# Totally pointless dream stuff

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 10, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-pointless-dream-stuff/663102 "2013-07-10T03:03:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-pointless-dream-stuff/663102/1 "2013-07-10T03:03:05Z")

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By my bed, I keep a notebook in case I get a brilliant idea when I’m in bed, but it ends up just containing reminders of a bill I might not have paid, or someone’s birthday I might forget. Very rarely, I note something interesting from a dream I had, before it disappears with the light of day.

Last night, I wrote “skunkwood minet”. In my dream, I wanted to call something by that name. I was about to write a band, but it might have been the title of a play.

When I woke up this morning, I remember thinking that there’s no such thing as skunkwood, and that the juxtaposition of the English-sounding and French word had no particular charm.

So, I had heard of skunkweed, but not skunkwood. I decided to google it. To my surprise, I discovered that the skunk is sometimes referred to as a “wood pussy”. Well, since “minet” is a familiar French word for “cat” aka pussy, the title translates as skunkwood pussy, or skunk wood pussy. Odd choice of words for my notebook, huh?

I might need an analyst. Maybe this could be voted the most pointless and useless thread topic in history, and I would feel vindicated.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-pointless-dream-stuff/663102/2 "2013-07-10T03:50:50Z")

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Only you can tell yourself the meaning of your dreams.

I rather often lucid dream. Most recently (a few days ago) I was sleeping in my reclining chair in my front room (for my own reasons.) I decided I wanted to fly in that dream (something I love to do.) I had enough lucid consciousness to think “Oh gawd I hope I don’t sleep walk because I’m not wearing any clothes.” I have always been very restless in dreaming and sleep walking is not unfamiliar.

How’s that for pointless? Except for the first sentence.