#weirddreams — Public Fediverse posts

I just woke up from a very stressful dream that I was supposed to help my daughter solve an algebraic system of equations that signified different prices of dish washers. For some reason she used both sticky wickys and braille art to plot these things and I had to then explain why dish washers were over $40000, where others were less than $1.50. There is no reason for this. I'm not even building a civilization and discovering algebra though there are some Arabic civilizations which allow you to discover algebra. #WeirdDreams

Got home from work and my neighbors were sitting on their porch naked. They asked if I wanted to join them for a beer. #weirdDreams

The radio DJ dream is a well-known phenomenon (at least in radio DJ circles). Typically, it involves some variation of the song playing only having 10 seconds left and you have nothing cued up, or the audio console has turned into bread, or coin-operated access devices have been added to the turntables and you don't have any loose change to operate them, etc. Typical worker-bee anxiety fare, only modified for the specifics of the industry.

Two nights ago, I had one which didn't involve DJ-ing per se, but definitely centered around broadcasting themes, so I'm granting it a hall pass for the purpose of this discussion.

I had been hired in some capacity at the big NPR affiliate station in Philadelphia. Upon arrival on my first day, I checked in at the reception desk where I was told to wait for my supervisor, whom we'll call "Jerry".

Jerry appears as per the prophecy. He is dressed like a dork from a lowbrow 1980s screwball comedy. He motions for me to follow him to my new office, so I pick up the trail as he leads me past various offices, studios, and production rooms. Soon, however, the environment changes to a dark warren of dungeon-like stone corridors, with tiny workspaces carved from the rock, each containing a solitary employee either typing furiously on a laptop or recording with a basic mic/audio console rig.

The labyrinthine stone corridors become increasingly narrow, and I find myself having to turn sideways in order to squeeze through them to keep pace with Jerry. In his pursuit, I am frequently forced to climb down rickety ladders or hoist myself up to new platforms, all covered in the same damp residue typically found deep underground.

At one such platform, I pull myself up, but realize there's no way my head is going to squeeze through the natural ingress created by two stone ledges. I express this concern aloud, and Jerry advises that I simply turn my head sideways. I follow his instruction and get my head through the opening, only to discover that my shoulders now face a similar challenge and that I'm unable to twist as required due to the tight squeeze. I attempt to back myself out, but have no success. I am trapped inside of a dark passageway which has cleaved a narrow opening from which I am unable to dislodge my head.

At this point in the story, I should point out that while I've never actually visited the studios of Philly's big NPR affiliate station, I was real-life employed for several years at New York City's equivalent, and getting one's head stuck in a cave was never a routine occurrence, even on bad days.

Jerry is nowhere to be found. I can't see or hear anyone. There's no room for an emergency crew to chisel a wider opening that would allow me to extract myself. As such, I panic to a degree that wakes me up from the dream and I spend the next 40 minutes awake with my heart racing, frantically reassuring myself that I have NOT actually accepted a job in Philadelphia where I will die of exposure / hunger / a heart attack on my first day.

#radio #weirddreams #wnyc #whyy

I really need to find an excuse to bring my A500 (w/ TF536) out of storage more, if only just to admire the black case from A1200.net, they do such a good job. At some point I need to do the keypads too, but I kind of like the white on black. For Amiga owners with multiple machines, do you have specific tasks you like to do with each, or do you just have one as your primary?

#Amiga #retrocomputing #WeirdDreams

Dreamt that I was diving in the River Taff (goggles, no snorkel). I found lots of 2p coins and a surprising array of microprocessors. #WeirdDreams

Does anybody else experience dreams and memories from a third person view, or is that just me?

#insomnia #weirddreams

Two nights ago I dreamt that Spouse and I returned home from a vacation to find our floors were full of holes roughly two inches wide. Spouse said, "No worries, I called the 2-Inch Hole Company."

I was, like, "But why is our floor full of 2-inch holes?"

