The government sure has taken some of the fun out of drug commercials by mandating that the side effects be stated in the ads. I don't care how happy and carefree you try to make those actors, it's not going to distract me enough to miss the voice-over's mention of rashes, irregular heartbeat, bloating, death. You can sit in your bathtub happily looking at the sunset all you want, I am not joining you.
I heard an ad the other day and one of the possible side effects was "unusual dreams". What does that even mean? I mean, I had a dream the other night that was real unusual and I'm not taking anything. It was one of those dreams where, upon waking, you seriously question if your subconscious might be a tad deranged.
Maybe they mean a more literal sense of "unusual". Perhaps they just mean that you will dream of things you've never dreamt of before. I'm not certain that would be such a bad thing. Variety is the spice of life after all. In fact, they may want to state "unusual dreams" as a potential benefit.
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"unusual" seems like a relative term -- and how can they know what any given person dreams. Justin seems to have way more dreams than I do (or at least he remembers them more than I do), and they're always very unusual.
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