I don't think its recommended that when asked about being adventurous, to say I read a study that says sleeping on your left may cause nightmares, so yes I'm very adventurous.
Now, I want to try to imitate Adams: “In her sleep Holly Walsh was breathing in a very reasonable way, almost exactly as a person that is on a death support system doesn’t do.”
Well, of course. David's dreams are un-noteworthy, but not so un-noteworthy that they become noteworthy. And that's his greatest potential nightmare of all.
This is the closest i’ve ever seen; as an excerpt of an episode of QI, to what a conversation during a dinner party involving these five would include. Brilliantly entertaining!
joseph stearman the klaxon is for wrong answers usually, typing “Mitchell is a cock” would mean he isn’t. In my thoughts anyways that’s why they didn’t put it down, to fuck with him even more. Lol. (He isn’t btw, he’s hilarious)
Dreams are boring for Noel bc he lives like that. For other people, dream world is weird and exciting, colourful and psychedelic. For Noel, that's just a normal Tuesday.
I find Noel Fielding boring. His comments, the 'outrageous' ones always seem to me to be deliberately 'out there' in order to get a response, rather than being genuinely funny or thoughtful.
I never dream about school, however I do dream about horse-riding when I was 6 and how I'd arrive late with the group, after having to clean, brush, saddle and put-the-reigns-on the horse. I remember the judgemental faces and the; 'Aaaaaand there's Emma..finally...you're *LATE!* and I still have nightmares in which I sink onto the floor sobbing (never happened in real life, but in dreams..very often) after I've finished getting the horse ready and either it dissapears or the stuff dissapears or the horse changes colour/name and someone else claims it's theirs.
@@weareallbornmad410 Haha, well, for me it was :P I have ADHD so I was always late and on top of that, it happened very often that random kids would pick a horse from the stables (and not check if it was needed) and then walk outside with it or feed it grass or braid his hair. A.k.a. making it as un-ready for horseriding as possible. And you had to tell a group of five 8-year-olds that they had to give the horse back nów and stop braiding, because you needed to clean the hooves, put the saddle on, etc. Then it often happened that I was yelled at in front of the others, for arriving late. And the ADHD hasn't gone away, so I still often arrive late somewhere. And, I don't know, there's never really any compassion or understanding, and the world has become more chaotic and distracting, so it's become a bit of an issue :P Luckily I'm older now, so I can explain to people that I can't help getting distracted or lose the oversight and usually, after a couple of talks, people start seeing that. Not everyone though. I've stopped a couple of classes/workshops because people got angry and warned me; 'Don't you dare coming late again next week.' And then I just thought; 'Well, alright, I can't promise that, I better find another workshop.' There's no fun in workshops if you have to start one with a moment of shame and guilt every day. I've found one though :) a workshop in crafting and painting. The teacher now knows that ignoring my 'lost 5 minutes' in the beginning, will solve the entire problem and I can just sit down and have fun with the group, nobody minds, its alright. :)
David Mitchell is in school again. "Odd," he thinks, "why would I be in school if I have already graduated college?" He sees an exam on the desk in front of him. He opens it, turning to the first page. "Question 1." It says. "Name the 5,732 provisions affecting the Enclave of Baarle-Hertog..."
@@chrisantoniou4366 No. In England we don't call universities colleges. One goes to a college (or a sixth form) to get your A-Levels before University.
@@chrisantoniou4366 Or, of course, you might have attended one of the many colleges that compose a University such as Cambridge or Oxford - but when explaining from where you received your degree you would refer to the college by name (e.g. Trinity or King's) and not simply as "college". Although many colleges do now offer the first year of a degree course in collaboration with a University.
I had a really weird and stressful dream last year, I can't remember what it was about but it ended with a German police SWAT team bursting through the door and announcing that they were the Traumpolizei and this dream was illegal.
@@CorvusCorone68 The dream police They live inside of my head The dream police They come to me in my bed The dream police They're coming to arrest me Oh no
not necessarily. you know... when someone starts to breath consciously and deep, it is louder than normal, subconscious breathing? well, might be that she breaths that way while sleeping.... that's not snoring. A friend of mine once complained that I breathed loudly while sleeping. (we shared a tent)
I usually have really horrifying nightmares that I find really exciting and interesting when I wake up. One nightmare I was kidnapped by some people claiming "You know what you did." I was scared out of my life. I did enjoy it after.
My worst nightmare is lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, tossing and turning, knowing I have something important tomorrow then I wake up and don't know whether or not I was asleep. I put the kibosh opn that one though. I listen to audiobooks at night. When I wake up I hear the book and know that I slept because of the breaks in the story.
As someone that suffers from going straight to REM sleep (and rarely leave it) i can tell you having 6-10 hour long dreams can either be fantastically amazing, or you're trapped in your own SAW movie for 10 hours. Those nights suck.
