# Good Grief - I had a dream about assaulting Sarah Palin

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450 "2010-09-20T19:05:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/1 "2010-09-20T19:05:48Z")

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and she was the POTUS!!! :eek::eek:

Weirder still, there was a Secret Service agent there who did nothing to stop me as I pinned her head against a table.

What the heck does THAT mean, in dream analysis theory I wonder??

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/2 "2010-09-20T19:14:46Z")

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It means you want to have sex with your father and kill your mother.

All dreams pretty much mean the same thing.

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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/3 "2010-09-20T19:40:14Z")

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> [@tdn](#):
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> It means you want to have sex with your father and kill your mother.
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> All dreams pretty much mean the same thing.

Humm - why don’t I remember that from my Freudian Dream Analysis class…

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**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/4 "2010-09-20T20:04:10Z")

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You were out that day with a case of amnesia, remember?

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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/5 "2010-09-20T20:18:52Z")

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Erm…

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/6 "2010-09-20T20:32:10Z")

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> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
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> …as I pinned her head against a table.

She wasn’t bent over the table, was she? That just conjures up a whole 'nother world of Freudian bugaboos.

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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/7 "2010-09-20T20:43:28Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> > [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
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> > …as I pinned her head against a table.
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> She wasn’t bent over the table, was she? That just conjures up a whole 'nother world of Freudian bugaboos.

No sir - it wasn’t _THAT_ kind of dream…

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-grief-i-had-a-dream-about-assaulting-sarah-palin/554450/8 "2010-09-20T20:47:23Z")

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Wait, you just had a baby, right?

Did you _safety_ pin her head to the table?

'Cause that opens up a whole 'nother sub-chapter in my dream analysis book.
