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Dreams, Lasagna, And A Defibrillator Jolt
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We chase how real life hijacks our dreams, from a fresh tattoo turning into a gator bite to a heart reboot that felt like two cars crashing. We test memory, control, and the strange timing of dreams with stories that swing from absurd to intimate.
• why dream recall evaporates after waking
• pain and hunger weaving into dream plots
• recurring dreams and attempts at lucid control
• flying dreams fading with age and belief
• jealousy and guilt from relationship dreams
• anesthesia dream during cardioversion
• defibrillator shock mapped to in-dream crash
• how pre-sleep thoughts seed dream content
• kids’ logic and duplicate pets in dreams
• practical tips for remembering dreams
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Banter, Cold Weather, And Setup
SPEAKER_02Top Shelf Stories with Jay, Chris, and Tony.
SPEAKER_03Oh man, I love that girl. Don't you guys love her? The one in the intro? Oh yeah. I feel like it's like when I when I hear her voice, I feel like it's a very tall Amazonian woman that can kick the shit out of you, but still you can have fun with.
SPEAKER_01And I feel like she's moaning just for me.
SPEAKER_02I think we need to change it. I was just thinking about I didn't like how I sounded it anymore.
SPEAKER_03Uh it's gonna say that like that forever, because guess what? We're never gonna record anything different. You know that. So you guys doing? What's up, man? Yeah, you know what? It's a cold uh cold day.
SPEAKER_02But we're all living. It's not that cold today. It was in the morning. Apparently it's gonna get colder.
SPEAKER_03I dread the cold. I should be in Florida right now, but I have to do this podcast with you fellas.
SPEAKER_02You couldn't you couldn't do it from Florida?
What Are Dreams And Why We Forget
SPEAKER_03I could, but it doesn't it never makes sense doing it's like a long distance relationship. Do they make sense? Yeah, I don't know. Okay, so I never done it. I kind of want to talk about uh dreams and how they affect your life. So I uh I recently had a dream last night and usually I don't remember them.
SPEAKER_01But this one was special because you were a power bottom. What is that?
SPEAKER_03I might be stupid, but I need to know what that is. I Google it. Okay, I love it. So I'll go.
SPEAKER_02When you don't remember your dreams, how do you know you had a dream? I like that.
SPEAKER_03It's like kind of like if there's a sound in the wilderness and there's no one around to hear it, is that actually a sound? Yeah, kind of explanation.
SPEAKER_02No. So you're but based on that you're saying that you always have dreams, and I'm supposed to know that as a matter of fact, like a tree making a sound when it falls always does, whether someone's there to hear it or not.
SPEAKER_03No, you're right.
SPEAKER_02So I would say because I once heard that it once you hit into that REM sleep, you're dreaming. Like you're dreaming, like always.
SPEAKER_03And Tony, you have uh like a sleeping thing either where you're you can't get into r or you get into REM sleep right away.
SPEAKER_01Um I'm in it from the time I close my eyes. So do you dream all the time? Crazy. Not that I remember that's fucking crazy.
SPEAKER_02So everyone always says that, like, oh, I never remember my dreams.
SPEAKER_03What do you mean you don't remember? How do you know you had them? I would say when someone says that, they're saying that when you ask them that question, like what was your dream about? This is like an hour or two later. Yeah, I can't remember it. But if right when you wake up, you remember it, I could tell you what happened, but you forget it.
SPEAKER_02You forget it. Why is that? I've noticed that too. That's exactly what I would have answered. My own question. I was asking it. Yeah. I don't Why don't you ever remember the dream? They're always cool as shit or like scary as shit. They're like very extreme experiences, and you're like, Why so you like you like that scary shit? Well, whatever. It's in a yeah, when you wake up and realize it's a dream, you're like, damn, dude. What if I was fighting all of them? How was I dodging all those bullets? And when I fell off that rock, I didn't die. I woke up.
SPEAKER_03That's crazy. Do you ever have a dream where you won a million like millions of dollars on the lottery and you're like, fuck, it's was just a dream.
