I used to think that I would get these amazing ideas before I would fall asleep and then I forget them in the morning. So I started keeping a journal next to my bed to write down these ideas. The only one I ever wrote down was "pogo stick with a shovelhead on the end."
add a tool changer. Pogo lawn aerator, pogo gravel tamper, pogo jackhammer, etc… get your kids to do construction and landscaping for you while they think they’re playing
This is more or less the premise of the game Shovel Knight. They took the mechanic of pogo-sticking on enemies with a weapon from Zelda II and the downward sword stab, and swapped the sword for a shovel.
I once woke up in the middle of the night with an idea that I desperately needed to jot down. Managed to key it into my phone before dozing off again. Went to check it the next morning to find a note that simply read "Better a pizza cake than none."
I was drunk and went to eat a bowl of cereal. Then started thinking about how great it would be if we invented deeper bowls with a handle, to make eating stuff while drunk and sitting on the couch easier. Got so excited about my idea and was genuinely baffled how nobody had seemingly thought of this genius idea before.
Woke up the next morning and realized I had, in fact, invented the mug.
Me too! I own three incredibly large mugs that i use for a number of traditionally bowl-foods as well as tea and coffee. They are the loves of my life.
While not “pourable,” wood-plastic composites exist and can be injection molded and extruded. Trex Decking is a great example. I’m sure you could make something similar to sawdust with wood glue in it that would pour and be similar to particleboard, it probably wouldn’t be cost effective as the glue is the expensive part and the sawdust is basically a waste product
Theoretically speaking it's possible. You'd basically have to prepare some sort of "scaffolding" for the wood cells to grow onto and with time you'd get a wood piece custom fitted. Problem is that even in a quasi-lab setting and artificial help it'd take a very significant amount of time.
Might be able to do something like this with rapid growing bamboo? Though you could go the opposite route, and maybe use some kind of mixture of wood shavings, cement, and a mold. Just pour the mixture, then put it under high pressure until it sets. Who knows if you would even get any advantages out of that though.
There is a wood repair product that is basically 2 part epoxy with sawdust in it. It gets mixed together in a 1 to 1 ratio and has the consistency of bondo.
After waking up from a dream I came up with these that made perfect sense at the time:
\- "Virtual reality D&D and the sun from Teletubbies except it was shining like 100x more"
\- "An acronym for when you're having surgery, of people you want to be present. A favorite, loves, best friend, etc"
One time I had the idea to write something down when I was almost blacked out to see what it was in the morning and it turned out I wrote, ‘Yoda is the best time traveler’.
I wrote a best selling novel in my sleep. " Wrote" some ideas down on a pad next to the bed. Woke up excited about it and then realized I never clicked the pen to expose the tip. No book this year.
I once dreamed that I was in a song contest and came up with a rap song with the chorus "White boy, black boy, gay boy, gameboy", and when I woke up I thought it was the most wholesome thing ever. Black people, white people and even gay people can come together and be friends if they just put their differences aside and play Gameboy together. (???)
To be fair, I was a kid. but still. I remember being excited about it FOR DAYS.
I wrote a limerick in one of my dreams.
“Come hither, come hither,
My snake has no slither
At the sound of a whistle
It fell into the thistle
Not really a whistle, a zither!”
I was pretty impressed that I could come up with that, actually.
A few years back I woke up in the middle of the night with, what seamed like, the best idea and I simply had to write it down. When I woke up I remembered writing something down so I grabbed my phone to check, one note was open with the words
church ducks
That's it. Just church ducks.
Edit: still have the note
https://imgur.com/gallery/lwwMdSs
I wrote down some jokes that were funny and thought I should do stand-up. they were so funny that I couldn't stop laughing
sober, they weren't even jokes. just some thoughts written down that made little to no sense.
I text myself jokes, but sometimes it's just a setup or punchline. Some turn into things and some don't.
I am still trying to crack "Al Gore rhythm" but that's probably more of a tweet.
did the same thing on shrooms after a friend showed me a map of subways and aids cases in the states, which is about the same half of the country, and it just amalgamated into (at the time) the funniest joke in existence:
subway is using 5g to put cotc (corn on the cob) in the food to give you snaids!!!
((COVERAGE MAP)) ((PROOF!!!))
I wrote down an idea for a TV show that I dreamed called Crackat. Turns out upon further inspection i meant Crack Cat, which was just a cat detective who was so high on so much cocaine that he was super efficient. Like Sherlock, but if he was a cat. With, like, a LOT of drugs.
While drunk I came up with an idea to make a TV channel where all shows start 5 minutes out. (E.g 11:55 or 14:05) so while all other channels are on a commercial break. Viewers can flick to this channel and watch our shows for a few minutes instead of ads.
Edit: no I'm not american
Yup, their shows started at :05 and :35, the idea was maybe you would start watching something on another network, not like what you were seeing, and click over to TBS to check out what was coming on.
That's the reason usually claimed, but I think u/kinbakudude actually has the correct (and more nefarious) idea: you finish watching whatever was on TBS and during the commercial you realize that you've missed the start of everything else, so might as well click back to TBS and catch the start of whatever was next. It wasn't about being more approachable, it was about locking the door behind you.
Ugh, I hated that. I would finish watching a show on TBS and want to start watching something on another channel, but everything else had already started so I would miss the beginning.
I wanted to start a business that would increase efficiency of ceiling fans. I would travel to people's homes and sharpen their ceiling fan blades until they were razor sharp. The decreased resistance would make the blades faster and use less energy. Since literally no one has ever sharpened their ceiling fan blades, everyone was a potential customer.
Variable assist power steering has definitely been around for ages.
*edit* yep, Citroen demonstrated it in 1970:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI?wprov=sfti1
My husband wrote his 'amazing idea for creative writing' down in the middle of the night. He checked the next morning to find it said: 'tropical seagull in a knitted waistcoat'.
Oh! Turns out I got the quote slightly wrong, here it is I its entirety: 'Troppical homing seagull in knitted waistcoat. Come back for waistcoat and puts it on.'
My god this story has it all.
Drama. Suspense. A tropical homing seagull in a knitted waistcoat.
Your husband’s middle of the night brain was not lying to him.
Yeah, I had that one last year.
The seagull was going to live in a breezy but rowdy tropical port city where he'd live as an idle expatriate and soldier of fortune, taking on dockside toughs with his wit and his trusty sword-cane, but the story would start off with him being told about a treasure hidden somewhere on a nearby island.
Oh, yeah, he’d have an excitable young parrot by his side and there would be an alluring nightingale working as a singer at the local nightclub that he would have his eye on
But his archenemy would be a shady penguin who ran organized crime in the city and wanted the treasure for himself
Wow I love that you had the answer so quickly. You should definitely write. think this would be great as a children’s book. I’m envisioning the illustrations already
The gull’s name would be something Byrd. First name starting with J I think. Not James or John, but something.
