# STOP telling me about your dreams **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664 "2003-02-08T05:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MC\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/1 "2003-02-08T05:21:26Z")
I don’t care… You have weird dreams all the time, but you are still compelled to tell me about each one in excruciating detail. Your storytelling ability is lacking when it comes to real life, and believe me, it doesn’t get any better when relaying stuff that didn’t actually happen and you can’t remember clearly. Yes, I think it’s odd that every bad dream you have takes place at “your grandmothers house, but different”. Maybe you should talk to someone about that… just not me. I don’t know what your dreams mean. I won’t even speculate. I think there are books about that at the library if you’re interested. But I don’t know what they mean today, and I probably won’t next week either. But that won’t stop you from asking, will it? You would think that the fact that for the last two years, my responses have consisted solely of “Hmmm”, “that’s weird”, and utter silence would give you the hint that hearing about a dream second hand is one of the most boring, hard to follow, and irritating things in the world. I hope to God I don’t do anything that irritates you as much… OK, I got that off my chest. It’s not worth fighting over in person. I love my wife, but I just had to vent. Thanks for listening. MC$E ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/2 "2003-02-08T05:31:15Z")
Last night I dreamed that I wrote a really clever response to an OP in the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/3 "2003-02-08T05:31:55Z")
Hippies used to say there was nothing as boring as somebody else’s dream, unless it was somebody else’s acid trip. Both experiences seem to generate some vague, yet impelling sense of being Significant. Used to be, people would pay good money, and gobs of it, for somebody to listen to their dreams as though they were Important. Anyway, I was on this train, going into the tunnel, on my way to my Mother’s house… ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/4 "2003-02-08T05:43:46Z")
“Ah, Blackadder. It has been a wild afternoon full of strange omens. I dreamt that a large eagle circled the room three times and then got into bed with me and took all the blankets. And then I saw that it wasn’t an eagle at all but a large black snake. Also Duncan’s horses did turn and eat each other. As usual. Good portents for your duel, do you think?” ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/5 "2003-02-08T05:44:04Z")
Last night, I had this dream again. I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on a different planet. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/6 "2003-02-08T05:58:02Z")
Jim? Is that you? (My poor husband gets to hear all my whacked-out dreams, too. He is great at pretending to listen, let me tell you.:D) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/7 "2003-02-08T06:13:15Z")
\*\* MC$E\*\* are you obliged to read this person’s dreams? Are you a therapist? Some background please. Thankyou. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/8 "2003-02-08T06:14:24Z")
Whoops. I read all but the closing statements. (It is your wife who is describing the dreams) Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/9 "2003-02-08T07:52:49Z")
I dreamt that I was way out front in my Maidenform bra. ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/10 "2003-02-08T07:55:32Z")
Well, you’d think that I’d have caught on that coming to work naked, or being back in high school means I’m dreaming, but not always. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/11 "2003-02-08T08:04:11Z")
“Was it the dream where your wearing these sort of sun god robes, and thousands of screaming naked women are throwing tiny dill pickles at you? Why am I the only one who has that dream?” You know that nightmare where you show up to school, and it’s the final, and no one told you, and you haven’t studied? That happened to me in real life. Twice. (Except for the part about no one telling me about the tests.) ---
**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/12 "2003-02-08T08:41:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*“Was it the dream where your wearing these sort of sun god robes, and thousands of screaming naked women are throwing tiny dill pickles at you? Why am I the only one who has that dream?” > > You know that nightmare where you show up to school, and it’s the final, and no one told you, and you haven’t studied? That happened to me in real life. Twice. (Except for the part about no one telling me about the tests.) \*\* I used to have that dream, a lot, where you show up in public in your underwear. And I used to have the dream where you have to take a test and you just aren’t ready. So the other night – I’m not making this up – I had a dream where the teacher showed up, in his underwear, and he wasn’t ready to give the test. Revenge? Nope. _I_ was the teacher. Just can’t friggin win. ---
**Author:** ![Infectious\_Lass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/13 "2003-02-08T17:47:02Z")
Hehe, I bore my bf with my dreams all the time, he hates it! He has taken to going la la la la very loud when I attempt to tell him about them…but it didn’t put me off! I managed it in the end! He seems to have this idea that my dreams are boring! The nerve! :righteously indignant: ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/14 "2003-02-08T18:59:42Z")
Miss Manners says the only people that should ever hear about your dreams are the ones who are there when you wake up. Maybe she’s wrong this time. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/15 "2003-02-08T19:01:34Z")
Well, all things considered, there are a lot worse things to have to put up with. And for the record, I do listen, somewhat. Ok, maybe listen is too strong a word, but at least I don’t go “LA-LA-LA-LA” I guess I’m not alone, and maybe some of you other “Dream-tellers” will find it in your hearts to limit yourselves once in a while. MC$E ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/16 "2003-02-08T21:42:37Z")
\*This is ponderous man… Really ponderous… I had this dream the other night… I went to work one day… And nobody remembered who i was… So, i decided to take the day off… \* ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/17 "2003-02-08T21:44:43Z")
…but this was no ordinary grape. It was a seedless grape! And then… ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/18 "2003-02-08T21:57:01Z")
I have never had a dream in which the laws of physics were broken. Is that significant? ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/19 "2003-02-08T22:08:45Z")
Unless You’re Martin Luther King ---
**Author:** ![RenMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@RenMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RenMan)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664/20 "2003-02-08T22:15:33Z")
Sometimes other people’s dreams can be [entertaining](http://www.slowwave.com/). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-telling-me-about-your-dreams/153664.md?page=2)