I used to have incredibly boring dreams. When I was younger, I would wake up in a cold sweat after having nightmares about not turning in my homework on time or having to restart my computer several times after the Web continually crashed on me. Yep, they were that bad. But now that I’m older and am lucky enough to have a job that allows me to be constantly immersed in entertainment, pop culture has been popping up in nearly all my dreams.
Last night’s was a doozy: I dreamt that I Love Money’s The Entertainer (pictured) was offering free foot massages in hopes of raising awareness about Graft versus Host disease. This dream was particularly strange, considering I haven’t looked at any of my Arrested Development DVDs in about three months, and my boyfriend is barring me from watching last Sunday’s episode of I Love Money because he’d rather see some swimmer guy win a bunch of medals at some big sports event, yadda yadda yadda. And two nights ago I dreamt I willingly entered room 1408 with John Cusack, even though I knew it was an "evil f—ing room." And the worst part about all these dreams is that my inappropriate crush, Robert Pattinson, has yet to appear in any of them, even though I’ve willed him to hundreds of several times. Come on, work your magic, Cedric Diggory!
How about you, PopWatchers? What were some of your craziest, pop culture-centric dreams?
Comments (1-30) of 131 Add your comment
I’ve had several dreams where I was a cast member on The Real World, or at least I was living in the house at the same time as them. They’re usually pretty funny dreams, but I’m definitely ashamed that my obsession with the show permeates my subconscious. I try to hold myself to a higher standard than that. However, I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed that I was on one of the Challenges, which would probably be even more entertaining.
I once dreamt that Meredith Viera was a sniper out to kill me, and Star Jones was my bodyguard. I stopped watching the View for a while after that.
I have 2 really strange ones:
-When I was a teenager, I had a very scary and realistic dream that the NKOTB were chasing me down an alley for reasons unknown.
-Around the same time, I had a dream that I was a contestant on Double Dare which was taping at the Civic Center in my town for some reason. The weirdest part was that my dad came to cheer me on and showed up dressed as Jethro from The Beverly Hillbillies.
i had a weird Bono dream last nite- just. plain. weird.
anyways! I heart I love Money!
Another one I had, which is also the only nightmare I’ve ever had, had to do with Quantum Leap. There was a Halloween episode that I saw as a kid where this goat kept following Sam around, and I think it was supposed to represent the devil. In my dream, the goat kept following me around and looking at me with scary, beady eyes, but not actually doing anything. For some reason I tried to escape it by going down to the Jersey shore. I’m sure there was a logical explanation for this plan. But the goat caught up with me and chased me all over the Wildwood boardwalk. I even rode a roller coaster to get away (more seemless logic), but it was there waiting for me at the end of the ride. I woke up completely freaked out and went and slept in my parents’ room.
On several occasions, I have had dreams where I’ve made up entire episodes of my favorite tv shows – the last one I can recall involved Friday Night Lights (Tim Riggins in particular…inappropriate crush indeed!).
Last night I dreamt I was hanging out with Helen Mirren and she was a veterinarian.
And like Courtney, I’ve also had a celebrity sniper dream. I was standing up with Bruce Willis at his wedding and Cuba Goodning, Jr. was a sniper and killed Bruce and then came after me.
I’ve also had dreams that were episodes of Veronica Mars.
I spent two year stationed in Korea without cable, so we bought a lot of TV on DVD. My husband and I went through every episode of ‘Star Trek: TNG’ in order from start to finish in about two months. I spent weeks dreaming about the show. Some dreams I would wake up immediately because I was a red shirt. No way was I getting myself killed in my dreams, man. No way!
Ever since the marketing blitz for Iron Man began, Robert Downey Jr. has been making appearances in my dreams. The weird thing is, the dream is never about him specifically and whenever I run into him he’s always in the middle of some random task. The first time he was raking leaves at the end of the street I grew up on; another time, he was working at my company’s service bureau. Also odd, I’m never surprised to see him and everyone in my dream always calls him by his full name – “Oh, Hi Robert Downey Jr,” or “Hey, Robert Downey Jr. can you hand me that stack of papers?”
I had a dream the other night that Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon got a divorce. I think it’ll come true eventually…
Right around the time that Jay-Z and Beyonce were rumored to be marrying I dreamt that they called me and asked me to be their wedding planner and I woke up in a cold sweat. (Isn’t that sad?) I also have had a couple dreams involving Jensen Ackles. I pray for more.
I often dream about the books I am reading. Okay when it is Harry Potter, not so good when it is a Scandanavian murder mystery. I am still waiting for the Mad Men dream – ahh.
Over the weekend I had a dream that starred Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. It wasn’t like an episode of Supernatural or anything. They were just hanging out in my dream of me and my friends at a bar. I really can’t complain though. On a side note, a lot of times when I watch a chunk of TV episodes on DVD, later that night I’ll dream about them.
Joopiter – your post had me laughing so hard that I had spit RedBull on my keyboard. Thanks a lot.
I have seen maybe three episodes of “What Not to Wear” and I had a dream that the hair stylist guy (Nick?) had a crush on me and followed me around my whole dream. One that is better explained is when I dreamt of Jim Halpert but he just wanted to sell me paper. Damn.