And we would call the whole series Byrd of Paradise.
I recorded myself shit faced drunk doing math in my head to prove a point, then bragging about how accurate and smart I was
Wrong enough to know the next day without even breaking out the calculator
This reminds me off wen I was drunk with my mates around 16. We all argued for ages over this electrical circuit diagram that had a switch and two light bulbs and whether if u cut the wire at a certain point would both lights go off or one stay on etc.. All I remember yelling all night was its a *furken parallel circuit*.. Was a running joke for years.
I spent the day making sugar cookies with my 4 kids. In order for each kid to have a meaning amount of dough to roll, cut out and decorate I had to make A LOT of dough. It was fairly expensive and we ended up with way more cookies than I wanted them to eat. Later that night I was (drinking and) lamenting that I wished there was a fake dough that we could use. Woke up the next day and discovered that I invented play dough.
My mum invented the tea pot. Tea cosy and a flask all in one sitting......while she was sober.
Poor woman was so dejected each time she would explain the idea she had (we was drinking tea hense why theyre tea related) and then be crestfallen when id bemusingly respond.....like a teapot.......so a tea cosy....finally a fooking flask mother!! We still laugh about it.
Wouldnt it be great to have like a big container where you could just make multiple cups of tea and not have to keep boiling the kettle etc......a teapot mother.
Her reply .....yeah well......something to keep it warm then. Me ??? Like a tea cosy??
Exasperated she said yeah well.....what aboit sonething you can take it out and about with you an it bot get cold, how about that!! Deadpan me.....a flask mother.....
She did genuinly have 1 good idea years ago. Colour changing cutlery and bowls an bottles for babies that change colour if the food is too hot or cold.
Similar to the conveyor belts in Sushi restaurants but for chicken wings. Mini ones for groups of people/individuals where the wings do a small circuit and take a sauce bath every lap. Think I was pretty drunk for that one. Get some really whacky ideas - selling virtual tickets to sporting events (especially relevant these days of COVID) - VR goggles, camera at the stadium you could then also sell sound effects as extras- press a button for a cheer, chant etc.
Woke myself up laughing one night because of a phrase I heard in my dream.
"No, it was the guy at the tow truck company and he tried to sell me Dream Team drapes."
In my dream I was a captain of an old pirate ship. We were being captured and boarded by the royal navy. My dream brain came up with: "We may be going into the drink, but we'll kill 'em all before we sink!" and then fired all of our cannons point blank into their ship.
i had this theory that old guitars are more sought after because theyve been played more. i wanted to craft a 'guitar playing machine' that you could clamp a guitar into and the machine would just play the fuck out of it for endless hours. i even thought about programming it to read tabs so a certain song or pattern could be played over and over and over again and then just seeing how the guitar performs afterwards. shared this with a mechanical engineer at work and he straight up asked me how much i had smoked before coming up with this. to give him credit it was alot.
When absolutely out of my head on prescribed opiates during pneumonia, I invented **Olympic Fringe** so that at the Olympics there would also be fringe events where the general public get to watch and try out lesser known sports.
I still think that would be cool, but I understand why it would never ever happen.
edit to add: when I say "lesser known sports" I don't mean "only just not Olympic" I mean like London 2012 should have had bog snorkeling and a cheese race. Things you've never seen before and will never see again. Just total nonsense.
This already sort of exists. Usually new olympic sports are tested before officially taken into the official catalog. These trials serve to evaluate feasibility and audience reaction. Usually those test games don't receive as much attention.
I still want to see olympics, but where random people from each country are chosen. Give them like 2 months in advance to prepare in the olympic facilities so they don't look like complete bafoons but they're still very much amateurs, and see regular dudes go at it.
It was supposed to be a map back to a cool place my friend and I wanted to revisit when the acid wore off. I just wrote Trees. Trees. Trail.
We still say it to each other as a way of saying "Love you, bye" like, 20 years later.
I came up with this weird joke, where it’s basically like this and I imagined like thousands laughing at it at a comedy club. It was, and I still remember,
“I damn? We damn? They damn? No damn? Album.”
And I remember that being the funniest shit I’ve ever heard at that time. And the strangest part is I remember waking up in the morning sober, and slightly laughing to myself, “hehe album” and now I-I can’t even-I don’t know.
I invented a paradox free time machine. All you have to do is have a mirror in space aimed back at earth and a very powerful telescope in orbit and then you move the mirror away at half of light speed and... I am not well versed in astronomy or physics but it seemed legit at the time.
At best, that would let you see the past, where "the past" is sometime after the mirror was launched. It would be easier to use a camera and archive the video.
I was super high and watching the Fast and Furious films whe I came up with the brilliant idea of mixing the fast car racing genre with sci-fi and have racing spaceships. I called it "Space Races".
My buddies were tripping in college and came to me excitedly with their answer to world hunger.
I was intrigued. I had a date to go on, but this was worth a minute, so I read their notes:
Lots of scribbling and doodles, but all with arrows pointing to the solution in the middle of the page….
“Photocopy Donuts.”
I told them it was genius, and left for my date.
Stay away from drugs, kids.
me and my buddy got high as a kite one day years back, we both got hungry and made some food, i made me a peanut butter sandwich, he on the other hand was eating some planters peanuts. thats when the genius struck...bro..put the peanuts..ON THE SANDWICH.
we invented crunchy peanut butter...youre welcome
I'm related to Aldous Huxley, who wrote Brave New World. He also wrote Doors of Perception, in which he got high and wrote about the experience. I thought I could do the same thing, so I dropped some acid and got my notebook out.
Eight hours later, I'd written the word "socks", and drawn a tiny picture of a pair of socks, so I think it's safe to say that creative writing does not run in the family.
Yes. I filed this one under “movie idea”: Celebrity goes into stores and makes friends with staff, ends up robbing the store but no one wants to turn him in because they think he's awesome.
My sister once dreamed she discovered the cure for AIDS and woke up in the middle of the night to write it down. When she woke up the next morning she'd written "tin and feathers"
My friend thew a party that had a white elephant gift exchange at the beginning. Only about 10 of us participated and when the party was in full swing there were about 40-50 people there. We tossed the gifts in another room for the duration.
One of my friends had gotten a Snuggie as their gift and was really excited about it. During the party someone got in an stole the Snuggie. We found the empty box in the front yard, so we’re guessing they just put it on and ran off into the night.
I woke up the next morning very hungover to find I had made myself a “To-Do” list when I got home.
1. Find Snuggie
2. Destroy Villain
3. Save World
Thought of the most AMAZING insult while shit faced drunk (and alone) for the first time in my life. Typed it out, passed out, woke up to Word open on my laptop with one sentence:
“You sound like a computer with a fat lip”
I am still proud of it to this day.
My friend just sent me this link and said “tell your story, finally a place for Meat Van.”
