Is it normal dreams using real world sounds?
How does the brain do this?
It’s common for dreams to use real world sounds, maybe if there’s music playing while you sleep you may dream you’re in a nightclub or you are a famous composer. In a more TV way, someone may whisper in your ear while you sleep and you dream of the situation they’re talking to you about.
But how does the brain incorporate one-off sounds into a dream?
For example,
I just dreamt that my boss was firing me, in my dream he walks to the door of my office and yells “And I want you out by 5 PM!” And leaves, slamming the door.
The door slam was used by my sister in law actually slamming the front door of my actual home, which was loud enough to scare me awake from the dream immediately after it happened.
How??? How did my dream predict that the door slam was coming up? How did it create a scenario to play out to incorporate a real life moment? How did my dream door and my real life door slam at the exact same time?
Did my brain create what felt like a 30 second dream scenario to fit in the 0.4 second real life situation of me hearing the slam?
Did my brain “put off” hearing the real world sound until after my dream used it? Was the slam actually 30 seconds earlier than when I “heard” it?