A midsummer night's dream
So, it seems that several of my fellow bloggers are posting their dreams online and asking for (or at least receiving) interpretations from helpful readers. I had a rather bizarre (and, I think, blasphemous) dream last night and would like to solicit your feedback.
As the dream began, I was attending a chapel service at my old high school. The chapel speaker had just finished his message. As he left, Bill Cosby walked up to the podium and announced the next event. The event was titled (this is an exact quote), "Decorate Jesus in Three Minutes."
After announcing the event, Bill Cosby led the entire assembly through a backdoor behind the chapel, and we emerged into a gigantic indoor ice skating rink. Several dozen snowmen were scattered about the rink. I somehow intuitively understood that a giant statue of Jesus was in the center of the rink (although perhaps significantly, it was obscured by snowmen and I could not see it), and that we were supposed to skate around it and decorate it with Christmas ornaments until the three minutes had elapsed. People began skating out and quickly surrounded the Jesus statue, decorating it. I had never ice skated before and so stayed nervously along the outside edge of the rink. As the dream finished, I noticed that my friend Mark (who had suddenly appeared in the dream) was ice skating in front of me and casting magic spells to steady himself each time he wavered or seemed about to fall. Then the three minutes elapsed, and the dream ended.
Thoughts? Condemnations? What does this all mean for my life?
Comments
It wasn't a dream. And it won't end.
Posted by: Mark | August 25, 2003 7:28 PM
Your dream clearly communicated your subconscious belief that the commercialization and secularization of Christmas is the direct result of the machinations of Bill Cosby's evil empire. For the record, your subconscious is dead on.
The dream also indicates that you believe Mark to be a level three Wizard with an incredibly lame variety of spells in his spell book. Unfortunately, your subconscious has led you astray on this one. Mark is level 4 now, as he gained a bunch of experience points for banishing Bill Cosby to the nearest convenient parallel dimension shortly after your dream ended.
Posted by: Bill | August 25, 2003 7:40 PM
yes, that's all true. But you forgot the part about me shouting "Who's laughing now, Funny Man!!!" as Cosby's body and soul were sucked down into the portal in a rush of wind and steel (just like those armored swordsmen on the last levels of Diablo I).
Posted by: Mark | August 25, 2003 7:51 PM
Wow, you guys have taken an already disturbing dream and managed to make it even more disturbing...
(Hilarious, BTW.)
Posted by: jrau | August 26, 2003 11:53 AM
Bill is just upset because he, being a ranger and requiring more experience per level, hasn't reached level 4 yet. Don't worry Bill, you can still run faster on all four.
Posted by: TdB | August 26, 2003 2:46 PM
Oddly enough, the other night I saw a group in concert, "The Cosby Kids Mysteries". They sucked horribly, but that's not the odd part. Their show was in the style of an old-tyme revival, but they worshipped Bill Cosby instead of Jesus.
I believe this is one of the latter signs of the Apocolypse.
Posted by: pcg | August 26, 2003 7:47 PM
I fully intended to devise and post my own whimsical dream interpretation, but you all weird me out.
Posted by: alan | August 27, 2003 7:03 AM