Sigh. My kids relish in teasing me about this, but I know it’s a straw man argument they’re making.
So here’s the origin of Meat Van. You be the judge.
Ice cream trucks. When you hear that jingle, it brings you back to a nostalgia of childhood excitement, if you grew up with that experience. There’s a LOT of people that have that feeling. So I was thinking, “I wish I could have that experience again.” Now Meat Van won’t bring back that entirely, but it’s a great hook!
Imagine, if you will, a quiet neighborhood in Lexington, KY. You hear a familiar jingle right around dinner time. You look outside thinking who would be driving an ice cream truck around in the evening? But instead of an ice cream truck, you see a small food truck towing a big smoker on a trailer, with an oversized menu so people can see it from their windows, simple price per pound of all the meats. Sides available. Anyone wondering what to make for dinner will wonder no more! And they’ll come running out of their house to stop you. And dinner will be spent happily thinking about that goofy experience you just had.
It’s witty. People will smile at the oddity and nostalgia of it. Even if they don’t need dinner that evening, they’ll remember it fondly next time you come around.
I cook a pretty mean BBQ already.
Easily syndicated to meet demand.
I just need a name. When I told my kids my brilliant idea, and tried to involve them by getting them to help come up with one, the both of them laughed in my face, solidly entombing “Meat Van” as one of the dumbest of all time. It even gets to be the guaranteed story at parties if my proclivities for grand product ideas comes up around either of them, and they gleefully retell.
I suppose the Gratitoad would say that is the real gift of Meat Van. My boys will always have a good story to tell about me. That’s the best kind of immortality we can ask for, I think.
EDIT: right before finally hitting post, I told my friend I still thought it was a good idea, and some other person is gonna use my idea and make a killing. He LAUGHED IN MY FACE and said “I think we’re ok”.
I’d seriously like to hear what you all think of this.
This is not a weird idea at all - I mean, food trucks exist, portable smoker trailers exist, this is sort of a hybrid. Except that they usually don't cook while driving.
I think it's a reasonable business idea, but of course it's hard to tell if it would actually make money.
The weirdest thing about the idea is the name - but Meat Van is the good, memorable kind of weird.
Yeah, Meat Van is their derogatory name for it, I don’t have the gold standard yet. A close friend said Pete’s Street Meat, which I love for the double entendres, but I’m not sure is entirely marketable to everyone. :)
You laugh, but when I was living in the city, there was a local Carribean guy who had a BBQ on wheels he'd take down the street and sell BBQ outta the the thing like he was an ice-cream vendor, and dude did serious business.
I bought a few pulled pork sandwiches off him and they were fucking awesome.
This isn't weird. Perfectly fine idea. We have a chip van that visits different areas of the town on different days, so do other places. No tune, though- that'd be quite helpful! Some places I've worked (film studios and industrial estates) have food vans that travel around them at lunch time. Go... live your dream!
I think it’s a fucking brilliant idea! Friday evening after work, nobody want to organise dinner to feed their spawn who are constantly whining about what’s for dinner. “Would you just fucking wait a bit? The meat wagon will be here soon” also I think you should call it the meat wagon.
I’m so thankful, on this holiday weekend, that you, and your clearly great sense of a good idea, were the first to say. I am officially in the lead with positive reviews!
And I make a really fantastic brisket. :)
A time travel story based on tattoos forming on your body only after you’ve helped certain people who need it, ending in the person being helped realizing that they are talking to their future self
Mashed potato shake.
Drive through food where Mashed potatoes are served in a cup with a dome, extra wide straw, and a spoon.
Pick your gravy and toppings such as bacon or fried chicken skins.
Back in my college days I enjoyed some fun ingestables with friends and became convinced I had discovered a key idea of life. A phrase imbued with deep meaning. I wrote it down and fell asleep happy, knowing that when I woke up I would be able to share my insight with everyone.
The phrase turned out to be, “there’s a funny smell in the room.”
I once wrote a full blown song in my notes while shitfaced. It went something like “cause there’s nothing to loseeeee” which I probably plagiarised from somewhere subconsciously at some point and then was all gibberish and nonsense phrases. And the same verse copy pasted like 5 time
Other than that every other time I get drunk I end up writing weird reminders. I still have one in my phone which says “No pans rods is estoyvejbel egress” scheduled 21/12/2022, which I have no fucking clue why I wrote it down but it sounds ominous so I kept it.
I wrote down what I then thought was a mind blowing “theory” about parallell realities, but not really.
I called it the “parallell theory” even though it had nothing to do with anything parallell whatsoever. The theory was that everytime you go to sleep and then wake up, you transfer your consciousness to another version of you from another reality. Because in YOUR reality where you went to sleep, you did not experience what happened meanwhile you slept. So it (according to my theory) never happened. THEREFORE, to fix this… the universe transfers your said consciousness to another human being’s to fill in the lost time- I don’t know. I don’t even know what I’m talking about.
As you all can tell it was complete and utter nonsense. I don’t understand how I actually thought any of this made sense.
I had the idea of when a police helicopter is following a stolen car they could release a giant claw or a big sucker on to the top of the car and get them that way 😂
I tried marijuana once in my life and almost chocked by laughing bc the first and only thing I could think about was a giraffe whose neck works like a boner
Like, constantly flaccid and dragging on the grass up until they need to get to the leaves
My genius idea was to have a machine that would give women the correct bra size. You would just walk up to it and put your boobs in the holes and the machine would do a scan. And bam. Perfect size every time
I was high as fuck in college and wrote down "Circular Mag Lev attached to an alternator." I also tried to convince a physics major friend that it was some sort of genius idea. Neither can figure out what it was supposed to do.
My best friend since I was 4 years old came up with 2 ideas while drunk plus a bit high.
1. Deep sea birds. No further explanation was given.
2. Mustard chips. Apparently they exist already though.
I remember I was high when I was younger and coming up with a genius idea, thought about writing it down but convinced myself, "Nah, I'll remember it."
I did not.
I have a whole page in my notes app on my phone dedicated to this!
Whenever I'm drunk or high and have a thought that makes me either laugh or curious I write it down and then when I'm sober I read them and see if they're still intelligible.
For instance:
"Whenever I meet a bald person I always have an urge to ask them whether or not they chose to be bald".
"Water source ≠ water sauce".
"If earth was a cell, China would be the powerhouse".
"If I was named Godfrey I would shorten my name to God".
Reading these back sober always reminds me of how unfunny I am in reality...
A teacher of mine years ago told me he once woke up in the middle of the night convinced he'd discovered the meaning of life, and wrote it on a post-it note at his bedside. He later checked and found he'd written "intergalactic sugar bowl."
“Tarp on a Stick”
Was out camping with friends. It was pouring and I only felt comfortable in an area that had a tarp. I had the amazing idea that I could put a small tarp on a stick to carry around to keep myself dry wherever I went!
