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I know there's already a topic on dreams, but I wanted to make a poll, see what's out there. I personally (almost) always in third person and am rarely in my dreams, but I know there's a lot of variation among my friends alone. Also, I'm aware lucid dreaming is a thing, and I want to know if there's anyone who lucid dreams whose dreams are often in third person.

Science fair

Bird. I could be a parrot and they live real long, plus I feel like underwater is generally more dreary than on land/in trees.

Fried rice or lo mein?

We could describe a romantic relationship as a committed relationship in which all parties agree their feelings are not strictly platonic. My thought process on this is I know what I do feel: platonic attraction, so I describe it using terms I can identify with myself. I recognize not all people feel platonic attraction, so this won't work for everyone, but it's what makes sense to me.

Both. Who needs sleep? But actually stay up late, cause that's when you can do things with your friends.

Boats or trains?

I always dream in third person, and I'm not normally in my dreams. The weirdest one involved people whose skin was purple and the ground was gemstone and there were floating rivers of blood and gravity wasn't working right at all, then there were some earthquakes that ended up inverting everything? Then the color theme change from cool colors to warm and their skin was orange and there was a lot of yellow and yellow-green and they went on a journey through retextured Civ V hexagons.

I took the Pottermore quiz and it offered me a choice of everything but Gryffindor? (self-preservation is my primary character trait) I chose Hufflepuff, so yay, Hufflepuff! Then the Divergent one put me in Candor, which, ahaha, haha, ha. Let's ignore that. Then I got that I was the child of Dionysus, which is ironic because I don't drink, but I'm all for fun at the cost of sleep!

I feel like I need a roommate to function at my finest. I just enjoy being with my friends all the time, I'm the happiest I've ever been, and as time passes they're all just going to drift away and that terrifies me. I love them all so much, but it's not the kind of love that gets people to stay.

That might be the root of my dislike of my aromanticism. It's been ground into my brain by society that romantic love is superior, so I feel like if I can't experience it I'm not living my life to the fullest.

I also get really afraid that my friends will develop crushes on me. It's happened twice before and it's absolutely awful. I care about them so much, but I can't the way they want me to and it kills both of us.

I decided I would appreciate a place to just vent about how aromanticism affects my plans for the future.

For example, the fear that all of my friends are going to pair off with someone else who will take over their lives and leave me with no one. My mom has one friend from college she stays in contact with, and she sees her maybe twice a year, and they live within two hours of each other. My dad has been reconnecting with people on facebook some, but he barely ever sees his friends too.

Unlimited supply of food. I like it too much.

Red starbursts or pink?

I second the Rey headcanon. I want so much for her to not end up in a relationship with someone but I feel like her and Finn are going to be together. It's not bad, as far as ships go, I just want her on her own.

Not sure I could ever choose anything but Degenerate Apple Scum.

Immortality or difficult to control mind reading?

Whenever someone asks "So... who do you like?" I panic a little. In middle school, after I learned that it was unacceptable to not have a crush on someone, I just chose people at random. Now, when I'm in the process of accepting my aromanticism and trying to be honest with myself, when I hear that question my head automatically goes to the 'gotta think of someone it would be alright for me to pretend to have a crush on' thought line, but I also would like to be honest. I lie too much in general, but for aro stuff it's hard not to, if it's not with my friends.

I was in a relationship for about 3/4 of a year. Looking back I realize I only agreed to it because it was just a thing you were supposed to do. It was a lot of mental effort, probably because I was trying to like him romantically and wasn't particularly attached to him platonically.

Somewhat unusual, but I am open to a romantic or sexual relationship, as long as my partner understands that I will never love them romantically. I'm not at all repulsed by romance, and the idea of being committed to staying with each other sounds very nice, especially with the idea that all my friends are going to get married and leave me.

I thought I was bi for awhile, but then just kind of didn't think about it for awhile. I realized I was ace first, but then I had a boyfriend and over the course of that nonsense decided I was aro.

27 minutes ago, Tal Shi'ar said:

I remember in primary school, in one of our classes, We had to write someones name that we adored or something on a little love heart thing for Valentines Day. I asked the teacher that what if there wasn't actually anyone we could write, and they said that's impossible. Needless to say I struggle for quite a while before just writing the first random name that came to mind.

Foreign Language classes. There's always a unit every class that's about romance and relationships and your ideal date or whatever, and you have to just make up everything because you need to show you know the vocab.