are usually the worst ones, so that trick would not work.
I second that emotion.
Dreams must be the theme of the week:
http://zitscomics.com/comics/august-7-2018/
For the longest time after we had bed bugs I had no memory of having dreams at night. I presumed I was having dreams as we all do, but nothing stuck in memory. About 3 years I started waking up in terror in the morning based on whatever I am dreaming. When I can remember a piece of a dream it is horrifying. I really would like to go back to not remembering dreaming.
I frequently wake up from a dream, roll over and can feel the memory of it fading away. If I want to remember it, I have to quickly tell myself what it’s about and what happened. It’s literally, I shift position and the memory fades – as if rolling over moves the blood out of the bit of my brain that had the dream and the memory fades as the blood moves.
My dreams are usually adventure stories, often populated by my family – who may or may not look like they do in real life (changes in gender, color of hair or skin, shape…). But I know them, as long as I don’t look at them. I can sometimes read in my dreams too, but I’ve never woken up fast enough to remember what I read. One time I was reading a great book, enjoying myself a lot, woke up and lost everything except the feeling of enjoyment. No idea what the story was, drat it.
Some while ago, I started experiencing what I called “pre-dreaming”, which is having some dreamlike sensations before falling asleep. Mostly sensation of motion and faces or objects, often ones that shift. Occasionally sounds. Sometimes these are enough to startle me back to full wakefulness, which is annoying.
When I looked it up, I discovered that it was called Hypnagogia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
I very rarely remember my dreams, and I occasionally wish that I could. This thread makes grateful that I don’t.
My Mother never remembered her dreams (she claimed to not dream); she was a happy, well-adjusted person. My father had and remembered his dreams; he was not. My hubby and I are the same; guess which is the happy, well-adjusted person, and which is not . . . ‘-)
PS: WW – I’d be glad to give you some of my dreams. Just send an addressed, stamped envelope to . . .
Andréa, I’m not quite sure the correlation holds up…
jjmcgaffey, I DO sometimes remember the contents of the book. I’ve also done crossword puzzles in my dreams.
I’m happy and well-adjusted. 100% correlation!
‘-)
My question would be: Which came first, the personality, or the dreams (or lack of remembering thereof)?
I think there’s probably a correlation between having memorable dreams and being happy and well-adjusted, but I suspect the cause and effect are reversed.
You remember the dream you were having when you wake. If your mind is troubled, you wake early, and often. If you are at peace with life, you sleep through the dream and wake after the dream has faded.
And to think I pay my therapist $60/hour for this . . . and it’s only ONE person . . . this is better. And cheaper.
So would this be a good time to bring up your bill? It’s past due… we haven’t seen a payment in quite some time.
Virtual therapy=virtual payment.
or perhaps – as we’re discussing on ‘I Got You, Babe’ – you’d like to try to hack into my bank or credit card accounts. Be forewarned, I have a MAC . . .
James, can’t that also depend on whether you wake up gradually and natural, or you’re woken suddenly by an alarm clock?
” you’d like to try to hack into my bank or credit card accounts. Be forewarned, I have a MAC”
All those ads that Apple ran that suggested a Mac was more secure than a PC were pure horse-leavings.
Macs had fewer malware attacks because only about 3 or 4 percent of computers were Macs, so there was more money to be made attacking Windows or Linux. Aha! you say. Fewer attacks! Sure. But it does you no good to be attacked only 3 times rather than 30 if about 1 in 3 succeeds.
“James, can’t that also depend on…”
I suppose that depends on whether or not you’re the type of person who sleeps through alarms, or one of the type of person who wakes up two minutes before the alarm goes off.