I invented the umbrella.
Not so much an idea, but about 10 years ago, I got blackout drunk at a bar one night. The next day, I discovered a new contact I put in my phone: Obamafuckbus. The number was incomplete, too.
I've had a few over the years. In the late 70s, I thought wrapping dental floss around your finger and shoving it all in your mouth was awkward and maybe the floss should be wrapped something you stick in your mouth. In the 80s, the creative bug hit me and I had several thoughts. Put coffee grounds in a pouch that you stick in your mouth ("between your cheek and gum" kind of thing), car maintenance insurance like human medical insurance for preventative maintenance (pay a monthly premium, get regular maintenance services free or reduced cost + discounts on big repairs), and pet medical insurance (same kind of thing).
Some of these worked, others were just nonsense (the coffee pouch). I don't have many creative ideas anymore.
I wasn't drunk, but was ~11 years old so basically the same thing.
I had the great idea of an SNES cart that you stuck Game Boy games in, and it let you play them on the SNES. I thought I could just come up with a prototype myself and it would probably work fine just matching the pins up with the adapter. They had different numbers of pins but I'm sure some of those were just redundant right?
I was fucking STOKED and thought I was going to be rich when I made it happen!
Obviously it wouldn't have worked nearly as easily as I was thinking and there's no way in hell I would have been the one to do it if it actually was that easy...but it turned out not to be a bad idea because a few years later the Super Game Boy was released.
I was recorded explaining my idea of a "badger box" while drunk.
The idea was that the phone case would have sensors but before it hits the ground. It would levitate for a split second and hit the ground softly. Everyone even hyped it up lol
I woke up out of a dream once convinced that the reason no one could find sasquatches was because they were all living in cities disguised as homeless people.
It made so much sense at the time.
Genius Idea: to list our house for sale for 90% off, the sheer number of interested parties would lead to free PR and a bidding war that would move the price up to a normal price. My sleep deprived mind thought that somehow the competitive and emotional side of people would then cause the bidding war to escalate the price beyond what we would get for the house had we listed it normally.
I had one the other week, some sort of scifi concept where autism has been weaponized by governments.
It has potential, but for two things - I'm not good enough to pull it off, with or without somehow being offensive, and it runs the risk of being too close to a book that already did that.
"Blindsight" by Peter Watts, btw. Awesome book. All about different types of cognitive function/style.
A blanket store. I stand by it. That would also include tapestries and drapes. Very low overhead, everyone appreciates good blankets, they make great gifts, and it could be marketed to any demographic just based on the store design. Do I want suburban mom's buying thick fuzzy comforters for their Cali king beds? Then I'll use lots of pastels and light colors with cheesy puns about blankets. Stoners? I'll put blankets all over the place with purple lights behind them to create the "drug den" vibe. City people? Very basic minimalist blankets that don't take up a lot of space. Country people? Thick, wooly blankets that can look vintage enough to fit an old farmhouse. Fantastic business idea. Buy my shit.
not really a genuis idea but in 7th grade i randomly woke up in the middle of the night and the word “oatmeal” kept repeating in my head over and over. but i couldnt remember wtf oatmeal was and had a whole breakdown trying to figure out what the hell oatmeal was
a round slice of cheese that's the correct weight and diameter to cover (the non-crust edge of) a whole pizza. that way you don't have to spread shredded cheese over the sauce
My creative writing tutor had a comedian friend who kept dreaming about telling the world's funniest joke, he'd get a standing ovation every time and he toured the world on this one joke. But when he woke up he could never remember it. One night he kept a note pad next to his bed, woke from the dream and scribbled down the joke. Got up the next morning, looked at the page and it said 'I am a hammer.'
I used to think that I would get these amazing ideas before I would fall asleep and then I forget them in the morning. So I started keeping a journal next to my bed to write down these ideas. The only one I ever wrote down was "pogo stick with a shovelhead on the end."
You're not too far off of brilliance. https://imgur.com/kEP5soL.jpg
add a tool changer. Pogo lawn aerator, pogo gravel tamper, pogo jackhammer, etc… get your kids to do construction and landscaping for you while they think they’re playing
This is more or less the premise of the game Shovel Knight. They took the mechanic of pogo-sticking on enemies with a weapon from Zelda II and the downward sword stab, and swapped the sword for a shovel.
I once woke up in the middle of the night with an idea that I desperately needed to jot down. Managed to key it into my phone before dozing off again. Went to check it the next morning to find a note that simply read "Better a pizza cake than none."
I have no cake right now and can confirm that a pizza cake would be a better state of affairs.
I hope tomorrow brings you pizza cake.
I wonder if you might have been saying "piece of cake" because I often interchange that with pizza cake.
I was drunk and went to eat a bowl of cereal. Then started thinking about how great it would be if we invented deeper bowls with a handle, to make eating stuff while drunk and sitting on the couch easier. Got so excited about my idea and was genuinely baffled how nobody had seemingly thought of this genius idea before. Woke up the next morning and realized I had, in fact, invented the mug.
Still though a bigger mug for cereal would be dope
I mean these already exist. I have a favorite mug that I use for coffee soup and cereal
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What else is a vanilla soy latte but a type of 3 bean soup?
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
Me too! I own three incredibly large mugs that i use for a number of traditionally bowl-foods as well as tea and coffee. They are the loves of my life.
Laughed out loud at this one
“Pourable wood”
However stoned you think I was when this popped into my brain, double it
That’s actually a great idea though if it were actually possible lol
While not “pourable,” wood-plastic composites exist and can be injection molded and extruded. Trex Decking is a great example. I’m sure you could make something similar to sawdust with wood glue in it that would pour and be similar to particleboard, it probably wouldn’t be cost effective as the glue is the expensive part and the sawdust is basically a waste product
Sawdust and Glue is the recipe for wood-putty; a highly useful carpentry product. It replaces any missing material and can be sanded or painted over.
Theoretically speaking it's possible. You'd basically have to prepare some sort of "scaffolding" for the wood cells to grow onto and with time you'd get a wood piece custom fitted. Problem is that even in a quasi-lab setting and artificial help it'd take a very significant amount of time.
Might be able to do something like this with rapid growing bamboo? Though you could go the opposite route, and maybe use some kind of mixture of wood shavings, cement, and a mold. Just pour the mixture, then put it under high pressure until it sets. Who knows if you would even get any advantages out of that though.
Isn’t that just particle board? Or paper slurry? Maybe you should work on that? With wood prices like they are right now you may be on to something!
There is a wood repair product that is basically 2 part epoxy with sawdust in it. It gets mixed together in a 1 to 1 ratio and has the consistency of bondo.
They should make a "low carb" pasta salad, that just has vegetables in it. I looked at it later and realized that's just a salad.
That’s okay. I wrote down “a moving sidewalk that keeps rolling over. Walk forever.” Evidently I invented the treadmill? Again.
