I think you’re excluding ‘the dream is distorting my attitudes’ and it’s not that if you were about to reach completion a distortion would set in per #1, but that the distortion was always there (like how a Shephard tone or a barber pole keeps ascending). Ever had a dream that seems to last years or longer? Of course it didn’t, it was essentially just a montage with a feeling of great duration ‘this is taking years and years’ attached.
Good point; that exclusion was accidental, since I was thinking about it when I linked to Wondermark, but then must have mentally crossed it off my list as mentioned.
Edit: actually, one issue with that is that the sense of completion (in this dream) was backed up by the story- it did seem like the story was coming to a close- and unfortunately my memory is too corrupted now to tell how much of the sense came after I woke and how much was there beforehand.
I think you’re excluding ‘the dream is distorting my attitudes’ and it’s not that if you were about to reach completion a distortion would set in per #1, but that the distortion was always there (like how a Shephard tone or a barber pole keeps ascending). Ever had a dream that seems to last years or longer? Of course it didn’t, it was essentially just a montage with a feeling of great duration ‘this is taking years and years’ attached.
Good point; that exclusion was accidental, since I was thinking about it when I linked to Wondermark, but then must have mentally crossed it off my list as mentioned.
Edit: actually, one issue with that is that the sense of completion (in this dream) was backed up by the story- it did seem like the story was coming to a close- and unfortunately my memory is too corrupted now to tell how much of the sense came after I woke and how much was there beforehand.