How (Not?) To Talk About Dreams

Example 1: On a phone date.

Jake Harper, on cell phone: Really? I dreamed about you too! What was your dream?
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Jake: We were on the train in a tunnel? Sounds kind of boring.
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Jake: It means What?
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(Alan Harper enters)
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Jake: No Way!
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Jake: I'm confused. If I'm In the train how can I BE the train?
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Alan: At least he's not the tunnel.

from Two And A Half Men, Chuck Lorre Productions #185

Example 2: Among Friends

Ted Mosby: I had this crazy dream -
Narrator: I then proceeded to waste thirty minutes of these b*st*rds' lives telling them my dream of eating dinner with the top five architects throughout history.

paraphrased from How I Met Your Mother "The Three Days Rule"