I had a really strange dream last night...

All my life, I've experienced some seriously strange, vivid, and sometimes lucid dreams after I fall asleep. I've joked that someday I'm going to write a book about them. So, this morning, I woke up remembering a VERY odd one.

In this one, I was over my parents' house, hanging in their kitchen. I found myself having a conversation with none other than Prince. He was wearing a getup like this:

As we were talking, he asked for a tall, cold glass of orange juice, so I poured him one.

We were talking about his guitar style, and I mentioned how he was a "shredmaster" and he never gets as much credit as he should for being so great at playing guitar. After talking technique for a while, I straight-up asked him how he died.

He told me this, and I quote: "Tony, I was hopelessly addicted, and it caught up with me. But not to drugs; don't believe the media. I had a secret addiction to Burger King that I kept from everyone. I was 57 when I died, but on BK, it was like I was 67. Stay away from that stuff if you want to live a long life! You can't shred when you're dead!"

What a weird dream, right? It gets even weirder.

I posted this dream up on Facebook this morning, and our own Wally M posted the following in a comment:

Wally M said: It sounds believable. When I was a kid probably around 84-85 Prince was playing Nassau Colosseum and they called to have to get my father to deliver a few cases of Orangina. That's got juice in it.

That's weird... and oddly specific. So I did some more research, and Googled "Prince orange juice" and this article pops up:http://www.delish.com/food-news/a46917/prince-favorite-foods/

And the first thing on that list: SPAGHETTI, (AS LONG AS IT'S PAIRED WITH ORANGE JUICE).

Wait, what???

Leave it to Prince to turn something as traditional and basic as spaghetti into a meal that seems completely original. According to an oral history of Purple Rain that appeared in SPIN back in 2009, the musician was a pretty big fan of his pasta, so long as it was paired with some good old O.J. "I ordered a grilled cheese sandwich," said the film's director, Albert Magnoli, of a meeting he had with Prince at a restaurant ("a Denny, or something like that"). "Prince ordered spaghetti and orange juice, which was one of his favorite meals."

So that's TWO sources that talk about his apparent love for OJ.

So, begs the question: Did Prince reach out from beyond the grave to warn me about the dangers of eating fast food, specifically Burger King? It doesn't make sense. I've read that he was a vegan, BUT he was eating it in secret, so there's that.

What the berk, huh?

What did you eat before bed? Salsa? BK?

I still have intense dreams I'm trying to meet up with my high school girlfriend and some that I'm still smoking cigarettes I quit in 1995.

I once dreamed that I built an igloo out of government cheese.

Your dream takes place in the kitchen, which is a place of transformation in the sense that individual ingredients combine and take on a new identity as a whole. The focus on food opposites: Prince's request for (healthy) OJ after suffering a fatal attraction to BK may indicate a need to focus your own energy on making healthy choices for yourself in order to realize your own "shredmaster" potential.

Or you could have eaten too many burritos before bed.

Perhaps you had too much....

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IeVnbAfcwv8

I don't care what prince says 1.49 for 10 nuggets is a damn good deal

In reply to Tony Sestito:

Was it in color or black and white?

In reply to TRoglodyte:

Color. My dreams are ALWAYS in color.

oldtin wrote: I once dreamed that I built an igloo out of government cheese.

BTDT

EastCoastMojo wrote: Your dream takes place in the kitchen, which is a place of transformation in the sense that individual ingredients combine and take on a new identity as a whole. The focus on food opposites: Prince's request for (healthy) OJ after suffering a fatal attraction to BK may indicate a need to focus your own energy on making healthy choices for yourself in order to realize your own "shredmaster" potential. Or you could have eaten too many burritos before bed.

It's probably this, but man, what a weird way for my brain to act that out.

For the record, last thing I ate before bed was an Italian cold cut sub, in my parents' kitchen. No, I didn't have OJ with it. I ate nothing right before bed when I got home.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Your dream takes place in the kitchen, which is a place of transformation in the sense that individual ingredients combine and take on a new identity as a whole. The focus on food opposites: Prince's request for (healthy) OJ after suffering a fatal attraction to BK may indicate a need to focus your own energy on making healthy choices for yourself in order to realize your own "shredmaster" potential. Or you could have eaten too many burritos before bed.

Well I never!

I aint chancin' it. I am never going back to burger king again

Well that's cooler than the last one I posted about. Had one recently where I was struggling to find a takeoff zone for a flying car on a college campus but I guess that's not too unusual.

Strangely enough, my buddy hates Prince because of a dream he had. In the dream he had to make a delivery to downtown Chicago. He gets caught in gridlock. Prince is parading down interstate 90 with a full crew dancing to the Batdance from the Batman soundtrack.

nepa03focus wrote: I don't care what prince says 1.49 for 10 nuggets is a damn good deal

If they are offering ten of anything for under a buck fiddy----- that ain't food you are eating. Listen to the purple one!

Joe Gearin wrote:

nepa03focus wrote: I don't care what prince says 1.49 for 10 nuggets is a damn good deal

If they are offering ten of anything for under a buck fiddy----- that ain't food you are eating. Listen to the purple one!

This. If you haven't eaten Burger King in a long time, you'll be surprised at the "food" they're selling these days.

That beats my trapped-backstage-at-a-Vanilla-Ice-concert nightmare by a good bit.

That's better than my recurring bad dream where Frank Stallone boards my bus, doesn't have any change, and goes on to be a nuisance to the paying customers until he reaches his stop and has the nerve to ask for a transfer.

If I dream, I never remember them.

It's been, what? Two or so weeks? I've walked passed no less than three burger kings while hungry and didn't go in to a single one.

I was joking when I posted before, but I'm beginning to think I really AM avoiding Burger kings!

I was over my parents' house last weekend telling the story of this weird dream of mine while standing in their kitchen. As I was going play by play though the dream, what comes on the radio?

Let's Go Crazy by Prince.

WHAT. THE. BERK.

I've also avoided the BK since.

OBEY THE BK TONY.....repeat 3 times....oh and click your heals while facing west.....