Oh my god. I am so tired this morning. Last night, I had really involved dreams, and when I woke up, I felt like I hadn’t slept at all. Does that ever happen to any of you? You wake up, and you feel like you’ve been living another life in the Dreamscape, so you didn’t get any rest?
Tired as I am, though, the only thing I remember is sitting on my knees on a skateboard, and using my hands to push myself down Lake Avenue in Pasadena. Weird.
Night before last, I had this dream that I was riding around in Air Force One with Bill Clinton (who was a really nice guy in my dream, incidentally), and every time I tried to enter a room, the Secret Service would search me and make me answer security questions. Really weird.
That sketch I put up at ACME? The “Hip Replacement” one? The rest of the company liked it, and so did the director! This means that my sketch is “on the list,” which means that the director will work with me to refine it, and then we’ll put it in front of an audience. If the audience likes it, my sketch (and I!) may make it into the show. It’s still a long way from being back on the ACME stage every Saturday night, but at least I have started down that road again. I really hope I make the show, because just being there for a few hours on Saturday reminded me how much fun I have with that company, and how much I miss performing there.
After I pitched my material, I stuck around to watch the Bad Taste Show. It’s a collection of sketches that are too dirty, or too offensive, or too “wrong” to be in a regular show, and they are hilarious! I’m totally pitching material for the next one we do.
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Congrats! I will be sending the good mojo your way. I might just have to make the trip to LA to see the show if you make it. I’ll bring Brandi too.
I should probably get back to studying for the midterm I have tonight.
I hate waking up feeling like I’ve had no sleep. This morning was one of those for me too, and when I finally woke up properly I found I’d completely broken my alarm clock, I think I was trying to make it stop beeping. I hate it when I take on engineering projects in my sleep.
I’ve been dreaming a lot lately too… disturbing dreams about having children (ack!)…
All your talk of the upcoming ACME show had my improv brain working and I came up with geek driving… It was funny at 4 AM in the dark, lemme tell ya!
Good luck on getting into the show!
I’ve dreamed that I couldn’t sleep a number of times. Then the alarm goes off and I wake up. It is the most agonizing thing, because as far as your mind is concerned you’ve been wide awake all night. Blah! 😐
I totally understand how you feel about missing performing. I’ve directed in the past year, but I haven’t been on stage since last September. (Karaoke doesn’t count. 🙂 ) In the past month or so, I’ve really noticed the lack of performance. Luckily there are a few things coming up that I’m hoping to get involved in. I’ll wish you a broken leg if you return the favor! 😀
I do live another life in the dream world, sometimes. I have one particular recurring dream world. It’s not the same dream, but it’s the same setting, same characters, and has some sort of progressing story. Every once in a while, when I wake up I can remember the dream I was just having as well as other mornings when I woke up fresh from that particular dream world. For a few moments before I get up and my mind starts churning, I can piece together a narrative. If it would only happen to me on a weekend morning, I might try to write it down.
Happened to me this morning. I went to sleep for an hour this afternoon though.
Oh, and cool news about ACME.
🙂
I hate that when you have weird nights full of weirder dreams. I got off a plane two nights ago and haven’t had a good nights sleep since!
Hi Wil,
I have those sort of dreams, but they are usually what I call propetic dreams in the way that it’s those sort of dream that come true for me.
I dreamt my friend came in to money, 1 week later she won
nice one, wil, glad to hear you’re dreaming again! better to dream hard than not at all.
congrats on the acme… it’s only a matter of time now.
cheers.
🙂
My weird tired dreams like that are normally very very bad. *shivers*
I hate that.
Good news about your acme stuff. I hope you write a naughty bit too. 😛
*Hugs*
Involved dreams? Do I ever! The worst dream is the one I get around now, getting near to christmas. I have a dream that it’s christmas morning and my boyfriend buys me a VW turquoise van (yes, I know). Then when I wake up in the morning to find it gone, I freak out and think someone moron has stolen it…and I told this to you guys why? Because I felt like it and I wanted to share something personal with you dear dudes-have a nice evening!
