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Had one last night after writing about Muppets for a few hours. In the dream, I was watching something I thought was the new movie (though it really seems to have had nothing to do with that), but not on a screen: more like standing in the center of a hologram, with Muppets all frantically dashing around me, cleaning, building, yelling, busying themselves getting the Muppet Theatre ready for a new performance. I was standing in the audience on a riser, watching, unnoticed by the characters. Suddenly the Newsman ran by, and I stopped the action and rewound it to get a better look at him just a couple of feet away from me; he was moving so fast (they all were, it was serious crazytime) I had to frame-advance it slowly to get him in focus. Oddly, he looked younger, college-age maybe, same face but not as filled-out in body, and I realized this scene must be a flashback sequence to the Muppets in college (though it was NOT the venue portrayed in MTM, more like my own high-school theatre). He was dressed differently and I studied him a long while: gray short-sleeved wool sweater with black zigzags woven all the way up the front, a la' Charlie Brown but wrong colors and more zigzags; brown or black above-the-knee shorts, knee-height black wool socks and nondescript brown tennish shoes. Very odd outfit. Also the first time I can EVER recall being fascinated by what someone in a dream was wearing! When I resumed the playback he ran back and forth, focused on cleaning the audience area. At one point he trotted off house right and returned lugging an upright vacuum cleaner which was taller than him!
Weird. Like a strange window into a history that never was...
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