Mr Porkington Is A Real Hit With The Ladies.
Dream roundup time!
Dreamt of an episode of House in which House's underlings were told to perform a procedure that involved a big needle on a patient. Cameron, with the syringe in her hand, froze up; Foreman basically went 'for God's sake, you're a doctor', and he and Chase did the procedure instead. Then it turned out that this was a test; the procedure would in fact have killed the patient. Cameron was the only one who had spotted this, and, rather than saying so aloud, she'd feigned freezing up so her colleagues would go ahead with the procedure and she would be the only one who passed the test. It was an interesting moment of ruthlessness; I suppose House had rubbed off on her!
(I... I assume the syringe didn't actually contain the substance the doctors had been led to believe, so the patient wasn't actually in danger.)
Also found myself 'backstage' after the episode filming, working with the actors in some way. Cameron's actor had a startlingly strong UK regional accent, something Northern, which I was not expecting given her voice in the show. And I think she and my housemate Rei might have been flirting?
Dreamt of scrolling over a top-down view of a... peninsula? Spit? A stretch of land with water on both sides, grass in the centre, sand on the edges. The water was a lovely intense turquoise; I think it must have been somewhere Mediterranean.
Occasionally, as I scrolled down this view, it would play a little clip of a group of puppies or kittens running along the peninsula. I think this was a place a lot of cute animal videos had been filmed, and this was a bird's-eye view compilation of moments from the filming process! The last animals I saw were a large turtle sitting on the sand, with a little black puppy on its back.
Dreamt of a website called 'Disingenuous Cuddle', which just housed a single GIF of Andrew Graves (of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley) being hugged against his will.
I met two pangolins on separate occasions in my dream. I've never seen a pangolin in my life and I have no idea when I last had cause to remember they exist, so I have no idea why my mind decided it was pangolin time, but I'm not complaining! My mental image of pangolins was a little more rounded than real pangolins, a little more Sandshrew. They liked to curl up almost into a ball, although not in quite the same way as real pangolins; one was curled up when I discovered it. I learnt in the dream that my grandmother had at one point befriended a pangolin and written a song about it that became popular, I think?
Dreamt, on a Dropout show, the three contestants were each challenged to make a drink out of ingredients to hand. The other contestants would try their creation, and the nicest drink would win a point. The resulting drinks were all yellow and apparently very nice. I assumed the contestants had mainly used citrus, and I was confused to learn that one of these 'very nice' drinks incorporated boiled banana skins and edamame beans.
Dreamt of a leaflet full of photographs with over-the-top anxious captions. In particular, I remember that a picture of pigeons had the caption 'What are these owls doing with London's security cameras??'
Dreamt I was on a train and found myself sitting next to two young women.
'Why were you flirting with Mr Porkington?' one of them asked her friend. 'You know I'm in love with him.'
'I was trying to take some of the pressure off you,' the friend explained.
The conversation about Mr Porkington carried on, and then they appeared to reach an unspoken 'okay, we can no longer ignore the stranger sitting next to us' conclusion. They explained to me that Mr Porkington was a large animatronic anthropomorphic pig, and that the supposed Mr Porkington crush was an inside joke between them. They showed me pictures.
In the same night, I dreamt I was hanging out with my brother Joseph while he fished in very clear, very blue waters. We could see enormous fish swimming by, as clearly as if we were seeing them through glass.
Dreamt I was... watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from inside the episode? The characters were doing their thing, and I was also there, in the same physical space (at this moment a shopping centre), watching it play out.
Buffy approached me in the shopping centre and started talking to me, and I was bewildered. I was just supposed to be watching this episode; the characters weren't supposed to interact with me! I mean, it was cool, but I wasn't expecting this!
It became apparent that Buffy was perceiving me as Riley. I tried to play along, assuming that the episode would be ruined if I didn't play my role. At one point she gave me a little flirty closed-mouth kiss on the lips: first she put one finger to my lips in a 'shh' gesture, and then she took it away and gave me a little peck.
Later, the characters were taking an out-of-role break in what looked like ranks of cinema seats. Apparently the characters were... actors playing themselves? So, when Buffy had approached me, she was playing the character of Buffy, reading lines. But she was still Buffy; she wasn't Sarah Michelle Gellar.
I approached Angel, in his out-of-character break, to ask about Buffy speaking to me. Was that not supposed to happen; was the episode performance getting messed up somehow? He said it was fine. 'I didn't want to see that, though,' he said, and he demonstrated what he meant by giving me the same flirty little kiss I'd received from Buffy.
While I was reeling in confusion from the fact that both Buffy and Angel had kissed me, Rei, who was sitting nearby, started laughing, got out of their seat and gave me the same little kiss just to mess with me.
I've had more nightmares than usual lately, which I have opted not to record. Less of that, please, brain, if you don't mind; let's stick to cute animals and Mr Porkington.