SPEAKER_02Never had money.
SPEAKER_01I don't dream about gambling. I do that shit in real life.
SPEAKER_02I don't ever remember money being part of any dream I can ever remember now that I think about it. Like I even remember, I can remember specific dreams, like I to unless I'm just telling a fake story over and over.
SPEAKER_03Well, the the the reason why I was asking this is because the dream I had last night, I can remember for some reason, I don't know why, but reoccurring dreams are something that you can really just tell a story about it because it always happens, and it happens more than once in your dreams. Like basically, you have it like every couple weeks.
SPEAKER_02So you have a recurring dream. Oh, I have a lot.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna I'll tell you about the recurring dream. It's disgusting.
SPEAKER_02Do you ever try to change it? How? Because I remember I used to have a recurring dream, and I remember specifically trying to change the outcome, knowing it was a dream in my dream.
SPEAKER_01So that's but you could never find the cure for gong.
SPEAKER_02It was like an inception inception.
SPEAKER_03I think that has to do with a brain, like you are high IQ. So to know you're dreaming.
SPEAKER_02We don't know that. I don't know who told you that or where I never took an IQ test. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03You're a smart guy, Chris. You pretty much know you're a smart guy. But to actually know you're dreaming to try to change that dream, I well, because you're in you don't you realize it's the same dream when you're in the dream?
SPEAKER_02You've done it.
SPEAKER_03I only know that when I wake up. I'm like, fuck, I had that dream Tuesday.
SPEAKER_02Because a recurring dream, it's like the movie uh Groundhog Day. Eventually you just start figuring it out. You're like, wait a minute, I fucking did this a bunch.
SPEAKER_03He's not dreaming though, he's in real life actual life.
SPEAKER_02It's a dream state at first. He thinks it's a dream.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02All right. I think the whole movie is just a dream, and I think he finally figures it out and he wakes up and then he gets to leave the next day.
SPEAKER_03So you're you're taking that movie into depth, like you're you're looking past.
SPEAKER_02Well, that is what it is, isn't it? No, he's you think this dude Bill Murray just lived in this city every day over and over. It's a movie, yeah.
SPEAKER_03How do they explain it in the movie? He dreamed it. I I don't know. I I don't remember the movie. It's pretty old.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so you're having this recurring dream. You're gonna try to change it.
Recurring Dreams And Lucid Control
SPEAKER_03No, the only dream I had last okay. So the dream I had last night, uh I was on a lazy river. I don't it was it was in Florida because usually my dreams are always in a warm climate. Uh lazy river in like Noah's Ark or some shit, right?
SPEAKER_02Okay, you're riding on a single tube, double tube.
SPEAKER_03Uh I actually think I was just floating.
SPEAKER_02So you're not sure. Yeah, okay. That's the other thing that's weird about these dreams we know so well. I'll ask you questions, you'll have no idea. Because it's like, wait, that's not important. I don't care about it.
SPEAKER_03Was I in a boat or was I in the water floating? Because I might have been in the boat. I think I was in the water floating because it comes down to what really happened in the water. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I'll try not to interrupt as much.
SPEAKER_03No, you're fine. You can ask me questions because it helps me out with you know making me giving me more chance to think about what's going on. I'm in the water, and this is in Florida. So in Florida Gators. Because that's what it is.
SPEAKER_02You can't be in a waterway in Florida and not be worried about not gators on this lazy river.
SPEAKER_03I'm going around and around and round, and there's all these little tiny gators, and everyone's having fun with them, playing with them. But there's this one mean one that everyone tells you to watch out for.
SPEAKER_02And I'm like, they're like hot spots along this lazy river is playing with gator babies.
SPEAKER_03Yes, they're they're all over the place, but there's this one gator for some reason no one comes in contact with, but everyone knows about. And for me, I'm the only one that comes in contact with this gator, and it bites me on my sh left shoulder, like just grabs my fucking shoulder. I think I was playing with the small one, and then it grabbed me because I was playing with the small one or whatever it was, I can't remember completely, and then it just ripped a hole in my in my arm. So um, for some reason, after that, I went to a couple restaurants to find out what to do about a gator bite, because I know that gators have a lot of bacteria in in their teeth, and you can get infections immediately. And I went to restaurants to find out that quite like nothing.
