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Jack112 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Dream

For 'dream', can I use it like I talk about movies? For eg., in this moive the superhero saves her.

1. In this dream that I had last night, this person steals my car and comes back with a better car.

Or should it be like this:

2. In this dream that I had last night, this person stole my car and came back with a better car.

Thanks
  

Top answer

You can use the present. You're telling a story. Best, Eire.

— Eire

  • You can use the present.
  • You're telling a story.
  • Best, Eire.
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You can use the present. You're telling a story.



Best,

Eire.
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Hi Jack,

I think you should use past tense. If you use present tense i understand you're telling me like a movie or story

But you had a dream and it isn't present it is past. But you can chose which tense, you should use
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Yes; if you use the present tense, it makes it more 'vivid' for the listener. Sometimes people use the present progressive. Or a mixture of tenses. Here's a random google that does just that:
...I had this really weird dream last night...kind of like a nightmare to me. The dream goes like this...

I'm walking in a hallway of a school, going to my assigned exam room to take my cs
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Not being a psychiatrist, I can't imagine a more uninteresting thing than to have to listen to people telling me their dreams. Weird ones or not.
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