The ending of QI youtube video's are always so stressfull. Because i watched most of them, so i feel like i have to click the movie away before she asks me to choose something :'(
I’m sure David would be pleased to know that he has invaded my consciousness enough for me to have a dream in which I am on Would I Lie To You? and suddenly realize I’ve got an essay due the next day, which I must do during the show with him making corrections over my shoulder. If I remember accurately, my other team member was a duck.
I fell asleep watching “Don’t F-- with Cats” and had a dream where the killer was after me and he hid in my car’s engine compartment then I had to fight him and I tried breaking his ribs but I couldn’t use my arms
I once had a stress dream that I was the, whatever the profession is called where you're head of a team of people responsible for planes taking off and landing without crashing into one another, except it was on a space station in Star Trek. The dream stressed me out so much that I jolted awake from it and couldn't fall back to sleep. I couldn't stop thinking about it and it just kept me up all night. It was bizarre.
I don't think he's wearing the WILTY one, but remember, that was his travel dressing gown, not his home dressing gown. Plus the belt had gone missing, so perhaps he retired that dressing gown altogether.
@@imokin86 Yep. I find British panel shows generally very entertaining and I've watched far too many in the last few months. I find the personalities of many of the comedians as panelists to be enjoyable and they don't seem to engage in such blatant self-promotion as we see in American shows, and they don't take themselves too seriously either.
I once dreamt that I was Spock and had to destroy the enterprise to save everybody.. I had to fire my phaser into the dilithium crystals. When I got to the engine room the crystals were in deep trays in large racks, covered in aluminium foil. When I pulled back the foil the crystals were in fact, dauphinois potatoes
I remember having a dream once where I was an ensign on the TNG Enterprise, and after an enemy attack on the ship where I was mildly injured, Jean-Luc Picard came to my quarters and was incredibly 'nice' to me (I'm trying to make that sound as family-friendly - and non-cringeworthy - as possible!) It was WEEKS before I could watch Patrick Stewart on tv again without blushing - and he's not even my usual 'type.' 😳
I have so many dreams that i'm back at school, and there really is a massive sense of injustice about it, "Why do I have to be back here?", "I'm absolutely not going in today, I finished school already!".. it's very stressful
oh same I keep having dreams that i'm back at school too! i mostly feel shame and embarrasment from having to sit my a-levels as a 20-something alongside a bunch of teens, cry
Ive also noticed people's dreams tend to either be grounded in real places or absolute fantastic ones. My ex used to have dreams based around actual places like her old school, or work etc dealing with regular people. And then i would be off in some alternate universe training cadets to ride dragons in a cave system.
The irony of Noel Fielding's comment is that it sums up all of his p**s poor "comedy". "They’re so boring….people say my hands were made of coleslaw and you think 'this is so boring'" Yes, we do Noel. And get your hair cut, you're nearly 50.
I never remember my dreams, other than the fact that they are very exciting, and that I wake up the moment I’m in a very hopeless situation, and then going happily to the bathroom. Double relief.
The best cure I ever found for those nightmares about being back in school was to go to Boot Camp. I spent a few weeks there, and I've never had a nightmare about school since! Now I just get nightmares about being back in Boot Camp instead.
I once glitched my own dream. whenever I ran, I was stuck as if on a treadmill, but when i crawled on my hands and knees I could move again, but as I stood up and started walking again, my progress slowed until I was again stuck when I was running. I thought I'd broken life, but no, I'd just broken my dream
That probably meant that your body was telling you that you need to take more time for things and stop rushing and hurrying. Things'll go faster if you take time and slow down and do things properly, rather than running.
My most disturbing dream (and I had it just a couple of weeks ago) goes back to when I was working in radio, about 25 years ago. I'm on air, and for some reason, we've got dead air. None of the equipment works, I can't find any songs that are in the format, and people keep calling up wondering why we seem to be off the air.
The dream about being too weak to move in a danger situation is very common and has a physical cause. It comes from your brain starting to wake up just enough to begin feeling your real body is just laying there in bed not moving, but still asleep enough to continue the dream for a few more seconds. Your mind is trying to reconcile the dream sensation of "I command my legs to walk" with the real world sensation of "my legs aren't moving", so it weaves paralysis into the storyline.
I'd need some specific parameters before I could answer. 1. Does the fear need to affect my mind or my body? Because my body is scared of more things than my mind is and I've never had a nightmare that's affected both. 2. What type of fear are we talking about: warning, ego, invitational, or trauma? 3. Does my age at the time matter? This is signifcant because all of the nightmares that affected me mentally ceased once I became a teenager.
And I love him because he's not trying hard to be funny, it seems to me. It's just quirky. He seems so earnest and normal, but also nerdy. And then I've heard him admit it's a persona that people expect from him. It's beautiful to watch. Oh and then there are the "angry logic" episodes. I wish there was more of him.
@@GrahameGould I get what you're saying, obviously every comedian is trying to be funny, but his natural demeanour is hilarious, I completely agree. Richard Ayoade is also hilarious, but if there were too many more nasal comedians, we wouldn't appreciate them as much!
