10 Memes That Appeared In People's Dreams

Hamlet famously wondered, “for in that sleep of death / what dreams may come?” but if Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark were real and alive today, his question could have been phrased like this: “for in that sleep of death / what memes may come?” He might ask his existential question that way if he were living now, because recently, many people have reported seeing memes while they sleep.

It makes sense: you fall asleep after hours of scrolling and what you find on the screen will end up in your mind offscreen. On Reddit's /r/thomastheplankengine (named after Thomas the Tank Engine for unclear reasons) dreamers from all corners of the memesphere post the phantoms that have visited them in the dark. Whether any of these memes are their father’s ghost has yet to be determined.

Listen, we all get weird things in our heads at weird times. It's perfectly normal.