And the Meffy goes to...

August 26, 2010 6:16 AM

I had a dream about MetaFilter.

I was awakened in the middle of the night last night when my roommate came home and tripped into a half-packed box staged in the living room for my impending move.

Groggy, but slightly too awake to go immediately back to sleep, I open up my computer to read some email, MetaFilter, etc. I notice that I'm close to a favorites milestone here, then go to back to sleep.

And then I dreamed that I was on a MetaFilter award show, the Meffies, accepting my award (a gilded plate of beans), clutching it to my chest shouting, "you like me, you really like me!" Sally Field style.

No, really. (I inhaled a lot of cleaning product yesterday readying my apartment to move out, maybe that's why.)

Anyway, this has made me wonder--
Which users have the most favorites? Which posts and questions have been your personal favorites? Are there any awesome people (aside from you, yes, I know you're awesome) I should be linked to so I can be alerted to all the awesome things they constantly post?

Allow me to dissuade all of you MetaFilter-is-not-a-contest types by saying, "duh." As a relatively high user number member, I find a lot of good old content by clicking through various users' favorited posts to see what great stuff I've missed, and I'm sure others do, too.

Bonus question: Have any of YOU dreamed about this place? We can form a support group or something.

posted by phunniemee to MetaFilter-Related at 6:16 AM (122 comments total)

Is this crazy metatalk day?
posted by smackfu at 6:20 AM on August 26, 2010 [4 favorites]

I so don't believe your dream.

Anyway, this has made me wonder--
How many people just make up dreams because they think they'll create an interesting segue?
posted by amro at 6:22 AM on August 26, 2010 [9 favorites]

I so don't believe your dream.
That's ok, I don't believe in 4-letter usernames.
posted by phunniemee at 6:24 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Sometimes I dream about MetaFilter, but the dreams are about using the website. Yup, I read MetaTalk in my dreams. My dreamlife is ridiculously boring. Like, last night I had a dream that a real-life friend called me to ask me to come over and watch a TV show, so I walked over from my house to her house and then we talked a bit about television. That's it, that was the extent of my dream.
posted by Kattullus at 6:26 AM on August 26, 2010 [5 favorites]

Yesterday, I got wheat/gluten/dairy free pancake mix in the mail from piratebowling. I'm not sure what award I can nominate her for, but she deserves it for being awesome.
posted by greekphilosophy at 6:29 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Which users have the most favorites?

You can get a pretty good idea about this from the mefi infodumpster. It won't give you site-wide totals, but the last two lines in the "people" section will give you per-subsite lists, separately for comments and posts.

Bonus question: Have any of YOU dreamed about this place?

Yeah, but like Kattullus, I have occasionally dreamed about just using the site in a fairly ordinary manner. Yawn.
posted by FishBike at 6:32 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I am now waiting to wake up from the dream where I am reading this.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:33 AM on August 26, 2010 [3 favorites]

greekphilosophy: "Yesterday, I got wheat/gluten/dairy free pancake mix in the mail from piratebowling. I'm not sure what award I can nominate her for, but she deserves it for being awesome"

You make me want to bake bread. Once it starts being afternoon and not earlier than that I'm making bread.
posted by theichibun at 6:33 AM on August 26, 2010

I'll check the rulebook, but I don't think you can say "duh" to the MetaFilter-is-not-a-contest types while also announcing that in the middle of the night while you were half-asleep you went to your computer and noticed that you were "close to a favorites milestone."
posted by cribcage at 6:34 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I definitely dream about Metafilter, especially as I'm drifting off to sleep and I come up with AMAZING ideas for posts that I totally don't remember the next day.

I also daydream about being asked to be a mod because of the respectful and considerate way I interact with the community, and then I regretfully explain that I am very flattered but I have other stuff on my plate (not beans) so unfortunately I am not able to be a mod but I am happy to help in any way I can and I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Then I realize that I don't say that much and probably no one has any idea who I am, which is totally the only thing standing between me and my dream of being asked to be a mod.
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 6:35 AM on August 26, 2010 [7 favorites]

I had a dream about a pretty epic meetup, once. I don't remember which of y'all I ended up making out with, but it was definitely fun.
posted by restless_nomad at 6:35 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I've dreamed of the mods as being a super hero team, like the Fantastic Four. Except they have a giant bike, instead of a flying car and Jessamyn refuses to wear spandex of be called invisible girl. matt shoots lasers from his eyes, cortex is like matter eating lad, jessamyn has wolverine like claws but is also like Diamond Lil, pb is like "the drummer" from the comic Planetary and vacapinta is a whisp of wind that no seens, but somehow manages to do things off panel/screen.