Did I have a dream? Or did the dream have me? Set off on a night-sea journey Without memory or desire Drifting through lost latitudes With no compass and no chart Flying through hallucination Distant voices, signal fires Lighting up my unconscious And the secret places of the heart -- from _Nocturne_ by Rush
I actually have insomnia and have to take medicine to sleep. I know it sounds weird but I use my television to help fall asleep it helps with knowing how long it takes me to sleep and it helps me with having good dreams because I always have something on that is funny or something I personally enjoy like an anime that keeps me in a good mood while I sleep. But with many of the videos I use I’ve watched them so much and use them so often while I sleep I will be dreaming of whatever is on my television I’ll wake up and the video is where it was at in the dream right before I woke up.
I sleep directly on my back. No left or right, no fetal position. My dreams are relatively normal, obviously weird, and usually involving a video game.
Fine I'll admit it: I only ever put my socks on after the trousers when there's someone watching: for maximum sexiness ! Otherwise socks first, it avoids having to wrinkle the trouser leg whilst pulling the sock up AND it stops your toenails from catching the hem of your trousers. The latter being either discomforting or worse, damaging to the sewing of the hem !
Thank you! It's definitely the most sensible way! Anyone who wears tights will probably say, 'socks before trousers, because tights always go on before dresses or skirts, and socks are like miniature tights.
I tend to have quite vivid dreams after an anxiety attack or a stressful day. My recent one is going on holiday with Delboy and Rodney. I had apparently been to the place before in a caravan a while ago. Except this time the bed attached to the outside and folded out. We weren’t allowed in the house we supposedly booked for the holiday.
I’ve met Stephen Fry a few times in my dreams too, usually nearly always in a bookshop and the one occasion was a book signing. I’ve never attended any book signing of his. However I did see his Mythos tour back in August
What would happen if the person has dyspraxia, cause if they think their left side is their right wouldn't that mean they would have better dreams rather than nightmares? Cause im dyspraxic and I've been thinking I have quite beautiful dreams
2:03 Noel's "we're all in your dream" gave me flashbacks to Victorias first time on QI where Jimmy Carr said "wait, can I just check, we aren't in one of Vicky's dreams" (I was going somewhere with this but I forgot oops)
I’m from California and it wasn’t till I came to Britain that a girlfriend here convinced me to put on socks before trousers. I’d never really regularly worn socks until I lived here because we wear a lot of sandals, topsiders and vans, but its an absolute revelation for colder climates. Much less fussing with the trouser leg and sock elastic though.
There is an equivalent to the dream where you're taking an exam you haven't studied for. It's common with those of us who were in high school drama clubs: you're about to go on stage and you don't know any of your lines.
I just listened to Tig Notaro's podcast Don't Ask Tig and one of her listeners shared the pre-wedding night advise her mother gave her. It was that it is OK to tell your partner that you can't breathe.
I don’t think I dream in the same way as most people. My initial response is that I rarely remember any of my dreams, but I can recall brief snippets. However the more I think about it, the more I feel that my dreams are largely emotions or feelings that I experience but are difficult for me to explain or describe. What I would say is that the most I’ve ever related to the way dreams have been portrayed on screen is the dream sequences of Tony Soprano.
I also often dream about having to do a part of high school over again. There I sit, between all those adolescents, not knowing what I do there and why I am supposed to be there. Or I can’t find the classroom and the building is really, really BIG. Weird...
I have exactly the same one. It is sometimes about doing part of my masters again or my degree. And just like him, I am confused about why I need to do it again?
During my mid-teens I used to frequently dream that I was flying over the road through my village - but it was more like swimming breast stroke through treacle and not getting anywhere. Since I left home and moved overseas I've never had those dreams again.
I keep having dreams of having a tonne of homework to do for history or something, or a really important lesson in the morning. Always takes me a minute when it wakes me up to remember I got my degree last year, I don't have year 10 science work to do.
I have stress dreams a lot, but I’ve never had a dream where I was naked. I also always sleep on my left side but that’s because I have sciatica all down my right leg and it’s way too painful. I wonder if I could get myself to dream that I’m naked so I could see how my subconscious would react? 3:20 Like Holly, I’ve always put my socks on before my trousers. What’s weird is for someone to care so much one way or the other.
Ever since I finished my personal project at home and am not working on anything substantial, my dreams have felt empty and wasteful. I dreamed that the moon was appearing as different versions of itself in the sky because of some strange refraction, and as I continued to look, the sky turned into some curly mosaic. In my mind I didn't even think about any possibilities about it, it just felt empty. Update: Wow, I don't even remember that dream at all. As for disturbing dreams, I've dreamt that I'm back in school and didn't study for an upcoming test, estimating that I think it'll be ok, but I don't really know. But that's not really disturbing, just light concern. I think my scariest dream that I can remember was as a child, dreaming seeing something happen to an animal or a child, and the way my mother completely freaked out about it, going into complete hysterics rocking back and forth. Which probably meant that I was scared of what adults do (and the way my home was), more than what would actually happen.
