Anybody experience dreams which felt like commercials?

[DreamInsights]

My most memorable dream was a commercial for office copy machines - that is the dream felt like those clever office product commercials from the 1980s years.

Basically, the commercial (product brand unknown) went on the theme of how a copier can make an office more productive. The 1980s were a time when many experts strongly believed that offices would pretty-much become paperless in future years.

In the dream, the commerical featured two or three people operating a copy machine (similar to the type of large copy machines print shops would use).

One of these people in the office seemmingly became "empowered" - just as the narrator in the commerical said, "be the maestro of your back-office." With classical music playing, the entire office scence split to reveal a theater stage with the audience in the background, and this one office staffer wore two hats - one hat of an office staffer seemlessly operating a copy machine, and another hat for a symphony conductor (maestro).

To give a whole new meaning to multitasking, the copy machine in the commercial seemed to resemble a machine with a built-in industrial lathe - a shop tool for creating objects out of wood, metals, etc.

 

[PaulKH]

Heh, your dream must have been so amusing to witness--how bizarrely cool! I've had many dreams where I've awoken laughing or smiling from the fun of it, and I'm sure some were in a theatre or perhaps could be described as in commercial format, but those also don't tend to be memorable and stay in my memory long.

The one exception (because I detailed it for my novel) was of a performer type, standing on stage in front of an audience in a dress that sparkled in the stage lights, just as she dazzled her audience. She lifted one arm, palm open to the sky, and in it were flashing images, entertaining and exciting. But in her other hand that she hid behind her back were also a series of images playing out, but instead of being bright/flashy/entertaining, they struck me as being vastly more important, things that people *should* be seeing and understanding yet weren't. So, the dream seemed to show the differences between what typical people are shown and lap up, and the things they *should* know about but don't.

Note this was also a dream where I had an awareness that wasn't my own--I clearly wasn't the woman, and yet I saw the things she hid and personally felt conflicted and terrible that they were being kept from the people being distracted by the TV-like images in her upheld palm. Being both a philosopher/student of humanity *as well as* an entertainer, it's important for me to see what is out of balance, or hidden, and yearn to share that insight with others. We can be both edified *and* amused at the same time--in this warped society, we see many things that lead us to believe those two states of being are separated, perhaps even contradictory to each other, but I know for a fact that they aren't and can both be relevant at the same time: the fun and the meaningful. And all my dream show-person had to do was raise her other hand from behind her back so the others could see the balance of both, but instead, she snapped closed her hidden hand and the dream ended abruptly.

 

[DreamInsights]

Heh, your dream must have been so amusing to witness--how bizarrely cool! I've had many dreams where I've awoken laughing or smiling from the fun of it, and I'm sure some were in a theatre or perhaps could be described as in commercial format, but those also don't tend to be memorable and stay in my memory long.

The one exception (because I detailed it for my novel) was of a performer type, standing on stage in front of an audience in a dress that sparkled in the stage lights, just as she dazzled her audience. She lifted one arm, palm open to the sky, and in it were flashing images, entertaining and exciting. But in her other hand that she hid behind her back were also a series of images playing out, but instead of being bright/flashy/entertaining, they struck me as being vastly more important, things that people *should* be seeing and understanding yet weren't. So, the dream seemed to show the differences between what typical people are shown and lap up, and the things they *should* know about but don't.

Note this was also a dream where I had an awareness that wasn't my own--I clearly wasn't the woman, and yet I saw the things she hid and personally felt conflicted and terrible that they were being kept from the people being distracted by the TV-like images in her upheld palm. Being both a philosopher/student of humanity *as well as* an entertainer, it's important for me to see what is out of balance, or hidden, and yearn to share that insight with others. We can be both edified *and* amused at the same time--in this warped society, we see many things that lead us to believe those two states of being are separated, perhaps even contradictory to each other, but I know for a fact that they aren't and can both be relevant at the same time: the fun and the meaningful. And all my dream show-person had to do was raise her other hand from behind her back so the others could see the balance of both, but instead, she snapped closed her hidden hand and the dream ended abruptly.

Any memories of those clever ADs from the 1970s and 1980s?

2010 DVD film about advertising's creative revolution - 'Art & Copy' on DVD at many public libraries.

'Art & Copy' TRAILER:

 

[PaulKH]

Any memories of those clever ADs from the 1970s and 1980s?

2010 DVD film about advertising's creative revolution - 'Art & Copy' on DVD at many public libraries.

'Art & Copy' TRAILER:

Hmm, fascinating trailer/premise--thanks for sharing. While I remember the original theatrical releases of Star Wars, Star Trek, and ET blowing my little mind, I remember nothing about commercials. Our household didn't have a TV until I was around 12...at the time I hated that, of course, but now I am glad (perhaps only because I made up for lost time in the 80s, heh, once I already had a built-in dismissive attitude toward commercials; the irony being that I worked with/for the largest advertising conglomerate in the world during my corporate stint). That's not the same as me not learning/being influenced by them, but any of it would have certainly been subconscious (I was writing stories before I ever watched TV, except maybe for cartoons at a friend's house, so /shrug).

In your dream, I can see the clear influence, heh, at least in structure. In the dream I describe, I think the images were more than commercials, but that was only my faded impression--it was impossible for me to bring details of those flashes back to waking with me, only the showmanship/performer environment, actions, and my feelings about them. It could have been about distracting commercials (or the insidious nature of them, true), but I got the impression it was more about life lessons distracted-from-and-missed, the how to brainwash and derail the "audience" understanding by being selective in what they are shown.

 

[DreamInsights]

Post #7 in the discussion-thread, 'Music in Dreams Relating to Dream Experiences?' was a dream which felt like a commercial for the opening of an 'old Las Vegas' themed casino.