SPEAKER_02And also get recipes if you were if I was to lose my arm, would you think that you could give me a good recipe?
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, I don't know. So this gator bit me, choked it to death, and now I gotta figure out how to cook it and not get an arm infection.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, in this one I wasn't a hero, I was pretty much a bitch. I so they told me that I needed to get it cleaned out. So I found this woman somewhere, and she opened my wound up with a scalpel and scraped out the and I was like thinking before she put the scalpel in my wound hole that it was gonna hurt like a sh like it was gonna hurt so bad, but it didn't hurt. Like she was cleaning up, she was taking out these chunks of green fucking diseased skin and getting rid of all the the germs and bacteria from the the alligator.
SPEAKER_02And she just had this like in her purse at the restaurant.
SPEAKER_03Basically, she was walking around with it. It was like in her hand the whole time. Okay, she cleaned it out, and then she's like, You're good to go. She wrapped up my arm, and then she told me where to get my best, where the they sell the best lasagna.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say it had to be some type of food.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, all right, I'm cleaned up, I'm ready to eat. So I went, and after that, I don't think I to be honest, I don't think I went to a restaurant. And then I woke up and I had this fucking irritating and like crazy pain in my left arm. And I I like Oh my god, that's the same arm you got bitten. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_02Glad to see you were paying attention, Tony. You've been quiet.
The Lazy River Alligator Dream
SPEAKER_03This is a movie. This is the movie. I was terrified. I woke up, I was terrified. I was like, what the fuck is wrong with my arm? What's wrong? So I'm freaking out, and then I go in the bathroom thinking, I am I awake or not? No, I I am awake. I am awake. Went in the bathroom and looked at my arm. Oh yeah, I got a tattoo the day before the day before my my dream. I know so on my arm. So right right here. So that's why the the pain was. But isn't that fucking insane?
SPEAKER_02It means your arm's probably infected with tattooing.
SPEAKER_03But isn't that crazy how I took pain from a tattoo and this is this is a fucking fresh, fresh tattoo. It still hurts. I could take pain into a uh dream and make reality of it. Like how that pain happened. An alligator bite.
SPEAKER_02And did you have lasagna earlier that day? No, I didn't know. Do you guys have lasagna on your n on your Jehovah Thanksgiving that's coming up?
SPEAKER_03I'm craving it. Yeah, we don't eat turkey, so we're gonna think about something. Usually it's crab legs. We thought we go all out, brother.
SPEAKER_01Was the correlation to the lazy river because you just kept pissing in the bed? Yeah. I was wondering why I was all over and over.
SPEAKER_02We've talked about is it how long a dream is? Do dreams the things happen in your dream? It sounds like you created the dream from a pain. Like sometimes you wake up and you you get like wet in your dream and you wake up and you're sweating. Did you like start sweating because of the dream? But in this case it's is that crazy?
SPEAKER_03And I think also too, I didn't eat uh a good dinner because I had uh practice, flag football practice right after work. So that was the restaurant part.
SPEAKER_01Another note are they starting you this year?
SPEAKER_03I'm starting myself uh 13 and 13U league foot flag football league.
SPEAKER_01You better shave good before you go. I got right before.
SPEAKER_03I got the height. Kids in my in the flag football team are taller than me at 13. No, but isn't that crazy that the pain and the actually being hungry kind of uh coincided with my dream? Damn, that's crazy. It was fucking weird. And usually like I like I've told you before, we just talked about uh I don't remember dreams. I remember this because I don't know why I remember this.