I think it was Ken Dodd who said ................. I had a wonderful dream last night. I was eating a giant marshmallow. This morning I got up and I couldn't find the pillow.
i do sometimes dream about redo my school exams similar like what David experience. I also dream about being in my school classroom and study with my friends.
My favourite nightmares are those where fog suddenly appears and something is coming out of the fog!. I often had a dream about my right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, that one was revealed to me has been hung by the neck a night or two later unresolved dream issues. Or mud slides or quicksand just basically drowning. Don't have nightmares have good nightmares.
The last school dream I had I remember thinking “What am I doing here? I am 50 years old, I haven’t studied, don’t know what class I have now or even where it is. Oh well. At least I wasn’t embarrassed to find myself naked below the waist and glowing tumescent....just asked the teacher if she wanted any...hunh, why not eh? Then bloody well woke up before putting in an assignment. Stupid dreams
"I didn’t realise, now, I’m making a choice...am I just going for rest, or *adventure!"*
I don't think its recommended that when asked about being adventurous, to say I read a study that says sleeping on your left may cause nightmares, so yes I'm very adventurous.
"It's perfectly reasonable to breath while you are asleep." Sounds like something written by Douglas Adams
Breathe?
Now, I want to try to imitate Adams: “In her sleep Holly Walsh was breathing in a very reasonable way, almost exactly as a person that is on a death support system doesn’t do.”
@@Ekergaard love this
@@Ekergaard Very Adamsian; I approve.
Title: "David Mitchell's Worst Nightmare"
David Mitchell: "I don't have nightmares."
Such a clickbait :D
But then he describes a nightmare
Well, of course. David's dreams are un-noteworthy, but not so un-noteworthy that they become noteworthy. And that's his greatest potential nightmare of all.
His worst nightmare is being trapped in an escape room with Lee Mack.
@@pronkb000 I understood that reference!
David’s eyes when he says “adventure” are wonderful
This is the closest i’ve ever seen; as an excerpt of an episode of QI, to what a conversation during a dinner party involving these five would include. Brilliantly entertaining!
2:22 “Am I just going for rest...or adventure!” So brilliantly funny! And the mime 😙👌🏻😂
I thought his worst nightmare would be figuring out when world war 1 was first called such lol
He's not a cock man. Victoria Coren wouldn't marry a cock
This is just giving you time to type!
@@jazzycat8917 Maybe!
@@get-the-joke I still wish that the klaxon would have echoed him with either "cock" or "Mitchell is a cock". Lol
joseph stearman the klaxon is for wrong answers usually, typing “Mitchell is a cock” would mean he isn’t. In my thoughts anyways that’s why they didn’t put it down, to fuck with him even more. Lol.
(He isn’t btw, he’s hilarious)
Dreams are boring for Noel bc he lives like that. For other people, dream world is weird and exciting, colourful and psychedelic. For Noel, that's just a normal Tuesday.
😂😂
No, he said other people's dreams are boring. There's nothing more tedious than someone describing a dream they had.
I find Noel Fielding boring. His comments, the 'outrageous' ones always seem to me to be deliberately 'out there' in order to get a response, rather than being genuinely funny or thoughtful.
Holly and David are my favourite guests for the show by far. They're lovely
I agree, along with my other favourite guest, Bill Bailey. That would make my dream line up 👍😊
@@Psammead21 What a thematically appropriate turn of phrase!
@@markmayonnaise1163 not done on purpose - I normally dislike that type of thing and now find myself guilty as charged 🙋🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤭
David, Jimmy Carr and Lee Mack are all similar
Very fast responses and often pretty deep
I recommend breathing when asleep with or without socks on
Socks make me sleep better
I'd prefer if I stopped breathing in my sleep. It would certainly make my rest much longer.
@@alechall7082 preferably one next to the beach
I dream I have to present my Thesis over and over again. I’ve woken in flop-sweat, in crushing panic and once in tears. I’ve got academic ptsd
I never dream about school, however I do dream about horse-riding when I was 6 and how I'd arrive late with the group, after having to clean, brush, saddle and put-the-reigns-on the horse.
I remember the judgemental faces and the; 'Aaaaaand there's Emma..finally...you're *LATE!* and I still have nightmares in which I sink onto the floor sobbing (never happened in real life, but in dreams..very often) after I've finished getting the horse ready and either it dissapears or the stuff dissapears or the horse changes colour/name and someone else claims it's theirs.
@@Widdekuu91 Wow. I never thought horse riding could be so stressful
@@weareallbornmad410
Haha, well, for me it was :P I have ADHD so I was always late and on top of that, it happened very often that random kids would pick a horse from the stables (and not check if it was needed) and then walk outside with it or feed it grass or braid his hair. A.k.a. making it as un-ready for horseriding as possible.
And you had to tell a group of five 8-year-olds that they had to give the horse back nów and stop braiding, because you needed to clean the hooves, put the saddle on, etc.
Then it often happened that I was yelled at in front of the others, for arriving late. And the ADHD hasn't gone away, so I still often arrive late somewhere.