For some reason language hat appears as villain, smoking a pipe and laughing that stereotypical villain laugh and wearing hats of course. The pinksuperhero puts in an appearance as wanna be superhero sidekick.

TMI?
posted by nomadicink at 6:35 AM on August 26, 2010 [3 favorites]

I don't remember which of y'all I ended up making out with

You said you'd never forget!
posted by inigo2 at 6:37 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Are there any awesome people I should be linked to so I can be alerted to all the awesome things they constantly post?

"Awesome" may might not the right word, and no use really in linking to a fairly dormant account, but fold_and_mutilate's comment history is an interesting one that a relatively high user number member may have missed.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 6:37 AM on August 26, 2010

I know I've had mefi dreams more than once, but the only one I really remember right now is the one where gingerbeer and I had traveled to go to jessamyn's wedding, and when we got to wherever it was, I still had to buy pants. Apparently, very expensive pants, since dream-gingerbeer told me that we'd been approved for a loan for the pants.
posted by rtha at 6:38 AM on August 26, 2010 [6 favorites]

Sometimes I, too, dream about MeFi, but mine are mostly about posting comments (must be because of all those comments that I type up and then decide not to post). They always get favorited like tons of times, too.
posted by daniel_charms at 6:39 AM on August 26, 2010

August is Ambien In The Water Supply month!
posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 6:40 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Woke up this mornin'
feelin' blue
read a coupla comments, babe
there were one or two from you
hey hey baby I got
10,000 favorites, too
I dream of Metafilter babe
that is, when I don't dream of you...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:43 AM on August 26, 2010

How many people just make up dreams because they think they'll create an interesting segue?

Trick question! Hearing about someone's dream is never interesting.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:44 AM on August 26, 2010 [6 favorites]

I had a dream a while back that I was composing a really killer FPP framed as a scholarly dissection of "Married: with Children". A show which I have no particular feelings for one way or the other. That FPP was a hum dinger though.
posted by dirtdirt at 6:45 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm guessing those pants were something like 18k gold thread with ruby buttons, rtha.

Of course, I'd need a bank loan to buy a pair of 505s right now.
posted by beelzbubba at 6:47 AM on August 26, 2010

For $10/month anyone can be an awesome MeFite.
posted by domnit at 6:48 AM on August 26, 2010

In my dreams I'm a viking, so while I have a longboat, I don't have internet access.
posted by Jahaza at 6:49 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

MeFi milestones + Beatles trivia. This comment (for me) is the one after 909.
posted by beelzbubba at 6:49 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

I used to have Metafilter (+/or MetaChat) dreams of all sorts (including one where I was snuggling with Quonsar — not exactly a sex dream, more like we were friendly "ex"es —exes? how do we write that?— or something). And one time I stopped coming by for a while after I started having MeFi-generated nightmares during some of the worst of our gender conflicts/conversations. (We've also had a lot of best-of in that area, don't get me wrong; I just realized I was getting too flinchy if I was having bad dreams, since I rarely suffer from nightmares).

But after all these years (which is longer even than the eight years I've been registered, since I was a daily lurker)... most things seems like we've kind of been through some form of it before, and I usually don't find myself becoming as emotionally enmeshed. I don't think of myself as jaded, it's more like comfortable and familiar, but not so much occupying the forefront of my consciousness that I have MeFi dreams anymore. Of course, now that I've said that, it's like asking for trouble! :)
posted by taz at 7:02 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

MeFi shows up in my dreams a lot, although usually as a detail. Best one was a completely unrelated-to-MeFi dream with a television that was showing Cortex's cooking show. (I keep a dream journal. It's kind of wacky.)
posted by catlet at 7:05 AM on August 26, 2010

Bonus question: Have any of YOU dreamed about this place?

…Because the links never stop. They just keep coming and coming and coming. There’s never a letup. It’s relentless. Every day they pile up more and more, but the more you get out, the more they keep coming! And then your browser crashes! And then it’s Single Link Youtube day!!

No, why do you ask?
posted by zarq at 7:07 AM on August 26, 2010 [5 favorites]

Tonight you will dream you are in a line at Disneyland and there are 1999 people in front of you.

