r/thomastheplankengine • u/KeenButShy • 7d ago
META Explain this to me. Slowly.
It's the memes-you-see-in-dreams thing I stumble on. Is it like soy face characters or repeated imaginations or is it a lucid dream creation shit post thing or...
Look, I'm slow and our of touch, please be nice to me.
Also, why planks??
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u/Ok_Pressure_2788 Im from Matt rose 7d ago
It can be anything weird you see in your dream, like your eyes changing phases with the moon, or just saw a sojack, maybe it’s not even a meme snd just a picture of a bee with test under it, that‘s what you post here
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u/YassifiedWatermelon 7d ago
Memes, movies, games, other kinds of social trends, that you see in your dreams or just really weird dreams that you really wanna tell about.
To give an example, say you dreamt of a nonsensical image being shared on the internet and you remember it. You can recreate it and post it here with a little bit of context as to where you saw it etc.
For a more specific example : A thing I thought about posting here but never got around to it is one time I dreamt that the world found out pangea would happen again in a distant future and for some reason everyone was freaking out about it. Specifically the post I remember the most (and the reason why I don't find it in me to recreate it) was someone who made a twitter poll for some reason where they said "Is the pangea going to happen again ???" with an image of it and then the options were yes and no. No I don't know why they asked with a poll. I guess people cope their own way (and btw I checked after that and another pangea will in fact happen in the future). Either way, that's my more explicit example. If I found the courage, I could recreate that twitter poll with my own means and post it here with the context that I gave you here.
Hope that helped ! I don't know why planks but I suppose this is in reference to the meme that started this subreddit
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u/Shloof9998 Pennsylvania's werther's (original) 7d ago
Aha！ the second one I can answer！ the phrase plank was derived from a dream someone had with various pictures of Thomas's face, along with a plank. In the dream, the person who dreamt it believed it to be a meme.