Why am I so dumb in my dreams?
Dumb might not be the right word, but it’s not too far off either.
A few nights ago I had a dream that I was at the vet with my dog. The vet proceeded to tell me that my dog was pregnant and that two puppies would be born…eventually. I can’t remember reacting any other way than smiling like an idiot.
Then I was standing in an old neighborhood, waiting for my wife. There’s never any traveling in my dreams. I’m just in one place, then in another. If only real life was like that.
So, I’m standing in this neighborhood, with my dog, waiting for my wife. I was excited to tell her we were going to have two puppies running around the house. I was still trying to figure out the best way to tell her when I woke up.
You might be wondering what in that dream made me feel so stupid.
Well, my dog couldn’t have puppies because my dog is fixed…and male.
Why do we so willingly accept anything and everything that happens in a dream? My dog being fixed and the wrong gender is pretty tame compared to some dreams.
I’ve dreamed I was some kind of future cop with my wife (also a cop). We’re at some kind of highway service station and suddenly the country’s most-wanted criminal was right in front of us and we caught him.
Then I’m on a talk show stage and my best friend is telling the world that he once hired that guy to beat me up back in college. At that point, a flood of memories comes back and I remember all the beatings. My friend says it was to keep me tough when he couldn’t be around. He didn’t know they guy would eventually be a killer and wanted criminal.
And that’s still tame, in the dream spectrum.
There are lots of theories for seeing the unreasonable as reasonable, but it seems like it’s still a bit of a mystery.
What makes the most sense to me—a complete lame—is that the majority of the brain shuts down when we sleep. The parts that give us the ability to reason and the parts that are the most in-touch with reality.
Some say it’s the frontal lobe that shuts down, which could be true. I’m not an expert, or even a hobbyist. I barely have a functioning brain while awake some days, but, it seems to me that if some people are capable of lucid dreaming they must be using parts of the brain that are dormant on someone who can’t dream lucidly.
I think lucid dreaming needs its own post. Stay tuned on that.
What’s the craziest dream you’ve had? And what’s your theory on why we accept it all?
We’ve made it to the end! You deserve a big round of applause for sticking with me this whole month and having to read so much about Doctor Who. Let’s face it, if you’ve been reading all this time and aren’t a Doctor Who fan you’re either my mom or my wife!
They also shoot stuff from their hands that can knock out their prey, or kill them. Zygomatic normally leave people alive. As long as the person they’ve taken form of is still alive they have a continual feed of information from their brain.
The current Osgood is at least part Zygon. There’s two of them, and at least one of them is a Zygon. Possibly both. She’s not telling.
Shooting schedules, commitments to other shows, and probably some ego have given us a terrible window with no Doctor.
With this 10th season, we’ll also be saying goodbye to Stephen Moffat as showrunner. 10 will be his last and he’ll be handing reins over to Chris Chibnall—current showrunner on Broadchruch—for season 11 and on.
I know, I know, using X for the Daleks is kind of a cheat, but there’s nothing to be done about it now. I don’t have a TARDIS. Not even a vortex manipulator.
Stupid Angels.
In the Whoniverse, these angel statues are creatures from another dimension, but not when you’re looking at them.
The compassion I mentioned earlier is in the way they murder people. Sounds impossible, I know. The Angel’s kiss, which is just them touching you, instantly transports you into the past where you will live out the rest of your natural life. You won’t exist past the day you encountered the angel, but you also don’t die any faster or more painfully than was already going to happen. Friendliest murder ever.
I personally have a love/hate relationship with them. I think they’re one of the coolest species in the Whoniverse, but I can’t help but hate them since they’re the ones that took Rory and Amy away from all of us. Stupid Angels.
With a name like Vashta Nerada it sounds like some kind of uncomfortable chaffing in the nether regions. The real Vashta Nerada is a little more permanent but just as discomforting.
These are also the episodes where the Doctor meets 
It’s not an immediate and obvious attack like in Aliens. The group doesn’t even realize when someone has been killed until it’s past too late. Some of the people in the group are wearing space suits, and the Vashta Nerada have the ability to keep the space suit filled out and give the appearance of someone just standing around. The tell that the Doctor figured out is when someone had a second shadow.
That seems unfair. You can see a Dalek or a Cyberman coming, you may not stand much of a chance to get away, but you can still run. The only option Vashta Nerada gives you is to stay in the light. Even then, you have to be looking for shadows.
Let’s skip the gentle jokes. U.N.I.T. stands for Unified Intelligence Taskforce.
I don’t have a lot of good things to say about UNIT. I’m sure they’re more competent than I am when it comes to hostile aliens, but not by much.
TARDIS. Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, or Totally And Radically Driving In Space. The latter came from a recent episode with the Twelfth Doctor, so there’s probably zero truth to it.
In fact, most characters seeing the TARDIS for the first time remark, “it’s bigger on the inside.” Except for Clara Oswald who said, “it’s smaller on the inside.” She is the impossible girl after all.
On more than one occasion it’s been shown to have some sentience of its own. It seems to answer distress calls and puts the Doctor where he’s needed instead of where he wants to go.
The Silence is another of the most inventive baddies in the Whoniverse. They’re a creepy looking alien race that any sane person would be terrified of, but the second you’re no longer looking at them you don’t remember them. You can’t. But you remember the suggestions they’ve given you.
Their first appearance, The Impossible Astronaut, is also an incredible episode because we’re treated to guest star Mark Sheppard—another ’s’ for those keeping score!
Well, gabby-pants, they recorded your whole speech and spliced it into the Apollo 11 moon landing—I forgot to mention they’re back in 1969 during this episode. Everyone watching that broadcast doesn’t remember seeing a Silent, but the idea of killing them on sight is implanted into each of their heads. Brilliant!