And, I don't know, there's never really any compassion or understanding, and the world has become more chaotic and distracting, so it's become a bit of an issue :P
Luckily I'm older now, so I can explain to people that I can't help getting distracted or lose the oversight and usually, after a couple of talks, people start seeing that.
Not everyone though. I've stopped a couple of classes/workshops because people got angry and warned me; 'Don't you dare coming late again next week.'
And then I just thought; 'Well, alright, I can't promise that, I better find another workshop.' There's no fun in workshops if you have to start one with a moment of shame and guilt every day.
I've found one though :) a workshop in crafting and painting. The teacher now knows that ignoring my 'lost 5 minutes' in the beginning, will solve the entire problem and I can just sit down and have fun with the group, nobody minds, its alright. :)
My Honours thesis presentation this year is recorded due to COVID, and though the anticipation wasn't stressing me out I'm still very relieved!
But nothing’s wrong with the system. No
Well..
Now I regret telling Noel about my coleslaw hands dream.
Was _I_ in it?
@@IAmAlgolei ua-cam.com/video/BZSb0JCWcXk/v-deo.html
You were all there!
Wait 'til he hears about Salad Fingers! On second thought, Noel might enjoy the sheer weirdness of that show.
No need for him to call you out like that, and on television even. Quite rude, frankly.
David is wearing his “special robe”.
The one from Would I Lie To You?
Special dressing gown.
I just checked the WILTY video in question. David's special gown is patterned; this one is not.
@Clippy Just to be clear, that was David's special dressing gown.
The cord is missing.
Holly Walsh gets marriage advice: the episode
Never enough David Mitchell.
David Mitchell is in school again.
"Odd," he thinks, "why would I be in school if I have already graduated college?"
He sees an exam on the desk in front of him. He opens it, turning to the first page.
"Question 1." It says. "Name the 5,732 provisions affecting the Enclave of Baarle-Hertog..."
Explain the Universe. Give three examples... Under your seat you will find a flute, compose a piano concerto...
As he is English he wouldn't say "graduated college". That is an American term.
@@JohnyG29 He would say it because to get a degree you graduate from college or university which can be equivalent.
@@chrisantoniou4366 No. In England we don't call universities colleges. One goes to a college (or a sixth form) to get your A-Levels before University.
@@chrisantoniou4366 Or, of course, you might have attended one of the many colleges that compose a University such as Cambridge or Oxford - but when explaining from where you received your degree you would refer to the college by name (e.g. Trinity or King's) and not simply as "college".
Although many colleges do now offer the first year of a degree course in collaboration with a University.
I often have dreams that a new QI video has been posted. It reoccurs every few days.
I had a really weird and stressful dream last year, I can't remember what it was about but it ended with a German police SWAT team bursting through the door and announcing that they were the Traumpolizei and this dream was illegal.
Awesome. I'm now reminded of the end of Monty Python's argument sketch.
sounds like a pretty interesting idea for a sci-fi movie where they monitor dreams
Traumpolizei=trampoline police?
@@kerrytaylor1795 i googled the word, it's German for Dream Police
@@CorvusCorone68
The dream police
They live inside of my head
The dream police
They come to me in my bed
The dream police
They're coming to arrest me
Oh no
Wow, it's the more towelly thick dressing gown david owns.i thought he'd use his special travel dressing gown.
Let the record show that David Mitchell answered yes to the question, "Are you a tosser?"
Victoria shouting "I knew that!"
Your obviously threatened by his intellect .....
@@Dannysince1985 * You're
Bit obvious attempt at a 'joke'.
@@ColinH1973 bit obvious I replied before watching the video......
"My husband makes me sleep facing away from him because I breathe too loudly."
I think that's called snoring.
He doesn't like it if she puts her socks on before her trousers and top so you never know it could just be breathing he sounds a bit obsessive
Her husband might just be abusive and controlling. :)
Sleep apnea maybe
@@RNS_Aurelius where in the video does it say he doesn't like it? stop reading into things based off nothing...
not necessarily. you know... when someone starts to breath consciously and deep, it is louder than normal, subconscious breathing? well, might be that she breaths that way while sleeping.... that's not snoring.
A friend of mine once complained that I breathed loudly while sleeping. (we shared a tent)
I usually have really horrifying nightmares that I find really exciting and interesting when I wake up. One nightmare I was kidnapped by some people claiming "You know what you did." I was scared out of my life. I did enjoy it after.
The worst part about that is when you wake up and think, "... okay, but *what did I actually do* ??"
@@JimRFF Yeah, EXACTLY. I knew what I did in the dream, but forgot as soon as I woke up and tried to write it down.
My worst nightmare is lying in bed, trying to fall asleep, tossing and turning, knowing I have something important tomorrow then I wake up and don't know whether or not I was asleep. I put the kibosh opn that one though. I listen to audiobooks at night. When I wake up I hear the book and know that I slept because of the breaks in the story.
As someone that suffers from going straight to REM sleep (and rarely leave it) i can tell you having 6-10 hour long dreams can either be fantastically amazing, or you're trapped in your own SAW movie for 10 hours. Those nights suck.
