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Are your dreams 'woke'?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33589points) April 29th, 2024

When you dream at night, do your dreams include (or involve) people of all religions, races, gender identities, appearances, education level, ethnicity, disability, etc.?

Or are your dreams only about people like YOU – whatever your race, religion, etc., is?

Should dreams be politically correct?

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snowberry's avatar

Seriously? lol

I have NO control over my dreams. None. If someone’s gonna judge folks for the dreams they have, that’s all on them! hahaha!

Jeruba's avatar

All or nothing? How about some of each? I have people of various groups show up from time to time, but much of the time it’s family. And we all do look fairly similar.

MrGrimm888's avatar

The “characters” in my dreams, are as diverse as my life has been.
I am a Lucid Dreamer though, so I can choose/control a lot of the variables in my dreams.

True story.
Once about 15 years ago, I dreamt I was a black African villager, and my village got attacked by other black people who killed us with guns and machetes.
It was absolutely incredibly vivid. We were not like African spear carrying people. We had crude metal structures like a favela, and we had dirty but “regular” clothes.
I was working when the attack started. I wanted to help, but instead I ran with most others to a warehouse type place.
We were regrouping, and it was very dusty, and some people were hurt, others crying.
The remaining men, and myself were about to try to leave and go back to fight. We were gathered at a metal door, everyone was silent. All trying to prepare for a counter attack, and still very much in shock.
We were about to charge out, when the door busted in, and black “army of no nation”-like black soldiers were just mowing us down with old AK-47s, and grenades.
Everyone around me was dying, and I was trying to push my way away from all the calamity. I was stuck with nowhere to go though. I didn’t see who threw it, but a grenade landed by my feet. I jumped and kicked, trying to crawl away from it through all the chaos. Then reality hit me, I had no time, death or horrific injury was imminent.
I woke up, right as it exploded.
My entire African village, was murdered.

It was surreal. I was emotionally overwhelmed, all day at work. I recounted my dream to my coworkers. I still remember it, as if it really happened. Smells, heat, everything was like 100% real.

I have carried that nonexistent tragedy, to this day. I’m a viking looking white guy, who still mourns his black African villagers who died.

That’s either diverse as Hell, or a memory from my past life.

jonsblond's avatar

This is such an interesting question. Usually my dreams consist of the people I know. I’ll have to think about this and come back but I like the challenge.

Zaku's avatar

(IMO, people really ought to stop abusing the term “woke”.)

I have equal-opportunity dreams. People of various ethnicities, cultures, religions, and sometimes non-humans, appear. I have quite a variety of types of dreams, and dream settings. Usually the people are typical-ish for the setting, or are similar to the people I’ve experienced in the types of settings I’m dreaming about.

Disabilities . . . I think are less representative than they are in real life, and include more fantastic/unusual conditions, such as people with strange deformities, afflictions, and/or people who are dead but still acting alive, or barely alive, etc.

Brian1946's avatar

I don’t remember any recently, but when I was about 10 or 11, I dreamed that my mom had a penis.

janbb's avatar

My dreams are about me and people I know so not woke or woke.

jca2's avatar

When I dream, it often doesn’t make sense or it may be about people that become other people. Politics and other things like that are not part of my dreams. I usually don’t remember much about the dreams when I wake up.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Equal opportunity dreamer here.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I don’t know. I know I dream about different animals. I once dreamed about “The Legend of Boggy Creek.”:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Boggy_Creek
Does that count?

flutherother's avatar

My dreams are about me and people I know or have known. The people are quite varied but I don’t choose who will appear in my dreams. My dreams aren’t “woke” as I am always asleep when I dream.

kritiper's avatar

Lately my dreams are wack.

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