Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Four Monkeys Dream

I had a strange dream last night. It was the very early 80's and I was in the audience for Saturday Night Live. It was before the show, and Eddie Murphy was on stage priming the audience with some stand-up; he was doing the usual thing where he picked out some groups in the audience and razzed them about what they do or who they are. One group he picked out were three guys from the MPAA; he had his fun making fun of movie ratings and the such, as that's all people really saw the MPAA as at the time. I remember freaking out, everyone was laughing at the jokes while I broke into a cold sweat. At one point I broke and stood up and started ranting at them, going on about how the MPAA and RIAA were going to control all media in the future and how they were going to take over all entertainment. A few nervous laughs later and Eddie incorporated it into his shtick and sent a few jokes directed at me as security took me out.

It was a classic Cassandra Complex, I knew the future and I was laughed off as insane.

Then the dream shifted to Penn Jillette's flat, years later. It was his bedroom and the bed and room were covered with notes and papers. At some point he was having sex with someone, but that's not central to the dream (I didn't even see who he was screwing, it was just a few seconds of the dream). Then he was going over the notes piled around the room, maybe they were notes for his skits or whatever, and he came across the notes about me. It seems that I had kept trying to get attention to the problem of the MPAA, but there was never any evidence to support it. He was saying how I was onto something, but there was likely nothing that could be done about it.

Then right before I woke up (or after I woke up in the state of delirium after you come out of REM too fast, my alarm had gone off) and was pondering a president (not one in particular) holding a press conference and announcing the creation of the Department of Media and assigning Jack Valenti as the first Secretary of Media.

Am I just paranoid?