I dreamt of being alone in a dark forest. I stayed there for some time, until car lights appeared behind me. I left the woods and found myself on some of my neighborhood streets. It was late evening and I felt intoxicated, it was hard to stay balanced. I turned to a long street and saw a guy with a huge camera far away. As I got closer, I noticed that the front of one house was brightly lit and a woman in a colourful costume was standing there, waiting to be shot/filmed by the guy with the camera. It was a very David Lynch style scene - two peculiar characters lit up in the middle of darkness. I kept walking. Even though the neighborhood was homely and familiar, I felt deeply alone, a creature of the night with nowhere to go.
Then I saw a scene from The Simpsons, which parodied old-time gangster films. It was one long static shot. A room full of men in suits, Homer walks in, opens fire from his machine gun, lights go out. When the lights turn back on, Homer has walked to the other side of the room, over the bodies of the men he shot, and Bart has appeared in the reflection of a mirror on the right side of the frame, a gun in his hand. "Well, well, well..." Bart says, followed by silence, until Homer comically answers: "Who are you?"*
Next, in a different scene, Bart and Homer are together on a rollercoaster and I'm hearing Homer's inner monologue. He is thinking about how proud he is of his son, a rare heartfelt moment from Homer Simpson. In that moment, his character grew into someone more sincere than the Homer J. S. we all know.
The dream ends with me back on the neighborhood streets at night, now driving a car. Whenever I dream of myself driving, I have close calls with just about every accident you can imagine. After narrowly avoiding collisions with other cars (of which there are too many for this time of day), I turn to my home street and the dream ends.
*It was simultaneously a better-written gangster scene and a funnier Simpsons scene than I could come up with in my waking life. The composition, lighting, dramaturgy and comedy were all on point.