Probably this is not the first time I've had a dream where the action occurred almost exclusively on the internet, but it's the first one I remember.
I dream that I go online to look up the lyrics to the Bon Iver song "Holocene", and learn that it is actually a cover of an obscure, completely independent unsigned post-folk college band (really more of a one-man project à la The Mountain Goats) called Black Bear.
Initially the lyrics are a criticism of a season of Dr. Who, specifically a particular narrative thread about Daleks, but they go on to capture with a really artful minimalism the sort of college shared-house rental experience, and the relationships with superficially intimate acquaintances created by cohabitation with relatively random near-strangers.
The original song even has a great little video, a montage of college house and party snapshots interspersed with scenes of crude play-houses cut from blocks of crumbling foam collapsing in on themselves. I wake up at ten minutes to five, unable to get back to sleep for thinking about an unreal version of a real song by a band that never existed.
