Boviosity!

I frequently dream beautiful melodies while in that twilight between full sleep and waking. They never make it into this world. Instead, last night I dreamed this little joke and I can't stop thinking about it. Is it funny at all? Frequent Commenter Guy Smilee once told me of a similar jest, (paraphrasing here) "It has technical aspects that define it as a joke." This was obviously said as proof against laughing too hard and maybe harming himself.

So anyway, here's the Dream Joke:

A man is talking to a woman in a bar when a group of deaf people walks in. They're talking back and forth in sign language and laughing amongst themselves, and the guy is also amused by them: he keeps looking in on their conversation and laughing to himself a bit. The woman, intrigued, says, "So, you speak sign language? Do you have a deaf brother or something?" and the guy replies, "No, I'm just amused by sign language."

Interestingly, I didn't "witness" this scenario in my dream. No, in my dream, I was doing something or other, and the line, "I'm amused by sign language" occurred to me, and just as I would have in waking life, I crafted it into the joke you see above. Not for me the interesting dream scenario of sitting in a bar chatting up a young beauty. No, my dreams are just like my waking: a series of random odd thoughts sometimes interrupted by survival issues.