[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Nick Wedig]

>but i
>do have quite a few dreams that involve stuff that doesn't exist. y'know,
>like albums and books and suchlike. 

This reminds me a lot of SurReview, which is a web zine that occasionally reviews things that don't exist (half the fun is guessing which products are real and which aren't.) 

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/jthomas/SurReview/SurReview.html

One odd thing to note is that I first discovered the page through it being listed as a plot device for Over The Edge, where some of the fictional items reviewed ended up coming true (... "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus Tertium", anyone?).  One of the items they reviewed long ago was a printed version of Mr. Tynes's Puppetland which, later on, actually was printed!  probably just a coincidence, but still...

>i dream that i buy a new album by a band
>i like, and listen to it, then wake up and remember the dream. i recall
>listening to the album, sometimes really clearly, but i can't remember the
>album itself.
>i have a pet theory. i think that rather than my mind creating an entire
>album's worth of songs during the dream, it just sort of displays something
>like a "song" icon at me. the same sort of thing that presumably pops up in
>the back of my brain when i actually listen to a song that causes me to
>recognise it as such. during the dream i react to the "icon" the same way i
>would to the actual thing.

On the other hand, the one dream I've had where a dream song was involved (as opposed to the various dreams with real, external songs), I was later able to sing the song for some friends.  I guess my dream worked on a different level.  It was a advertising jingle (for a product that doesn't exist) during a commercial break from whatever dream I had.  I watched too much television as a child, I guess.

Mr. Teapot
watches very very little television now

>all this boils down to, i could imagine having a dream where i met greg
>stolze, and his name being said to me, but i wouldn't necessarily be any the
>wiser when awake as to how to pronounce his name. because in the dream, it
>wouldn't really have been pronounced. i'd just have "heard" a stolze icon.
>it also reminds me of something i read about an experiment in which people
>were hypnotised and told they could see a square circle. when brought out of
>hypnosis they were asked to draw it. funnily enough, they couldn't. but they
>could still "see" it in their minds.
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