Dream Logic and Its Place in Horror

[@flamingdog9207]

I hate when I accidentally take the window stalking pills instead of normal pills

[@commentercommentypants7904]

It's scary the first few times, but around the fifth or sixth time you just make a new friend "Hey FlamingDog, get your pills mixed up again?" "Yeah, Jim. Could you watch out for those begonias? I just planted those." "Oh, sure, sorry." "'Kay, go ahead." *Stares and smiles aggressively*

[@notascientist709]

Dream logic is so interesting to me I feel like it could be a totally untapped field of phycology. Imagine in 30 years medical technology progresses to the point where you can watch someone’s dream like a TV show and you can study it. Even seeing a screenshot from a real human dream would be so fascinating to me. Maybe some day

[@wrightnottwell]

A great part of Psychoanalisys focuses on dream logic and trying to figure out the meaning of it, although I doubt psychoanalits actually use the term 'dream logic'

[@NanaNemu17]

Same technology was in Final Fantasy Spirits Within

[@phalamy9180]

One of my most worst dreams ever was quite horrific. Me and a family I dont know are sitting in what i think is a kitchen, even though the room is huge. It was wider and longer than it has any logical reason being. Like a school gym. I think it started with me recording what i think is meant to be my sister do some meme video thing, i pan my vision to the right, and in the far right corner, which is totally unlit, i see limbs sticking out of the shadow. Like a very very tall, emasiated person was clumsily pushing itself in there as if to hide. I look back before i realise what it was, however my sister is staring at the thing in the corner. She got up and everyone joined her, staring in the corner. I looked over to see the thing now clammering out of the corner and towards us. We took off running in the opposite direction screaming, and the last thing i remember is the thing running at me faster than i could react to, before waking up.

[@memeseller9444]

Oh lord- sounds like a scene right out of some stephen king book

[@Kyss007]

i love how dreams work. i think its super fun to go thu this child like attension span logic thing. dreams are fun

[@TheLibrarianYT]

I couldn't agree more.

[@nicolajp9037]

I felt asleep in my dorm room/apartment and woke up, and then i walked down to the schools cantina but on my way down the hallway i saw there was an escalator so i chose to go up it and then i discovered that there was a subway / train station over my school and then i woke up wtf

[@bukachell]

I wish I could have dreams like that

[@nicolajp9037]

@@bukachell You can have some of mine lol I'm used to have almost only weird dreams

[@Skyx5m50]

That’s really how it be! In my dream my apartment building has a big parking lot and I mean huge. There’s also extra rooms and etc. my dreams are so weird everything is the same but different. In real life I drive a Audi but in my dreams I drive a Volkswagen.

[@bournelucid]

My dreams are broken - they are hyper realistic and have a logical progression and nightmares aren't scary they just stop me from doing illegal things.

[@annoyingassbean3070]

My dreams sometimes have logical progression, meaning that my brain is using what has happened in the previously in the dream to influence the future. Sometimes the dream makes a really, really good concept or story that I want to replicate it in real life but I often can't write it down fast enough and I lack the skills to properly describe what happened and what I felt.

[@ctrl3756]

I dream of cooking meth in a winnebago RV with a druggie

[@artisticinexpression]

When my dreams are nearly completely logical. But it sometimes scares me because when I wake up I don’t know if I’m still asleep. One time I had a dream where I got up, took my pills, ate, brushed my teeth, and then woke up. Like 3 times

[@electricdazz]

@@artisticinexpression You could try practicing reality checks like pushing one of your fingers through the palm of your other hand, or counting fingers, turn on a light switch, try to read something etc... whenever you're not sure if you're dreaming. This should give you more control in dreams.

[@coda56]

whenever i go to bed zooted, my dreams are like this, just feels like a real day with normal things happening, its strange

[@tumee8783]

Absolutely marvelous as usual my dude. Amazing.

[@tumee8783]

The sfm at the beginning is wild tho. Initially thought the window man would be terrifying as I had pictured him a whole lot scarier when I first read the story.

[@commentercommentypants7904]

Another good one for my writing playlist! You always seem to hit the nail on the head, especially with those last few lines... there's nothing quite as frustrating as a horror creator feeling the need to spell everything out for the reader/viewer. A lot of otherwise good horror novels in particular have that problem. A similar issue is continuing the story past its ending, which often includes over-explanation. One novella I read recently followed up a slow-burn supernatural horror with not one, not two, but THREE new POVs in the remaining few pages after the death of the true main character, each detailing the spread of the parasite that was only mentioned once in the last few pages of the actual story, each convoluted and unnecessarily detailed. One would have done perfectly, or a brief mention of the child carrying the parasite moving outside its normal range of influence, or even a line or two to let us know that the things were spreading... Or it not being present at all, as it was never even the center of the horror. Anyway, I very much agree with the over-explanation thing, and have seen it kill good stories too many times... an essential ingredient in horror is mystery, something that can emphasized or subtle, but without mystery and the unknown, there isn't truly fear... And not much reason to consume fiction in general.

[@scubaagent5834]

I have four types of dreams. 1. Stupid meme dreams that are completely random and make no sense. 2. Lucid dreams where I have full control and know that I am dreaming. 3. Dreams where I don’t have control but are “normal.” 4. Nightmares that always end with me killing whatever is trying to hurt/kill me.

