So I’m going to see Chuck Klosterman speak tomorrow at SCAD, and I’ve been reminiscing about his books this past week. One thing I loved in Sex, Drugs, and Coca Puffs are the questions he poses before every chapter. They aren’t meant to have a right or wrong answer, but more get to the heart of how you think. Over the next few weeks I’m going to answer all of them, and invite you to do the same.
Q: At long last, someone invents “the dream VCR.” This machine allows you to tape an entire evening’s worth of your own dreams, which you can then watch at your leisure. However, the inventor of the dream VCR will only allow you to use this device of you agree to a strange caveat: When you watch your dreams, you must do so with your family and your closest friends in the same room. They get to watch your dreams along with you. And if you don’t agree to this, you can’t use the dream VCR.
Would you still do this?
Absolutely. Putting aside the fact that I have little to no shame, as long as people watching it with me knew that they were seeing the manifestations of my unconscious mind and not necessarily represent my true feelings I don’t see the harm. Besides, the majority of my dreams involve some cursory reference to either Back to the Future or Jurassic Park (setting, interactions with characters from the movies etc.) so my question is who WOULDN’T want to watch my dreams?