SPEAKER_02Something happened to me recently. I was at Monday night, I went to the Packer game with some friends and we stayed in a hotel, but it wasn't a hotel room, it was like a suite with like a like a one-bedroom, it was like and it had a full kitchen and a full living room. It was basically like above the offices, there's like this different room, whatever. So I was on a pull-out cot in the living room sleeping. And the guy that we were with, one of the guys was on an air mattress behind the chair. He had brought an air mattress, he's behind the recliners, like in the same room as me, but on the other side of the room. Floyd went to bed, he told me that well, he blew up his air mattress, and we could clearly see after he threw his pillow and shit on it that it was starting to deflate right away. Yeah. So I'm like, you're gonna be on your ass in the middle of the night. You might as well figure this out now. Like, just fold that thing up and lay a bunch of blankets on it and make a floor bed because you're gonna be miserable otherwise. No, he was stubborn, so he left it halfway, you know, every hour he's trying to inflate it. So I woke up to that a bunch of times, but then he apparently gave up. But in my head, so I woke up in the morning expecting to see him on a pull out bed, just like I was on, like a cot, like a rollout cot. And I remember vividly he came in and he said, See, that's taking care of business. And he had this rolling cot, and I remember vividly rolling over and going back to bed, thinking, okay, he's gonna set up a cot finally. Where the fuck did he get a cot at whatever time it is, one in the morning now? But okay, whatever. I woke up, he wasn't in a cot, it was a dream. I fucking remembered it. So but it was something that had happened. We were talking about his bed being shit, and then the dream was him pulling out of bed.
SPEAKER_03That's what they say about before you go to bed, think about what you want to dream about.
SPEAKER_02What the fuck? I didn't want to dream about this guy's sleeping comfort.
SPEAKER_03All right, fine. But that's the thing you were thinking about before you went to sleep. That's wild. So, what should we be thinking about before we go to sleep to have that dream? What would you be thinking about? What so, Tony, what would you want to think about before you go to sleep to have that dream?
SPEAKER_01Uh definitely uh fucking somebody unobtainable and chocolate pudding. In pudding, like a pool, necessarily combined, maybe like a break in the middle of it. See, like in my dream, I can perform.
SPEAKER_03Like in real life, you know, it's would you be disappointed if it was uh a giant woman in strawberry pudding?
SPEAKER_01Dude, in my dream, no, in my dream, yeah, the woman comes too fast. I can't take it no more. Say, wait, I didn't even go yet. Yeah, I get like I get like three good pumps, and she's already like, I'm done.
SPEAKER_03So in your dream, you can last forever then, right? Yeah, no. I mean, I've had sex dreams and I just I can't it just when does the cum happen? It just doesn't.
SPEAKER_02Just like you never die, you never hit the ground when you fall, you never reach the thing you were reaching for ever. Ever. You never reach that climax. Or yeah, I used to have this, I think I did change it, but maybe only a little ways. I used to have this dream, recurring dream that I could fly. Oh, I have those all the time. Triple jump. I could do one, two, three, and I was gone. But then, like, as I got older, it stopped working. Because I was like probably thinking too much. Like you're kind of like the uh you put on some weight, well, yeah, and I was like nine now and ten years old, and like reality is like people can't fly, and so then my dreams got wrecked.
Pain, Hunger, And Dream Triggers
SPEAKER_03It's kind of like the movie Hook. You you aged too much getting out of Wonder Wonderland. Yeah, I need to go back to Wonderland. And I have this recurring dream, which I'll tell you here, but I don't really wanna.
SPEAKER_02Well, then don't, dumbass. I don't want to burn an episode.
SPEAKER_03And I will. Uh I always have a dream that uh my brother had sex with my wife on multiple occasions. Damn.
SPEAKER_01I think I talked about this before, didn't I? Yeah, I mean it's the whole concept behind your middle kid being left-handed. We do joke about that a lot.
SPEAKER_03He is the shortest, and my brother isn't that tall. I'm super tall. I mean compared to your brother.
SPEAKER_02Somehow he's still always been taller than you in my head, though, until recently, well, like years ago.
SPEAKER_03No, but I have this, it's just it's a stupid, like, and then I get angry at him when I wake up and I'm like, like, are you the are you the cuck?
SPEAKER_01Like, are you sitting in the corner watching it? Get the fuck out of here.
