What’s the weirdest/silliest/funniest dream you’ve experienced?

[AllThingsTech]

You didn't register any accounts on here, what are you talking about?

In my dream, LOL, ya numpty

Proper facepalmer, like lol

 

[Retro]

You didn't say anything about dreaming, have a look back at your comments.

 

[AllThingsTech]

This thread is about dreams

I wouldn’t just randomly derail the threadl like that

 

[AllThingsTech]

I edited the OP to include “I dreamed..:”. Apologies, I should have been clearer

 

[Hitcore]

Well I definitely just have been dreaming.

I dreamt that I took my mother to a fancy restaurant. Apparently we've been there before, so we knew what to expect. (Sometimes some things in dreams you evidently just know)
The way to the place is kind of difficult, some effort is required. But it will be worth it, we thought.
After a while we're finally there. But it's closed, the main area that is. One small part is open. It's kind of an open kitchen fastfood type of deal. The plates, the cups, they're all plastic. The food is bland and generic. Nothing of this exclusive high quality restaurant is left, just cheap junkfood stuff. My mom goes a bit ballistic and in a somewhat dramatical manner she's giving her opinion about how crap the place has become. Other patrons laugh a bit at her theatrical performance. But she's right: the place really is not what it used to be.

I ran this dream through ChatGPT. This is what it said about it:

A few key symbols stand out

1. The “fancy restaurant you’ve been to before”
This often points to an ideal or promise — something you once experienced (or believed in) as meaningful, high-quality, nourishing. Because in the dream you “just know” it used to be good, this suggests a shared narrative or expectation, not something newly discovered.

It could be:
A relationship dynamic
A life path or value system
An institution, role, or version of yourself
Even adulthood expectations (“this was supposed to be better than this”)

2. The difficult journey
Effort, commitment, emotional labor. You and your mother both believe the effort is justified — which suggests investment. You didn’t wander in accidentally; you chose this place.

This often reflects:
Loyalty
Persistence
Trying to “make it work” because it once did

3. The restaurant being mostly closed
This is a powerful image of loss or depletion. The core is inaccessible. What remains is a stripped-down, functional substitute.

Psychologically, this can symbolize:
Emotional unavailability
Meaning drained from something that still exists physically
“Going through the motions” without substance

4. Plastic plates & bland fast food
Plastic is disposable, impersonal, cheap. Fast food is quick, filling, but not nourishing.

This strongly suggests:
Disappointment with superficial replacements
Feeling offered convenience instead of depth
A sense of being underserved emotionally or existentially

5. Your mother’s dramatic outburst
This is crucial.
She does what you do not:
She names the loss
She refuses to politely accept decline
She becomes “too much” — and others laugh

She may represent:
A part of you that still expects better
An internalized voice of standards, values, or protest
Or your actual mother’s role in expressing emotions you suppress

That others laugh, yet she’s right, suggests a tension between:
Social normalization of mediocrity
And the legitimacy of grief/anger about it

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A possible core theme

> Something you and your mother (or what she symbolizes) believed in has degraded — and while the world shrugs, part of you still insists that the loss matters.

This is not just nostalgia. It’s about standards, meaning, and betrayal of expectation.

You’re not confused in the dream. You’re clear-eyed:
You see what it was
You see what it is now
You know the disappointment is justified

It's not wrong. I am vastly disappointed in what things are now. And how things will never be the same again. It could be the time of year: I haven't celebrated New Year's Eve very much, at least not since 2020. This decade is soulless, and I can't put myself into celebrating yet another year of it as the world is getting crappier and more non-genuine by the year.



I want that restaurant back (the past), not the cheap knockoff version (the present).

 

[Retro]

That's quite some dream and analysis you've had there, Hitcore. Doesn't sound very happy, unfortunately. Amazing how insightful an AI can be now at analysing it.

Me? This actually just happened, not a dream: I feel asleep at my desk before midnight and woke up a little while ago to the sound of the CPU fan spinning fast and loudish as the PC had crashed with a black screen and a dead keyboard and mouse. Pressing the power switch immediately switched off the PC, no controlled shutdown like one would expect.

I know I dreamed something while asleep, but no idea what it was. The intrusive fan noise eventually woke me up.

Looking at the Windows event viewer for the system, it stopped recording at 00:25 when the BITS service started, last log entry. No further events logged since Windows had crashed, until 02:47 shortly after I had switched it back on. It recorded the crash with this entry: "The last shutdown's success status was false. The last boot's success status was true".

So, why did it crash. No idea, really. Around 30 minutes before, Windows Update successfully automatically installed a network driver and then no log entries until that last one, which suggests that might have had something to do with it. I'd really it rather didn't automatically install drivers tbh.

The crash could have been caused by a lot of things, including hardware issues. In particular, the RAM could be an issue since when I first built it a year ago with that gargantuan 128GB, memory tests revealed lots of errors that were causing BSODs. I eventually fixed it by cleaning and reseating the memory modules and motherboard memory slots, but it's possible that the problem has returned. I sure hope not and will have to run memtest again to check.

 

[Hitcore]

That's quite some dream and analysis you've had there, Hitcore. Doesn't sound very happy, unfortunately. Amazing how insightful an AI can be now at analysing it.

I carry a deep dread inside me. This society is not for me.

Me? This actually just happened, not a dream

Yeah, check that RAM issue. Could also be GPU related, but what do I know. Bit spooky, though, to wake up with fans whirling like that. Of all the moments it had to happen while you dozed off.

 

[Retro]

I carry a deep dread inside me. This society is not for me.

Sometimes it's good to just be able to disconnect from it, isn't it? I've felt like that at times.

Yeah, check that RAM issue. Could also be GPU related, but what do I know. Bit spooky, though, to wake up with fans whirling like that. Of all the moments it had to happen while you dozed off.

Oh yeah, Sod's Law struck big time! Perhaps my PC was just feeling jealous that I wasn't paying her attention and figured she'd show me the error of my ways?

I'll have to do that memtest again when I get a moment, but running ok for now though. Just checked for BIOS updates, but the latest is dated August, which is installed.

 

[Hitcore]

Sometimes it's good to just be able to disconnect from it, isn't it? I've felt like that at times.

I do that already as much as I can, and it is still not enough. The internet (which by itself is also not what it used to be) is a gateway, a reflection of what the world is today. Perhaps I need not be online so damn much.

her

Oh, your PC is a girl, eh? She got a name? Lol

 

[Retro]

Perhaps I need not be online so damn much.

Perhaps lock your browsers to only access NerdZone?

Oh, your PC is a girl, eh? She got a name? Lol

I don't normally think of it that way, but it made for a good gag lol. The Windows name is MissionControl, named after control centres like NASA's.

 

[Hitcore]

The Windows name is MissionControl, named after control centres like NASA's.

When your computer freezes again: "Houston, we have a problem."

I do name my scooters/mopeds, though. For the most recent one I even have a name sticker made:


From my language to English that literally translates to "pussy moped". But that has a different meaning than you would think. Kutbrommer means more something like "shitty moped".