I couldn't stop looking at the sleeping man, in the backdrop, in this clip. He's lovely. :)
I think David’s comment about sleep or adventure is one of my favourites on the show
The ending of QI youtube video's are always so stressfull. Because i watched most of them, so i feel like i have to click the movie away before she asks me to choose something :'(
It's so annoying. We got through a lovely video without Sandy interrupting much, and then that irritating outro intrudes.
Holly Walsh always says such "oh honey" things.
That's a perfect description.
and then there was that one ep where she shouts "Ive got thrush" several times throughout the show X'D
I used to have a lot a dreams with no similarities other than not being able to keep my eyes open, it was insanely difficult to open them
I’m sure David would be pleased to know that he has invaded my consciousness enough for me to have a dream in which I am on Would I Lie To You? and suddenly realize I’ve got an essay due the next day, which I must do during the show with him making corrections over my shoulder. If I remember accurately, my other team member was a duck.
Brilliant
I fell asleep watching “Don’t F-- with Cats” and had a dream where the killer was after me and he hid in my car’s engine compartment then I had to fight him and I tried breaking his ribs but I couldn’t use my arms
I once had a stress dream that I was the, whatever the profession is called where you're head of a team of people responsible for planes taking off and landing without crashing into one another, except it was on a space station in Star Trek. The dream stressed me out so much that I jolted awake from it and couldn't fall back to sleep. I couldn't stop thinking about it and it just kept me up all night. It was bizarre.
Is David wearing a type of his David’s special dressing gown?
I don't think he's wearing the WILTY one, but remember, that was his travel dressing gown, not his home dressing gown. Plus the belt had gone missing, so perhaps he retired that dressing gown altogether.
You guys professional David Mitchel stalkers?
@@cabletelcontar5440 we all just watch unhealthy amounts of British comedy.
@@imokin86 Yep. I find British panel shows generally very entertaining and I've watched far too many in the last few months. I find the personalities of many of the comedians as panelists to be enjoyable and they don't seem to engage in such blatant self-promotion as we see in American shows, and they don't take themselves too seriously either.
@@cabletelcontar5440 he has said all this on Would I Lie to You
I once dreamt that I was Spock and had to destroy the enterprise to save everybody.. I had to fire my phaser into the dilithium crystals. When I got to the engine room the crystals were in deep trays in large racks, covered in aluminium foil. When I pulled back the foil the crystals were in fact, dauphinois potatoes
I remember having a dream once where I was an ensign on the TNG Enterprise, and after an enemy attack on the ship where I was mildly injured, Jean-Luc Picard came to my quarters and was incredibly 'nice' to me (I'm trying to make that sound as family-friendly - and non-cringeworthy - as possible!) It was WEEKS before I could watch Patrick Stewart on tv again without blushing - and he's not even my usual 'type.' 😳
Noel, circa N series, looks very '1978 librarian'.
Thanks. QI. Now I am going to have each of the nightmares you describe.
I have so many dreams that i'm back at school, and there really is a massive sense of injustice about it, "Why do I have to be back here?", "I'm absolutely not going in today, I finished school already!".. it's very stressful
oh same I keep having dreams that i'm back at school too! i mostly feel shame and embarrasment from having to sit my a-levels as a 20-something alongside a bunch of teens, cry
Noel Fielding describing his entire career there at 0:54
I have this same dream about doing my final exam for my degree again. It's such a relief when I wake up or the dream ends.
I'm a man of simple taste. I see David Mitchell, I click 'like'
I feel you David. I have busy math dreams sometimes and it feels like I havent slept at all.
I'm not bad at maths, but I suck at it when I'm dreaming.
The thumbnails for these videos always have great designs
Ive also noticed people's dreams tend to either be grounded in real places or absolute fantastic ones. My ex used to have dreams based around actual places like her old school, or work etc dealing with regular people. And then i would be off in some alternate universe training cadets to ride dragons in a cave system.
I thought his worst nightmare would've been about bread and milk actually being super unhealthy?
While it is demonstrably fine, really.
But we are all supposed to live to TWO HUNDRED!
@@medievalist now that we're eating all this poisonous bread and milk all the time, we can barely limp past 98.
The irony of Noel Fielding's comment is that it sums up all of his p**s poor "comedy". "They’re so boring….people say my hands were made of coleslaw and you think 'this is so boring'" Yes, we do Noel. And get your hair cut, you're nearly 50.
I never remember my dreams, other than the fact that they are very exciting, and that I wake up the moment I’m in a very hopeless situation, and then going happily to the bathroom. Double relief.
The best cure I ever found for those nightmares about being back in school was to go to Boot Camp. I spent a few weeks there, and I've never had a nightmare about school since!
Now I just get nightmares about being back in Boot Camp instead.
WORSHIP IT. WORSHIP IT.
I once glitched my own dream. whenever I ran, I was stuck as if on a treadmill, but when i crawled on my hands and knees I could move again, but as I stood up and started walking again, my progress slowed until I was again stuck when I was running. I thought I'd broken life, but no, I'd just broken my dream
That probably meant that your body was telling you that you need to take more time for things and stop rushing and hurrying.