Then you will realise you are queueing to ride Dustin Diamond.
posted by biffa at 7:07 AM on August 26, 2010 [4 favorites]

omg, I mean lower-case-q-quonsar!!! quonsar! quonsar! fuck! he's gonna kill me! hello, nightmares!!!!!!!
posted by taz at 7:07 AM on August 26, 2010

I wonder if anyone will get the reference....
posted by zarq at 7:07 AM on August 26, 2010

Have any of YOU dreamed about this place?

No. Is there some sort of insurance I can buy to prevent this from happening?
posted by edbles at 7:12 AM on August 26, 2010

How many people just make up dreams because they think they'll create an interesting segue?

How many people hear "I had a dream last night" and have a knee-jerk reaction that they're in for ten minutes of excruciating boredom?

I even hate it in fiction. Chapter Fives starts with, "That night, Sarah had a dream in which..." and I get an overpowering urge to skip to Chapter Six.
posted by grumblebee at 7:12 AM on August 26, 2010 [5 favorites]

> How many people hear "I had a dream last night" and have a knee-jerk reaction that they're in for ten minutes of excruciating boredom?

Movie version of Sheltering Sky (novel by Paul Bowles) has one terrific scene. John Malkovich starts talking about one of his dreams and Debra Winger goes off on him. Other than that one scene the movie did not do much for me.
posted by bukvich at 7:23 AM on August 26, 2010

Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.
posted by marxchivist at 7:25 AM on August 26, 2010 [6 favorites]

I dreamed about MetaFilter last night! I am not making this up, although as the morning drags on I'm fuzzier on the details. I dreamed that I made plans to go to two different meetups in one night, a small pizza get-together in the evening and then another meetup with a different group of people at midnight, and in the dream I was in TOTAL PANIC about whether I'd make it to both meetups. At the first one it seemed like everybody was ignoring me and then for some reason kmellis (whom you may remember under a different handle) started hitting on me, and at some point he turned into a girl, in fact it might have been ThePinkSuperhero but in the dream I couldn't remember her name, and I agreed to go to some restaurant together, just the two of us, but the "date" wasn't going well and we didn't have anything to talk about and we sort of tacitly agreed that it wasn't going well and we went our separate ways, and then I found myself wandering around through some sort of dimly-lit nighttime bazaar or fair, trying to find my way back to downtown where the meetup was supposed to be. Then I was wandering aimlessly around in the street in some city, probably New York, with a lot of skyscrapers but absolutely no traffic or people other than random straggler MeFites.

If I were making this up, I assure you I would have made it more interesting.
posted by Gator at 7:29 AM on August 26, 2010

I even hate it in fiction.

Here's a pretty good one:

Under morphine, Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops. Billy was a giraffe, too. He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

The giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own, as a harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves. Two approached him from opposite sides, leaned against him. They had long, muscular upper lips which they could shape like bells of bugles. They kissed him with these. They were female giraffes—cream and lemon yellow. They had horns like doorknobs. The knobs were covered with velvet.

Why?

posted by domnit at 7:31 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

I dreamed that all my favorites were piled up in a big vault where I could dive into them and feel them rolling over my body. Then I lifted two heaping fistfuls of them over my head and let them slowly spill through my fingers as I laughed and laughed...

I was awake at the time, so I don't know if that counts.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:31 AM on August 26, 2010 [8 favorites]

I have had dreams as a result of MetaFilter. Usually when someone wants to talk about the goings-on of the world, I have to say, "Yeah, I read about it on MetaFilter, and such-and-such and so on, and my views are this way, and I read some really interesting thoughts about it," and apparently (according to a consensus of the folks in my life) it has made me an insufferable know-it-all.

In my dreams, no one talks to me about world events anymore. Much like in my waking life.
posted by From the Fortress at 7:33 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Hearing about someone's dream is never interesting.

It totally depends on the person. I have a friend who quite often has the most wonderful dreams. The best one, I think, was one where he was interviewing David Lynch when Lynch asked him if he wanted to see his latest movie. My friend agreed, so Lynch took a DVD from his pocket and put it on. The main character in the film was a small piece of plastic bag that was laughing hysterically.
posted by daniel_charms at 7:35 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I had a giraffe dream once. It was a good one. There was a giraffe, about two inches tall, running around on the kitchen floor. It went under the fridge and I got worried about it. Cute little bugger.
posted by Babblesort at 7:36 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

In the midst of one of the Givewell meTas from a couple of years ago (warning: loooong thread, may freeze your browser), I had a dream about donating a cow to Heifer International in Holden's name, but the catch was we had to walk the cow along the NJ Turnpike to NYC so Holden could sign it.
posted by rtha at 7:43 AM on August 26, 2010

I wonder if anyone will get the reference....

shakespeherian: (sneers) zarq.

zarq: Hello, shakey.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:45 AM on August 26, 2010

You know that dream 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? I have the same dream, except I'm composing a post which says "Dear AskMe, naked lady pyramid pickles, okay to eat?"
posted by quin at 7:48 AM on August 26, 2010 [11 favorites]

How many people hear "I had a dream last night" and have a knee-jerk reaction that they're in for ten minutes of excruciating boredom?

