#452 – Surround

It’s interesting when you have a weird dream and you realize why it happened. “Oh yeah… I watched that monster movie… I had that argument with my boss… and I had that pizza for lunch. That’s why I had that dream about Godzilla throwing pizza at me while complaining that I didn’t get to work on time.”

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46 thoughts on “#452 – Surround”

  1. O'Connor says:

    I wish I had dreams about being attacked by a firehose… my dreams are mostly boring, like reenacting the previous day in slow motion.

  2. Mithras says:

    “The snake incident” brings so much imagery to my mind…

    Did a snake try to mate with Biff’s Eyebrows?

  3. stonehydra says:

    wuld this snake insadint inculde the toster by any chance.

  4. Nick says:

    I remember after one incredibly busy work week, I came back and tried to sleep, but in my dreams, I was still working the cash register. It had seeped into my subconscious and even while sleeping, I was still at work. =(

  5. SEA says:

    Why don’t i have dreams like that… =p

  6. I don’t quite like that smile.

    We all have dreams like that. Usually, it’s the mind’s way of working things out on its own.

  7. TwitchyHug says:

    Man, last night after watching the Petergeist episode of Family Guy I dreamed that I peeled all my skin off. It was terrifying.

  8. Arix says:

    Does this have anything to do with the toaster?

  9. themanwithsauce says:

    I hate the dream that’s very vivid where you go to school, go for most of the day, then wake up…to go to school… >:(

    I ALWAYS hated that stupid dream and it would always happen the night before a very long day at school like exam day or when I had to do something important for once.

  10. The monkey of Love says:

    I thought it was a belt

  11. Bullet Fiend says:

    That is an awesome dream.

    But not as awesome as the dream I had where me, my cat and two people who were my “good friends” (even though looking back, I have no idea who the hell they were) decided to steal some sort of mobile hovering assault fortress. After succeeding and crashing it into a hotel after approximately four minutes, I got out and coincedentally met the guy who plays Samir on Officespace.

    And that’s why you don’t have three ice creams scoops just before sleep!

    No, seriously, I really had this dream. I kinda prefer it to the ones I have now where the last thing I remember is closing my eyes in real life.

  12. Bullet Fiend says:

    BTW: I meant the dream about Godzilla was the awesome dream.

  13. Celticbear says:

    I don’t remember this (I was asleep), but about ten years ago, when I worked in a warehouse, my wife told me I was talking in my sleep, asking:”Where did all these !@#$%^$ pallets come from?”. Since then, the only bad dream I have is a recurring one where I am at work naked. Since I work outside in all kinds of weather, wearing tools, it is rather disturbing.

  14. MaskedMan says:

    I didn’t need a dream to be attacked by a firehose – Some moron left a charged hose unattended during a drill, and another moron tripped over the nozzle. A lot of us got knocked head over toast before we could secure the fire plug.

    Funnily enough, that incident *didn’t* make me dream of snakes…

  15. GK says:

    That Godzilla throwing pizza dream seems rather specific… Did have that dream?

  16. 5h4rp13 says:

    You think after the toaster incident, he’d be more wary around snakes

  17. Paul says:

    Gotta watch out for them hoses! They’ll eat you alive.

  18. trevor says:

    Ever have dreams about stuff that happens in the future? That’s always cool. Like one time, I had a dream where at one point, thesse cats were in a pac man maze shooting lasers, and RIGHT when I woke up, on the T.V. there was a comdey skit about cats shooting lasers.

  19. R.A. says:

    So is the fire hose gonna try to eat him next in the dream?

    My dreams are always fun. As a kid I had a reoccurring dream where I was walking in a forest and would find this gazebo with toys scattered around the floor. Everything had this blue tint to it, like I was wearing blue-tinted sunglasses, except my sister, whom I would find in the gazebo. Then she would try to kill me. The ways differed, so I suppose it’s not truly a reoccurring dream since that detail always changed, but there are two ways I remember most vividly. In one the floor would drop out from under me and I would start to fall into a pit full of alligators and in the other she’d send these three demons after me. I dreamed about those demons on their own a lot, too. They were always after me. Come to think of it, I dreamed about gazebos a lot as a kid, too, outside of the sister-trying-to-kill-me dream.

  20. Reg says:

    I have dreams and I have no clue why I had them.
    This one dream I had a really long time ago, there was a birthday party at my house with R2D2 and C3PO there! Then out of nowhere, some savage-dog-beast thing came and everybody got the heck of my house. But while C3PO was running past my driveway, he looked down and said, “Oh look R2. A penny!”. And just as he bent down to pick it up, the monster lunged at him at lightning speed! That instant I woke up.
    My birthday was off by about 9 months, I haven’t seen or heard anything about Star Wars in I don’t know how long and I wasn’t even at the party in my dream!…

  21. Reg says:

    BTW, this really did happen! (In my dream that is….)
    And funny dreams, Bullet Fiend and R.A.!

