These ideas are usually vampires – they fly at night, but they can’t stand the light of day. Speaking from experience. My last brilliant late-night idea was the Orthopedic Tutu – ‘For the aging ballerina, or for anyone needing stylish back support.’
Interestingly most vampires are not bothered by sunlight in the original stories. Blame screen writer Kurt Siodmak for creating that and other tropes for vampire, mummy, werewolf etc in the 1930’s-1940’s.
Also “Nosferatu”(1921) showed the first time a vampire dying in the sun light.
I wish husband could forget his nightmare from last night. He has become weather phobic over the past decade or so from large hurricanes and large snow storms in our area beyond what they were the first 50+ years of our lives. His biggest fear is loss of electricity – no heat or ac (depending on the season).
He falls asleep before me and I watch TV in bed. I was just dropping off when he woke up, grabbed my arm and started screaming “The lights are out!!!!” (by which he meant we had no electricity – the lights were actually off as they were turned off, but the TV, cable box, and 2 clocks were on). I shook him awake and he was still sure the electricity was off. He finally understood they were on and then insisted they had gone out. Since I had been on the edge of sleep when this happened, I checked the time on the clock and it was right and the cable and TV if they had gone off and we had lost electricity. It took me about 15 minutes to get him to understand that we not lost electricity and he was still asking when we got up.
So, of course, mid Oscars – the light flashed off and on (heavy winds are following last night’s storm) and he started to panic even though it was so quick an instant that the TV did not go off.
ShadeBlackfox almost 6 years ago
These ideas are usually vampires – they fly at night, but they can’t stand the light of day. Speaking from experience. My last brilliant late-night idea was the Orthopedic Tutu – ‘For the aging ballerina, or for anyone needing stylish back support.’
Enter.Name.Here almost 6 years ago
Elsa: “Let it gooooooooo, let it goooooooooo….”
Nachikethass almost 6 years ago
Procrastination…
danketaz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Don’t do it! The hypnotist will publish the book and you will end up clucking like a chicken for a week’s worth of strips.
jpayne4040 almost 6 years ago
Yeah, but Dickens actually took the time to turn his ideas into books.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
It will be a success either way. Either you get the dream back or you get another nap. Win Win.
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I think he got the dickens scared out of him
karmakat01 over 5 years ago
this thing is turning SCARY!
nosirrom over 5 years ago
“Please sir, I want some more bamboo.”
KEA over 5 years ago
This is probably how we got Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
banjinshiju over 5 years ago
Dickensian for children? I have problems reading Dickens, and I am an adult.
Dr_Fogg over 5 years ago
I dreamed about a red finned shark last night. What do you think?
JP Steve Premium Member over 5 years ago
Is that the same as the Big Bang episode where Raj called Sheldon “Dickensian?” (And Howard called him a dictator…)
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Interestingly most vampires are not bothered by sunlight in the original stories. Blame screen writer Kurt Siodmak for creating that and other tropes for vampire, mummy, werewolf etc in the 1930’s-1940’s.
Also “Nosferatu”(1921) showed the first time a vampire dying in the sun light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Siodmak
mafastore over 5 years ago
I wish husband could forget his nightmare from last night. He has become weather phobic over the past decade or so from large hurricanes and large snow storms in our area beyond what they were the first 50+ years of our lives. His biggest fear is loss of electricity – no heat or ac (depending on the season).
He falls asleep before me and I watch TV in bed. I was just dropping off when he woke up, grabbed my arm and started screaming “The lights are out!!!!” (by which he meant we had no electricity – the lights were actually off as they were turned off, but the TV, cable box, and 2 clocks were on). I shook him awake and he was still sure the electricity was off. He finally understood they were on and then insisted they had gone out. Since I had been on the edge of sleep when this happened, I checked the time on the clock and it was right and the cable and TV if they had gone off and we had lost electricity. It took me about 15 minutes to get him to understand that we not lost electricity and he was still asking when we got up.
So, of course, mid Oscars – the light flashed off and on (heavy winds are following last night’s storm) and he started to panic even though it was so quick an instant that the TV did not go off.
Sometimes forgetting a dream is a good thing.