SPEAKER_03Oh damn it, Dan, not again. It usually always happens at my grandparents' house too, or like, why'd you have sex there? It's gross. It's even more gross that they're they're not even alive.
SPEAKER_02Why are you Don the the They're fucking in the new owner's house?
SPEAKER_01At your grandparents' house? Yes, it's always my grandparents' house. Fucking the chick Lindsay who bought it's just like I don't know why you guys come here to fuck all the time.
SPEAKER_03It it's the strangest thing, and I wake up mad at him for a while, and then I'm like, all right, may you it was a dream, but I'm you I'm still mad at both of them. Why would you do that? And like and then I th I I question myself throughout the day. Yeah, you know what I mean. Did they really have sex in their at some point? I don't I really don't know. That's how much dreams fuck with me. Did you ever think of asking either one of them? Oh, I ask her all the time, did you have sex with a brother? No. Alright, just make sure. Okay. So I believe her. Kinda.
Sleep Stories: Air Mattress And Memory
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean there's there's always like little bits and pieces of a dream. Like, I'll see something in real life and it'll remind me, oh, this one time I had a dream about this. Like, but to just be able to recall an old dream is like fucking impossible because they're I mean, they're always jumbled messes, they never make sense. Like and granted, you did a you did a satisfactory job at it, Jay, but like I I know that there's times where I had like the craziest dream and everything makes sense to me because it's all just things that are happening in my brain that are getting combined for some reason in this dream state. And I wake up and I try to tell my wife, and I'm like, oh dude, you ain't gonna fucking believe this dream, and then I just sound like a retard for 20 minutes. It doesn't ever make sense when you try to tell someone else. She's just looking at me like, okay. Yeah, well, yeah, that does make sense. Like, well, but why was there so much pudding? And you know, I'm just like, I I don't know. It there just was, and then I was flying, and then and then I was swimming underwater to the bottom of the ocean, and then I was back flying, and then and then there were these twins, and then you know, it's like it never makes sense, but the one time, the one dream, like I'll never ever ever. Ever forget like any any time like if you ask me right now, because now we're kind of thinking about dreams, but um like I wouldn't be able to recall a dream that I had ever except one. And uh so I got this uh um my heart goes out of rhythm on occasion, and it hasn't happened to me in almost 15 years. But when when it does go out of rhythm, it's in the dream or real life. No, in real life, it's a really big deal because they gotta I gotta go to the hospital and they gotta convert my hat heart back to what they call it one time, it's happened to me twice. Oh my god. And they gotta put my heart back into normal sinus rhythm. How the fuck do they do that? Well, there's two different there's two different ways they can do it. One is through drugs. Um, and it's never any good drugs. They're never like here, do these two lines of cocaine. They're like, here, take this pill once a day for the rest of your entire fucking life. But um so they can try to do it with drugs, which they did the second time I went in, and that took five days to work. Jesus. Well, they monitor you because when you're out of rhythm, what blood pools in the bottom chamber of your heart and it can cause a stroke. So that's what they're really worried about.
SPEAKER_03Like you could live with your heartbeat out of rhythm forever, but um but when you say out of rhythm, you mean like d like okay, so let's say a normal normal heartbeat, dun dun, dun, dun. Yours is more like dun dun dun dun dun dun like fucking weird ass drum beat.
SPEAKER_01Exactly like that. Exactly. To the T. So so I found out about it. Uh no, I'm not laughing at it. Both times, both times it happened while I was asleep, and I woke up and I was just like, oh, something's fucking weird. Oh shit. Here comes my fucking anxiety.
SPEAKER_03And uh I'm gonna do this tonight.