I even hate it in fiction. Chapter Fives starts with, "That night, Sarah had a dream in which..." and I get an overpowering urge to skip to Chapter Six.

I had a writing professor who warned us against writing dream sequences: "Here's what happens: you say, 'I had this dream last night!' and I'm like, 'Okay.' And then you say, 'Yeah, and I was on this boat--' and I'm like, '*sigh* ugghhhh...'"

That said, I am a huge dork and have actually thought about (though not dreamed about) MetaFilter awards called Meffys before.
posted by danb at 7:49 AM on August 26, 2010

One gentleman was so brilliant he had a post all to himself and another ferreted out sockpuppets.
posted by adamvasco at 7:51 AM on August 26, 2010

I still dream of Organon. I wake up crying.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:52 AM on August 26, 2010 [3 favorites]

No one wants to hear what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them.
posted by dirtdirt at 8:01 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

*buries this thread, and forgets*
posted by Eideteker at 8:09 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me.
posted by applemeat at 8:12 AM on August 26, 2010

"Dear AskMe, naked lady pyramid pickles, okay to eat?"

Dear AskMe,

I used to read people's questions and thought they were completely fake, until something happened that I never expected last weekend.....
posted by zarq at 8:13 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I dream about dirtdirt.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:16 AM on August 26, 2010

I had a dream that one day on the grey hills of MeTa, the sons of former sock puppets and the sons of former sock puppet owners will be able to post inconsequential fluff together at the thunderdome of nerdhood.
posted by Abiezer at 8:27 AM on August 26, 2010

Are there any awesome people (aside from you, yes, I know you're awesome) I should be linked to so I can be alerted to all the awesome things they constantly post?

It looks like almost no one has answered this question, so what the hell -- here are some suggestions:

Favorite all-around poster: Miko (runner-up: grumblebee)

Funniest poster: Greg Nog (runner-up: robocop is bleeding)

Favorite musician: flapjax at midnite (runner-up: cortex)
posted by danb at 8:40 AM on August 26, 2010

Okay this is really wierd, becuase I had a dream two nights ago that I was at a party at Jessamyn's house. There was a whole slew of people there that I recognized, but now I can't remember. I got into an argument with someone (shocking!) about what now I cannot recall. I do remember holding a napkin and screaming "It's all right here" as the other person left the room.

The main thing I remember was drunkenly apologizing to Jessamyn about a memail I had sent to her and repeatedly telling her how awesome her job was, and that if people would just chill the hell out there would be a lot less Meta drama. And she had a totally cool pad.

Also no one recognized me becuase all I do is lurk and favorite.
posted by Big_B at 9:01 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

No one is my favorite. *I hate you all.

*just in case eyeballkid isn't reading this. I'll be the pinch hater.
posted by iconomy at 9:06 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I got into an argument with someone (shocking!) about what now I cannot recall.

Most likely it was about whether Rick Deckard actually supported the Israelis or the Palestinians.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:07 AM on August 26, 2010

I have never dreamed about any web forum. That would be really, really sad. I'm not going to mention what my nights were like the first time I played through Half Life II, though. Oh dearie me no.
posted by Decani at 9:21 AM on August 26, 2010

I dreamt I was posting on metafilter and after about 30 minutes I looked down and realized I was in my underwear!
posted by TedW at 9:32 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

If you're not either solving a problem or having sex with me, I probably don't want to hear about your dreams.
posted by box at 10:04 AM on August 26, 2010

I dreamed I saw phunniemee last night,
alive as you or me.
Tearing through his favorites,
in the utmost misery.

With a half-packed box underneath his arm,
and some beans of solid gold,
searching for the very ones
who already have been trolled.
posted by Dr Dracator at 10:06 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

Mister_A is the best alphabetical honorific person on this whole site. Take that, Señora_Q!
posted by Mister_A at 10:14 AM on August 26, 2010

The best dream I ever had was one in which I was a host on a game show for midgets. The name of the show was simply "Look What THAT Midget Can Do!"

