XKCD so often has something intelligent to say about...well, about almost everything.

Here's their take on dreaming, considering my discussion of nightmares of the two days past.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Dreaming is kind of weird, when you think about it, or rather, our mundane acceptance of it. (I once told someone I had never done drugs because the dreams I had when I was sleeping normally were weird and scary enough, and I didn't want to risk doing anything to make them worse.