On May 21, 4:53 pm, 5aces <thar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The header for this groupwas originally going to be:
>
> "I Crack Myself up Even When I'm Sleeping." This was to be a reference
> to a joke I had in a dream I had last night. However,sad to say,this
> nocturnal wittisim of mine was lost to memory a few hours after I
> awoke. Now for the folks in alt.tv.mad-about-you I will start out with
> what we,in that group call a OMR(Obligatory MAY Reference.) Mad about
> you had two episodes with two dream sequences:
>
> 1. The Laugh in dream
> 2. The Albert Einstein dream where good ole Al give Paul Buchman the
> cure for the Y2K bug
>
> MAY fans will appreicate the fact that I din't mention the Virtual
> Reality episode,which although dreamlike wasn't a dream!
>
> I will now tell what I think are thethree main factors of dreams,there
> are of course others and I'm not ovrloking the fact that different
> people might log in with other aspects of dreams which they think are
> more major than the ones I mentioned. Here goes:
>
> 1. Dreams lack detail. That is one reason why dreams are sometimes
> hard to remmber.There are few things in them to remember! For
> example,if you ever had a dream in which you're in a school room,can
> you really discribe the other people in the room?
>
> 2.You are always present in your dreams,either as a person or as a
> disembodied observer. In the later case,you're outside the dream
> itself but are aware of what is happening inside the dream because to
> you the dream is like a TV program you're watching
>
> 3. Dreams either lack logic or have a logic of their own. The is what
> gives them(to the awke mind ar least) their absurdist quality. Various
> sitcoms have had dream sequences in their epidodes,however,funny the
> actors and writers are the finished product lacks this dreamlike
> absurdidy and what you wind up with are jokes,however funny,lacking
> the unartistic nutball quality of the sleeping mind.
>
> I will, illustrate all three aspects just mentioned by telling you of
> two dreams I had recently.
>
> In my first dream I'm with two of my three brothers,where I don't
> know. We are in a room with two beds ,a radio, and a delapadated
> bookcase.With the exception of the delapadated bookcase, this is an
> accurate discription of our childhood home. However,in this
> dream,although we are younger than we are now in real life,we are not
> teenagers living in our parents house. More im****tantly,for my
> discussion,it's as if we were in a universe,where there is no other
> objects than two brothers,two beds, a radio,and a bookcase.This is an
> example of of point #1. For point #3 in the same dream my brothrer
> leaces the room(universe) but there is no door,or window to make any
> logical exit. The lack of ddor and window is also,(DUH!) one more
> example of pont #1,lack of detail.
>
> My second dream,proves point number 2 and 3. My dream,started out as a
> nocturnal newsreel which I was watchinf,but not part of.(Point #2) In
> it,it told of the banning of certain comic books aimed at small
> children, One example(which I remember) was the Donald duck Comics.
> And in my Newsreel dream,it pointed out that the soon to be banned
> comics had notices of their upcoming censor****p. Now my dreams
> swtiches to a church magazine(actually publihsed by the church I
> attended and you(and The sleeping Me(saw pages of the church magazine
> with Donald Duck comics in them urging their censo****p. In order to
> quail a possible urban legend let me remind you of the fact that
> although such a church magazine exists it has never urged the
> censor****p of Donald Duck comics. remmber this is but a dream I had
> two nights ago. Now,as a person I enter the dream,which at the
> beginning I was merely observing as a disembodied entity. I'm at the
> outside of the church,and a man(Whom I don't know) is handing out
> little squares of Lemon custard pie,something churhes are not known
> for doing, As he is doing this my Father is driving off with two
> children not his own leaving me stranded. As the man is handing me my
> slice of pie I crack a joke,quite funny I migfht add,which slipped out
> the cracks of my memory a few hours after i awoke. This one dream is
> an example of all three points,Where is my mom? How Old was I? This is
> lack of detail.
> The begging and end of my dream is an example of point number two,even
> when I was merely observing the dream from the outside I was part of
> it. Att the last part of the dream, I entered\as a lving ,breathing
> thing. The Lemon pie,the lack of mom, and the two strange children in
> my dad's car represents the dream logic,which escaped even the coke
> addled brain of Robin Williams. Sad to say when he was making Mork &
> Mindy he had a substance abuse ptoblem.
My hobby Andy,getting around your not so clever trap,is posting the
minutia of my life to this newsgroup.BTW,with the help of my brother I
soved one of the 3 problems I emailed you about. I solved the other
two by noodling around on my computer,in a way I hoped would solve the
problem >judging from a comment I made less then 25 word ago I
succeeded!!! :-)
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