My subconscious will never top that.
posted by sonika at 10:25 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

This is the dream.
posted by philip-random at 10:30 AM on August 26, 2010

I wish I had dreams about regular stuff like MetaFilter. The other night I dreamed my husband took off naked on all fours into the woods because he wanted to "show that dog who's who around here."
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 10:35 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

I was drawn to MeFi because there are a huge number of very smart, engaged, and well informed people on this site, the content is great, and the mods keep the quality at a high level. One joy of the place is that although there are plenty of veterans here, and some people do consistently great zingers or posts, often there will be a fantastic comment or post from someone I didn't know about or notice before. For me, it would be a lesser place if I only zeroed in on the most favorited folks or only read what the "awesome" people post.

Really, the only thing about MetaFilter that consistently drives me crazy is that I can't find time to look at all the posts, links, and comments. I've learned, to my regret, to focus on a limited number of topics among the many covered here.

But I enjoyed your dream. And hope clutching your plate of beans didn't do in your dream clothing. It's a drag when your imaginary wardrobe has to be cleaned.
posted by bearwife at 10:37 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I wish I had dreams about regular stuff like MetaFilter. The other night I dreamed my husband took off naked on all fours into the woods because he wanted to "show that dog who's who around here."

I haven't seen Twilight, so I really can't make an exact scientific determination here, but Serene Empress Dork, how certain are you that your husband isn't Taylor Lautner?
posted by phunniemee at 10:43 AM on August 26, 2010

What keeps me going is I get one new favorite every 8 months and I celebrate with a glass of Naked Grouse and a really cheap cigar and a smug little smile.
posted by kingbenny at 10:45 AM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

I had a dream that there was a fish in my pants. I woke up screaming.

Where's my Meffie!?
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:48 AM on August 26, 2010

how certain are you that your husband isn't Taylor Lautner?

Well, if he is he must have his millions stashed in a secret bank account somewhere, because our joint account only has moths and lint in it.
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 10:53 AM on August 26, 2010

I actually had a dream where I made some embarrassing comment on Metafilter involving scotch and cigars and favorites and then when I woke up I was in an XKCD strip, exclaiming to my stick figure girlfriend that "Somebody on the internet liked something I typed so much they clicked on the word favorite right underneath the thing that I had typed!"
posted by kingbenny at 11:04 AM on August 26, 2010

your migs impersonation
posted by clavdivs at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Here's that playlist you were asking for - sorry for the delay!

• and each dream has a name;
• I still dream of Organon;
• all of the buildings, all of the cars, were once just a dream in somebody's head;
• dream weaver;
• all I have to do is dream;
• dream on;
• if you don't have a dream;
• she had a dream, and boy it was a good one.

posted by Meatbomb at 11:28 AM on August 26, 2010

Mefi played a role in one of my dreams last night. I went down to Office Depot to grab some CDs (for the music swap) and somehow grabbed the wrong kind that had sekrit stuff on it. Then I was being hunted down by armed office depot goons for days on end. At one point I was hiding out in a ski lodge where the only computer was a commodore 64.

I never found out what was on those CDs though.
posted by special-k at 11:37 AM on August 26, 2010

I had a giraffe dream once. It was a good one. There was a giraffe, about two inches tall, running around on the kitchen floor. It went under the fridge and I got worried about it. Cute little bugger.

Hey, me too! I thought I could have decent pasta in giraffe but it was a pipe dream. It was mediocre pasta.

I got nothing.
posted by ersatz at 12:03 PM on August 26, 2010

I had a Metafilter dream once.

Also, a few years ago, a roommate and I both had dreams about Jeopardy. We also found this book of dreams about Madonna and decided we needed to make a book of dreams about Jeopardy. But then we didn't have any more.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:07 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Last night I dreamed I went to Vandelay Industries again.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:15 PM on August 26, 2010

I had a dream last night
And it fit me like a glove
There was a scream last night
It was gettin' kind of fun, yeah, rock out, whatever
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 12:21 PM on August 26, 2010

Next time you're going to have a dream about Metafilter, you should promote it in the "In real life" sector of Metafilter so we can all meet you there and go to the award show with you.
posted by Jagz-Mario at 12:33 PM on August 26, 2010

I have been here since forever and I have NEVER dreamed about this place. Not once.
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 12:48 PM on August 26, 2010

Last night the Cabal appeared on my new iPhone
I touched a special snowflake and tasted HAMBURGER
The Blue was filled with vikings on ponies
Cortex and quonsar reached out to me
Then came a mod
Fixed that for me,
Same as in town, town, town...

