The dream thread

[Nesescosac]

I was on the ZBB, but it was about math instead of conlanging. Pthag was even called Pythag.

[Lyhoko Leaci]

I had a dream where I was at a basketball game with someone else, but for some reason I was wearing a weird set of clothes, which included either a dress or a cloak, don't remember which, among other things, though no one seemed to notice. After the game was over, I followed the other person out of the gym (It looked more like a high school than a college or professional arena) and began changing my clothes along the way. Again, no one noticed, and I had a more normal outfit on underneath everything else. We got down to a lobby-like area where a bunch of people were walking around, and we had to transport a bunch of luggage and boxes, but there was too much for the two of us. I went to call someone for help on my cell phone, but couldn't, as the speaker setting was on for some reason and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, and I didn't want everyone to overhear the conversation.

[Shm Jay]

I dreamt I was a high school student and visiting some small private college where they were giving a lecture about Latin. First I found that perhaps the lecture was about basic Latin, which might not have been what I was interested in. Then I couldn't find the room where the lecture was, because there was no directory. Then when I found the room, I had to go to the bathroom because my pants and belt were completely coming loose and I had to go somewhere to put them back on more securely.

The bathrooms were very weird. They were unisex, and since this was a bathroom to be used by students, besides the usual "men, women' glyphs there was a little glyph meaning "don't have sex in the bathrooms". This glyph consisted of the man glyph, with the woman glyph intersecting it at a 30° angle at the crotch by means of a circle that looked like the circle you see in maps of the London Underground showing the intersection of two lines, with the standard red "no" line and outer circle. § When you went into the bathroom, there were no toilets. Instead there were four circular stalls, the two outer ones for the men and the two inner ones for the women. The women's stalls were twice as big as the men's. The stall door was made of some kind of heavy corrugated plastic which was kept closed by a magnetic clasp, and even when the door was closed you could still see people's feet. As I said, there was no toilet; the bathroom was designed solely for urination. The women's stalls were larger presumably to provide room for women to pull down their pants and underwear, while men could just urinate at the wall. I was going to go into a woman's stall because I needed to completely take off my pants, but then some man walked into the bathroom, and that's where the dream ended.

§ Someone should draw this glyph and post it in the creativity thread.

[Astraios]

to pull down their pants and underwear

This confused me for a while. Damn differences between American and English English...

[TomHChappell]

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[linguoboy]

I was on the ZBB, but it was about math instead of conlanging. Pthag was even called Pythag.

I just had a dream about Pthag as well. Fecker was blasting his stereo while I was trying to get some sleep.

[Dewrad]

I was on the ZBB, but it was about math instead of conlanging. Pthag was even called Pythag.

I just had a dream about Pthag as well. Fecker was blasting his stereo while I was trying to get some sleep.

I once had a dream where Pthag and I were having a threesome with Hugh Laurie.

[linguoboy]

I once had a dream where Pthag and I were having a threesome with Hugh Laurie.

I've never been so thankful that I can't see into your dreams!

[Pthagnar]

but who was hypotenuse

[linguoboy]

I dreamt that I was sitting around the office discussing the origins of the word "dongle". One of my office mates doubted me when I said it came from Swedish, so I told him, "We can ask someone." I scanned the room for Swedish colleagues, but although there were a lot of people there, the only foreigners I recognised were from Poland. "All I can find are Poles," I said, "and they're useless to us!" My coworker Marek turned to me with a hurt expression on his face and I patted his shoulder reassuringly, saying, "I meant for answering this question, not for any other purposes!"

Then a couple of contractors within earshot began calling, "Hansen! Hansen!" trying to get the attention of someone who was working a little further away. But he ignored them and went to the loo. So I turned to my office mate and said, "Why don't you go in there and ask him about his dongle?"

[Shm Jay]

I dreamt that I opened the back end of a tube of mint toothpaste and sucked out all the water from it so it wouldn’t make a mess. Then I remembered the toothpaste wasn’t for me.

[linguoboy]

I knew I really should impregnate the beautiful daughter[*] of the mysterious man we met murmuring in the blood-red cultivated poppy patch (and who was a magical insect in human form) so I could come back in a couple years to collect my preternaturally grown son, but all I really wanted to do was gorge on tropical fruits and fresh vegetables before we headed up into the mountains and wouldn't see them again for quite some time. Vietnamese open-air markets are simply the best.


[*] Don't worry--I'd marry her first! I was sure she'd have the decency to die in childbirth so I wouldn't be tied down.

[Pabappa]

I was hungry and went to a building that had three Asian restaurants in it. The first two refused to serve me chow mein as an entree, they only offered it as a side dish. The third did offer, but in order to get any food I had to go through their complicated ordering system which I didnt understand and they refused to explain. All I remember is I had to stand up and wave some object at them in order to get them to notice me. I didnt know what it was or if I had one. They explained in part it was complicated because there were 3 entrances, two that opened into the street and one that opened to a hallway connecting it to the rest of the building. (A real restaurant in my hometown does have three entrances, and the dream building "felt like" the real one, but they of course do not ask people to wave objects at them to get service.) I noticed that I wasnt the only one who was confused, and the restaurant seemed to be divided between the people who couldnt figure it out and the people who were laughing at us.

