“I had a dream with you, too! Did you wake up sore, too?”
So years ago, I was going through chemotherapy, and was seeing an oncologist regularly. She was my age more or less and very attractive and single, but also an oncologist treating me professionally.
We got along very well and generally ended up talking about things other than my treatment (which is how I learned she was single - she shared that fact unprompted), but even with that, I never pushed it - it just seemed too weird to actually pursue a relationship with my oncologist. I couldn’t be sure how much of it was just in my head - some weird doctor/patient dependency thing - and besides, she was a responsible professional and I was a house painter living in a duplex and spending my spare time smoking pot and playing disc golf, so it wasn’t like I had anything of actual value to offer. So I just contented myself with pleasant conversations every two weeks.
Then one day, right near the end of my treatment, seemingly out of nowhere, she said, “I dreamed about you last night.”
I panicked. I couldn’t imagine any follow-up to that that wasn’t going to be weird or disappointing or stressful.
I don’t remember what I said or how the conversation went from there, but it was noncommittal enough that I never learned the details of her dream, and our last few appointments were straightforwardly professional, and that was that. My cancer never recurred, and I haven’t seen her since.
I’ve always wondered, but you know - if I had it to do over again, I doubt I’d do any differently.
Winner: Taskmaster Challenge “Biggest Anticlimax”
This is nothing like the last documentary I watched, where Dr Sins used a radical new technique to cure his patient’s cancer.
I would be silently praying they don’t tell me about it.
If it was a woman I’d potentially assume she was flirting with me
I’d ask them what I did in the dream
Context is sooo important in this case. What sort of dream?
My wife and kid have had many dreams with me in it as I have had many dreams with them in it.
I have had three or four co-workers tell me I was in their dreams.
I don’t attach any importance to dreams. They are just random shit that bounces around in my head. I have the classic, what I call anxiety dreams. I can’t crawl across the road and a car is coming. I am in a final I never studied for.
People have told me this before. It’s fine.
I especially like when dream me actually acts like real me.
I’d be more alarmed at their desire to tell me about it than anything else.
I dream about people I know all the time, and the context ranges from totally benign boring shit like working a shift together, to the steamy super-taboo family-destroying shit. I then wake up, shrug it off, and start thinking about things I actually care about like what to make for breakfast.
I take zero responsibility for what my brain does when it’s unconscious. It’s a computer made of meat. Gets a little glitchy sometimes when it runs maintenance tasks - those glitches don’t actually mean anything.
Now, approaching a coworker or something to tell them about it? They’re going to be either bored/uninterested, or take it as an invitation to act on something that could destroy our career or family, so… why? If I even remember the dream by the time I see that person, I’m keeping that shit to myself and I’d expect them to do the same if the roles were reversed.
To actually answer OP’s question, I’d probably deflect by saying something stupid like “I had a dream about me too! …hate it when that happens, that guy’s a real jerk!”
someone did say this to me once, i wondered what the dream was since he felt it necessary to tell me (wasnt kind of person who prattles about trivial things). But i never inquired further.
Think nothing of it. I dream about people in my life all the time and I don’t tie any significance to it.
I mean its just normal. Im pretty sure im in all of them.
What am I going to dream about you tonight?
How I am the absolute model of human perfection of normality.
Wait… Hubert Manne? As in… Human? Are you an alien posing as a human being?
lol. that is thing so funny because of how untrue it likely is. you are very humungus fellow human. I will tell my earth mate as she to will find it so funny.
Hold up guys. I think this Hubert Manne might not be completely human. Note that they used the wrong “too”. Major red flag for aliens there.
hey hey hey there. Lets not get hasty here. We are all earth bros here and there is no such things as aliens. I mean if their were wouldn’t they like manipulating the media to get idiots into power so that they could easily take over and protect their agents. Thats like illegal immigrant type talk.
Wrong there. Definitely human.
Sorry guys, false alarm.
I fucking knew it. The judge said you weren’t allowed within 3 feet of me!
Only on roads and sidewalks… and in trains and buildings and at ball games… on buses and grocery stores and malls and bananas and in the sky. But not in dreams, no sir-ee!
Oh ffs. I have work tomorrow, how long are you going to be in there?
What? You think Ill be leaving? Its comfy in here. Man these chips are so delicious but so many crumbs. And I hate how the dip falls off them all the time. Man good thing there is so many things to wipe my hands on.
You know it’s bad when your memories smell like sour cream and onion.
Urgh. Every morning with this guy. I always wake up like I’ve been drinking all night, and the back of my eyeballs feel shat on
And don’t forget milk cartons
Act surprised and a bit concerned, get a few details and then pretend that I also had the same dream but from the other perspective.
Dreams mean nothing, I wouldn’t care but would ask because usually it’s something hilariously stupid
Well, it definitely doesn’t mean they’re in love with you, if that’s what you mean. But a lot of people seem to take it that way. For me it’s exciting to hear. I know it doesn’t mean anything about how they view me on a deep level because dreams are just so random, but it’s still fun.
