Dream: Meme book

Dreamt the night ending 2025-03-06

I was in someone's house, in a well-lit garage, overhearing a conversation that my dad was having with someone about politics.

"Pediatricians are complaining that kids these days don't know how to swallow pills", he said. "Pediatricians are complaining that. They're the ones prescribing the pills in the first place!" That is, he thought that it was the pediatricians' fault for not prescribing pills to kids anymore so they don't have practice taking them, so they were complaining of a problem of their own making. However, I also knew of another explanation, namely that ways of preventing disease had gotten so good that kids no longer got sick enough that they'd need medicine very often.

I left the room and went into another part of the house, where the sun was shining in through the window, casting sunbeams on the walls. There I found a book, made of the sort of heavy board-ish paper that I've seen on some books for young children, and this was a book of meme images about five or six different, very specific subjects, one of which was the pill issue that my dad had been talking about. The book was divided into sections, one per subject, and within each section, the memes were arranged chronologically by when the meme was popular.

I looked through one of the sections, starting at the beginning. The earlier memes were photos with impact font text, but they looked like they were from the 1980's or 1990's, before those sorts of memes existed. As I turned the pages, I got to more recent memes, and then as I kept turning the page I got to the present, and then after that, future memes.

One of the pages had a grid of different meme images, most of which were a bunch of similar-looking photographs of people in front of a sort of dullish pink background, and overlaid on top of the photos were something that looked a lot like the bubbles from Pose Mii in Wii Play, but smaller, more numerous, and without the poses.

A dullish pink image (which in the dream would have been an actual photograph), with a bunch of rainbowy circles over it.

Aside from those bubble pictures, the pictures in this era mostly had vivid colors, lots of green plants and blue sky.

Then I turned the page, and somehow the book had a video in it. I watched the video. In the video were some foxes in someone's back yard. The foxes talked among each other, and then one of them said, in a serious tone, "It is time. Now we are become squirrels."

Then all the foxes but one became a hybrid of themselves and a type of squirrel called a "tree squirrel", which was similar to a flying squirrel. They all had heads that looked like fox heads, but with the body and size of a squirrel, and had an extra flat layer of skin on top of their backs which let them fly. Also they were red, yellow, and blue, in an unnatural way that looked like they'd been colored that way in an image editor. They all flew upwards, going back and forth a bit, each at different heights. A bit later, the one that hadn't become squirrel yet became squirrel and started flying up to where the rest of them were, though that one was still noticeably farther behind.

Some colored fox/squirrel hybrids in front of a white picket fence with some bushes in the background.