I had the weirdest freakin' dream about this website

June 8, 2005 5:11 PM

Man, I had the weirdest freakin' dream about this website last night. [MI]
posted by PhatLobley to MetaFilter-Related at 5:11 PM (43 comments total)

I found one other thread (pretty old) about MeFi dreams here, but mine was so freakin' weird I just had to post about it.
Here is a transcription of notes I wrote upon waking up and feeling sorta dirty about the whole thing:
Mathowie as sort of God/ narrator - Calling out people's names in a hierarchical order - A fantastic choreographed show with users of approximately the same "level" on platforms together, basically falling, looking at the "camera" - Blue platform and background, people dressed in red - quonsar as scowling (snarling?), bald, skinny, man with enormous black beard- Something about stars in ranking people - Upon having your name called, you drop into the blue background, through a waterslide/wormhole, into an enormous bar/pub.

Any psychologists/ dream interpreters think they can tell me something about this? Anybody else care to share a MetaDream? weird!
posted by PhatLobley at 5:12 PM on June 8, 2005

One time I had this dream about riding a pony while being chased by a giant rabbit with a pancake on its head. All during this, 24,000 people shouted "WHAT. THE. FUCK. MATT?" at me. Then the pony, it vibrated.

The strange thing is, my name's not Matt.
posted by kindall at 5:16 PM on June 8, 2005

same thing happened to me, dude
posted by jonmc at 5:18 PM on June 8, 2005

A while back, I had a dream that I was determined to become the official toilet cleaner of MetaFilter; to do so, I had to endure an apprenticeship to the premier toilet-cleaner of Hell.

On my first day, I entered the MeFi bathroom -- a giant room filled with stalls of various shapes and sizes, and all kinds of toilets. The work wasn't easy -- most of the toilets were clogged with half-digested pages of newspapers -- but after a day of work I'd unclogged a few hundred and was feeling fairly proud of myself. Exhausted, I logged on to see if anyone had noticed -- and was promptly confronted by a thread calling me out (negatively) for my efforts. I think it might have been started by AlexReynolds, although I am not sure now.

I woke up pretty angry.
posted by jenovus at 5:36 PM on June 8, 2005

I suggest you and jenovus take a long vacation in WallyWorld.
posted by AlexReynolds at 5:56 PM on June 8, 2005

should they strap a dead realtive to the roof?
posted by jonmc at 5:58 PM on June 8, 2005

Be thankful you don't have proofreading dreams.
posted by interrobang at 6:03 PM on June 8, 2005

One time I had a dream that I was icing a cake and told someone that I was using "Slithy Tove" icing.
posted by orange swan at 6:10 PM on June 8, 2005

you forgot the rest of the dream ... it turns out that all the bottles of beer aren't open and there's no can opener ... someone starts playing lawrence welk on the jukebox ... the devil takes off his matt mask and laughs and laughs as the flames start shooting through the floor ...

"aaaaah, satan, why, why, why?" you cry ...

"that's just my nickname ... MY REAL NAME IS QUONSAR!!!"
posted by pyramid termite at 6:28 PM on June 8, 2005

I once had a dream that I was driving an ice cream truck. All night long. And the amplified music box was playing "As the Band Played On." God, I hated that music.

Then I woke up, went to work and quit my job driving an ice cream truck.
posted by warbaby at 6:35 PM on June 8, 2005

I love that frosting, orange swan! I always get the "extra gyre & gimble" variety.

When I was in grad school, I used to dream about writing term papers. I would write a whole freaking paper, carefully, using MLA style, and then wake up and realize that I had squat to show for it. Whatever happened to dreams about two babes at once?!
posted by squirrel at 6:48 PM on June 8, 2005

Whatever happened to dreams about two babes at once?!

I used all of them up. Sorry 'bout that, dude.
posted by jonmc at 6:56 PM on June 8, 2005

I think the conclusion to your dream, jenovus, is hilarious. It also doesn't seem to need much in the way of interpretation.
posted by invitapriore at 7:36 PM on June 8, 2005

Also, do these levels in the choreographed show dream have any sort of ranking? Is it organized by user number, or user celebrity? I'd like to think that your dream is some sort of subconscious message to me that even though I'm an 18k'er, I can feel good about myself too.
posted by invitapriore at 7:39 PM on June 8, 2005

It was without a doubt the most coherent dream I have ever had, and that's probably why I remember so much of it, invitapriore.

I even remember that the tile was that gross public-bathroom three-quarter-inch-square white mosaic crap. And kind of dirty.
posted by jenovus at 7:42 PM on June 8, 2005

Nothing is more boring than other people's dreams.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:50 PM on June 8, 2005

it means you're spending too much time here. go outside for a while.
posted by loquacious at 7:54 PM on June 8, 2005

"It was without a doubt the most coherent dream I have ever had, and that's probably why I remember so much of it, invitapriore."

Sorry for the lack of clarity - I meant that your subconscious seemed to be making some sort of statement about the state of affairs on the site, considering the negative reaction you got.
posted by invitapriore at 8:07 PM on June 8, 2005

Sorry for the lack of clarity - I meant that your subconscious seemed to be making some sort of statement about the state of affairs on the site, considering the negative reaction you got.