[Jetboy]

I had a dream where a woman or girl who had often been mocked for her large hands and small breasts found a genie (or something like that) and wished their respective relative proportions be switched. Or at least tried to; on her first wish she accidentally left out the size part and ended up switching the actual body parts, which was very freaky, but then used her second wish to correct this, and her third for what she had intended. Very strange dream

[Lyhoko Leaci]

I had a dream where I was doing something in a somewhat rundown building, but I suddenly had to go to the bathroom but I couldn't find the bathroom. So instead, I grabbed an empty egg carton that was laying around and used that instead, making a bit of a mess. Then some hyperactive pervert showed up and tried to take it, resulting in an even bigger mess, even though I told him not to. I threw the egg carton, which somehow wizzed around behind the pervert, dropping its cargo, before ending up behind my back, where I caught it. Not wanting to deal with the mess, I traveled back in time and found the bathroom before I absolutely needed to go, and used the toilet. However, the stalls were missing a couple of the walls, and that pervert showed up again, but I was able to fight him off. Then I woke up, and not surprisingly, I had to go to the bathroom in real life.

[makvas]

I had a dream where I was on a bus and there was a girl who spoke portuguese. For some reason she started talking to me in portuguese and I kept trying to say "ẽu não falo portuguẽs" or something like that (I'm not sure what the actual phrase is so I tried my best). She seemed to not understand and just kept talking to me.

[Shm Jay]

An empty egg carton? Do you think that could be a symbol of Eddy?

[Pthagnar]

An empty egg carton? Do you think that could be a symbol of Eddy?

The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu [Brief], the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu [Sudden], and the emperor of the central region was called Hun-tun [Chaos]. Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Hun-tun, and Hun-tun treated them very generously. Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. "All men," they said, "have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Hun-tun alone doesn't have any. Let's trying boring him some!" Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Hun-tun died.*

[Aurora Rossa]

I had a dream in which I was reading the St Louis Post-Dispatch and it was denouncing a plan by Obama to overhaul and improve public schools as "Leninist", on the front page no less. At least, I think it was a dream since I can't actually remember where or when I saw that. Although given the political outlook around here, it would not surprise me if that really did happen at some point.

[Xephyr]

I had a dream where I was given a puppy and I was like "Yeah what I really wanted was a cat but if I have this puppy then I'll keep him and protect him and love him all his days", then the puppy turned into a box of french fries.

[Astraios]

I had a dream where I was given a puppy and I was like "Yeah what I really wanted was a cat but if I have this puppy then I'll keep him and protect him and love him all his days", then the puppy turned into a box of french fries.

Did you still keep him and protect him and love him all his days? Or did you eat him?

[Count Iblis]

I had a dream that I'd been involved in the murder of several people at some earlier time and that I was about to be found out. The fucked up thing is that when I woke up and was still in a mental fog I didn't know if I had dreamed about killing those people or was just remembering it.

[makvas]

I keep having short dreams when I nap. Here's another.

I was in a part of disneyland where people were sitting in decaying wooden desks in a classroom-like fashion. I sat in the back-right corner, and there was some bush right next to me. The bush kept getting larger and it turned out it had thorns or something, and they all stuck into my arm and the branches went into my ear. I kept pulling the thorns and branches out, and the plant continued to lean over me. I became progressively more claustrophobic until I woke up.

[Shm Jay]

I had some dream which combined Harry Potter (which I’ve never read or seen the movies) with an enormous banquet.

[Soap]

I watched a whole movie in a dream. It was an independent production, made by a team of Swedish amateurs, and had a few bad translations, but other than that the fact that it was Swedish didnt seem to affect much. The plotline took place in the USA, mostly near where I live, in fact. And it was a fairly complex story, but I dont remember much of it except the part near the end. A few men were sitting in a room, and one of them was recommending they all take a trip to "Rocky Fountain", which seemed to have somehting to do with the Big Rock Candy Mountain song. They were part of a group of whom most had already left for ordinary vacation spots in the ROcky Mountains.

But most of hte plot was taking place back home. There was a species of winged moose, and one of them was fatally injured by a giant fan which was mounted to the outside wall of someone's house, and turned on right when the moose was in the right place for it (the left wing of the moose was cut off by the blades of the fan.) The owner of the house was held responsible, but she claimed it all happened totally differently, and the moose were attacking violently and she fought back in self defense. This explanation was presented as a separate scene in the movie which ended with some weird CGI bird creatures, "allies" of the moose, spitting eggs on the ground (kind of like Birdo, but more "sickly" looking). This scene was apparently absurd on purpose, as they were showing how ridiculous the woman's fake explanation was.

When the credits started rolling, every person who had worked on the movie except for a few of the extras was given a whole screen with their resume in an easy to read format, because the producers of the movie wanted to make sure they were doing their absolute best to launch people into profitable careers in the movie industry, rather than have them stick to low-paying independent films.