Comment by perching_aix

5 days ago

I guess they were (unknowingly?) quoting Tom Scott, unless he himself was also doing the same: https://youtu.be/jPhJbKBuNnA?t=384

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extraduder_ire  5 days ago

I think he was quoting some unknown person, since the made the same comparison shortly before on an episode of Safety Third.

  • timonoko  5 days ago

    The most famous literary expression of this idea comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. While discussing the tedious nature of listening to others recount their dreams, there is a general literary consensus often attributed to him (and other authors like Mark Twain or Henry James) that:

    "Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams."

    -- by Gemini

    • aleph_minus_one  5 days ago

      > "Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams."

      I disagree. Often their dreams are more interesting than their boring stories about some their "real life" situations, or - God forbid - their gossip.

      I would even claim that at least for the phase in my life when I kept a diary of my dreams, and thus got much more observant of my dreams, I did have (somewhat) interesting dreams (even for other people), for example

      - dreaming two dreams in parallel (it's basically like having two desktop applications open at the same time)

      - having a dream where I additionally have a dream inside it (and I am aware of the latter); it does in my opinion not really feel like the Inception movie, but rather like the feeling of playing a video game where you are basically both a person who plays a video game in which you control a video game character (and are aware of this), and the character inside the video game.

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