Last night's dream
I usually don't remember my dreams, so I want to write this one down before I forget too many details.
The setup is that I'm in the house I grew up in and participating in a Survivor-like TV gameshow. Gradually the other contestants are eliminated and I'm trying to win a million dollars. (I find out later in my dream that this is the original series that Survivor spun off from.) Right now the final contestants are me and an old lady named Mabel. Mabel's husband was supposed to be the first contestant, but somehow she eliminated him and took his place.
Anyway somehow from clues I figured out that the way to ultimately win is to burn the hair of the other contestant. So I try to light a match to Mabel's hair, but she is wise to my scheme, so we end up getting into a nasty fight there in the kitchen. For some reason we are both down to just a T-shirt and underwear. Eventually I figure I'll never be able to succeed like this with matches, so I try to put Mabel's head to the stove. After several tries I succeed, but then her hair falls off her head revealing that it was a wig. Underneath, her head has been shaved down to stubble.
At this point I find it too hard to burn the stubble on the stove, so I try setting her T-shirt on fire hoping I can use it to burn her head. Then Mabel starts crying, "Please don't burn my underwear! Please have mercy. I don't want to be burning naked." I tell her, "You have a choice: I can either burn your top or burn your panties." She says that she accepts defeat and she'll burn her own head. She then places her head on top of the stove burner and her hair starts to singe.
Then she lifts her head up and laughs. "I won", she proclaims. Suddenly the feeling that I was duped sinks in. I notice the plastic shopping bad with the vital 10 clues written on the side nearby. Then I notice several words from the last two clues are scratched out. I go to the front door and see quiet a few celebrities outside trying to look in to see what's going on. (I remember Kevin Neilen was one and I think Alec Baldwin was there but also there were several others.) The show's producer is there. (He looks like the guy who used to host Super Password in the 80's.) He says he's there to give Mabel $1 million. He explains that the last two clues were the most vital ones. The shopping bag was originally given to Mabel's husband, but the rest of us saw it during the course of the game. Clue 9 explains that the contestants are supposed to find a certain lamp in order to win. Clue 10 he says was a misprint from the show's producers, "It was supposed to say "You can tell this to your spouse', but what we printed was, 'You can tell this to Mabel.'"
All the celebrities rush into the house along with the producer and film crew. The show's employees are attending to Mabel, while Cheryl Hines takes the time to explain to me the last two clues. Then I realize something: Mabel never found the lamp.
I go up to the show's producer and say, "Hey Mabel never won. She never found the lamp."
He replies, "What? How did she get declared the winner then?"
I say, "She declared herself the winner and you guys went along with it."
Then he says something like, "Well it's too late to change anything now. We've already declared her the winner, and we've already told you both about the lamp. It's impossible to redo any of this, so now she has to be the winner."
About this time I wake up. (BTW I have a very "unfair" feeling about this whole dream.)
The setup is that I'm in the house I grew up in and participating in a Survivor-like TV gameshow. Gradually the other contestants are eliminated and I'm trying to win a million dollars. (I find out later in my dream that this is the original series that Survivor spun off from.) Right now the final contestants are me and an old lady named Mabel. Mabel's husband was supposed to be the first contestant, but somehow she eliminated him and took his place.
Anyway somehow from clues I figured out that the way to ultimately win is to burn the hair of the other contestant. So I try to light a match to Mabel's hair, but she is wise to my scheme, so we end up getting into a nasty fight there in the kitchen. For some reason we are both down to just a T-shirt and underwear. Eventually I figure I'll never be able to succeed like this with matches, so I try to put Mabel's head to the stove. After several tries I succeed, but then her hair falls off her head revealing that it was a wig. Underneath, her head has been shaved down to stubble.
At this point I find it too hard to burn the stubble on the stove, so I try setting her T-shirt on fire hoping I can use it to burn her head. Then Mabel starts crying, "Please don't burn my underwear! Please have mercy. I don't want to be burning naked." I tell her, "You have a choice: I can either burn your top or burn your panties." She says that she accepts defeat and she'll burn her own head. She then places her head on top of the stove burner and her hair starts to singe.
Then she lifts her head up and laughs. "I won", she proclaims. Suddenly the feeling that I was duped sinks in. I notice the plastic shopping bad with the vital 10 clues written on the side nearby. Then I notice several words from the last two clues are scratched out. I go to the front door and see quiet a few celebrities outside trying to look in to see what's going on. (I remember Kevin Neilen was one and I think Alec Baldwin was there but also there were several others.) The show's producer is there. (He looks like the guy who used to host Super Password in the 80's.) He says he's there to give Mabel $1 million. He explains that the last two clues were the most vital ones. The shopping bag was originally given to Mabel's husband, but the rest of us saw it during the course of the game. Clue 9 explains that the contestants are supposed to find a certain lamp in order to win. Clue 10 he says was a misprint from the show's producers, "It was supposed to say "You can tell this to your spouse', but what we printed was, 'You can tell this to Mabel.'"
All the celebrities rush into the house along with the producer and film crew. The show's employees are attending to Mabel, while Cheryl Hines takes the time to explain to me the last two clues. Then I realize something: Mabel never found the lamp.
I go up to the show's producer and say, "Hey Mabel never won. She never found the lamp."
He replies, "What? How did she get declared the winner then?"
I say, "She declared herself the winner and you guys went along with it."
Then he says something like, "Well it's too late to change anything now. We've already declared her the winner, and we've already told you both about the lamp. It's impossible to redo any of this, so now she has to be the winner."
About this time I wake up. (BTW I have a very "unfair" feeling about this whole dream.)