  22. MOD says:

    i once had a prophetic dream where i went to school and the teacher asked a really diffiult math question, and i was the only one who got it right. and then the next day it happened. and i only knew the answer ’cause i saw it in my dream :S

  23. DracoZereul says:

    Oddly enough, I don’t get too many dreams; I never remember anything when I wake up. However, being a gamer, there have been FAR more times than I can count where I would play a game all day, then go to sleep, and dream that I’m in the game. Hilariously enough, it usually happens right as my alarm’s going off. My eyes are always closed, but I can vividly see an attack bar to the side, just like whatever game I was recently playing, and I go through the processes to “attack” the snoozebar before going back to sleep.

    It sounds fun, but it’s actually kinda exhausting. I never get a good night’s sleep when my mind is on a game that much.

  24. MasterMenthe says:

    I dream visions of the future whenever i actually sleep. What happens is A.) I barely ever sleep deeply, so i don’t have these visions often, and B.) they always come true in reality,sometimes repeatedly. However, the only trend I can find is that it takes either one day, one week, or one month for them to occur, and from then on those moments repeat on an annual basis. Strange, but if there were a supernatural tech support I’d call and complain, because it really wrecks havoc with my memory system, causeing double copies to be created at periodic intervals. Double copies, meaning one memory of the moment is stored in recent memory and in one in the long-term memory logs, which means I can’t tell for the life of me how long ago that event occured, as well as giving a surrealistic ‘hue’ in my mind’s eye, giving it a dream-like appearance/feel.

    Still waiting for book #2.

  25. some kid says:

    my dreems are things like mud wreseling with warewolves…

    i wish i was normal

  26. Chivalrybean says:

    I watched The Ring late into the night, then went right to bed.

    The next morning (early) I was in the living room putting on my shoes and I looked up and across the room and almost shouted (which would have awakened everyone).

    Dad’s clothing for that day was hanging on the rocker and looked like a woman sitting there wearing a veil. It was good I realized it was dad’s clothes in time, or I might have annoyed everyone, but it would have been funny.

  27. Moose Cakes says:

    When I was a kid I only had one dream. Every single night. I would be walking through a town with my family but all the walls were brick and instead of having real windows and doors all these were painted on the side of the buildings. All the people were painted to. The part I remember the most was the grocery store. Than at the same exact time, every night I had to go to the bathroom. So, my family disappears and I go down an alley were there’s a bathroom and I go. Then when I’m done the room fills with water and scuba divers come in an swim around. After that a very large brown furry arm with claws comes out of one of the stalls and grabs a scuba diver, the water and other scuba divers disappear and the arm drags the body into the stall leaving behind a blood trail. Then I wake up.

    Having that dream every night for several years really messed me up. It made me not want to go to sleep so I developed some very unhealthy sleep habits. The next dream I had was about forks and umbrellas on a giant chess board. And soup.

  28. Silfedac says:

    I have very few dreams, and far apart, but when I do, they’re insane. I remember once I dreamt I was a toaster.

    There are two dreams that I remember extremely vividly, even though I only had them once. In one, my parents and my aunt and uncle were standing at the foot of the stairs in my house, and I was at the top. I shouted something at them, then I turned around, and started to slowly fall backwards all the way down the steps. Just as I was about to hit, though, I woke up and my back hit the bed. It turned out that I had fallen asleep while sitting up and reading in bed, and while I was falling in my dream, I had been falling in real life, too.

    In the second one, I had been watching cartoons (specifically Bugs Bunny and Rocket Power) and reading old Goosebumps books all day. In the dream, the characters from the shows and I built a treehouse out of cursed wood. We were playing in the treehouse, when for some reason it caught fire. Then we went to get out, but the ground and the tree were covered with poison ivy, just like in one of the stories I had read. but anyway, it prevented us from getting out, and we were trapped between the poison ivy and the fire, and then…

    …I woke up. It was the scariest dream I’ve ever had, and I hope I never have anything scarier. It really freaked me out, especially since I was only seven at the time.

  29. insertnamehere says:

    hmm… well, unlike most other prophetic dreamers here, my dreams generally happen anytime between 6 months and a few years later. maybe that one about me being chinese (no offense intended there, if there was any) and being chased by a big huge bulldog. and everything was blue, which was weird. I believe I finished that dream: part II a few years later. Also, The only reccuring dream I had was when a dragon was burning down the school, and I was running across the open asphalt with the principal, trying to get him to safety (I have no idea why), and the funny thing was, it was seymour skinner from the simpsons! anyway, with my prophet powers (PP for short), I forget them completely until they come true, then WHAM! then I think *hey, this happened in a dream I had once!*. then it ends and life continues to make no sense again.

    so says the nameless one.