SPEAKER_01Something's gonna happen in my heart tonight. So the first the first time it happened, um, I woke up, shit was feeling weird, and I felt like exhausted. And when I said like it was a different kind of exhausted. It's not just like I'm tired, I need to go to bed. It's like breathing was hard, exhausted. And I walked down the stairs to go down to the first floor of the house, and when I got to the bottom of the stairs, I like legitimately had to stop and spend an absurd amount of time trying to catch my breath. And I'm like, god damn, I know I'm out of shape, but this shit's getting ridiculous. And I'm like, there's gotta be something else wrong. But you know, like most guys who I mean really ultimately don't really give a fuck about themselves. I I take my normal shower, I get ready, I get dressed, I grab my coffee, and I'm driving to work, and I drive drove by my doctor's office, and I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna fucking stop in here, see what they got to say. So they took me right in, um, and he's like, You either gotta call your wife or somebody to come pick you up and take you to the hospital, or we gotta call a paramedics right now. He's like, you know, your heartbeat's fucked up, you gotta go do this. So you didn't check your heartbeat? No, man. It's fucking 30 years old. Like, that's the last thing I'm Was that the last time it happened at 30? Uh like thir 31. So 30 and 30 years old. It happened at 31 and then at like 33. It actually. So so you remember the first job you ever did for me?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Was it a it was that house, it was that house in Elm Grove.
Sex, Flying, And Dreams That Stall
SPEAKER_03Yeah, when I really uh like when I walked in, I was like, who is this dickhead? Mm-hmm. And like when I talked to you, I was like, wow, he really is a dickhead.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that one. That one, yeah, I remember now. But but that first job had a couple different people helping me there. Yeah, it was it was really, really big stole from you. He was there. One guy that stole from me. That doesn't really narrow it down. Um but it happened during that job, so that was really that was like 10 years ago. Yeah, your brother was doing tile at that job. Yeah. So that was that was the second time it happened to me was during that job because I was during that job. Wow. Yeah, I think we were done tiling and my guys were there doing the uh wood floors because I remember getting out of the hospital and going straight to that job site and uh checking on it because I hadn't been there in five days. Um so the first time, you know, I went to the hospital and they converted me using uh which I found out afterwards. Basically, they murder you and bring you back to life. That's crazy. So they stop your heartbeat and then they hit you.
SPEAKER_03So do they do that? Do they put you under?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_03So it's you don't have to be awake.
SPEAKER_01Like, oh fuck. Yeah, they choke you to death. They choke you to death while you're awake. You're like, don't don't resist it. Do your best. We're we're doctors. But uh to resist. They stop your heart and then they hit you with the defibrillator paddles. And it restarts your heart.
SPEAKER_03It restarts basically like like turning your computer off and turning it back on. It's like a hard reset. That's fun that that makes me freak out because you know, like we are engineered by something then.
SPEAKER_01But you know what?
SPEAKER_02From the time I got to the hospital, it's funny that all the doctors are Indians, just like the guys you call when your computer's busting.
SPEAKER_04Hello, sir. I'm going to have you turn off your heart. So what what dream did you did you have? You're gonna turn off your heart and turn it back on again. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Did you have a dream when they turned your heart back on and off? So I I was actually dreaming while they put me under. Okay. It was kind of crazy because Oh, so this is the dream you remember. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, this is this is a dream I remember. So they put me crazy. This is the first time I ever got put like under an anesthesia. Yes. And uh um dude. So they put me under, yeah. And I was driving, so I I got this old car. It's been in my life fucking forever. Yeah. And uh the fun the fun part is is I've never really driven it on the road. Yeah, it's just been haven't seen it. Huh?
SPEAKER_02I've only heard about it.
SPEAKER_01The Monte Carlo?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, or the Cadillac, actually.
SPEAKER_01So not the Cadillac, it's the Monte Carlo. So I had a dream I was driving to Monte Carlo, and that's how I know it was a dream because that Monte Carlo doesn't get driven. But I'm driving this Monte Carlo, and at the same time, I'm driving a semi-truck. So you're doing two at things at once. Yeah. In a dream. So so I'm doing both of these things. I'm driving a semi, which I've never done, and I'm driving to Monte Carlo, which I've also never done. Yeah, that's like a superpower. And and when I woke up when they hit me with the defibulator, um, I that was like the point where I'm driving both of these things, and when they hit me with the defibulator in my dream, those two things crash together. Oh my god, fucking crazy. And Michelle was outside of the room, and um from the time they put me under to the time they got my heartbeat going on. Yeah, I mean, it was like it was only like yeah, a minute, two minutes maybe, you know, just enough to bill me like 80 grand.
