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.

 

[DreamInsights]

Awhile back, I experienced a dream of a commercial produced by a decades-old small regional chain of ice-cream parlors. In the dream, the original ice-cream parlor's highway-side store had long been closed-down, and hence fallen into disrepair.

The commercial beings with a small group of young-adults in their late 20s, early 30s who were at the old ice-cream parlor site. The commercial cut to footage of this ice-cream parlor, and the memories this small group were collectively experiencing of growing-up with memories of this ice-cream parlor.

The commercial cut to images of this same group of people (via collective imaginations) restoring this old-building to it's original state, and purpose. This almost felt like a comemrcial produced by a firm that specialized in restoring old-buildings, or even a commercial produced by the local historical society bank-rolling restoration efforts.

Our group of young adults began to sing, 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore' as the building (via footage of actual restoration efforts) was being restored.

The commerical spoke for itself, this old-ice-parlor will reopen in all of the old 1970s styles carefully restored. No scheduled re-opening date was noted at the end of this commercial.

 

[j. oak 357silversword]

your dream is very extraordinary, and i have never had a dream similar to it.cryptic and enigmatic dreams,yes but nothing like this. what would a copier symbolize for you? and the scene parting to reveal a stage with an audience.clearly this dream is symbolic and once you identify what the various parts of it mean for you then you will have the answer. i regret i cannot assist you more​

 

[DreamInsights]

your dream is very extraordinary, and i have never had a dream similar to it.cryptic and enigmatic dreams,yes but nothing like this. what would a copier symbolize for you? and the scene parting to reveal a stage with an audience.clearly this dream is symbolic and once you identify what the various parts of it mean for you then you will have the answer. i regret i cannot assist you more​

A good interpretation: I've preffered the styles of comemrcials for business products, services over the mass-market commercials.

Like any other commercial, they all want to promote products which may, or may not be worth purchasing.

Any thoughs on the dream of the reopening of a landmark ice-cream parlor?

 

[j. oak 357silversword]

A good interpretation: I've preffered the styles of comemrcials for business products, services over the mass-market commercials.

Like any other commercial, they all want to promote products which may, or may not be worth purchasing.

Any thoughs on the dream of the reopening of a landmark ice-cream parlor?

ah,yes the dream of the ice cream parlor. here is one area where your dreams and mine and mine do share a certain similarity. i have had dreams not usually about ice cream parlors,however there was one very similar. it involved place similar to an ice cream parlor. in addition to ice cream they sold sherbert and 16 varieties of ice. it took place in a town by the ocean (the Adriatic sea ? anyway not on the american continent) i was in this place with one of my close friends in real life. and then i noticed 2 girls across the street dressed in school uniforms .then they came across and bought 2 ices and a meal. i was naturally curious as to two schoolgirls being out on the town in a European coastal city.it struck me as most unusual.soon we fell into conversation. it turned out one of the schoolgirls was English and enlightened us as to the circumstances regarding their unusual appearance in an active,well lit town at night. they had escaped from a school supposedly for young ladies but in reality a clandestine house of horrors. she went into detail about the horrific tortures and l abuse inflicted on the students. i will not talk about the details . suffice it to say they were of a nature very unlikely to have been invented by a child. i asked if she did not have any source for money. she replied she had an account in a bank which could be accessed through a system whereby she could draw funds as needed .this account had been set up for her parents when she was enrolled in the school.both she and her friend were escapees . ,from an institution supposedly a place of learning,but in reality a prison. she was frantically trying to make people understand the abuse that went on in this institution and was desperately trying to reach her mother in England. i was trying to think of some way to assist them when i woke up. so there you have it. although it seems to be very different in content from any of your dreams your attempt to re-open a landmark ice cream parlor is laudable and praiseworthy. all success to your dream friends and their goal

 

[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.

LINK to dream on music in AD for opening of fictional 'old Las Vegas' themed casino.