Dreamt of an episode of House in which House's underlings were told to perform a procedure that involved a big needle on a patient. Cameron, with the syringe in her hand, froze up; Foreman basically went 'for God's sake, you're a doctor', and he and Chase did the procedure instead. Then it turned out that this was a test; the procedure would in fact have killed the patient. Cameron was the only one who had spotted this, and, rather than saying so aloud, she'd feigned freezing up so her colleagues would go ahead with the procedure and she would be the only one who passed the test. It was an interesting moment of ruthlessness; I suppose House had rubbed off on her!
(I... I assume the syringe didn't actually contain the substance the doctors had been led to believe, so the patient wasn't actually in danger.)
Also found myself 'backstage' after the episode filming, working with the actors in some way. Cameron's actor had a startlingly strong UK regional accent, something Northern, which I was not expecting given her voice in the show. And I think she and my housemate Rei might have been flirting?
Dreamt of scrolling over a top-down view of a... peninsula? Spit? A stretch of land with water on both sides, grass in the centre, sand on the edges. The water was a lovely intense turquoise; I think it must have been somewhere Mediterranean.
Occasionally, as I scrolled down this view, it would play a little clip of a group of puppies or kittens running along the peninsula. I think this was a place a lot of cute animal videos had been filmed, and this was a bird's-eye view compilation of moments from the filming process! The last animals I saw were a large turtle sitting on the sand, with a little black puppy on its back.
Dreamt of a website called 'Disingenuous Cuddle', which just housed a single GIF of Andrew Graves (of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley) being hugged against his will.
I met two pangolins on separate occasions in my dream. I've never seen a pangolin in my life and I have no idea when I last had cause to remember they exist, so I have no idea why my mind decided it was pangolin time, but I'm not complaining! My mental image of pangolins was a little more rounded than real pangolins, a little more Sandshrew. They liked to curl up almost into a ball, although not in quite the same way as real pangolins; one was curled up when I discovered it. I learnt in the dream that my grandmother had at one point befriended a pangolin and written a song about it that became popular, I think?
Dreamt, on a Dropout show, the three contestants were each challenged to make a drink out of ingredients to hand. The other contestants would try their creation, and the nicest drink would win a point. The resulting drinks were all yellow and apparently very nice. I assumed the contestants had mainly used citrus, and I was confused to learn that one of these 'very nice' drinks incorporated boiled banana skins and edamame beans.
Dreamt of a leaflet full of photographs with over-the-top anxious captions. In particular, I remember that a picture of pigeons had the caption 'What are these owls doing with London's security cameras??'
Dreamt I was on a train and found myself sitting next to two young women.
'Why were you flirting with Mr Porkington?' one of them asked her friend. 'You know I'm in love with him.'
'I was trying to take some of the pressure off you,' the friend explained.
The conversation about Mr Porkington carried on, and then they appeared to reach an unspoken 'okay, we can no longer ignore the stranger sitting next to us' conclusion. They explained to me that Mr Porkington was a large animatronic anthropomorphic pig, and that the supposed Mr Porkington crush was an inside joke between them. They showed me pictures.
In the same night, I dreamt I was hanging out with my brother Joseph while he fished in very clear, very blue waters. We could see enormous fish swimming by, as clearly as if we were seeing them through glass.
Dreamt I was... watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer from inside the episode? The characters were doing their thing, and I was also there, in the same physical space (at this moment a shopping centre), watching it play out.
Buffy approached me in the shopping centre and started talking to me, and I was bewildered. I was just supposed to be watching this episode; the characters weren't supposed to interact with me! I mean, it was cool, but I wasn't expecting this!
It became apparent that Buffy was perceiving me as Riley. I tried to play along, assuming that the episode would be ruined if I didn't play my role. At one point she gave me a little flirty closed-mouth kiss on the lips: first she put one finger to my lips in a 'shh' gesture, and then she took it away and gave me a little peck.
Later, the characters were taking an out-of-role break in what looked like ranks of cinema seats. Apparently the characters were... actors playing themselves? So, when Buffy had approached me, she was playing the character of Buffy, reading lines. But she was still Buffy; she wasn't Sarah Michelle Gellar.
I approached Angel, in his out-of-character break, to ask about Buffy speaking to me. Was that not supposed to happen; was the episode performance getting messed up somehow? He said it was fine. 'I didn't want to see that, though,' he said, and he demonstrated what he meant by giving me the same flirty little kiss I'd received from Buffy.
While I was reeling in confusion from the fact that both Buffy and Angel had kissed me, Rei, who was sitting nearby, started laughing, got out of their seat and gave me the same little kiss just to mess with me.
I've had more nightmares than usual lately, which I have opted not to record. Less of that, please, brain, if you don't mind; let's stick to cute animals and Mr Porkington.