[@aheenobarbushenocied9880]

I love Inland Empire. I've always described it as a real nightmare caught on film.

[@nothinghere8434]

I'd like Dr. Magnussen stalking me. Great video, it carries a lot of educational value.

[@adirblazkowics7717]

My worst dream so far was a fever dream. It was a weird nightmare about a white face. I don't remember much about the environment though, I think it was a red hallway? Then the dream right after that was a nightmare where I was listening to music on youtube, but then partway through a song some disembodied loud church bells started ringing and the web browser suddenly became fleshy.

[@ivanperez295]

"The web browser suddenly became fleshy" sounds like something out of a Cronenberg movie

[@nono-nt8je]

seeing a gmod animation at the start of this video while i was playing with gmod ragdolls was surreal

[@DanielKay06]

I think the short horror game collection "In Somnio" represents this quite well, they are short games based on nightmares.

[@fofoanchillachallada3549]

W for the librarian having a goofy ah Garry's Mod machinima intro

[@chunkytomatosoup1826]

Pills that manifest window stalkers, part of a healthy diet.

[@aidinfunny]

14:30 I adore Psycho but I feel like the detective at the end explaining exactly what was meant to happen was kind of a copout, would've much preferred something more visual

[@Lesopal]

I thought it was window stocking and I was very confused about why socks are on the window.

[@artisticinexpression]

“May cause window stalking”

[@Helgrind44]

I'm making a puzzle game set in some weird dream world. It's not really horrific but I'd like to give it a weird uncanny vibe. This is really helpful, thank you !

[@kiwimilkDecaf]

Great vid

[@kaexewires7531]

the beginning felt like a creepy pasta, also, this video was good

[@NotBigSurprise]

i was watching the whole video essays playlist tabbed out for a moment while the last video was finishing, and forgot the playlist was still going i got jumpscared by the start of the narration lmfao

[@yagrillrobib7604]

Awesome.

[@arturbeetj]

Amazing video, watching for 2nd time as I couldn't "digest" everything on 1st watch

[@SprocketWatchclock]

My dreams generally do not follow this pattern. Mine are like Deja Vu in reverse, or ancient gods giving me lessons.

[@tuhtols]

Creepy Dr. Magnusson is creepy

[@Kapin05]

He remembers what happened to his beloved microwave casserole. _He remembers what you did._

[@tuhtols]

@@Kapin05 I don't regret it even slightly, he's a dick for leaving his food in the microwave. What if someone else needed to nuke their lunch?? What a jerk

[@oldenandgolden]

idk if the movie hereditary fits in this category but that is the only horror movie that actually scared me, like i get spooked from horror movies but i laugh after the scares and it never lasts but watching the movie hereditary made me watch my back for like a week

[@TieisAwsom]

I have so many dreams I've written down over the years I've made an entire iceberg about them.

[@dannylamb456]

I don't know if this is a common thing, but most of my nightmares tend to be continuations from dreams I had on another night. Always a few seconds after, but I only ever make the connection once I wake up. Times where I've been something inhuman, aiding people in these dreams, only for the situation to go to hell the next night. Perhaps I am just another person who is killed? Perhaps I simply observe until it ends? It only ever makes sense in those waking moments. Then, like the dream, it's gone. I don't know if this is something common at all, so thanks for reading.

[@Zinkquer]

i hope that one person who disliked the video gets window stalked

[@alanrangel5977]

12:36 what movie is that scene from

[@TheLibrarianYT]

It Follows

[@alanrangel5977]

@@TheLibrarianYT Thanks! Btw love your videos keep up the good work ❤️

[@tormentor2285]

link to the pill story?

[@sevenchurches3865]

what is 12:36 from?

[@general_crab8137]

From the movie "it follows" I highly recommend watching it.

[@sevenchurches3865]

@@general_crab8137 🦀

[@Bkuuzin]

Dreams are like a weird, nonsensical movie.

[@invisi-bullexploration2374]

Recurring dreams I had for years. My old basement but there is a new door that certainly wasn't there in reality. Through the door there is a gradual narrative that some Nazi occult shit created this door (Because somebody thought it was a good idea I guess). Which leads to some kind of labyrinth in another dimension. From there it gets foggy. I know there are like artifacts of great value inside but any fool that would touch them would rouse the guardian of this place. Especially around one corner. You know you are there because a blue light radiates from a source you can't see. Around that corner is something like great riches. I can't remember what. A stack of gold bars maybe? But the guardian is behind that corner to and when you see that 'thing' you forget about the l00t... The humanoid entity stands around two meters tall. Marshmallowy white skin. It is so thin it is practically skeletal. It wears no clothing but has no visible sign of gender. Two long arms end in equally long, talon like fingers. The face... The face... I still shake. The face would vaguely resemble the 'momo' meme. It has two, oversized blue eyes with pin prick pupils. It's mouth is a grotesque 'gash' like a distorted happy face expression. There is just blackness inside. It has two, small appleseed slits for a nose and long, stringy, sparse black hair clings to its scalp. It will stalk you peering around corners and you'll see one of those blue eyes staring you down. If you were lured in by the promise of the riches this is your god now.