Things'll go faster if you take time and slow down and do things properly, rather than running.
I was in a friend’s dream and she said I was the king of Poland! It was life changing.
I will remember to breathe while I’m asleep. Thank you Alan for the reminder. 😉
My most disturbing dream (and I had it just a couple of weeks ago) goes back to when I was working in radio, about 25 years ago.
I'm on air, and for some reason, we've got dead air. None of the equipment works, I can't find any songs that are in the format, and people keep calling up wondering why we seem to be off the air.
The dream about being too weak to move in a danger situation is very common and has a physical cause. It comes from your brain starting to wake up just enough to begin feeling your real body is just laying there in bed not moving, but still asleep enough to continue the dream for a few more seconds. Your mind is trying to reconcile the dream sensation of "I command my legs to walk" with the real world sensation of "my legs aren't moving", so it weaves paralysis into the storyline.
I’ve had 6 nightmares my entire life that I know of. Woke up late once and missed a 2 hour call with an overseas friend, and *5* about spiders
I'd need some specific parameters before I could answer.
1. Does the fear need to affect my mind or my body? Because my body is scared of more things than my mind is and I've never had a nightmare that's affected both.
2. What type of fear are we talking about: warning, ego, invitational, or trauma?
3. Does my age at the time matter? This is signifcant because all of the nightmares that affected me mentally ceased once I became a teenager.
David Mitchell is probably THE funniest comedian I've ever seen.
And I love him because he's not trying hard to be funny, it seems to me. It's just quirky. He seems so earnest and normal, but also nerdy. And then I've heard him admit it's a persona that people expect from him. It's beautiful to watch. Oh and then there are the "angry logic" episodes.
I wish there was more of him.
@@GrahameGould I get what you're saying, obviously every comedian is trying to be funny, but his natural demeanour is hilarious, I completely agree.
Richard Ayoade is also hilarious, but if there were too many more nasal comedians, we wouldn't appreciate them as much!
Did I have a dream?
Or did the dream have me?
Set off on a night-sea journey
Without memory or desire
Drifting through lost latitudes
With no compass and no chart
Flying through hallucination
Distant voices, signal fires
Lighting up my unconscious
And the secret places of the heart
-- from _Nocturne_ by Rush
I actually have insomnia and have to take medicine to sleep. I know it sounds weird but I use my television to help fall asleep it helps with knowing how long it takes me to sleep and it helps me with having good dreams because I always have something on that is funny or something I personally enjoy like an anime that keeps me in a good mood while I sleep. But with many of the videos I use I’ve watched them so much and use them so often while I sleep I will be dreaming of whatever is on my television I’ll wake up and the video is where it was at in the dream right before I woke up.
I always put my socks on before my trousers. It helps to slide me feet in and not catch on my toe nails.
School is so traumatic and stressful, people have nightmares about it, well into adulthood
I sleep directly on my back.
No left or right, no fetal position.
My dreams are relatively normal, obviously weird, and usually involving a video game.
I have that exact same nightmare!
Fine I'll admit it: I only ever put my socks on after the trousers when there's someone watching: for maximum sexiness ! Otherwise socks first, it avoids having to wrinkle the trouser leg whilst pulling the sock up AND it stops your toenails from catching the hem of your trousers. The latter being either discomforting or worse, damaging to the sewing of the hem !
Thank you! It's definitely the most sensible way! Anyone who wears tights will probably say, 'socks before trousers, because tights always go on before dresses or skirts, and socks are like miniature tights.
Exactly! It's simply logical and practical.
"Socks before or after trousers, but never socks before pants, that's the rule. Makes a man look scary, like a chicken"
I actually put my socks on first 😂 but nobody will see it so it's OK
Pants and trousers? Why different?
@@judithwalker3600 In the UK, 'pants' are underwear and 'trousers' are pants.
What is sleep?
I tend to have quite vivid dreams after an anxiety attack or a stressful day. My recent one is going on holiday with Delboy and Rodney. I had apparently been to the place before in a caravan a while ago. Except this time the bed attached to the outside and folded out. We weren’t allowed in the house we supposedly booked for the holiday.
I’ve met Stephen Fry a few times in my dreams too, usually nearly always in a bookshop and the one occasion was a book signing. I’ve never attended any book signing of his. However I did see his Mythos tour back in August
I have the same dreams every now and then. Again in school but knowing that I already passed all my tests in real life.
What would happen if the person has dyspraxia, cause if they think their left side is their right wouldn't that mean they would have better dreams rather than nightmares? Cause im dyspraxic and I've been thinking I have quite beautiful dreams
2:03 Noel's "we're all in your dream" gave me flashbacks to Victorias first time on QI where Jimmy Carr said "wait, can I just check, we aren't in one of Vicky's dreams" (I was going somewhere with this but I forgot oops)
Surely the way to deal with that is to review for the A levels again. So next time you have that dream you don't feel stressed, you feel prepared
I’m from California and it wasn’t till I came to Britain that a girlfriend here convinced me to put on socks before trousers. I’d never really regularly worn socks until I lived here because we wear a lot of sandals, topsiders and vans, but its an absolute revelation for colder climates. Much less fussing with the trouser leg and sock elastic though.
