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Should I put my dreams in here?
So when my body wants to sleep in on a work day, my brain does this thing where it creates really interesting celebrity dreams to keep me from waking up…
I guess I’ve been selected to test out these waterproof markers and paper, and the way they have me test them is to draw caricatures while taking a shower. This shower is in some sort of big public building like a mall. I still have my privacy, but while shower-drawing, my mind pushes itself deeper into a dream within a dream where I’m walking around a mall with my friend Edgardo.
We’re looking for a shop that fixes holes in clothing. At one point, we see Jerry Seinfeld sitting around, maybe getting ready for a photo shoot or something. I explain to Edgardo my strategy for dealing with celebrity encounters, which is to pretend they are just another person out in public, which they are. It’s taking forever to find this shop, and Edgardo has to pee, so I sit on a bench while he takes care of business. I look over, and sitting next to me on the bench is Linda Hamilton. Then I realize that I lost my sketchbook. I guess I said this out loud, because Linda Hamilton tries to help me remember where I had it last. I’m not sure if this did any good, because as soon as Edgardo returns, I’ve completely forgotten about my sketchbook, and I tell Edgardo about my encounter with Linda Hamilton. This is when we find the shop that fixes holes in clothing. The guy gives Edgardo this tiny cylinder device. No instructions or anything, just a weird cylinder. We saunter out into the atrium as Edgardo fiddles with this thing. Eventually, he twists it, and it sort of firecracker pops and transforms into a silkworm. We’re like, “Gross, that’s the solution?” There’s this other guy doing the same thing with his silkworm device. I’m fed up with this scenario, so I decide to keep walking the mall by myself. Jerry Seinfeld shows up again and starts talking science jive.
Seinfeld: Did you know they found out that the world began with not one, but 6 singularities?
Me: No, that’s insane! How do they even know that?
Seinfeld: Yeah, I just heard about it, apparently these 6 singularities attracted and repelled each other in a rotating motion.
Me: That’s blowing my mind! (making an explosion gesture by my head with my hands)
At this point I wake up from my dream within a dream and this guy who had me do the test just finished interviewing this other caricature artist who did the test. Now he’s asking me how my caricature went. I immediately start lying about the experience as I look down and realize the drawing is nowhere near complete, there’s just a couple of poorly drawn eyes. I try to hurry up and scribble the rest of the caricature, but the guy obviously sees me doing this and is so disappointed in me.