evolution-of-dreams
Original: evolution-of-dreams on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: You ever wonder why we don't remember dreams?
Panel 2:
Woman: It's weird. You wake up with something vivid and after a minute or two... POOF. Gone.
Panel 3 (caption at top: "100,000 YEARS EARLIER"):
A prehistoric woman speaks to a prehistoric man.
Woman: We should mate, but first I gotta tell you all the specifics of last night's dre-
Man (screaming, mouth wide open): AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Votey:
A woman (the present-day speaker) continues talking, looking weary/unimpressed.
Woman: Which brings us to hour two, which was largely about variations in the insides of caves for instance...
Woman: You ever wonder why we don't remember dreams?
Panel 2:
Woman: It's weird. You wake up with something vivid and after a minute or two... POOF. Gone.
Panel 3 (caption at top: "100,000 YEARS EARLIER"):
A prehistoric woman speaks to a prehistoric man.
Woman: We should mate, but first I gotta tell you all the specifics of last night's dre-
Man (screaming, mouth wide open): AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Votey:
A woman (the present-day speaker) continues talking, looking weary/unimpressed.
Woman: Which brings us to hour two, which was largely about variations in the insides of caves for instance...
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman asks a man, "You ever wonder why we don't remember dreams?" Panel 2: She continues, "It's weird. You wake up with something vivid and after a minute or two... POOF. Gone." Panel 3, captioned "100,000 YEARS EARLIER": A prehistoric woman tells a prehistoric man, "We should mate, but first I gotta tell you all the specifics of last night's dre-" The man cuts her off by throwing his head back and screaming a long "AAAAAAA..." The joke: dream-recall was evolutionarily selected against because describing your dreams in detail is unbearably annoying. Votey: The present-day woman drones on, looking weary, saying, "Which brings us to hour two, which was largely about variations in the insides of caves for instance..." - showing she is exactly the kind of relentless dream-recounter the comic mocks.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.