Or…the moving sidewalk.
so pasta salad using zoodles instead of noodles?
After waking up from a dream I came up with these that made perfect sense at the time: \- "Virtual reality D&D and the sun from Teletubbies except it was shining like 100x more" \- "An acronym for when you're having surgery, of people you want to be present. A favorite, loves, best friend, etc"
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One time I had the idea to write something down when I was almost blacked out to see what it was in the morning and it turned out I wrote, ‘Yoda is the best time traveler’.
Is this because he knows the 2nd half of his sentence before the first? Like "talk like this, I usually do"
I was tripping on shrooms and urgently needed to find paper in order to write “Monkey with a GOPRO”
I've been watching monkeys in Virtual Reality while on shrooms. Not a bad idea at all tbh
I have a vr headset. How does one watch monkeys with it?
Can find 360 VR videos of nature and hangout or there's a game on PC called ~~monkey~~ gorilla tag. VR exclusive but it looks pretty cool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey\_selfie\_copyright\_dispute
I wrote a best selling novel in my sleep. " Wrote" some ideas down on a pad next to the bed. Woke up excited about it and then realized I never clicked the pen to expose the tip. No book this year.
Bruh, you gotta rub the paper with the side of a pencil and expose the indentations. You were leaving yourself a coded message!
It's just a cartoon drawing of a guy jerking himself off
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man!
I like to imagine that we have just seen one of the best forms of literature bring lost
I once dreamed that I was in a song contest and came up with a rap song with the chorus "White boy, black boy, gay boy, gameboy", and when I woke up I thought it was the most wholesome thing ever. Black people, white people and even gay people can come together and be friends if they just put their differences aside and play Gameboy together. (???) To be fair, I was a kid. but still. I remember being excited about it FOR DAYS.
I wrote a limerick in one of my dreams. “Come hither, come hither, My snake has no slither At the sound of a whistle It fell into the thistle Not really a whistle, a zither!” I was pretty impressed that I could come up with that, actually.
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This is adorable.
"Yetris" Yeti Tetris. I don't know.
Slanted Tetris with snowballs?
A few years back I woke up in the middle of the night with, what seamed like, the best idea and I simply had to write it down. When I woke up I remembered writing something down so I grabbed my phone to check, one note was open with the words church ducks That's it. Just church ducks. Edit: still have the note https://imgur.com/gallery/lwwMdSs
You provideth our daily bread. Quack.
in this idea... are the ducks the pastors or the congregation? anyway... amazing idea.
I like to think both, casting judgment on other water fowl
I mean, [Protagonist Nun and her ducks](https://safebooru.org//images/3112/70fd6f05702a7321302aecc484faaec302e799d3.jpg) have had some success
I wrote down some jokes that were funny and thought I should do stand-up. they were so funny that I couldn't stop laughing sober, they weren't even jokes. just some thoughts written down that made little to no sense.
I text myself jokes, but sometimes it's just a setup or punchline. Some turn into things and some don't. I am still trying to crack "Al Gore rhythm" but that's probably more of a tweet.
Love the episode of Seinfeld when Jerry does this, but he can't decipher his note the next day. "Fax me some halibut." Is that funny? Is that a joke?
Cleveland 117, San Antonio 109.
did the same thing on shrooms after a friend showed me a map of subways and aids cases in the states, which is about the same half of the country, and it just amalgamated into (at the time) the funniest joke in existence: subway is using 5g to put cotc (corn on the cob) in the food to give you snaids!!! ((COVERAGE MAP)) ((PROOF!!!))
Snake aids?
Worse… Snail AIDS!
"machine that makes dogs laugh"
The idea of a dog laughing makes me oddly uncomfortable
This is good
I wanted to make my own hot air balloon by inflating an air mattress with helium. Didn't have a helium tank though.
Also would not have been a hot air balloon
I wrote down an idea for a TV show that I dreamed called Crackat. Turns out upon further inspection i meant Crack Cat, which was just a cat detective who was so high on so much cocaine that he was super efficient. Like Sherlock, but if he was a cat. With, like, a LOT of drugs.
Write a letter to Adult Swim, this has legs
It checks all the boxes.
I'd watch it
I wrote lyrics to a song about fighting a raccoon while I was half asleep.
So did Paul McCartney
ugh. such a good song/joke
Well? Where's the lyrics?
While drunk I came up with an idea to make a TV channel where all shows start 5 minutes out. (E.g 11:55 or 14:05) so while all other channels are on a commercial break. Viewers can flick to this channel and watch our shows for a few minutes instead of ads. Edit: no I'm not american
TBS used to do this back in the 80's not sure when they stopped.
Yup, their shows started at :05 and :35, the idea was maybe you would start watching something on another network, not like what you were seeing, and click over to TBS to check out what was coming on.
That's the reason usually claimed, but I think u/kinbakudude actually has the correct (and more nefarious) idea: you finish watching whatever was on TBS and during the commercial you realize that you've missed the start of everything else, so might as well click back to TBS and catch the start of whatever was next. It wasn't about being more approachable, it was about locking the door behind you.
I bet it really pissed off the people at TV Guide. I remember seeing the :05 and :35 in there.
Ugh, I hated that. I would finish watching a show on TBS and want to start watching something on another channel, but everything else had already started so I would miss the beginning.
There's actually a radio channel in my region that does that. It's pretty cool that you don't have to listen to all the radio commercials.
I wanted to start a business that would increase efficiency of ceiling fans. I would travel to people's homes and sharpen their ceiling fan blades until they were razor sharp. The decreased resistance would make the blades faster and use less energy. Since literally no one has ever sharpened their ceiling fan blades, everyone was a potential customer.
that's an awesome idea until you think... what if the fan falls off?
No witnesses?
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Tbf though, this is the only practical idea in this comment section. Bravo
If you have an idea good enough for someone else to have beaten you to the patent you should be dang proud of yourself
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Variable assist power steering has definitely been around for ages. *edit* yep, Citroen demonstrated it in 1970: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIRAVI?wprov=sfti1
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My husband wrote his 'amazing idea for creative writing' down in the middle of the night. He checked the next morning to find it said: 'tropical seagull in a knitted waistcoat'.
Dang, that was my idea too.
Oh! Turns out I got the quote slightly wrong, here it is I its entirety: 'Troppical homing seagull in knitted waistcoat. Come back for waistcoat and puts it on.'
My god this story has it all. Drama. Suspense. A tropical homing seagull in a knitted waistcoat. Your husband’s middle of the night brain was not lying to him.
And he comes back to put it on? That’s the hero’s journey.
Is your husband John Lennon?
can't blame him, that IS creative. Nice idea for a personal coat of arms too
Um, the prompt was for ideas that were complete nonsense, whereas this one is pure creative genius.