There is an equivalent to the dream where you're taking an exam you haven't studied for. It's common with those of us who were in high school drama clubs: you're about to go on stage and you don't know any of your lines.
Did Noel Fielding say someone was weird?
Alan’s dream fighting is 100% what happens in my dreams! Punches in dreams do zero damage.
It's like trying to punch through treacle.
I have that same nightmare as David from time to time. I wonder why.
I'm a tosser in bed. But I always wake up each morning on my right side. Oh and I adore Sandi Toksvig, she's a natural successor to Stephen Fry.
I just listened to Tig Notaro's podcast Don't Ask Tig and one of her listeners shared the pre-wedding night advise her mother gave her. It was that it is OK to tell your partner that you can't breathe.
I don’t think I dream in the same way as most people. My initial response is that I rarely remember any of my dreams, but I can recall brief snippets. However the more I think about it, the more I feel that my dreams are largely emotions or feelings that I experience but are difficult for me to explain or describe. What I would say is that the most I’ve ever related to the way dreams have been portrayed on screen is the dream sequences of Tony Soprano.
I also often dream about having to do a part of high school over again. There I sit, between all those adolescents, not knowing what I do there and why I am supposed to be there. Or I can’t find the classroom and the building is really, really BIG. Weird...
I have exactly the same one. It is sometimes about doing part of my masters again or my degree. And just like him, I am confused about why I need to do it again?
I don't really know what side I sleep on because I'm usually asleep at the time. But my girlfriend often calls me a "tosser" so maybe that's it.
During my mid-teens I used to frequently dream that I was flying over the road through my village - but it was more like swimming breast stroke through treacle and not getting anywhere. Since I left home and moved overseas I've never had those dreams again.
That would be a newtonian fluid.
I have anxiety when i wake up seemingly for no reason. No dreams or anything to explain why.
That means you have a ghost.
Lol Holly's husband sounds like he needs to chill
Is David using his special dressing gown from that series of Would I Lie to You?
It's just a dressing gown!!
I keep having dreams of having a tonne of homework to do for history or something, or a really important lesson in the morning. Always takes me a minute when it wakes me up to remember I got my degree last year, I don't have year 10 science work to do.
Is that David's special travel bathrobe?
I have stress dreams a lot, but I’ve never had a dream where I was naked. I also always sleep on my left side but that’s because I have sciatica all down my right leg and it’s way too painful. I wonder if I could get myself to dream that I’m naked so I could see how my subconscious would react?
3:20 Like Holly, I’ve always put my socks on before my trousers. What’s weird is for someone to care so much one way or the other.
Ever since I finished my personal project at home and am not working on anything substantial, my dreams have felt empty and wasteful. I dreamed that the moon was appearing as different versions of itself in the sky because of some strange refraction, and as I continued to look, the sky turned into some curly mosaic. In my mind I didn't even think about any possibilities about it, it just felt empty.
Update: Wow, I don't even remember that dream at all. As for disturbing dreams, I've dreamt that I'm back in school and didn't study for an upcoming test, estimating that I think it'll be ok, but I don't really know. But that's not really disturbing, just light concern. I think my scariest dream that I can remember was as a child, dreaming seeing something happen to an animal or a child, and the way my mother completely freaked out about it, going into complete hysterics rocking back and forth. Which probably meant that I was scared of what adults do (and the way my home was), more than what would actually happen.
I think it was Ken Dodd who said .................
I had a wonderful dream last night.
I was eating a giant marshmallow.
This morning I got up and I couldn't find the pillow.
I have that exact same stressful dream as David.
Noel Fielding on shaky ground there with his criticisms. His entire surrealist career is like watching other people's dreams.
i do sometimes dream about redo my school exams similar like what David experience. I also dream about being in my school classroom and study with my friends.
I have the same PJs as Sandi!
Does it depend if you are left or right handed?
obsessed with Noel's weird deedee ramone haircut
My favourite nightmares are those where fog suddenly appears and something is coming out of the fog!. I often had a dream about my right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, that one was revealed to me has been hung by the neck a night or two later unresolved dream issues. Or mud slides or quicksand just basically drowning. Don't have nightmares have good nightmares.
I specifically found this clip because I couldnt remember which side they said caused less disruptive dreaming, and I need to test this
I'm sorry but wasn't The Mighty Boosh just describing a dream
The last school dream I had I remember thinking “What am I doing here? I am 50 years old, I haven’t studied, don’t know what class I have now or even where it is. Oh well. At least I wasn’t embarrassed to find myself naked below the waist and glowing tumescent....just asked the teacher if she wanted any...hunh, why not eh? Then bloody well woke up before putting in an assignment. Stupid dreams