It Was All A Dream

[chvrchbarrel]

I subconsciously know I am running out of time to watch my CIFF stream of The Columnist, so I had a stress-dream last night that I watched a really really long movie believing it was The Columnist, and then when it was over, I learned it was not The Columnist and my streaming window had closed.

[alady]

I dreamed I had to get Althea and three other cats to the vet and I had put them in big manila envelopes? We were downtown and I had to leave them on the street with my dad while my mom and I ran across the loop to get their proper carriers.

That's when I was like fuck this and woke up lol

[venom]

i woke up at 4:30 from this dream and didn't fall back asleep for a long time with it repeating practically nonstop in my head.

morrissey's playing a show in a tent in a grass or wheat field. the customer service people from my work have asked me to connect a plug into an outlet so that ticketmaster can properly ticket for the show. i crawl on the ground and plug it in. then i leave. two friends from college are at the show. (in reality, neither would go to a morrissey show.) a fire rips through the tent at some point. it stays up, but everything inside is scorched.

then there is a roundtable discussion about a reschedule. but it's basically like posts from this board with people saying "morrissey has an open date on april 17. he could play it then" or "he could play between the shows in santa fe and baltimore." i walk past where one of the college friends at the burnt tent show lives, which is in like old quebec, and see his lights on. i sneak into his apartment. the cramps and face to face are opening the rescheduled morrissey show. i sing a song from the Big Choice album to my friend and he's really annoyed with me.

then there's this section of the dream where i'm in a traffic jam in paris following my sister in a different car. we get to the ocean and she's miles ahead of me, but the waves crash so hard that i lose sight of her.

and then i'm in a parking lot in pittsburgh where morrissey is playing in a much bigger tent this time. my grandmother (not really my grandmother) has driven me to the show and is waiting for me in her car. i sneak into an attic of the tent to listen to the show with a lot of other people. morrissey plays one real morrissey song (maybe "every day is like sunday"?) and then an old country song (something like lefty frizzell or bob wills?) that everyone sings along to. then the show ends and we all start to leave. except the show we were hearing was actually on delay from the real show and the attic was a sting operation to catch people sneaking in. so cops are arresting people as they leave. one of my best friends from high school is there, and we jump from the attic like 50 feet onto the pavement below and then run to where the cars are parked to blend in with people who were at the real show.

[chvrchbarrel]

It's the middle of the night and I realize I forgot to take the trash out. I go down to the garbage cans in the backyard and pull the bags around to the curb when I hear the front door open. Our downstairs neighbor (who in real life is away for several weeks on business) comes outside in his pajamas just to say hello, but has clearly just woken up. It registers as weird in the dream.

When I get back in the house, a random assortment of people are spread out watching TV in separate rooms - everyone has something different on, just doing their thing. My phone rings, and its my fiance. She tells me the downstairs neighbor just found a man in our basement and is still currently trying to get him out. I realize in getting the trash, I accidentally opened the basement hatch from the outside, not the trash cans. It's my fault.

I look up at the TV and the alien spaceships from Independence Day are coasting over America. Everything else melts away and I am in disbelief, several others join me at the TV. The spaceship descends over the White House, just like in the movie, getting lower and lower and lower and lower. You can see the light from the ship bursting out of the windows of the White House, and I am filled with the greatest excitement of my life.

I am running through the house, telling everyone to switch over their TVs, "they're going to do it, they're actually going to do it," the TV glowing orange as the ship just gets lower, and lower, and lower

And then I woke up

[alady]

Ooooo I bet that felt good

[chvrchbarrel]

Yeah it was the first crazy-awesome dream I’ve had in awhile. Even the weird creepy parts were fun.

[neader]

I keep having dreams that I'm back in school and the bell rings but I have no idea which class I have what hour so I just follow my friends to one of their classes and hope it's the right one. It's unbelievably nerve wrecking.

[mookie]

I used to have dreams about being late to some class all the time. Thankfully those have gone away.

Last week, I dreamt I was at a big company party like we have had for christmas. All of a sudden they were about to give me some big award, which they never do at the holiday party. Then I turned to see who was giving me the award at the table, and the person giving me the award was... Trump.

Ugh, that ruined it pretty quickly.

[venom]

Oct 29, 2020 11:55:19 GMT -6 mookie said:

Last week, I dreamt I was at a big company party like we have had for christmas. All of a sudden they were about to give me some big award, which they never do at the holiday party. Then I turned to see who was giving me the award at the table, and the person giving me the award was... Trump.

Ugh, that ruined it pretty quickly.

"mookie... we love him, folks. don't we? he goes to the most concerts - those big, beautiful, loud concerts. he loves the concerts. what can we say about this guy? he came up to me with tears in his eyes, 'sir, i want to get back to those concerts and you're the only one who can help.'" [fakes out handing over the award, walks off with it]

[alady]

I'm in Mexico hanging out with Sturgill Simpson and we've got this great flirty vibe going on. We're definitely at a show but it's not his show, he's like a roadie or grounds crew or something? Anyway after the show people are streaming out and my work husband pulls up and offers me a ride in his friend's private jet. The jet is the size of a Mini Cooper, holds six of us, and is a pearly millennial pink.

