dream imagery where I feel just not quite myself

[derien]

I had this dream where I was Laurel and me and Hardy were driving around the countryside lost in the darkness and it was the end of the world. We had heard that Mike Bérubé* had started a survivalist commune and we thought we might go there, but then we stopped at a gas station that he owned and after we filled the car hundreds of Nazis on motorcycles came swooping around the corner and stopped us from going inside and paying. So then we thought Mike might not accept us at the commune because we hadn't paid for our gas.

As I was waking up I thought to myself, "It'll be good to be myself again, so I can go back to having the sorts of conversations with myself that I'm normally used to having."

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*I have no idea why him - I haven't seen Bérubé** in years, nor had any reason I can think of to be reminded of him besides the link I have to his professional site from my art page at my site.

**(In case I get garbledygook there - I don't know how to make the accent agues over his name, but he hates it when people don't use them because without them he considers the result to not be his name, so I'm copy-pasting from his page and hoping Semagic can fill those in.)

Comments

[mizzmarvel.livejournal.com]

I'm sure at least you and Hardy were hilarious.

[derien.livejournal.com]

It was the end of the world, so it was a sort of hysterical hilarity.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Eek! Nazis! The scary guys in my dreams are usually orcs.

I'm having some really easy-to-analyse ones lately, like one where I skipped 5th year of school and came back in 6th (the last) year to be an Irish teacher for my former class! I'm crap at Irish and in this dream I hadn't even done all of 5th - 6th year! I obviously think I'm acting like some sort of chancer, but I don't know in relaiton to what...

[derien.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my dreams in which it's final exam time and I have in fact forgotten to attend class all semester.

What is "chancer"?

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Oh sorry! I never remember which are my Irish words. It's someone who "chances their arm" at everything. Like someone who'd have the neck to apply for a job they don't know how to do, get it and then go in brazen as brass and try to do the job. They are also known as "spoofers" in Ireland.

This might be a cultural reference that you don't know but this man is a prime example:

[derien.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, probably a cultural reference I don't get. A guy showing silverware?

I wonder if we have a name for people like that? "Posers" isn't quite exactly right, though kind of in the same ballpark. "Asshole" is a little too vague. It's good to have a word for something that I find annoying as all hell.

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

That's Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses which was a really famous British comedy when I was growing up. I thought you might have it over there too.

[derien.livejournal.com]

It's possible that it's on BBC America or something, but I don't have a tv connection.