The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: should we really be talking about our dreams?

[stickygirl]

Booooooo.

Don't say that - I could be 50, 4, 1 and 500

 

[TheLobster]

Well great, now when I have a dream tonight that I'm stuck at work running inside a giant hamster wheel, I'm blaming you.

And I thought the rat race was supposed to be a metaphor.

 

[cw5523729]

And I thought the rat race was supposed to be a metaphor.

Not for those poor souls running the mills

 

[Bamagan]

What kind of mill is being run? Paper, lumber, grain? Or are you a waiter 'running' a pepper mill?

 

[cw5523729]

Or are you a waiter 'running' a pepper mill?

Just keep going - I'll tell you when to stop. I love me lots of pepper.

 

[cw5523729]

What kind of mill is being run? Paper, lumber, grain? Or are you a waiter 'running' a pepper mill?

Maybe we've been reading this all wrong. Perhaps he was running in his dream with @MillieDynamite.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Maybe we've been reading this all wrong. Perhaps he was running in his dream with @MillieDynamite.

She does sound like she could be an interesting jogging buddy. Especially if it's a dream where no one will ever get tired.

 

[iwatchus]

Yes but don't worry - he must be the boss. He said he runs it.

I assumed he was dreaming of being Jesse Owens in the mill. Hurdling the machinery or something, I suppose.

 

[iwatchus]

R.L. Stine says his dreams are mostly of making sandwiches. Talk about boring!

Unless they are all the Lesbian sandwiches from the thread last week.

 

[MrPixel]

I had a dream about roman numerals 5, 4, 1 and 500. It was VIVID.

Gawd. I'm at 76 consecutive days winning at Wordle. "Vivid" would completely break my strategy. Yikes. So would "yikes". Yowee... well, that's not a real word. I'll be safe there.

 

[crookedletter]

Did someone say lesbian sandwiches?

 

[MrPixel]

Did someone say lesbian sandwiches?

Well, I'm all for FMF sandwiches. Mmmm. Just don't throw 'em at an ICE agent.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, I don't know about that. He described putting the mayo on the bread and mustard on the bologna. Didn't mention the sex of the bread, meat, or condiments.

Unless they are all the Lesbian sandwiches from the thread last week.

 

[StillStunned]

You know which dreams I hate? I mean, really, really hate?

The ones where I wake up. But I'm not awake, so I have to actually wake up still. The worst I remember was dreaming of waking up seven times before I actually did wake up.

 

[cw5523729]

Well, I don't know about that. He described putting the mayo on the bread and mustard on the bologna. Didn't mention the sex of the bread, meat, or condiments.

Mayo feels like a very masculine condiment. For one, it ends in O and in languages that have gendered words, O is typically on masculine words. Secondly, it's a white, thick liquid and well, you know.

Stick bread has to be masculine. Buns with a slit, obviously feminine.

I'm not sure on bolonga. It ends in A so I'd say feminine but then it isn't pronounced like it ends in A.

I feel mustard could be bi - it's a very versatile condiment.

 

[cw5523729]

You know which dreams I hate? I mean, really, really hate?

The ones where I wake up. But I'm not awake, so I have to actually wake up still. The worst I remember was dreaming of waking up seven times before I actually did wake up.

Plot twist - you're still asleep now as you're typing that post in your dream.

 

[Bamagan]

You know which dreams I hate? I mean, really, really hate?

The ones where I wake up. But I'm not awake, so I have to actually wake up still. The worst I remember was dreaming of waking up seven times before I actually did wake up.

I suggest you spin a dreidel or something to make sure you aren't living through Inception.

 

[NuclearFairy]

You know which dreams I hate? I mean, really, really hate?

The ones where I wake up. But I'm not awake, so I have to actually wake up still. The worst I remember was dreaming of waking up seven times before I actually did wake up.

D= I absolutely loath those dreams. And I always know I'm dreaming when they start happening, but I can't wake up. Which in a way just makes them worse! As they keep cycling round and round till I actually wake up, and then it takes me a while to be sure I've woken up for real this time.

 

[stickygirl]

I suggest you spin a dreidel or something to make sure you aren't living through Inception.

Or sleeping through it

 

[stickygirl]

You know which dreams I hate? I mean, really, really hate?

The ones where I wake up. But I'm not awake, so I have to actually wake up still. The worst I remember was dreaming of waking up seven times before I actually did wake up.

Or the ones where you try to scream but your voice is weirdly paralysed

 

[NuclearFairy]

Or the ones where you try to scream but your voice is weirdly paralysed

And by the time you've finally woken up, you have forgotten why you were trying to scream. So you wind up shouting, "Mother fucker take that!" followed by maniacal laughter.

Or is that one just me?

 

[Bamagan]

And I call it algebraic
But find it kind of sad
My dreams of multiplying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, 'cause I like to calculate
When people measure circles
It's a very, very
Mað world

 

[MillieDynamite]

Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

 

[Bramblethorn]

I had a dream about roman numerals 5, 4, 1 and 500. It was VIVID.

blocked and reported

 

[Bramblethorn]

And I call it algebraic
But find it kind of sad
My dreams of multiplying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, 'cause I like to calculate
When people measure circles
It's a very, very
Mað world

Spectacular use of the eth.