SPEAKER_03Um so this was uh an uh anesthesia that lasted how many until they woke you the fuck up with a pair of electric paddles.
The Heart Out Of Rhythm Story
SPEAKER_01So that immediately from anesthesia woke you up. Yeah. Wow. It was instant. But uh I remember That's crazy, dude. So she's driving both cars. So did you ever see the movie Pulp Fiction? Yes, many times. Okay. So you talk about the screen. I woke up the same way Uma Thurman woke up with the when they hit her with the adrenaline shot in her chest. Like I woke up, I sat directly up, I remember breathing like that, and I remember screaming. Yeah. And can I can you uh my wife and mom were sitting in the waiting room, which was, you know, probably five or six little procedure rooms away.
SPEAKER_03Can you react that scream without in the in without being in the microphone so we can hear like your baby scream? Not gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was it was like loss of breath. Oh and I remember looking at the doctor saying, I thought I was in a car crash.
SPEAKER_03And uh Oh, you so you thought so you said to the doctor, was I in a car crash? Yeah, I come out of a car crash. Yeah, really?
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, that's nuts. And I remember I remember within like 10 seconds my mom and my wife both running into the room crying. Really? Because they heard me from the waiting room. Oh, scream. They heard me scream and they fucking ran to the room.
SPEAKER_03Oh, they know your scream. Yeah. Okay. I mean, they knew it was my voice. Well, I mean, when you get when you're really scared, you have a really high-pitched girly scream, but they knew that high-pitched girly scream from before.
SPEAKER_01And they came running in because they thought something had gone terribly wrong.
SPEAKER_02Spider Tony, you always scream like that when there's spiders.
SPEAKER_01Uh, you're confusing me with the other one over there. There's not another one. Yeah, it's there's only one. But uh, that's the only dream that that I can like recall. Let me ask. And a hundred percent remember every second of it. And it was not no weird shit. Like, I mean, it's weird that there were two of me cars and I was driving. You were doing the most boring thing in the car.
SPEAKER_02You were probably like first person in both of the car.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But but it was weird because there was there was none of the shenanigans of a real fun dream were like I'm driving the car and I'm doing 200 miles an hour and the car's flying. Yeah, let me ask you. None of that bullshit. It was just like the most boring sitting behind the wheel, 10 and 2, and both cars, just like doo-doo. Let me ask you this how long did the driving last? Was it like in my dream? It felt like it was forever. I mean, it felt like hours, but realistically, it was a minute.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's true. That's true. Because the dream I had when I was explaining to you guys did seem like I was on that lazy river forever. Like it never ended. See, yeah, I don't get that either.
SPEAKER_02Dreams last forever. But my when I shared, I only it was only a 12-second interaction, and that's all it felt like. And then I went back to bed. Sometimes this sometimes my dreams, yeah, feel like for like seconds, and like you I didn't even know it was a dream though until I woke up and there was no second cot in the room.
SPEAKER_03Well, I I would tell you though, Tony, that is insane, and that's pretty wild. Yes, that's wild.
SPEAKER_02The fact that you remember it so clear is because I we we brought this up on an episode too, like the endorphins or the DMT your brain releases when you die. Yeah, flight mode, we were talking about it. Well, the so you're you're clear, you're seeing this clear because you actually were hallucinating near you were dead. Yeah, you were in the death zone.
SPEAKER_03You know what's crazy is Tony talked about being uh floating above his body with a piece of metal from a knife in his eye. Yeah, but like literally dying. He was just in a car.
SPEAKER_02That was that other dude, that other you again. You're a truck driver, dude. We're putting together the pieces. You're a medical eye doctor that makes sure you don't blink, right? That was what you did last time. I think uh and then this time, and it let you you you let yourself touch yourself in the eye. And then this time it was well, the time before, I guess. Or I don't know the timing between the two.