My plate had too many beans last night
Too many beans
I'm not ready to face the site
I had too many beans
Last night

to the tune of the Electric Prunes' "(I Had) Too Much to Dream", of course
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:50 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Ten or so times I can remember, just as I fall asleep I've had this vivid image of questions scrolling by on the green.

It was amusing, and I'd fall asleep with unvoiced laughter in my head, until the night I realized that by focusing my attention in the limited way open to me in that state, I could read the words which had been colored and bolded for links as they went by.

That made it disturbing, and made me think Metafilter is getting into places I don't want it to go.
posted by jamjam at 1:09 PM on August 26, 2010

I have dreamed about MeFi. I think Jessamyn was buying me a beer or something mundane like that. Actually, most of my dreams are pretty mundane. I'll be walking down the road and wave to someone I know on the other side, and that's pretty much it. Although a lot of them are set in really cool houses and buildings. Very tall buildings, with elevators going up and down and long long trains plunging into dark tunnels and glistening oiled machinery with pistons pumping in and out and in out and
Oh! Hello Dr Freud, do come in, have a cigar, i mean a seat
posted by Miss Otis' Egrets at 1:14 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I once dreamed that cortex gave me a ride to work. It was only 4 blocks away, but it was still nice of him. I subsequently learned that he doesn't have a car, so he must have really gone out of his way there!

Another time I dreamed that the original, pre-web version of MetaFilter was a photocopied daily publication that we all edited together. I'm not sure how that worked.
posted by brundlefly at 1:24 PM on August 26, 2010

> For some reason language hat appears as villain, smoking a pipe and laughing that stereotypical villain laugh and wearing hats of course.

Mwahahaha!

*doffs top hat, vanishes in puff of smoke*
posted by languagehat at 1:26 PM on August 26, 2010 [4 favorites]

I've never dreamed about Metafilter, but, sometimes when I make latenight obnoxious drunken comments I manage to convince myself it was all a dream.
posted by mannequito at 1:45 PM on August 26, 2010

So the inception was successful after all...
posted by negative1 at 1:51 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Funniest poster: Greg Nog (runner-up: robocop is bleeding)

Greg Nog is funny as hell. And The Whelk often gives me a good laugh as well. But the only time I laughed until I had tears streaming down my face was the dude who posted on AskMe wanting to know how to fashion a backpack carrier for his pregnant wife -- so he could carry her around on his back and she wouldn't have to walk. He seemed dead serious, and sincerely wanted to know how, which made it so absurdly hilarious to me. I can't explain it, really, I guess it just struck my particular funny bone. I literally still get teary-eyed thinking about it.
posted by JenMarie at 2:34 PM on August 26, 2010

Also, if someone remembers what I'm talking about and can link to the thread, I would love to bookmark it (for those dismal hopeless moments -- who couldn't use a good chuckle?).
posted by JenMarie at 2:36 PM on August 26, 2010

Right here. Yeah, that was awesome.
posted by Gator at 2:43 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Thank you, Gator! The OP mentioning in the question that he'd rather not carry her (pregnant, with twins!) on his shoulders just sent me on another fit of giggles...
posted by JenMarie at 2:53 PM on August 26, 2010

Woah, this is weird. Last night I dreamt I wrote this. Now.
posted by Elmore at 2:58 PM on August 26, 2010

MetaFilter: Please do not stuff your pregnant wife in an adult-size babybjorn.

I've had at least one MeFi related dream. MeFi was an office and Mathowie was the boss (of course!). He was really pissed off that everyones work (posts) was substandard and kept firing employees. Really, it was quite distressing waiting for the axe to fall while desperately trying to find good things to post.
posted by deborah at 3:13 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

An even-handed mod they call jessamyn
Tiptoes to my thread most every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper:
"Perma-banned, now I'll close this up right."
posted by BitterOldPunk at 3:34 PM on August 26, 2010

I've never dreamed about MeFi, but I do have a recurring dream where I'm being chased by giant strawberries.
posted by subbes at 5:14 PM on August 26, 2010

No joke: I dreamed that I posted a thread to AskMe, but it should have gone in MetaTalk, and then it turned out I had used my sister's sock puppet account (she doesn't have one) by mistake, but everything was okay because jessamyn commented in it, "Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!" Weird dream.
posted by unknowncommand at 5:38 PM on August 26, 2010

Well, I hadn't had MeFiDreams. I can't wait for that to launch. What would we call it? The Black?
posted by lysdexic at 5:59 PM on August 26, 2010

I had a dream that there was a fish in my pants. I woke up screaming.