I hate dreaming that I am getting up and going out, only to wake up and having to do it all over again.
Being an insomiac makes me appreciate any sleep I get though.
Black bin-liners under the eyes only look good when you’ve been out partying all night.
Good luck with the sketch…
As for the not sleeping bit, yeah — I felt that way all the time, until I was treated for sleep apnea! 🙂
I have vivid dreams now that I’m using the nicotine patch to quit smokin’. My bro (11 yrs. my senior) just underwent triple bypass procedure, and smoked about the same as I. Yikes.
-Jeffraham
all last night I dreamt about the audition I had just gone on for a musical out in Ventura County. woke up with a headache. oh so much fun, yo.
good luck with your ACME stuff! I was cracking up just reading the tidbit you printed here.
p.s. tell j. keith to do another show soon! I saw the Save Ferris show and it ruled.
Hi Will, yea I agree that those vivid dreams or rather nightmares tend to drain every aspect of lifeforce from our bodies. I had a couple of recent dreams such as vivid like I was actually experiencing it. One dream in particular keeps recurring, I’d feel trap mostly all tied all on a log about to get all cut up! Of course when my head reaches the huge saw wheel that I can really smell the dust from the other logs and that’s when I start to wake up, shivering. So far that has not happened…yet. Most of my dreams are prophetic, I had one dream that came true recently, I saw my cocketiel bird fall from her tall cage and saw her all bloody on her back! So the next day our power went off for most of the day, that was hell, anyway, when night came finally and the lights came on themselves, I happend to see my bird fall from her high purch and broke a small part of her wing,she was all bloody, so we took care of her of course. That was like, this is weird, its like I just dreamt this entire scene last night! I have a very open mind about the supernatural, so I guess my ability to see the future is stronger than I realize? Keep up the great work!
It’s funny you should mention the big involved dreams – I’ve been having those the past two nights. I usually dream a lot anyway, but the ones last night were even more detailed than usual, and I woke up feeling like I had already been through a whole day. Weird. Must be some cosmic thing out there. Oh and of course, best of luck in getting back with Acme – sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll send positive vibes your way.
It sounds like you remembered the security part of the Clinton dream but forgot the orgy part (the part that accounts for your tiredness).
Yes and boy it is hard when you have to get up early the next morning and you are so tired.
and every time I tried to enter a room, the Secret Service would search me and make me answer security questions.
What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
Yeah…I’ve had dreams that, at least while the dream was happening, involved time that seemed to last days. Sometimes, interestingly, I get dreams where I even have memories of past events that happened to me in that particular dreamscape. And, yeah, they’re exhausting somehow. You wake up feeling like you’ve been working all night.
Good for you! I thing it’s rip snortin’ funny and the whole idea makes me picture you in leisure suit doing an infomercial. And yes, I hate it when I feel like I’ve been running all night in my dreams. No more pizza before bed!!!!
Congratulations Wil! As for the dream thing, I can completely relate. I’ve had extremely vivid and incredibly strange dreams since I was a kid. They can be so intense that it is very difficult sometime to distinguish between reality and the dreamworld my mind is creating. There are many mornings I wake up feeling completely worn as though I’ve been awake for days. I love the vivid dreams, they give me some great creative inspirations for my writing, but the exhaustion can be, well…exhausting.
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
Few people know, btw, that Alan Parsons, famous for softie hits like this, was the producer on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album.
The dreams I hate are not necessarily involved, but they trick my conscious mind. I have woken up several different times, convinced that what I had dreamed was real, so I didn’t need to get up and go to work. Once I dreamed that some kind of root had grown to the point that it enveloped the house, so when the alarm went off, I thought “Well, I can’t get out of the house, might as well go back to sleep for a while……WHAT?!?!?!?” Luckily the trickery doesn’t last for more than a couple of seconds, at least not yet……..
hehe. i’m constantly blogging about the things i do in my sleep that exhaust me more than my day does. mostly, i’m a ninja and i save the world. and have v cool toys. but i never wake up feeling rested.
