Handwaves in tropers' dreams:

{{Kriegsmesser}} vividly remember a HandWave of why he was able to breath in a vacuum being "You're not wearing a leather jacket."

{{Pro-Mole}} has a recurrent dream fact that a human being can breathe underwater if he takes very small breaths. The "explanation" is that you simply recirculates the air in your lungs, though no theory has been made up to how the air is purified.

Shame that that handwave did not work for {{Freiberg}}, who has twice in dreams taken breaths underwater, with the water tasting like air...until I realized that you can't breathe underwater, and promptly drowning. :(

{{Mjdjr}} has also had this same breathing underwater dream, though with no explanation

{{Rissa}}'s first lucid dream was the result of failure-to-handwave: she noticed that her dog's food bowl was both on the kitchen floor and in the dishwasher. Since the bowl could not be in two places at once, she logically had to be dreaming.

I wish my dreams were that logical

{{KingSonnDeeDoo}} once had a dream in which she was running on all fours, and being chased by Were-Sonic. The dream's explanation for running on all fours? Were-Sonic is kinda like a dog, and so by running like a dog (e.g. on all fours) you get a greater advantage than by running on two legs. Yeah.....

{{DorianMode}} once dreamed he was Ray Charles. How could he, a blind man, see what was going on? Simple: the "camera" was shooting from a third-person perspective.

{{iSlash}} had a dream in which his mother had a beard. A *green* beard. The explanation? "Spring messed up her hormones".

{{PurplePantherGirl}} had a dream where she decided she had to be dreaming because clouds are not pink on Thursdays. Yeah, I had a dream about deciding I was dreaming.

This troper had a dream where she was dressed as Big Boss and being attacked by a dog. The extremely weak handwave offered by the dog's owner was "he doesn't like people with beards." And I was only stubbly, damnit!

Hey, this troper's grandfather has a dog that hates people he doesn't know who have glasses.

You've got a point. The same troper as the above has a German Shepherd who loathes blonde women.

This Troper's dream actually went some ways to explaining his philosophy for dealing with the shit life throws at him. His dream was he's at the bottom of the pool nearby...but he can breathe perfectly fine. He walks around under it all giddy... Then someone sticks their head under the surface of the water and says to him- "You arent supposed to be able to breathe under water." Cue OhCrap moment and several minutes of him furiously flailing to get to the surface, only to always have something bump into his head or endup getting turned around- the point is, he would never be able to get to it. Finally he just relaxed and calmed down, and he could still breathe fine under the water. The moral this seemed to say to him? Relax. Don't get riled up about details (although breathing in water is a fairly major detail but eh. Semantics.) Keep a cool head and think things through. Panic benefits no one, and in a life or death situation it certainly won't help, panicking will only make you die tired.

This troper dreamed that she was able to step into the air. As long as she kept stepping upwards, she was able to stay in the air and float above the ground. She wondered how she was able to do this, and the answer suddenly came to her: she was moving faster than it took to fall.

This troper Hand Waved away how her experiment went wrong by saying only, "Physics." just to see who would catch on. Since this was her high school's Science Fair, no one did.

This troper's uni has a crappy physics department if you are not taking physics as a major. His lab reports are always rife with bad data and numbers, and often my group speeds through the current experiment to get it over with. To handwave obviously wrong results, we simply note in our report that there were errors (and since they don't let the non-majors near the good equipment, this normally works.).

Pretty much every explanation this troper ever got from his mother about anything.

This troper asked when she was 8 why the sky was blue. My dad said that it was because God ran out of green crayon. I also asked why the grass was green. He said that God ran out of blue crayon. Needless to say, these answers don't cut it anymore.

This troper dreamed she was going to the Opera - only she wasn't wearing her glasses. She was worried, because she didn't know what she'd done with them. However, she thought to herself "Oh no, it's fine. I took them off before I went to bed."

* This troper recently had a bizarre dream involving having to get up for a class at 5:00 in the morning. The dream handwaved this by implying in a really weird way that it was real, and that it was my new schedule. It then entered some UncannyValley NightmareFuel territory involving a talking doorknob waking me up, which segued into something else before the dream attempted to handwave that.

These aren't the droids you're looking for. Oh wait, wrong type of hand wave...

These aren't the droids we're looking for