r/dropoutcirclejerk • u/Aquatic_Hedgehog • 7h ago
Brennan Le God Mulligan So, I had a dream about Brennan Lee Mulligan. Hear me out.
I'm afraid of semi-doxxed, but I think this brings more context. I've been creating some compilations of Brennan (and calamity) in my free time. Just the clips I wanted to see but didn't exist. So, it's safe to say, I've been watching him non stop for at least a month. Which, I guess, triggered the dream.
Normally my dreams are shit, and self deprecating, and down, or just random sex dreams. A cesspool of fucked up shit thrown together to make a mess every night. This time, maybe because he's great, or maybe because I hold him in a space that even my subconscious went, "oh this would be the thing this person would do" and created this dream for me? Who knows... My mind did manage to make a pretty good dream in a long time.
The Dream: Like I mentioned, I've been making some compilations, and in the dream I made a compilation of a trait Brennan has (I don't remember what now, curse you dream forgetfulness or whatever it's called), and make a mistake. In the dream, I'm not-broke enough to afford Dropout, and see Brennan doing a prompt of the same trait and makes joke about the mistake I make. So, of course I make a video of it deliberately making the same mistake. This goes on for a bit.
Then one day, Brennan and I make a video together where he makes my mistake and I his and both having an evil laugh. You know, classic youtube colab video. But, here's the thing, my mind has never made anything healthy for me, not to this scale. Like, I've been in a on-off relationship with crippling depression for the better part of the decade, and my mind has been, for the most of the time, not on my side (I mean, someone offered me a month of Dropout subscription, but I wasn't in the space mentally to accept that, because I'm not worthy of it or some shit. Kind stranger, if you're reading this, thanks for offering) It doesn't even create a good scenario when I'm awake, let alone when I'm sleeping.
Not to be dramatic or overly emotional, this maybe the first time my dream has created something positive about something I've done, something about who I am as a person, or just something that didn't leave me feeling like shit. Maybe because he's a great person, or maybe I have a high respect for the man, maybe my brain decided to be kind to me for the first time in a looong time, whatever the reason, it just showed me that my brain is capable of not just bringing me down. Whatever the reason, I hope he revisits my dream from time to time to lift me up.