funny/genius/just plain bizarre ideas you get whilst dreaming

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My flatmate was telling me he woke up laughing the other day because he had dreamt he saw a parody of the old R. Whites lemonade advert ("I'm a secret R.Whites drinker") on television. This time though, it featured Tony Benn creeping downstairs and opening the fridge door from which he pulled out a can with a swastika. Turning to the screen, Tony whispers "Far-Right Lemonade - I'm a secret far-right thinker".

It's not even that good but in a strange and deranged way we haven't stopped laughing about it. What other crazy sparks of genius has your sunbconscious made you come up with in the past?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Mostly songs...

"DO IT AGAIN
DO IT AGAIN
DO IT AGAIN AGAIN..
I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your walls in and when you least expect I'm gonna do it again..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

mostly that i can fly and its soo easy to do.... but there was one good one i had

i was given a car by work (i cant even drive yet....) catch was one of my boss's had the other half, to get anywhere we had to bolt this old blue VW beetle together and peddle, to kick the engine in.....and this seemed perfectly acceptable...???

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

haha i dreamt a RADICAL SOLUTION to the israel/palestine situation just last night

and awoke to realise that it mainly involved the SEVEN DWARVES!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've woken up with opening lines to songs never made stuck in my head, and I'll write them down and keep on until I've penned a whole set of lyrics at 4 AM. Actually, that happened on Friday, except at midnight, and I spent the next three hours writing a song called "Casualty by Seduction".

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Well they've tried everything else! (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

lol .....

i'm sure when i dream i actually live on this other planet where all the ludicrous stuff is acceptable and "actually happens" cause i'm always so tired when i wake up, or maybe i act them out and run around or try to fly, well my BF hasn't complained yet so either he is being really polite and not telling me or i just dont do it.. or maybe he joins in?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I want to open a new type of cinema which is just loads of little rooms with LCDs hooked up to servers that you can book into with limited amount of people and watch new films or older ones from a larger range of titles in digital format (you would choose what to watch as you do with in-flight entertainment systems, plus you get to pause, rewind, skip fwd etc.). Appealing mainly for new films though (otherwise you could just watch at home if you own the material innit), without the annoyance of other people like you get in bigger cinemas (but bigger cinemas and actual film as a format also nice and will never be obsolete).

Not sure which category this fits under - probably not genius but I think it's good and would like to see it happen.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

i love it when you get songs in your head and you wake up and still remember them i have a jornal full of them. then i had to get a dictaphone to record them as i kept forgetting how the tune went as i looked back at them later that day...

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

I sometimes come up with great songs, that’s when I’m not being bitten by animals.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

i always wanted a dream re-cording machine where you could show them on a big screen and you could show your dream films to other people, in fact i'm also sure this is another dream i had when i was in a big white room hooked up to a tv (1970's beige tv with dials..) with wires hooked in and everyone in this other rrom was watching my dreams, and they were all a bit rude.....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatalog/R_Whites_Lemonade_2_Ltr_Bottle.jpg

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Someone do a photoshop job of Tony Benn drinking race-hate lemonade straight from the bottle. Chz.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

yeah i dont have paint at work, fun haters, i just wanna edit the picture.....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

Stevem - people be owning dvd players.

Or is that not what you mean?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

http://thisispomo.org/weblog/rwhites2.jpg

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Is that John Otway?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

cheeky should he also go for prince harry style arm adornment?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

xpost no that's Elvis Costello's dad.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I knew there was some crap ILM angle on it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

olivers army drink lemonade....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

I once dreamt I owned a lamp which was basically just a butterfly flying within a glass encasing. When you turned it on, the butterfly lit up and basically illuminated the whole room, but you could still see it flying around in the glass encasing. It was really cool.

In that same dream, I also had another lamp which was basically just a lightbulb floating over a flower pot. To turn on the bulb, I had to water the flower pot.

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't usually dream about lamps though, that was a one time thing.

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

sure....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Stop me if you've heard this one, but I dreamt about a machine that made donuts. Operating the machine were bagels who were responsible for quality control. The bagels were very harried and on edge.

― Jesse Kehr (It's Jesse For X's Sake), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

This would be even greater if it turned out that bundt cakes were in control of the whole operation.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

a mobile phone that turns into 1) a boom-box with an actual cassette mechanism, handle, full-sized play buttons, etc and ALSO 2) a hedgehog (a toy hedgehog, of course) .. transformations are similar to how Autobots and Transformers worked, but with extra mechanized assist

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

i dreamt i was flying last night.

it was one of those chasing dreams where you are running away from something but feel you cant, except not. turned out i was successful at running away from my persuer, and i turned around to look him in the face several times while evading him. he could also fly, though aparently not as well as i could, hahah, i rule!

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

This morning, i dreamted that this was clever:

= Plus Turd = Plastered. ...if you ever needed shorthand for plastered.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

I dreamt last night that I blew up the moon -- and then I realised I'd watched waaay too much Mr. Show.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I dreamt that I could suddenly hear all buildings and structures - each one quietly giving out its own distinctive tone as I walked around London.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

blowing up the moon seems to be getting mentioned a lot on ilx these days.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

on behalf of the moon, i will punish you.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

i once dreamt about a song i wrote about The Winchester Club in glasgow, and i sang it in the dream at the winchester club. but when i woke up i had forgotten the song.

probably a good thing.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Music in dreams often sounds far better than in real life.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

kisses too, are more sweet

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

haha i was just processing an order at work and i though i had a line item saved in my clipboard, but upon pasting it onto the screen it showed up 'on behalf of the moon, i will punish you'

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

true story!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure if this counts as dreaming or not, but last night as I was drifting off to sleep I was thinking about movie-making (see Chicago thread for why) and then in my head the process of falling asleep became conflated with the process of making a movie, a movie called "PARTY," and I was freaked out because I was starting to fall asleep/make a movie, but I didn't have a plot for my movie and you can't just start making a movie without knowing what it's about. Then Sarah woke me up by saying something, which is probably the only reason why I remember this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

i don't really remember what my dreams were last night, but i woke up this morning with my hand on my crotch. like all grabby. nice.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

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