Weird half-asleep thoughts

Y'know when you're almost asleep, but still kind of awake, so you start tripping balls? Yeah, that. This is a thread for sharing weird thoughts you've had while half-asleep.

• "I can't find my other leg!"
• "What do you call Egon from Ghostbusters when he's drunk? A white-wine Spengler!"^note As a pun on "white wine spritzer", but you'd have to be half-asleep to find it funny.
• "A Cat in Paris is about a tomcat. Tom... Paris! Ha ha!"
• And, I once composed a long rap song while half-asleep, with the twist that all the rhymes ended in "—ated". Among them were "That's completely unrelated", "You make it sound like it's complicated", and "We look alike 'cause we're related".

That last one kinda sounds like "A Complicated Song" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, where he uses a lot of words that rhyme with "complicated" (e.g. constipated, both related, decapitated, etc)

Anyway, since I'm rather prone to Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy, this happens to me pretty often. One quote that comes to mind is "I'm an evil baby!"

I get a lot of great ideas for my writing when I'm about to fall asleep. The issue is that I can't remember them by the next day.

I also remember several times when I just... spontaneously began to laugh, while really exhausted.

Edited by WarJay77 on Mar 16th 2024 at 9:11:04 AM

Several minutes ago, my tired brain invented the word "fellay" (with emphasis on the second syllable) to describe a VHS slipcover becoming worn ("It starts to fellay.").

In September 2019, my brain invented new terms to describe when the front and back wheels of a vehicle go over a bump. The front bump is called a "hook" and the back bump is called a "fold".

I've got plenty more half-asleep thoughts typed down, so stay tuned!

One time, I was wondering how Changelings worked. I was remembering how some people thought it was confusing hoe they lived without food, but I thought that wasn't so confusing because rocks didn't need food. So I thought Changelings were "like rocks, but goopy and sentient".

"Get you're ponies in line, soldier!"

Still makes more sense than getting your ducks in a row.

You guys ever have that moment where you're awake but still sort of in your dream, so you interpret everything through the dream filter? I do. I constantly sit there thinking that my alarm is something I was dreaming about, not in that it infiltrates but that I'm just straight up awake and confused.

once I had a dream that my sister had done something that made me mad. I was awakened by a phone call and it turned out my sister was on the other end - for a split second I was still mad at her for whatever she'd done in the dream and was almost going to say something about it before I realized it didn't actually happen.

Somehow late last night I was thinking about something involving a person having the ability to make everyone in the world fart at the same time.