And he said, "No idea, but if anyone figures it out, it'll be the 2-Inch Hole Company."

Okay then.

#WeirdDreams

I was married and a superhero fighting a supervillain who had bought a child but I was taking care of the child but nervous about letting her know her “mom” was a villain now. And somehow the Avengers were involved but it was new Avengers so I didn’t know who they were.

In case I need another reason to be sleepy. #WeirdDreams

Just before waking up I saw the following social media conversation in my mind's eye:

PERSON 1: "Imagine if you could run Wine (the program, not the drink) on a human brain"

PERSON 2: "That's just autism. You're describing autism. Gotta reserve resources to run NormalPersonCompatLayer"

#neurodivergent #linux #weirdDreams

Man I had a weird dream that I was watching a cooking show, but it was like a weird blend of seriousness, interactivity, Peewee's Playhouse and VRChat (Where the audience was furries, including Avali).

Yes the chef was a human, no they didn't mind their predicament, and yes the food looked good.

#WeirdDreams

Last night I dreamt Taylor Swift was filming a music video around my village. She was dangling on a wire from a helicopter and flying around the village whilst singing, puzzling the onlookers. Also in the video was a muscular man running over the mountain, apparently in a race with Taylor. Seemed a bit unfair as she had a helicopter and she cheated.

Welcome to the inner workings of my brain! 🧠 Also note I barely know anything about Taylor Swift, helicopters or competitive running.

#WeirdDreams

I was having some trippy dreampunk-type dreams last night, and there was a bit right before I woke up that struck me as pretty funny and sweet.

I was having some kind of repeated-life experience where at the end of my life I'd start back over as a baby, but I was able to retain some memory of at least one previous life. This nearly amounts to knowing the future, but the more you do differently, the less you'll know because the future will diverge from your previous life.

There was a woman I was meeting for the first time. I knew that in my previous life we'd been married, and it had started with watching this particular movie together. But I was giving too much away and on the verge of scaring her off by saying stuff like this:

"When you saw this before [the movie], it was a big deal. We loved each other—it! … It was a date; we saw it together."

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#dream #dreams #dreaming #dreampunk #trippy #trippyDream #trippyDreams #weird #weirdDream #weirdDreams

So I had a #dream today that I saw the following social media post (may have been a note on fedi, may have been a post on that other site we shan't name--)


It said:

"#Nintendo Controllers are WEAK.

Reply to this post with your favourite Snake Person and the caption 'weakest Snake Snakesson'"

Followed by a picture of one of the snake dudes from #DarkSouls

No, I do not understand how those things relate. That makes it all the more funny.

#weirdDreams #dreamMemes

To dream the impossible dream.

I went to sleep last night and found myself sharing an Uber to a shopping mall in Colorado with my best friend and Donald Trump 🤢 . My friend and I were going to see a financial analyst and then a Chinese doctor. Afterwards, I was promised a trip to the Dairy Queen.

Maybe no more turkey kielbasa for dinner at chez Miasma for awhile...

#WeirdDreams

I had a dream that we had a pet chicken with a dislocated neck, which my partner knew how to fix. So he did. And the already quite lively chicken became more lively and happier. Because it could move its head again. #WeirdDreams

Last night in #WeirdDreams, I was in a big group of people and we were all practising playing the Recorder. To my right was #BillieEilish and she was very good at the Recorder. We got talking about how awesome #TaylorSwift is.

Later on, a couple of large shape-shifting dinosaurs made it very hard to leave because I had to stop moving every time they saw me. I was sometimes driving my old Telstar TX5 Ghia (OW9355).

For the first time I can ever remember, I was trying to read something in my dream last night. It was definitely real words, but they made nonsense sentences. Apparently it was a letter one of my oldest kid's friends had written me debating something I had done as a parent and it was written in columns like a newspaper article and it started with a quote from some philosopher or something. #WeirdDreams