It was on my TV. I took a picture.
posted by nosila at 6:09 PM on August 26, 2010

Mods shining bright above you
You mefi-spouse is saying "I love you"
Birds singing in the favorites tree
Dream a little dream of me

Say fighty-fight and diss me
Say I'm a jerk, then fire, and miss me
Here on the Blue it's you and it's me
Dream a little dream of me

Thread's fading, but I linger on dear
Just hitting F5
I'm longing to longboat til dawn here
Still talking jive

Sweet dreams till Haughey finds you
Sweet dreams where jessamyn reminds you
That MetaFilter's got it all...
Dream a little dream of me
posted by lysdexic at 6:12 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

I had a dream in which Metafilter was a popularity contest.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 6:21 PM on August 26, 2010

Sure, now I think of a good line

Sweet dreams till Haughey finds you
Sweet dreams where jessamyn reminds you
That MeFi is like peaches and cream...
Dream a little dream of me
posted by lysdexic at 6:24 PM on August 26, 2010

I had a dream, there were clouds in my coffee.
posted by philip-random at 7:16 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Don't be afraid. Bad dreams are only dreams. What a time you chose to be born in.
posted by box at 8:04 PM on August 26, 2010

I had a dream. Crazy dream.
Anything I wanted to know, any place I needed to go

Hear my song. People won't you listen now? Sing along.
You don't know what you're missing now.
Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow.
And it has to grow!

California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain
Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.

Sing out Hare Hare, dance the Hoochie Koo.
City lights are oh so bright, as we go sliding... sliding... sliding through.
posted by TedW at 8:36 PM on August 26, 2010 [1 favorite]

Oh shit! I meant to post that in the heavy metal thread on the blue. Or maybe not. Is there a difference between "metal" and "heavy metal", anyway? I think I'll put my pants on and go to bed now.
posted by TedW at 8:41 PM on August 26, 2010

dirtdirt: No one wants to hear what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them.

I dream about friends and family all the time. I never tell them because my dreams are just so boring.

Me: "Hey John, I had a dream about you."
John: "Really? Cool! What about?"
Me: "We were in Target buying umbrellas."
John: "And?"
Me: "That's about it. We paid with cash."
John: "Oh."

Telling people that I've had dreams about them seems kinda pointless when their dream-existence inside my head is less interesting than their real lives.
posted by Kattullus at 8:42 PM on August 26, 2010 [2 favorites]

I've dreamed about this place before...
posted by schyler523 at 10:01 PM on August 26, 2010

All I know is that when the kick comes, Murphy's Law dictates there'll be a toaster in my bath.
posted by arcticseal at 1:38 AM on August 27, 2010

I had a dream and there were clowns in my coffee.
posted by XMLicious at 6:10 AM on August 27, 2010

Alex Fletcher: Sleeping with a clown above my bed...
Alex Fletcher: "Clown" is not right
Sophie Fisher: That's "cloud." Why would you put a clown in your bed?
Alex Fletcher: It would not be the first time.
posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 8:42 AM on August 27, 2010

You know you've spent too much fucking time on Mefi when just the power of suggestion of this thread and seeing Choire Sicha pop back up on AskMe (yay!) makes you have your very first Mefi-induced dream.

I woke up at 3 a.m. last night after a startling dream that turned into a nightmare. Choire, who was one of my all-time fave Mefites back in the day, randomly showed up at this house that looked very much like my late grandparents'. I was sleeping in it and it seemed to be mine even though in real life it isn't and never was (of course, typical as dreams go) and Choire showed up wanting to have a slumber party where we just chattered away all night about his engagement and wedding plans. I was super happy for him and then randomly my mother showed up in a nightgown (um) and mentioned there was another random cute guy hanging out in one of the other bedrooms but didn't offer an explanation. Then she started freaking out about how people were outside and scurried away when she went to the window to draw the curtains. I asked if she locked the door and she said "of course not, that doesn't matter" and then boom, unlocked door (danging chain and all) swings open and these stereotypical burglars clad in black turtlenecks and beanies come in. The head burglar, a woman, grinned and said she knew a secret and went towards a desk drawer in the living room and produced a gun we apparently kept there for protection, seemed she's cased the joint somehow beforehand. She had us all on our knees hostage-style and shivering, quivering, while Choire was in the other room where he'd fallen asleep. I think about the other random guy back there and hope he rescues us but of course it turns out he's in cahoots with the other burglars and comes out the back bedroom menacingly and I realize there's no hope. I also realize somehow (my dreams are always like this, I'll "know" things with no possibility I'm wrong, but things I couldn't possibly really know normally, it's weird, and then I just spend the dream full of dread for what's to come like a perpetual Cassandra, ugh) the head burglar woman is going to shoot Choire in front of us in his sleep to show us she means business. And that we probably will all be murdered after the ordeal. No hope. So I wake up!

