Another bizarre Valis dream

[valis2]

I dreamt I was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie. In the dream, I was thinking, oh yes, this is part of their famous "Watch the Road" series.

Sure enough, the theme music came on and white credits announced "Watch the Road." A British voice sang:

All you really need to do is watch the road
Watch the road
Watch the road

You just really need to watch the road
Watch the road
Watch the road

So the premise is this. There's black paper on the ground with white lines marked on it, and Laurel and Hardy are pretending to be in a car together, but they're actually just walking side-by-side in their "lane." Hardy is pontificating about road safety to Laurel, and explaining rules of the road, with predictable Laurel and Hardy results.

An example. Hardy tells him he needs to signal if he's turning left, and does a hand signal with his left arm, and of course the "driver" who is passing him on the left gets beaned in the head with Hardy's hand.

I don't understand, brain. I've watched maybe twenty minutes of Laurel and Hardy in my entire lifetime, and haven't thought of them in at least a year. Seriously. And I doubt that this was really a skit of theirs. WTF?

And the theme music WILL NOT leave my brain. I really wish I could get the phone post function to work, because I'd sing it for you.

(As an aside, can I mention that the "highway" they were performing on was definitely an Eisenhower-style highway, and after I woke up I was disappointed? I mean, the theme music and the credits were very true to the time period.)

Comments

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

That's so funny! I think you could probably write better Laurel and HArdy scripts than the original ones, and just in your sleep too. I wish I had such fun dreams *g*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I have no idea where it came from. I'm still puzzled! Seriously, I really don't have any attachment to Laurel & Hardy. Strange, huh?