I'll See You In My Dreams April 28, 2023 10:31 AM   Subscribe

Ask Metafilter made a cameo in my dreams last night. In my dream the family dog's coat dramatically changed color and no one could explain it. I told my family I would pose a question on Ask Metafilter to see if anyone out there could. That's it. I woke up before I could get an answer. Has anyone else had Metafilter related dreams?
posted by brookeb to MetaFilter-Related at 10:31 AM (24 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite

I wish I could say that I took my subconscious’s hint when I started dreaming about reading MetaTalk, but that was fifteen years ago and here I still am.
posted by Kattullus at 2:27 PM on April 28, 2023 [2 favorites]


Dreams of Eccelctic Sleep.
Hold your head up, movin' on, keep your head up, movin' on
posted by clavdivs at 7:03 PM on April 28, 2023 [5 favorites]


I dream about a lot of stuff. I get your idea - I dream in javascript when I’ve been working for hours on a project. The dream doesn’t reflect the code and there’s no advice there.

My take on that is that it’s a sign I’ve been working too many hours. I’m pretty sure I’ve dreamt in Metafilter as well and as a result spent less time here until I had less-narrow dreams.
posted by bendy at 8:55 PM on April 28, 2023 [1 favorite]


Did someone press the dog’s Make It Start button?
posted by Night_owl at 11:14 PM on April 28, 2023 [3 favorites]


I dream most often about 'places,' about 'places' that have a particular feeling, a particular way about them and in which things happen (whatever they might be.) These are not places in the 'real' world, these are places in the 'dream' world (these might be a modernist academic campus, or a peeling white clapboard assemblage of buildings, or a street in a mediterranean village.) I don't remember these places necessarily, but there are a few that I go back to over and over again and at some point I realise I've been there before and I then remember the situation of the last time I was there which I have otherwise forgotten completely) and then the dream I was in the middle of continues. Basically, I have this whole other life.

You tell me which one is 'real.'
posted by From Bklyn at 1:11 AM on April 29, 2023 [5 favorites]


In my dream the family dog's coat dramatically changed color

professional white barkground?
posted by chavenet at 4:49 AM on April 29, 2023 [8 favorites]


Do you have any pictures of the dream dog?
posted by aubilenon at 5:09 AM on April 29, 2023 [6 favorites]


I favorited your dog in my dream.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:38 AM on April 29, 2023 [6 favorites]


Your dream relates to the name of your dog, or something close to it.
posted by Brian B. at 9:02 AM on April 29, 2023


dreams, of course, are never about what they appear to be about. So in answer to your question, no, you absolutely should not serve that egg salad to anyone you love.
posted by philip-random at 9:55 AM on April 29, 2023 [4 favorites]


I think so. Like ten years ago I must have dreamed that I figured out a mod had deleted a comment of mine, and when I remembered the dream a few hours later, probably while at work, I could not figure out which comment it was, so I actually emailed the mods to ask about it, and it turned out that they had not deleted any comment of mine in ... some relevant the time frame.
posted by gauche at 12:02 PM on April 29, 2023 [2 favorites]


Tin man has a steam dream.
posted by clavdivs at 12:44 PM on April 29, 2023 [2 favorites]




Did... did I dream a previous meta on this topic?
Oh, thank goodness: June 14, 2015's Dream a little dream of me....
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:57 PM on April 29, 2023 [1 favorite]


I always have a very brief dreamlike sequence right as I fall asleep — a kind of hypnic dream short, I guess.

For a while a few years back a scroll of AskMe was one of the regular shorts, but I could never read any of it, and that was frustrating because I wanted to know whether it was a replay of a scroll which actually took place, which seemed possible because one of the other regulars was replays of actual basketball clips I used to watch right before sleep.

Finally one night I was able to zoom in and read it as it went by! But it was just word salad, the kind of word salad where the words themselves are cut apart and the words are concatenations of the pieces. And they morphed and rearranged themselves as I watched. Too bad!

In my dream the family dog's coat dramatically changed color and no one could explain it. I told my family I would pose a question on Ask Metafilter to see if anyone out there could.

I’ll give this one a classical Freudian dream-as-rebus interpretation.

A dog whose "coat dramatically changed color" is a ‘turncoat' when viewed as a rebus, and since the family dog is generally an emblem of loyalty, I would have to wonder whether you felt betrayed by someone close to you whose loyalty you took absolutely for granted.
posted by jamjam at 6:23 PM on April 29, 2023 [1 favorite]


I dream most often about 'places,' about 'places' that have a particular feeling

There is an island I have been to many times that only exists in my dreams
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 6:47 PM on April 29, 2023 [4 favorites]


They haven't yet retired the <image> tag, where I dream.
posted by Rash at 8:51 PM on April 29, 2023 [3 favorites]


In the dream, I eat it.
posted by Stanczyk at 9:34 AM on April 30, 2023 [4 favorites]


I occassionally have stress dreams where everyone is extremely angry about incredibly petty subjects and they're taking it out on me, so, yes, I have dreamed of MetaTalk
posted by Merus at 10:32 PM on April 30, 2023 [5 favorites]


You've reminded me of a strip I drew twenty years ago (!) about exactly this...
posted by rory at 7:48 AM on May 1, 2023 [4 favorites]


I think so. Like ten years ago I must have dreamed that I figured out a mod had deleted a comment of mine, and when I remembered the dream a few hours later, probably while at work, I could not figure out which comment it was, so I actually emailed the mods to ask about it, and it turned out that they had not deleted any comment of mine in ... some relevant the time frame.

Now that you mention it, I recently dreamt about having a comment deleted.
posted by slogger at 11:26 AM on May 1, 2023


Once I dreamed I was a mod and had a terrible panic attack, like, "Please don't do this. Don't you know I'm fucking terrible?"
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:30 PM on May 1, 2023


I'm sure Metafilter has been in my dreams. I can't name any specific instance but when I read your question my knee-jerk reaction was "oh, definitely, many times". I'm going to go with my gut on that one.
posted by potrzebie at 12:43 PM on May 1, 2023


Do Androids Dream of Eccelctic Sleep?
posted by y2karl at 12:01 AM on May 8, 2023


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