The extra fucked up thing was while I was awake afterward in that, you know, gauzy not-totally-aware state, I was contemplating things people have said on Mefi about home invasions! Like, I think it was Forktine but I can't remember for sure, someone saying they'd get the family in the bedroom barricaded behind the bed and armed with a shotgun, let the burglars take whatever they wanted, but "heaven help them" if they decided to venture into the bedroom or something.

So in short: too.much.Mefi!!! Bad dreams. But, it was nice to wish Choire well in his marriage, I'll admit.
posted by ifjuly at 9:06 AM on August 27, 2010

Power of suggestion indeed. Last night I dreamed that I was at some kind of stand-up comedy festival. I was looking through the schedule and I saw artw's name. And I was like, "Why is that name so familiar? Do I know that guy?"
posted by roll truck roll at 9:40 AM on August 27, 2010

I was like, "Why is that name so familiar? Do I know that guy?"

Don't you remember? He's your head of security. Don't worry; he's going to get you out of here.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 9:50 AM on August 27, 2010 [2 favorites]

I've had dreams with a MeFite filling a role in the cast, or MetaFilter being mentioned, but I've never dreamed of being on the site itself.
posted by not_on_display at 10:04 AM on August 27, 2010

Wait, how do I know I'm not dreąⓜḯɲɠ ͢ ...ѬѮԹ༺ཹ
posted by not_on_display at 10:17 AM on August 27, 2010

Wait, how do I know I'm not dreąⓜḯɲɠ ͢ ...ѬѮԹ༺ཹ

I usually just keep calling the wake() function until it throws a stack_underflow error.
posted by FishBike at 10:27 AM on August 27, 2010

/robs your MIND SAFE.
posted by Artw at 12:59 PM on August 27, 2010

OMG it's like a metaphor in life becomes reality in my dream!
posted by shakespeherian at 1:02 PM on August 27, 2010

I'll tell you about my crazy MeFi dream, but first you're going to have to tell me which cleaning product I'm supposed to huff first.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:58 PM on August 27, 2010

When Stonewall Jackson was wounded at Chancellorsville, he said that when he was unconscious on the surgeon's table, he had dreamed of the most beautiful music. When he woke up he decided he must have been hearing the bone saw.
posted by Trochanter at 6:14 PM on August 27, 2010

I had my first dream about Metafilter a few days ago. I was on the blue, and saw a post about mother's blogs about their babies being more popular than father's blogs. There was a link to a mother's blog, hosted by blogger and it had an orange color scheme.
I didn't go to the mefi comments, I felt it would be a trainwreck.
Then I woke up.
posted by niccolo at 6:58 PM on August 27, 2010 [1 favorite]

I had a dream about Metafilter in 2001—or was it early 2002? In any case, I'd just discovered Metafilter after using Plastic.com for a while. Metafilter was obviously much better than Plastic, but MeFi memberships were closed to slow expansion. Every so often, Matt would allow a small number of new sign-ups, but, being in Melbourne, I was hampered by the timezone difference and never managed to snag one before they ran out. I felt like a hobo standing in the snow at Christmas, watching a happy family unwrap their presents through a gap in the curtains. I felt an acute sense of longing and frustration.

Anyway, around this time, I had a dream about a bathing pool, filled with aquamarine water and laughing boys. The boys had golden skin and wore blue trunks. They were beautiful, like Ganymede and Narcissus. I wanted, more than anything, to swim in the water and be like those boys. But I couldn't join them, because I didn't have a blue bathing suit. When I awoke, there was no doubt in my mind what this dream was about.

Around the same time, I also had a dream about Google, but in that dream, I was riding a Tron bike through the internet. That was cool.
posted by hot soup girl at 10:01 PM on August 27, 2010 [1 favorite]

Sweet dreams are made of this.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:35 PM on September 7, 2010