SPEAKER_01The the only great dreams I have, there's gotta be multiples of me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Do you guys ever have a dream where you dream about a girl? Um, you're you're hanging out with her. You don't even have to have sex or kiss or do anything, just hanging out, having fun, and all of a sudden you wake up. Okay, so basically, this girl is someone famous or someone you know. You wake up and you're like, Who was that? You just well, no, you're like like instantly attracted, or you like have attraction for them for that day.
SPEAKER_02Like, say Topanga from Boy Meets World is in your dream. Tapanga's still jerking off.
SPEAKER_03Topanga from Boy Meets World is in your dream. You're hanging out with her, you're you're playing skeet ball at the nearest fucking arcade.
SPEAKER_01You're doing whatever you wanted to do with her. Well, then you wake up. Which is worse. They really worse. They actually rather have you just fuck her and leave her than actually like form a foundation of a relationship and not actually have sex.
SPEAKER_03Let me kind of rephrase it then. It's not someone you're already attracted to, it's someone that comes into your dream that you know or you don't know, but you know from a movie, just like a girl in your life, and you for some reason you wake up and you're like like literally attracted to them for the entire day, and after that day, you never for never think, or it's like it's gone.
SPEAKER_02Well, that was why I asked you if you had lasagna because he dreamed about lasagna.
SPEAKER_03I'm not attracted, I'm not gonna put my dick in lasagna, but it's that kind of party, maybe fucking good lasagna.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I don't think that's ever happened to me. I think all the people I'm well, maybe one time with Ryan Reynolds, but uh it could be a guy too, I guess.
SPEAKER_03In your own ways, yeah, it could be a guy.
SPEAKER_02My kid had a dream last night that the dog duplicated. There's two Marcuses.
SPEAKER_03And then your your daughter did? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02She told me about it this morning. She's like, Dad, I had this weird dream where Marcus duplicated. There was two Marcuses. There was nothing else really about the dream but that there was two Marcuses. So do you think Then when I got home from work, she go and I was leaving, I was saying bye to the dogs or something, and she whips her head up and goes, Are there two Marcuses? So she still remembered the dream.
SPEAKER_03Still Do you think dreams depict your uh life outside or outside of a dream? Like so I don't know.
SPEAKER_02We had this random other dog in our house Sunday night.
SPEAKER_03So there you go.
Anesthesia Dream And Defibrillator Jolt
SPEAKER_01Maybe it's like Marcus's size. I have heard something. I I'm not willing to do any research to see if this can be verified. Oh, he's scared. Guess why? Because you're scared, you don't want to look at it. But I have heard that you can only dream about um or like you can't dream about somebody that you've never seen nor never met.
SPEAKER_02You can't make up a human.
SPEAKER_01You can't make up it's gotta be that's not true.
SPEAKER_03I I have weird fucking people with six arms and like aliens coming down and fuck with me.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I so I've never seen them before. I don't know. All my dreams are about multiple versions of me, so I don't know. So you're basically you're you're you're you're what maybe there are more of you then I mean that'd be pretty cool.
SPEAKER_03You think about yourself. You can stop combing you like comb your hair like two times, not like 1800.
SPEAKER_01Uh it's dude, my morning routine is the same no matter what. It's annoying though. It's shit, shower, run this special comb through my hair 225 times exactly. We've done and then go to work. It's fine. Wait, is that before or after the pedicure? Pedicure sporadic. I haven't had a pedicure in over two months. Oh my gosh, you poor guy. Two months. Yeah. Got some real daggers in these socks.
SPEAKER_02Daggers. Tell them about how they should share their dreams with us, Jay. Tell them how they can get a hold of us. Top shelf stories podcast.
SPEAKER_03I'm not gonna find us on the internet. I am not gonna. But I will tell you that.Anywhere and anywhere, we will be found on your favorite podcast platform.
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SPEAKER_03Yeah, you know what? It's been uh it's been hyped up on one day, and I think I heard we're up to double digits. Chris's volumes speak.
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SPEAKER_03Thank you. Have some good dreams tonight, please.