  30. Dave D says:

    This exact thing happens from time to time – when events of the past day meld together within my dreams – especially when I have a bad habit of falling asleep after getting home from work early. It doesn’t leave me ‘scarred for life’ like Biff obviously is – just leaves me muttering “wtf….??!” when I ‘snap out of it’ as always happens when the dream becomes too bizarre for me to comprehend. (if that sounded too ‘stream of conciousness’, I ‘snapped out’ of one such dream just now).

    As for freak-out dreams, I don’t know what led up to it, but back in high school, I can remember dreaming walking into a giant room that had thousands of light bulbs on the ceiling and throwing the switch and seeing them burn out one right after the other. That was the one thing I hated the most when I was growing up – turning on the light only to have it burn out right then and there. By hated I mean ‘freak-out’ hated. Anyway, the instant that happened in my dream, I let loose with a yell and which had my mother at my bedroom door within 2 seconds asking me what was the matter…

  31. emthegreat says:

    i dream i have wings and can fly, like that girl in “maximum ride”.
    its a pretty awsome dream.

  32. Gaara1357 says:

    once i had a dream that i had to do a 154 page exam but about 13 sec. later i realized i was in a dream cuz there were snakes in the classroom so i ripped my exam in half and grabbed a machette and killed every1 then i woke up 🙁

  33. Nikanaiko says:

    You know the funny thing? After I saw this, I had a dream about a snake crawling out of a firehose and linked it back to this. Behold the irony!

  34. Velociraptor says:

    This reminds me of this old Mickey Mouse cartoon I watched on Thurs. Where Mickey Mouse was getting rid of bugs in his and Minnie’s shared garden. It was going well until Pluto got stuck in a pumpkin and the bug spray got clogged. Mickey had JUST gotten rid of the clog and hadn’t turned it around when Pluto (the dog, not the sub-planet spinning toward Mickey) ran right into the slide-shooter-thingymabober and sprayed Mickey! His head got all weird and funky and lumpy, every thing started to grow. He ran away from/outsmarted all the bugs and he woke up thinking he was being throttled by a worm or caterpillar and it was just the garden hose. In short, he could/should have died but, for any sick, twisted sadists, he didn’t.

    my dreams are all too stupid, confusing, scary, warped, etc. etc. (it’s an INCREDIBLY long list of adjectives that mean the same thing: never any GOOD dreams, like flying.) to tell… that, and I’ve forgotten almost all of them. Dreams are becoming more and more rare for me, but they STILL freak me out. Sometimes, I can repeat a dream, but only if its better than the others, even if its only to an extent(i can and will change my dream, but it only works with rerun dreams. :S). And sometimes I will watch a tv show, and then go to bed, and have a dream with that exact tv show being on, but there will be MORE stuff in it. Example: I once watched the one episode of THE SIMPSONS where Mr. Burns gets shot(pt 01) when I was 5 and in my dream I saw pt 1 AND pt 2 AND extras like afterwards Mr Burns gave Maggie the gun that shot him as a toy, and she shot Homer in the foot. The voices were perfect, the animation was perfect, and my family was watching it with me. In the morning nobody said that they recalled such a thing happening and I remembered that I had went to bed beforehand. Funny, huh?

  35. Velociraptor says:

    PS When you dream about something that is perfectly normal and it becomes real, or it already has, its called deja vu. It’s French. Happens to me AAAALLLLLLLLLLLL the time, when I’m not getting chased by some creepy crawly.

  36. Psymon says:

    Technically déjà vu is the nagging feeling you have seen something before, but cannot remember where or when—usually you are seeing something you could not have seen before.
    I do not know what the term for precognitive dreams is, nor for their fulfillment. I used to have (rare) precognitive dreams about external events, but now it has been reduced to déjà senti (already felt), meaning I feel that I am remembering an errant thought—and these do not seem to have matching dreams.

  37. Curly says:

    seems like dream week…

  38. Koer says:

    I have really strange dreams literally every night.

  39. ///.o Emo Ferret says:

    Meh… I’d rather have firehose dreams… All I have are dreams of my gf I’ll never see again… ///~T

  40. ///.o Emo Ferret says:

    I’d rather have that dream then the ones I have every night… Dreams of the gf I’ll never see again… ///~T They torture me so…

  41. jykcor says:

    the snake got inside the forehead VCR

  42. Altorin says:

    I Once had a dream where the highway going through my town had a giant vertical loop in it, and my grandmother bought a motorcycle…

  43. Biligum says:

    The sad thing is that Biff’s dreams aren’t a whole lot weirder than his reality.

  44. Hornswaggler says:

    I haven’t seen this comment in a while…
    You know what would fix this? FLAMING HAMMERS.

  45. SurveySays says:

    when i was in school i’d have these really realistic dreams about me going to school and going thru my normal routine, complete with hanging out with friends and coming home and going to bed. then as soon as i was asleep in my dream i’d wake up and go to school and be really disoriented(Sp?) for the rest of the day. when my subconsious was being really mean i’d have a 10 day school week. this never happened on the weekends.

  46. Pix says:

    what? the?
    tahw? eht?

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