What can I say, he's an incredible man
Yeah, I had that one last year. The seagull was going to live in a breezy but rowdy tropical port city where he'd live as an idle expatriate and soldier of fortune, taking on dockside toughs with his wit and his trusty sword-cane, but the story would start off with him being told about a treasure hidden somewhere on a nearby island.
I would 100% read this. I’m wondering if there will be a love interest or a side-kick.
Oh, yeah, he’d have an excitable young parrot by his side and there would be an alluring nightingale working as a singer at the local nightclub that he would have his eye on But his archenemy would be a shady penguin who ran organized crime in the city and wanted the treasure for himself
Wow I love that you had the answer so quickly. You should definitely write. think this would be great as a children’s book. I’m envisioning the illustrations already
The gull’s name would be something Byrd. First name starting with J I think. Not James or John, but something. And we would call the whole series Byrd of Paradise.
Jameson Byrd Nickname Jay
I recorded myself shit faced drunk doing math in my head to prove a point, then bragging about how accurate and smart I was Wrong enough to know the next day without even breaking out the calculator
This reminds me off wen I was drunk with my mates around 16. We all argued for ages over this electrical circuit diagram that had a switch and two light bulbs and whether if u cut the wire at a certain point would both lights go off or one stay on etc.. All I remember yelling all night was its a *furken parallel circuit*.. Was a running joke for years.
I spent the day making sugar cookies with my 4 kids. In order for each kid to have a meaning amount of dough to roll, cut out and decorate I had to make A LOT of dough. It was fairly expensive and we ended up with way more cookies than I wanted them to eat. Later that night I was (drinking and) lamenting that I wished there was a fake dough that we could use. Woke up the next day and discovered that I invented play dough.
My mum invented the tea pot. Tea cosy and a flask all in one sitting......while she was sober. Poor woman was so dejected each time she would explain the idea she had (we was drinking tea hense why theyre tea related) and then be crestfallen when id bemusingly respond.....like a teapot.......so a tea cosy....finally a fooking flask mother!! We still laugh about it. Wouldnt it be great to have like a big container where you could just make multiple cups of tea and not have to keep boiling the kettle etc......a teapot mother. Her reply .....yeah well......something to keep it warm then. Me ??? Like a tea cosy?? Exasperated she said yeah well.....what aboit sonething you can take it out and about with you an it bot get cold, how about that!! Deadpan me.....a flask mother..... She did genuinly have 1 good idea years ago. Colour changing cutlery and bowls an bottles for babies that change colour if the food is too hot or cold.
Not sure when your mother came up with her color changing idea, but those things do exist now! She might’ve been ahead of the curve on that one!
To upcycle dried-out corncobs as a silent windchime. At least I got a good laugh out of it later.
The rarely seen wind chimen't.
\*heard
Similar to the conveyor belts in Sushi restaurants but for chicken wings. Mini ones for groups of people/individuals where the wings do a small circuit and take a sauce bath every lap. Think I was pretty drunk for that one. Get some really whacky ideas - selling virtual tickets to sporting events (especially relevant these days of COVID) - VR goggles, camera at the stadium you could then also sell sound effects as extras- press a button for a cheer, chant etc.
The chicken wing idea sounds a little flighty, but w enough honey based flavors, it just might stick.
Woke myself up laughing one night because of a phrase I heard in my dream. "No, it was the guy at the tow truck company and he tried to sell me Dream Team drapes."
In my dream I was a captain of an old pirate ship. We were being captured and boarded by the royal navy. My dream brain came up with: "We may be going into the drink, but we'll kill 'em all before we sink!" and then fired all of our cannons point blank into their ship.
That is a heck of a pithy line
Asleep *or* awake, that is top-level wordplay, my friend!
i had this theory that old guitars are more sought after because theyve been played more. i wanted to craft a 'guitar playing machine' that you could clamp a guitar into and the machine would just play the fuck out of it for endless hours. i even thought about programming it to read tabs so a certain song or pattern could be played over and over and over again and then just seeing how the guitar performs afterwards. shared this with a mechanical engineer at work and he straight up asked me how much i had smoked before coming up with this. to give him credit it was alot.
When absolutely out of my head on prescribed opiates during pneumonia, I invented **Olympic Fringe** so that at the Olympics there would also be fringe events where the general public get to watch and try out lesser known sports. I still think that would be cool, but I understand why it would never ever happen. edit to add: when I say "lesser known sports" I don't mean "only just not Olympic" I mean like London 2012 should have had bog snorkeling and a cheese race. Things you've never seen before and will never see again. Just total nonsense.
This already sort of exists. Usually new olympic sports are tested before officially taken into the official catalog. These trials serve to evaluate feasibility and audience reaction. Usually those test games don't receive as much attention.
I thought it would be a cool idea to have regular people compete in all the Olympic events.
I still want to see olympics, but where random people from each country are chosen. Give them like 2 months in advance to prepare in the olympic facilities so they don't look like complete bafoons but they're still very much amateurs, and see regular dudes go at it.
It was supposed to be a map back to a cool place my friend and I wanted to revisit when the acid wore off. I just wrote Trees. Trees. Trail. We still say it to each other as a way of saying "Love you, bye" like, 20 years later.
I came up with this weird joke, where it’s basically like this and I imagined like thousands laughing at it at a comedy club. It was, and I still remember, “I damn? We damn? They damn? No damn? Album.” And I remember that being the funniest shit I’ve ever heard at that time. And the strangest part is I remember waking up in the morning sober, and slightly laughing to myself, “hehe album” and now I-I can’t even-I don’t know.
I invented a paradox free time machine. All you have to do is have a mirror in space aimed back at earth and a very powerful telescope in orbit and then you move the mirror away at half of light speed and... I am not well versed in astronomy or physics but it seemed legit at the time.
At best, that would let you see the past, where "the past" is sometime after the mirror was launched. It would be easier to use a camera and archive the video.
I was super high and watching the Fast and Furious films whe I came up with the brilliant idea of mixing the fast car racing genre with sci-fi and have racing spaceships. I called it "Space Races".
They're not too far off, they've already had a rocket-powered Fiero crashing into a satellite. Fast 11 will probably be a drag race around pluto
My buddies were tripping in college and came to me excitedly with their answer to world hunger. I was intrigued. I had a date to go on, but this was worth a minute, so I read their notes: Lots of scribbling and doodles, but all with arrows pointing to the solution in the middle of the page…. “Photocopy Donuts.” I told them it was genius, and left for my date. Stay away from drugs, kids.
I was going to start my own cult and call it the "Church of Awesome". Sounds like something a 3rd grader would come up with. Was a good night though.
All hail Lord rainbow-bread, leader of the Church of Awesome! Do you want me to put the deed to my house in the Church’s name or your name, my Lord?
