Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 31, 2015

Oh, Calvin, Oh, Calvin I know what you mean. Many a morning I have awakened and felt the exact same way ! !

They probably mean you ate too much pizza.

That’s about how my dreams work.

They mean you were sleeping.

You’re lucky. The few dreams I remember are just boring.

Just great!! I seldom dream of places or people I know in real life. For me, dreaming is like going to the movies—half the time I’m not even in my own dreams. I had a couple of small strokes about 5 years ago and since then I seldom remember my dreams. Golly I miss them—movies of the mind.

Don’t worry Calvin until your dreams are like you are walking down the street and all of a sudden the street turns into white chicken meat.

Calvin never dreamed that all of those thoughts would be going through his mind while he was asleep.Wait a minute…….. Yes he did……..Too many strips to choose from today, so I’m forced to sustain the record that I set two days ago and that I tied yesterday, by posting seven once again.

I can imagine….

Dreams are how we clean up the subconscious.

I had a time in my life, which was so cruel, that I could not even dream, I was like dead. All has become much better and I can dream again, but seldom I remember what it was!

I see a future for Calvin in avant-garde cinema, except that was so 60 years ago.

Is this strip new? If so would be the first in since forever, but I do not recall it.

I had an awesome dream last night…

Those guys look like Minion prototypes!

Don’t you think those who say they don’t dream, are actually dreaming but have lost some access to the database where dreams are stored. Maybe there is a way of reindexing the tables.

I haven’t tested the theory, but my guess is when you stop dreaming, you won’t be waking up the next morning…

…at least not on earth, anyway!

Movies. Just movies. VERY LONG movies.

Same here, Calvin. I had some very strange dreams last night and the night before.

None of them made any sense whatsoever.

xxx

I used to remember long, detailed dreams in vivid detail. And still remember some that I had 20 years ago.

This one is still my all-time favorite to explain where all dreams come from.

@PaintTheDust: Yes, I think the 1991 Calvin and Hobbes strip is one of Bill Watterson’s best; as is this one, from two years earlier:Calvin and Hobbes (April 23, 1989)

Dreams are such a rich source of pure imagery. When I can remember them – rarely – they tend to be bizarre and frequently angry. I regularly go through periods of time with very violent dreams. I throw punches; much better, cleaner punches than when I’m awake, and kicks. I have knocked things off my nightstand, punched headboards & walls. Never hurt myself because the punches are thrown correctly, but it always wakes me up. I don’t think I’ve ever remembered a dream I wasn’t in. They can be very entertaining, though. A few times they were so vivid and interesting that I got up and wrote them down.

I always felt that dreams are a way to delete all the useless pre/subconscious data that the mind records while awake., the mind takes that data, formats it into a dream, voila!

Calvin must have had too much cheese, they say that can cause nitemares (heres me thinking it causes too much stomach irritation)

This came out of course before Inside Out. Interesting how so few mine the subconscious, yet it seems so richly suited for comedy. I think so, at least…

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