429. "Dreams" TV on the Radio

"Dreams"
TV on the Radio
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2004

There are three things we as humans cannot resist talking about, even as we know that the listener has absolutely zero interest in them, and will spend the entirety of our discussion making "mm-hmm" noises and wishing Cthulu would rise from his watery depths just to make us stop talking.
Those three things are 1. our fantasy sports teams, 2. bets we almost won but then lost, and 3. the dream we had last night.
I mean, I know I do this. I KNOW I do this. I can see my wife's eyes glaze over as I enter the third minute of, "We were in my third grade class, but it wasn't really my third grade class, but I knew that it was, and I had a big bushy mustache, and... oh wait, I just remembered, I had a baseball glove on? And...."
There is, however, a solution. No, you do not have to start telling people about your dreams. You just have to tweak the retelling a bit.
Go on as you normally would, but preface the tale with this sentence: "I had this really weird dream last night, and you were in it."
And then just replace the word "I" in your story with "we".
This satisfies your need to get your really weird dream off of your chest, and both flatters and engages your listener.
Because as much as people hate hearing about other people's dreams, they love hearing about other people's dreams about them that much more.

(And yes, I pulled that last sentence off. If it confuses you, that's your fault.)