What's with the unprovoked slap?
posted by AlexReynolds at 8:15 PM on June 8, 2005

Metafilter: The stuff of nightmares
posted by Balisong at 8:16 PM on June 8, 2005

I don't know, AlexReynolds, I've got nothing against you personally. I'm actually kind of honored.
posted by jenovus at 8:17 PM on June 8, 2005

Alex, if you were talking to me, sorry, I didn't mean it as such - I just interpreted the events in her dream as having meaning. It was lighthearted.
posted by invitapriore at 8:29 PM on June 8, 2005

His/her. I don't know jenovus' gender. Sorry again.
posted by invitapriore at 8:30 PM on June 8, 2005

I had a dream a few nights ago that I was talking to my boyfriend and he said something that I didn't understand.
When I admitted I didn't get it, he said, "You know, like on MeFi last night."
"Huh? I didn't see that post."
"I know you did. Look right here. That's you commenting."
"I don't remember it."
"It was a terrible comment too. You got called to the gray carpet."
"Oh god. Was it bad?"
"A bloodbath."
"I can never show my face again there. I'm going back to LiveJournal."
And then there was an FBI agent at the door and I ran out the back because I knew he was gonna shoot me, but I don't think that part was MeFi related.

Yeah, yeah. I'd go outside, but it's raining and cold.
posted by Gucky at 8:42 PM on June 8, 2005

YOU PUSHED THE "SON OF 9622" THREAD OFF THE FRONT PAGE FOR THIS?!?
posted by wendell at 8:46 PM on June 8, 2005

As for the levels, invitapriore, I'm pretty sure it was by notoriety/ posting volume. The only user I remember being there specifically is quonsar. But there were others on his "level". I'm just remembering that the #1 user was a guy who looked something like Keenan from Nickelodeon and Saturday Night Live. Everybody already knew he'd be the top guy because it was clear that he never left his computer.
posted by PhatLobley at 8:46 PM on June 8, 2005

Yeah, sorry about that, wendell. Didn't realize mine would be the one.
posted by PhatLobley at 8:48 PM on June 8, 2005

You mean all this isn't just a dream? Oh, fuck.
posted by dg at 9:00 PM on June 8, 2005

It's OK, PhatLo, but it would be good for your karma to contribute a few indirect sentences to MetaTalk 9622.
posted by wendell at 9:26 PM on June 8, 2005

Two more prior MeFi dreams.
posted by gleuschk at 9:36 PM on June 8, 2005

ARG I GOT WRONG-GENDER'D
posted by jenovus at 9:42 PM on June 8, 2005

quonsar as scowling (snarling?), bald, skinny, man with enormous black beard

3 outta 5 ain't bad.

And at the end of your dream, you realize you now have all the time in the world to read, until you drop and break your glasses.

It isn't fair! It isn't fair!
posted by crunchland at 11:35 PM on June 8, 2005

I like the part about the giant bar/pub. Were there bouncers and gogo boyz? Was I drinking a champagne cocktail?
posted by taz at 11:55 PM on June 8, 2005

civil_disobedient let me bore you a little more: Mine wasn't about MeFi, but it was prompted by that kettlebell thread. Some big fat guy came up to me at a gas pump and was waving kettlebells around while saying, "Hey baby, check *this* out!!" to hit on me.
posted by yoga at 5:15 AM on June 9, 2005

"Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"
posted by keswick at 6:47 AM on June 9, 2005

keswick, that dream means you are a real genius.
posted by naxosaxur at 7:51 AM on June 9, 2005

Which explains why I'm the only person who has that dream.
posted by keswick at 8:06 AM on June 9, 2005

Hmm... No bouncers or gogo boyz, but there was a shallow moat around the whole place. It's what you landed in after coming through the wormhole/ waterslide.
posted by PhatLobley at 8:33 AM on June 9, 2005

I was disturbed by a MeFi dream i had recently...I was forced at gunpoint to do something horrible to Metafilter on the order of Goastse image on the front page, or self-link...the resulting bannination/pile-on transitioned from the gray to real life with people standing around yelling and spitting on me in a scene not unlike the judgement sequence of The Wall...then i was banished to internets hell, i was bombarded with pop-ups, frames, ALL FLASH ALL THE TIME!

Finally, someone discovered the truth that I had been forced into posting and i was returned and given flowers and many pancakes...and then i found $5...
posted by schyler523 at 9:48 AM on June 9, 2005

Whenever I hear about someone's fantastical dream, there's always a little voice in the back of my head saying "That never, uh, happened, did it?"
posted by box at 1:39 PM on June 9, 2005

That is a freaky dream. Mercy.
posted by gramschmidt at 12:35 PM on June 27, 2005

Who is this gramschmidt? What are his ideas vis a vis sugarcubes and dreams?
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:14 PM on July 7, 2005

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posted by wendell at 5:12 PM on July 8, 2005