Have you invented words in your sleep?

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Last night I had a dream that I was in a meeting, discussing an article I'd written, about a certain Latin American author. (Article and author exist only in this dream.) It was brought up that I had neglected to discuss this author's extensive writings on canned foods. Specifically, his important concept of "tunadolatry."

Tunadolatry!

It's excessive veneration of canned fish, I guess. I'm much cleverer when I'm unconscious.

Other examples of dream words?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a dream once that was a musical, and since I have no ostensible talent for music, I came to the conclusion that it is all there, I just need to tap into my subconscious. I was going to write the world's first under hypnosis opera, and then I got a quote from a hypnotist

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

last night part of my dream was in Russian, which I don't know, so yeah.

― hstencil, Friday, 14 November 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I talk in my sleep, apparently. The Bloke has a notebook filled with my wise sayings while sleep-talking, including such gems as "do you sell deep frozen doughnuts?", "if it's not blue, I don't want it", "it was really dark last night as I was driving home in the daytime" and my favourite, "stop kicking me with your elbow!"

Bedtime is never dull in our house.

― C J (C J), Friday, 14 November 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

SHPLEEGNOOTS!

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

last night i dreamt i was being interviewed by the Financial Times.
I told them to rebrand themselves as the Fatty and use that morrissey
song 'you're the one for me fatty' in their commercials.

it all made sense at the time.

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 15 November 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

voopunch. its a bird that flies at you and tries to send you to your death over cliffs.

― donna (donna), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

This doesn't count, but the first night I spent with Sarah (before we were dating - I was sleeping on the spare mattress) I started speaking Italian in my sleep. Which makes a change, as I barely ever speak it while I'm awake. It was obviously my subconscious coming over all "Fish Called Wanda".

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 15 November 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cogic" was written everywhere. On signs, on the streets. The next day I kept repeating it to myself. Then it occurred to me. I'd seen it occasionally as I type obits here at the paper. COGIC = Church of God in Christ. So I only thought I'd invented something cool.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Saturday, 15 November 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yo donna that's frightening!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I was somewhere, trying to get out of the particular hell-hole, but I had not accrued enough "Bunglan".

Currency? Gold coinage? Respect? who knows...

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 15 November 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I dreamed that someone asked me who the author of the Madeleine books was, and I hesitated, then guessed, "Henri Delacourt," which in the dream was correct, but obviously in real life is wrong. But "Henri Delacourt"? Where the fuck did that come from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 November 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"Voopunch" is great. I'll try not to think of it before I go to sleep tonight.

"Prigliamel"--I used it to prove I could speak Italian. It worked, but I felt bad about it because I cheated.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Sunday, 16 November 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc, if you have seen "March or Die", a war film with Gene Hackman recently, one of the characters is called Henri DeLaCorte. Close enough?

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 16 November 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I like 'The Bloke' as a chinstroking Yeatso-Freudian bogeyman, scribbling away in the dark ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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