In a perfect world, dreams would always depict our lives at their very best. We’d be wildly rich and successful, have magic powers, and sleep with the hottest people anytime we wanted. Instead, we often dream of nudity in public, paralysis in the face of danger, and having sex with people we don’t even look twice at in real life. The latter is especially disconcerting, since it makes us wonder if there’s actual desire lurking somewhere in our unconscious minds. (Thanks a lot, Freud.) And then we feel flustered and slightly shamed when we encounter the subjects of our erotic dreams in real life, as if they know of their leading-role status in our nighttime fantasies. But if we’re so disgusted by the idea of having sex dreams about these people, to the extent that we’re uncomfortable in our waking hours, it begs the question: why do we have sex dreams about people we’d never do—or want to do—the deed with?
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