I once dreamed that Darth Vader was chasing me, Scoobie and Shaggy through the University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Union. Vader was about to give me a serious lightsaber slicing when I woke up in a cold sweat. I was like, 10 when I had that dream and it’s never stopped haunting me. Apparently, my brain’s got some sort of latent fear of Darth Vader.
Another oddball, I dreamt I was “Jr” from Motley Crew’s “Way Cool Jr” video. All done in first person, these masses of MTV video bimbos were flocking to me. That was around the days when I was 12.
In more recent years, I dreamt of meeting Sean Connery and talking smack with him. It was pretty cool. I got to ask him all about his days as James Bond, and pondered whether or not Bond would still be able to film a scene where he pats a girl on the heiny before starting up a “man talk” conversation. The dream version of Connery thought it was a pretty funny line…
I had a dream last night where I was in Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and Sarah Connor and I, and some other people that I aren’t actually in the show, were running around searching for John, who may or may not have been kidnapped. Then my cat woke me up to be fed. After that I tried to go back to sleep and start back up in the same dream, but it didn’t make any sense anymore. Go figure.
I went through a two week period this summer where I would be halfway into a non-pop-culture dream when suddenly the characters of one of my favorite shows would appear and tell me that this script just wasn’t working. The rest of the dream would be that we would all go sit down and rewrite the script of the dream I was in, using the characters that appeared.
A few months ago I dreamt I was an Other on Lost. Then somehow Desmond turned up, but he was a vampire and was chasing me and all the Others. It was really cool.
I have had a few dreams about Robert Pattinson though!
CSK – I take no responsibility for broken keyboards. If your keyboard is acting up after spitting Red Bull on it, you may want to call tech support – I’m sure at some point in my dreams Robert Downey Jr. will be there too.
A few nights ago I had a long and complicated dream, the gist of which was that I, along with the main guy from Step Up 2 and Bart Simpson were kidnapped and put in the back of a semi. Bart spent the whole time skateboarding behind the semi, and I saved the Step Up guy’s life when he almost fell out. Then he wanted me to be his girlfriend. It was odd.
Love the Robert Downey, Jr. dream…reminds me of that episode of Ed where he had a dream with Taye Diggs in it, and everyone referred to him as “Taye Diggs.”
In college, I had a dream that Dave Foley (of Kids in the Hall and NewsRadio fame) was feeding me peaches.
Also, last year I had a particularly AWESOME dream where John Krasinski and I were at a movie with a group of people. He asked me if I wanted to get popcorn, but instead took me behind the building and made out with me.
*sigh* Yes, I’m single.
Normally I don’t, but last night I had a dream that I was dating Chris Garver from Miami Ink. I must be really concerned that they never show him with anybody.
I have a recurring dream about meeting Bono in a downtown Chicago hotel elevator. He’s always impressed by me because, although I’m a big fan, I’m not “one of those crazy people” who bother him. Instead, in the dream, I’m his coolest fan ever. He invites me to the hotel bar to have drinks with the rest of the band. But I never can go because I’ve promised my kids that I’ll take them swimming in the hotel pool. And then Bono is even more impressed that I’m such a cool mom. My Bono elevator dream always makes me happy!
One time I dreamt that I was in co-starring in a Western with John Goodman and we were shooting one of those classic quick-draw scenes where we were supposed to walk ten paces, turn around and shoot.
The only problem was that once we turned, we couldn’t hit each other AT ALL. No offense to John Goodman because I love the man’s work, but if I can’t hit John Goodman from ten paces away, I need to retire from being a cowboy.
Did I mention that Woody Allen was directing the Western and was becoming very annoyed with us?
My girlfriend also told me she once had a dream where I was Batman. I wasn’t wearing the cape and cowl or anything, and I wasn’t Bruce Wayne – I was myself. It was just understood that I was Batman.
Best. Dream. Ever. (and it wasn’t even mine)
My sister had a dream (back when my nephew was younger) that she was hanging with the SpongeBob characters. I can’t remember the name of the starfish, but she was sittin’ on his lap (!!!), talking to him. I’ve never even seen the show, but still…that’s one hilarious visual!
When I was a kid, I had a dream that I was having sex with the hot female alien from Cocoon (the one that gets down with Gutenberg) on a boat, and a bunch of people were watching. Mind you, I was like 11 when I had this dream, but it was still awesome.
THis one could tie in with the “Olympic Stud of the Day” thread: Last night I had a dream that I was doing -*ahem*- floor exercises with gymnast Raj Bhavsar. And sadly, I was VERY disappointed in his performance. After we finished, we went shopping for Halloween costumes at a Wal-Mart.
Ceballos – I just had a dream last week that I was Batman. Trust me, when it’s your own dream, it’s even better. I was smiling the whole next day.
Well Rob Pattinson showed up in my dream last night. Its all that You tube watching of him lately. I’d read someone else’s dream about having sex with Rob on a kitchen table and I was obviously trying my hardest to recreate the same dream. But Rob was playing hard to get. I was getting frustrated and saying all sorts of things to get him on that damn table but woke up before any fun. I was sooooooo frustrated. Rob you owe me.