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Grrl Power #1248 - Do aliens dream of astro-sheepazoids?
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Dreams are about processing the day's interactions as memories are sorted away... is something people say about dreams but which I firmly believe is total BS. If that was the case, why does anyone dream about anything other than the stuff they did that day? Why have I dreamed, multiple times I might add, about walking around the halls of my high school, which wasn't actually my high school, (but I had that dream knowledge that it was) except instead of lockers, there were glass tanks up and down the walls filled with skinned things. Maybe they were students, maybe they were mutant experiments, the dream knowledge didn't say. And before you're like, wow that's a crazy nightmare - it wasn't a nightmare. I wasn't scared in it. I thought it was rad, not because I'm some secret psychopath, but because it was like walking around the set if someone made a live action Splatterhouse movie.
Or, why did I dream about meeting April Ludgate (from Parks and Rec) - not Aubrey Plaza, mind you, but April Ludgate, at a convention, and I told her that when she got married, instead of changing her last name to Ludgate-Dwyer, she should have portmanteaued her last name to LudWire, then tell people that a LudWire is the proper name for a clothes hanger when it's in abortion configuration, and she said "Oh my god, that's awesome, babe!"
She said "babe" because she started the sentence talking to me, but finished the sentence talking to Andy, who wasn't there, because dreams are random nonsense. They have no meaning. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either trying to write a book, or has read a book, or let's be real, a Facebook post, and is trying to make "knowing things about dreams" part of their personality.
By the way, whenever I dream about going to a convention, which seems to happen about 3-5 times a year, I'm always there on Sunday while all the vendors are breaking down their booths and I realized I've missed the convention and everyone I wanted to see. I guess it's a variation on the "have a test for a class I've never attended" dream, which I've also had, but thankfully less than the convention dream.
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Fogel
I actually went and found it. It's the one for October 2020
Fogel
Aang however, isn't blue.
Uncle Buddha
Last panel should be the next 'yoga' picture, that Dave makes...
Tristan N Milner
Oh, come now Sydney. I expected better. We all know Aang is the real Avatar, not some water fetishist director's blue furry retelling of Pocahontas.
Kiwegapa
I have to wonder if these cross-filed memories are normal or are an artifact of Lapha doing something incorrectly due to inexperience. Seems rather glitchy. Which would terrify me if I was a living database. Humans sort-of are, of course, but we're lossy and full of a moderate amount of error correction. You could carefully remove the foreign memories, but that may also be scary. I imagine aetholiths and other such entities view 'forgetting' with a vague sense of existential dread.
eddi_TBH
Both suffering from PPLS (Post Possession Lust Syndrome) having each other's best X-Rated dream.
Teksura
I'm almost disappointed Lapha didn't say 300 instead of Ranma 1/2. Would have been a funny callback.
Iryelb
It's pages like this that make me wish that the NSFW posts were continuations of the cannon tease moments, like Sydney and her Woof or this lizard Sydney getting hard railed.
Cleodora Silvestri
Is that an older pic of Dabbler from previous patreon bonuses on the wall in the last frame?
Dave Barrack
It's a Goa'uld arm bracelet. You can't really enough of it to tell.
Dave Barrack
:)
Erin Palette
I'm trying to determine what the mug on Dabs' middle shelf says. Obviously it's one of those "World's Best [X]" mugs, but what is X? I rather expected it to say "World's Best Fiend" because that's funny, but I think the final word starts with FE and not FI. So either Dave forgot how to spell fiend or it's something that stars with fe... and given my dirty mind and Dabs' proclivities, I immediately think of the word "fellatrix". ;)
Stephen Gilberg
Is that Lizzie from "Rampage"?
Alysandir
I have never been more excited for the next vote incentive.
Mike
What is that orb on Dabbler's shelf? I know I've seen it but can't remember for the life of me what it is. The Indiana Jones rock and the Mummy book key thing I recognize, magic 8 ball of course. The gem in the middle right looks familiar, but the ribbon thing on the bottom has me totally stumped.
Mike
My back in high school dreams are always the same. I'm my current age but it turns out I have to go back and re-take one random class or my diploma is invalid and for some reason, everything I've done since is negated. Even tho I only need one class I still have to show up for a full day of class, including ninth grade home ec, where I was one of two guys. I'm sharing a locker with a girl, and its always a girl I actually knew but didn't KNOW, I've forgotten my lock combination and what mu schedule is, and both are in my locker. Then it's just a bunch of worrying until I wake up. Fun.
David Florish
I think that’s the sarcophagus key from The Mummy.
DuoMax
Yeah, I rarely disagree with Dave because he usually has a clue but I don't completely agree about his idea of dreams. I DO agree that a lot of crap that goes on in dreams is random nonsense (call it 90%+). The other small percentage of the time, it tends to be the brain throwing up random crap that is tied into emotions or trauma responses that haven't been processed. That can be real or imagined stuff but I see this happen way to often with clients (licensed trauma therapist here) where something they are struggling with (PTSD, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, etc) comes up in dreams and hits them pretty close to where they are at with the issue. So, most of it is nonsense or random. Sometimes however, it is your subconscious trying to process something going on in your life or something that happened previously that you still have emotions about. Telling the difference? Yeah that can be a pain.
Marc Vun Kannon
Unless they can somehow remove her memories of Sydney, which she might be perfectly willing to let them do, she's not going anywhere else. Putting her in a cell might be considered cruel and unusual punishment, given that the container she's in already deprives her of just about everything. This way she has company and a way to distract herself.
Marc Vun Kannon
You are seeing an R-rated version of panel 4.
Marc Vun Kannon
Me too. I got the idea behind my first novel when I had two dreams the same night that I actually remembered. Most of the time I just wake up with very little sense of time lost at all.
Marc Vun Kannon
I thought she was talking about Dabbler but instead it was about the possession. She'll have to live with Sydney's memories for the rest of her existence.
Michael Obert
I'm gonna move away from the obvious glory of panel four - and how the internet in general will just go nuts for the meat of lizard sex (gross, lol) - and comment on the glory of Dabbler's decor; not only does she apparently havea pinup of herself in her room (just classy), but the knick-knack shelf with a magic 8 ball that I'm sure really is, one of the Shankara stones, a rock 'em sock 'em robot and a unicorn that reeks of a figurine of wonderous power. I can't place the octagonal object on the lower right, but I know I've seen that somewhere before too :)
Fogel
So does Dabbler now just have a new trophy or is this a temporary setup?
Belgrath
I wonder if we'll get to see an adult version of panel 4. :P
CSquared
I have some hopes for what the incentive is this month...
Fogel
Meanwhile I just never remember my dreams. I'm sure I do dream, everyone does. It's just forgotten before I even properly wake up for the very few that I'm aware of at all
Madcat6204
For me it's college, but I've definitely had those. It's usually about discovering that there's a class on my schedule that I've forgotten about and not been attending all semester and now it's finals week and I'm totally screwed.
Czarzhan
That look on Sydney's face in panel 4...
Twister
Four armed yoga is a heck of a thing.
Jared Kolbly
Took me a moment to realize she was talking about the cause of the dream rather than her actions in it when Lapha said she could only blame herself.
Thisguy
And how often have people dreamed of being in high school, in an exam you haven’t studied for, even decades after leaving school?
Marc Vun Kannon
The really annoying part is that there's only so far Sydney's therapist can go to obfuscate the patient's identity when trying to get these gems published.