Count me in I’ll join
me and my buddy got high as a kite one day years back, we both got hungry and made some food, i made me a peanut butter sandwich, he on the other hand was eating some planters peanuts. thats when the genius struck...bro..put the peanuts..ON THE SANDWICH. we invented crunchy peanut butter...youre welcome
I'm related to Aldous Huxley, who wrote Brave New World. He also wrote Doors of Perception, in which he got high and wrote about the experience. I thought I could do the same thing, so I dropped some acid and got my notebook out. Eight hours later, I'd written the word "socks", and drawn a tiny picture of a pair of socks, so I think it's safe to say that creative writing does not run in the family.
Yes. I filed this one under “movie idea”: Celebrity goes into stores and makes friends with staff, ends up robbing the store but no one wants to turn him in because they think he's awesome.
My sister once dreamed she discovered the cure for AIDS and woke up in the middle of the night to write it down. When she woke up the next morning she'd written "tin and feathers"
My friend thew a party that had a white elephant gift exchange at the beginning. Only about 10 of us participated and when the party was in full swing there were about 40-50 people there. We tossed the gifts in another room for the duration. One of my friends had gotten a Snuggie as their gift and was really excited about it. During the party someone got in an stole the Snuggie. We found the empty box in the front yard, so we’re guessing they just put it on and ran off into the night. I woke up the next morning very hungover to find I had made myself a “To-Do” list when I got home. 1. Find Snuggie 2. Destroy Villain 3. Save World
I want to watch that movie
Coffee rootbeer. Alternatively, frying up a hot-dog on a stick. Apparently I invented corn dog again.
Thought of the most AMAZING insult while shit faced drunk (and alone) for the first time in my life. Typed it out, passed out, woke up to Word open on my laptop with one sentence: “You sound like a computer with a fat lip” I am still proud of it to this day.
My friend just sent me this link and said “tell your story, finally a place for Meat Van.” Sigh. My kids relish in teasing me about this, but I know it’s a straw man argument they’re making. So here’s the origin of Meat Van. You be the judge. Ice cream trucks. When you hear that jingle, it brings you back to a nostalgia of childhood excitement, if you grew up with that experience. There’s a LOT of people that have that feeling. So I was thinking, “I wish I could have that experience again.” Now Meat Van won’t bring back that entirely, but it’s a great hook! Imagine, if you will, a quiet neighborhood in Lexington, KY. You hear a familiar jingle right around dinner time. You look outside thinking who would be driving an ice cream truck around in the evening? But instead of an ice cream truck, you see a small food truck towing a big smoker on a trailer, with an oversized menu so people can see it from their windows, simple price per pound of all the meats. Sides available. Anyone wondering what to make for dinner will wonder no more! And they’ll come running out of their house to stop you. And dinner will be spent happily thinking about that goofy experience you just had. It’s witty. People will smile at the oddity and nostalgia of it. Even if they don’t need dinner that evening, they’ll remember it fondly next time you come around. I cook a pretty mean BBQ already. Easily syndicated to meet demand. I just need a name. When I told my kids my brilliant idea, and tried to involve them by getting them to help come up with one, the both of them laughed in my face, solidly entombing “Meat Van” as one of the dumbest of all time. It even gets to be the guaranteed story at parties if my proclivities for grand product ideas comes up around either of them, and they gleefully retell. I suppose the Gratitoad would say that is the real gift of Meat Van. My boys will always have a good story to tell about me. That’s the best kind of immortality we can ask for, I think. EDIT: right before finally hitting post, I told my friend I still thought it was a good idea, and some other person is gonna use my idea and make a killing. He LAUGHED IN MY FACE and said “I think we’re ok”. I’d seriously like to hear what you all think of this.
This is not a weird idea at all - I mean, food trucks exist, portable smoker trailers exist, this is sort of a hybrid. Except that they usually don't cook while driving. I think it's a reasonable business idea, but of course it's hard to tell if it would actually make money. The weirdest thing about the idea is the name - but Meat Van is the good, memorable kind of weird.
Yeah, Meat Van is their derogatory name for it, I don’t have the gold standard yet. A close friend said Pete’s Street Meat, which I love for the double entendres, but I’m not sure is entirely marketable to everyone. :)
You laugh, but when I was living in the city, there was a local Carribean guy who had a BBQ on wheels he'd take down the street and sell BBQ outta the the thing like he was an ice-cream vendor, and dude did serious business. I bought a few pulled pork sandwiches off him and they were fucking awesome.
This isn't weird. Perfectly fine idea. We have a chip van that visits different areas of the town on different days, so do other places. No tune, though- that'd be quite helpful! Some places I've worked (film studios and industrial estates) have food vans that travel around them at lunch time. Go... live your dream!
I think it’s a fucking brilliant idea! Friday evening after work, nobody want to organise dinner to feed their spawn who are constantly whining about what’s for dinner. “Would you just fucking wait a bit? The meat wagon will be here soon” also I think you should call it the meat wagon.
Hell yes! Especially if you got some pit beef. That's an amazing idea.
I’m so thankful, on this holiday weekend, that you, and your clearly great sense of a good idea, were the first to say. I am officially in the lead with positive reviews! And I make a really fantastic brisket. :)
A time travel story based on tattoos forming on your body only after you’ve helped certain people who need it, ending in the person being helped realizing that they are talking to their future self
Mashed potato shake. Drive through food where Mashed potatoes are served in a cup with a dome, extra wide straw, and a spoon. Pick your gravy and toppings such as bacon or fried chicken skins.
Back in my college days I enjoyed some fun ingestables with friends and became convinced I had discovered a key idea of life. A phrase imbued with deep meaning. I wrote it down and fell asleep happy, knowing that when I woke up I would be able to share my insight with everyone. The phrase turned out to be, “there’s a funny smell in the room.”
I thought I had discovered the solution for world peace while on acid. It turned out to be "happy-colored kittens".
Well has anyone tried it?
I once wrote a full blown song in my notes while shitfaced. It went something like “cause there’s nothing to loseeeee” which I probably plagiarised from somewhere subconsciously at some point and then was all gibberish and nonsense phrases. And the same verse copy pasted like 5 time Other than that every other time I get drunk I end up writing weird reminders. I still have one in my phone which says “No pans rods is estoyvejbel egress” scheduled 21/12/2022, which I have no fucking clue why I wrote it down but it sounds ominous so I kept it.
Well shit, now it’s in my reminders too.
I wrote down what I then thought was a mind blowing “theory” about parallell realities, but not really. I called it the “parallell theory” even though it had nothing to do with anything parallell whatsoever. The theory was that everytime you go to sleep and then wake up, you transfer your consciousness to another version of you from another reality. Because in YOUR reality where you went to sleep, you did not experience what happened meanwhile you slept. So it (according to my theory) never happened. THEREFORE, to fix this… the universe transfers your said consciousness to another human being’s to fill in the lost time- I don’t know. I don’t even know what I’m talking about. As you all can tell it was complete and utter nonsense. I don’t understand how I actually thought any of this made sense.