So I’m talking about the hipster quiz to some friends. Patrick commented that his grandmother would probably get a broken hip. I stole your joke and said that she would need a hip replacement and it got a big laugh from everyone. Patrick then went on to say that he would probablly be labeled a hipocrit. And that a doctor would be a hipocrat. And that someone who was to hip might need to get hiposuction. He went on with about five more puns, but I forget them now. You may remember Pat as the guy who auctioned off a thank you note for buying the thank you note at auction.
Hi again! yes I have had so many mornings where I wake up feeling sleepy because of my dreams. I know how you feel! I have been having nightmares lately that are so vivid I swear they feel so real sometimes. Anyways congrats on the Hip Replacement sketch! I’m glad that everyone liked it as much as I did. Bye for now!
‘God’ is a proper name and thus, capitalized. If your god is not ‘God’ then why not simply name him? For example, Zeus. That’s just poor English coming from someone who fancies himself a writer.
I have very lucid dreams all of the time. Sometimes I just go along with them for fun, but sometimes they really stress me out.
Good luck with the sketches and everything!
“Does that ever happen to any of you? You wake up, and you feel like you’ve been living another life in the Dreamscape, so you didn’t get any rest?”
It’s called The Matrix, Neo. I mean, Wil.
I hate those dreams that when you wake up you are so tired you feel as if you haven’t slept a wink. It always happens to me if I have eaten something sweet right before bed…
Okay, now I have “Eye in the Sky” going through my head 🙂
I have been having very vivid dreams lately as well.. Like Tracie, I always had vivid dreams, and these are more so than usual. Must be something in the air, it does make great writing material.
Once in college I had the dream that eveyrone seems to have of being naked in a room full of people. I wanted to prove it was a dream, so I pinched my arm. Didnt wake up. I panicked, thinking it was real, so I hit my arm, nothing. So then I hit it even harder, but was still in the room, and now people were staring at me. I finally woke up with bruises on my arm, and my college roomate staring at me from across the room like I was nuts. 🙂
Congrats on getting on the list at Acme! I know you’ll make it into the show, your a wonderful writer who people can relate with, insightful, and very funny.. Best of luck!
Bill Clinton is a nice guy in real life too.
I also had a Clinton dream. He gets tired of life on the lecture circuit, gets the old crew together, and takes a little trip back to the White House. He walks in the door and by using the force he is able to clear a path to the Oval Office. He then finds Bush who is playing with his toys on the floor. He picks Bush up, bitch slaps him, and uses the Jedi Mind Trick to suggest he “wants to go home and rethink his life”.
He then gets Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice, and the rest to pull him in a chariot down Pennsylvania ave to the capitol where he walks in and faces down the GOP congress like Neo vs. all the Agent Smiths. After he is done whooping ass he uses his powers as “The One” to go back in time and pass a law where he gets a third term.
Ok…it’s more of a waking dream, but even that is better than the current reality.
Sean
Oh, that is *so* ST:TNG season 6, episode 131…
;-p
Wil,
Ah the much involved dreams. Seems the more vivid the dream, the more tired you wake up. You must have had a lot on your mind before going to bed.
Bryan
Yeah, that happens to me all the time. Sometimes I dream that I’m working out–running or swimming vast distances, with no effort. But the worst are when something is bothering me in my real life, and I dream about all the worst-case scenarios, then wake up even more stressed than I fell asleep. Try going to the gym in the evening–it wears your body and brain out enough to let you really relax.
I too have had the exhausting dreams thing – very frustrating!
I often have vivid dreams, and find it interesting to try to interpret them. I learned in a dream class that the smallest fragment can lead to insight, so don’t discount it if you don’t remember the whole thing.
Latest find is http://www.dreammoods.com/ It’s not very well edited, and by no means comprehensive, but it’s a great tool to start thinking about what you saw in your dreams last night.
Examples:
Knee: http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/searchcsv.pl?search=knee&method=exact&header=symbol
Skateboard: http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/searchcsv.pl?search=skate&method=exact&header=symbol
Hands: http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/searchcsv.pl?search=hand&method=exact&header=symbol
Have fun!