[venom]

the national is playing in a dingy high school auditorium. it's maybe half-full. they're not even playing on the stage. they're huddled in the corner. i'm sitting in the center. two friends who i've seen the national with probably 7-8 times are two rows ahead of me. i start walking around and the sound changes depending on where i am, so i start thinking where i am is influencing how they're playing. i end up midway back in the auditorium. they play their manic version of "mr november" and most people leave. matt then walks to the center of the room and says that they're recording this show for a live album that'll also include their SNL performances. everyone in the crowd is like "what? THIS is the show you're recording for a live album?" and then he walks off. my friends walk up the aisle and we all shrug at each other. then we leave and i wake up.

[chvrchbarrel]

Had a dream we were watching a movie that included an extended Ben Stiller nude scene

[clouddead]

How was his cock?

[chvrchbarrel]

As expected

[clouddead]

My expectation is “extraordinarily mediocre.”

[Deleted]

Two dreams I recall having last night:

1 - I had to shave my beard because of a trimming mishap and my children were terrified of me thinking I was an imposter.
2 - I was added to an NBA roster for some reason and the entire dream was me in a press conference trying to explain why I was worth a several million dollar contract even though I hadn't played basketball since grade school.

So yeah.

[Deleted]

I've had the Fletch dream, too!

[chvrchbarrel]

Had a dream my fiancé was pregnant and we were having a huge dinner to announce it. Catherine O’Hara is sitting across the table from me. I start to ask her a question, call her “Kathy,” and halfway through the question she turns into Joe Pesci.

[venom]

i'd been driving around san diego for most of this dream and don't remember much of it. what i do remember is being in a parking lot late at night when a black and red school bus drove by. i asked why a school bus was out so late. someone in my car said it was jehnny beth's tour bus. i asked why she was touring during covid times. they said she wanted to be the first musician back out on the road. she got off the bus and walked past our car. she was pregnant and someone said she was in a relationship with seth meyers. he walked by too along with other people carrying instruments. no one was wearing a mask. i kept asking questions like "where is she playing since every venue is still closed?" and "why is she touring while pregnant during a pandemic?"

[venom]

over the weekend, i had a dream that depeche mode lived/recorded in a medieval castle. there was a huge bookshelf of erotica literature that martin gore said he read before writing songs. i walked around and knew i wasn't part of the band, but no one said i shouldn't be there. i found warren zevon downstairs wearing a hooded cape. he said once he fully woke up he'd play some songs, so i wanted to stick around for that.

then i had another dream that my first post-pandemic show was rocket from the crypt at a tiki bar in chicago. i apparently arrived after they played and was really disappointed to miss them. then some random guy started yelling at me cause i was wearing a rocket from the crypt shirt. "you're wearing the shirt of the band you came to see? dude..." i tried explaining i didn't realize they were playing and also we'd been stay-at-home so long i forgot the etiquette.

[neader]

Had a dream where I was back in high school. I had to do a project with a partner on the history of trains. I don't remember who my partner was, but we came up with the great idea of explaining the history of trains by having a mock interview between a journalist and George Washington. We would act it out. In my dream head George Washington somehow knew everything about trains and would be a great character. The interviewer can just ask questions and George's answers would give us the history of trains. Then before we were up I had the brilliant idea that instead of a regular journalist, whoever is acting as the journalist should instead act as Borat giving the interview. It would both still work with the project and hopefully illicit laughs. I remember saying to my partner that it was a good idea because we can then respond to George's responses with a "wowie wowie" or "Very nice!" Woke up before we could do the two man act of Borat interviewing George Washington about the history of trains.

[Deleted]

Last night I had a dream that I was driving fairly quickly along this long stretch of road and it all of a sudden veered sharply left. I didn't react in time and started going through a field. I woke up just as my car was tipping over. This is the second time I've had this dream and now I'm worried I've just foretold my death or something.

[monasterymonochrome]

Guys, Madonna headlined Dream Lollapalooza last night. You're all welcome if this comes true.

[chvrchbarrel]

been having some weird anxious dreams lately

last night i dreamt i had to drive to california and all i could think was, "man, i was so bored when i drove to denver, this is gonna be way worse"

[venom]

the hold steady's headlining wrigley field. but in my head it's on the southwest side. like all of my pandemic concert dreams, i don't actually see anyone play. i spend most of the dream looking for a good bike rack to lock up and standing in line. i hear opening bands from outside the stadium. at one point, i go to ask a security guard about set times but he cuts me off thinking i want field-level access and lifts a barrier for me. but i still don't go in cause i am waiting for a friend.

later on i am looking through the VIP gift basket and am overjoyed that it is (strangely for a hold steady show) a box full of classic punk 45s. some are real, like face to face and the dickies and the lillingtons, and some are just made up for the dream.

[chvrchbarrel]

Apr 14, 2021 7:27:50 GMT -6 venom said:

the hold steady's headlining wrigley field

clicked "recent posts" and just started reading, almost jumped out of my seat before i saw the thread title

[alady]

I dreamed I was partying in a high school (I have been watching a lot of Riverdale) with a bunch of friends and we're having a great time. Then I run into my gyn there and he looks morose and he's chainsmoking, but I convince him to come party with us.

That's it, that's the dream.

[chvrchbarrel]

myself and a bunch of non-boarders are arguing over what movie we should watch. goodson appears and reminds me we made a list of movies to watch together on letterboxd, and everyone is so relieved. then, we're all in a car being driven by steve martin. i ask him how martin short is doing and it makes him angry.

[llamaoftime]

I've been out of college for five years and still had a dream last night that I missed an exam and was freaking out about it

[venom]

Apr 22, 2021 13:43:26 GMT -6 llamaoftime said:

I've been out of college for five years and still had a dream last night that I missed an exam and was freaking out about it

i have had those dreams deep into my 30s.