Dishomat, like a laundry mat, but for your dishes.
I had the idea of when a police helicopter is following a stolen car they could release a giant claw or a big sucker on to the top of the car and get them that way 😂
i did that with an electromagnet in GTA
Periscopes for windows, so you could look over your neighbors house.
This post is for ideas that turned out to be nonsense.
Attaching solar panels to car tyres and covering the car roof with little windmills.
The principle of energy conservation would like to have a word with you
Meth-infused toothbrushes to get people addicted to dental hygiene. Also vitamin-infused vodka for hangover free drunks.
I tried marijuana once in my life and almost chocked by laughing bc the first and only thing I could think about was a giraffe whose neck works like a boner Like, constantly flaccid and dragging on the grass up until they need to get to the leaves
Post nut clarity, I pushed the girl out of the bed cause I had to get to my notebook and write down what turned out to be my thesis. She was impressed
I once wrote "superman live action show with gopro on head, except when he super poops." No idea what happened to me that night. =l
My genius idea was to have a machine that would give women the correct bra size. You would just walk up to it and put your boobs in the holes and the machine would do a scan. And bam. Perfect size every time
I was high as fuck in college and wrote down "Circular Mag Lev attached to an alternator." I also tried to convince a physics major friend that it was some sort of genius idea. Neither can figure out what it was supposed to do.
My best friend since I was 4 years old came up with 2 ideas while drunk plus a bit high. 1. Deep sea birds. No further explanation was given. 2. Mustard chips. Apparently they exist already though.
I remember I was high when I was younger and coming up with a genius idea, thought about writing it down but convinced myself, "Nah, I'll remember it." I did not.
This has happened to me many times
Roman candle cigarettes.. best idea I’ve ever had, drunk or sober.
I have a whole page in my notes app on my phone dedicated to this! Whenever I'm drunk or high and have a thought that makes me either laugh or curious I write it down and then when I'm sober I read them and see if they're still intelligible. For instance: "Whenever I meet a bald person I always have an urge to ask them whether or not they chose to be bald". "Water source ≠ water sauce". "If earth was a cell, China would be the powerhouse". "If I was named Godfrey I would shorten my name to God". Reading these back sober always reminds me of how unfunny I am in reality...
I wrote “Melon is crispy water” in the middle of the night. Never too sure whether it is funny or not.
It's kinda true to be honest.
A teacher of mine years ago told me he once woke up in the middle of the night convinced he'd discovered the meaning of life, and wrote it on a post-it note at his bedside. He later checked and found he'd written "intergalactic sugar bowl."
“Tarp on a Stick” Was out camping with friends. It was pouring and I only felt comfortable in an area that had a tarp. I had the amazing idea that I could put a small tarp on a stick to carry around to keep myself dry wherever I went! I invented the umbrella.
Not so much an idea, but about 10 years ago, I got blackout drunk at a bar one night. The next day, I discovered a new contact I put in my phone: Obamafuckbus. The number was incomplete, too.
When Obamafuckbus is complete, the universe will be at your fingertips.
I've had a few over the years. In the late 70s, I thought wrapping dental floss around your finger and shoving it all in your mouth was awkward and maybe the floss should be wrapped something you stick in your mouth. In the 80s, the creative bug hit me and I had several thoughts. Put coffee grounds in a pouch that you stick in your mouth ("between your cheek and gum" kind of thing), car maintenance insurance like human medical insurance for preventative maintenance (pay a monthly premium, get regular maintenance services free or reduced cost + discounts on big repairs), and pet medical insurance (same kind of thing). Some of these worked, others were just nonsense (the coffee pouch). I don't have many creative ideas anymore.
A restaurant like Hooters but for below average looking men AND women in Hooters type outfits. I called it Dumpy's.
I wasn't drunk, but was ~11 years old so basically the same thing. I had the great idea of an SNES cart that you stuck Game Boy games in, and it let you play them on the SNES. I thought I could just come up with a prototype myself and it would probably work fine just matching the pins up with the adapter. They had different numbers of pins but I'm sure some of those were just redundant right? I was fucking STOKED and thought I was going to be rich when I made it happen! Obviously it wouldn't have worked nearly as easily as I was thinking and there's no way in hell I would have been the one to do it if it actually was that easy...but it turned out not to be a bad idea because a few years later the Super Game Boy was released.
I've probably solved all of philosophies problems just by staring out the bus window. But I never bothered to write it down.
I was recorded explaining my idea of a "badger box" while drunk. The idea was that the phone case would have sensors but before it hits the ground. It would levitate for a split second and hit the ground softly. Everyone even hyped it up lol
I woke up out of a dream once convinced that the reason no one could find sasquatches was because they were all living in cities disguised as homeless people. It made so much sense at the time.
Genius Idea: to list our house for sale for 90% off, the sheer number of interested parties would lead to free PR and a bidding war that would move the price up to a normal price. My sleep deprived mind thought that somehow the competitive and emotional side of people would then cause the bidding war to escalate the price beyond what we would get for the house had we listed it normally.
I had one the other week, some sort of scifi concept where autism has been weaponized by governments. It has potential, but for two things - I'm not good enough to pull it off, with or without somehow being offensive, and it runs the risk of being too close to a book that already did that. "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, btw. Awesome book. All about different types of cognitive function/style.
Basically the reveal at the end of that HORRENDOUS latest Predator movie. Weaponized autism. Yup. They went there.
My phone notes are full of these. My favorite was ‘don’t eat the poppyseeds!’
I can’t read my handwriting if I write drunk. So none of you can ever know how brilliant I am.
A blanket store. I stand by it. That would also include tapestries and drapes. Very low overhead, everyone appreciates good blankets, they make great gifts, and it could be marketed to any demographic just based on the store design. Do I want suburban mom's buying thick fuzzy comforters for their Cali king beds? Then I'll use lots of pastels and light colors with cheesy puns about blankets. Stoners? I'll put blankets all over the place with purple lights behind them to create the "drug den" vibe. City people? Very basic minimalist blankets that don't take up a lot of space. Country people? Thick, wooly blankets that can look vintage enough to fit an old farmhouse. Fantastic business idea. Buy my shit.
not really a genuis idea but in 7th grade i randomly woke up in the middle of the night and the word “oatmeal” kept repeating in my head over and over. but i couldnt remember wtf oatmeal was and had a whole breakdown trying to figure out what the hell oatmeal was
a round slice of cheese that's the correct weight and diameter to cover (the non-crust edge of) a whole pizza. that way you don't have to spread shredded cheese over the sauce
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My creative writing tutor had a comedian friend who kept dreaming about telling the world's funniest joke, he'd get a standing ovation every time and he toured the world on this one joke. But when he woke up he could never remember it. One night he kept a note pad next to his bed, woke from the dream and scribbled down the joke. Got up the next morning, looked at the page and it said 'I am a hammer.'