This is Em and Dave. Em had a sex dream about Dave…. And look at that face, how could she NOT?
Can you imagine having a sex dream about a colleague? It’s an awkward thought, right?
But do you know what’s more awkward? Actually having that dream. And then ACTUALLY telling that colleague about it.
Well that’s exactly went down over at Mamamia Today headquarters in Melbourne when host Em Rusciano told co-host Dave Thornton about the sexy dream she had last night…. about him.
Here’s how the conversation went down:
*NB: Dave’s responses are in italics.
Em: Today I learned a valuable honesty isn’t always the best policy.. Well, not when it comes to revealing to a friend/co-host that you may or may not have had a sexy times dream about them.. What? What? Look, casually in conversation I dropped to Dave Thornton that last night I had a dream involving him and I getting hot and heavy.
Dave: My first thought was ‘How did we get here?’ It was midday and I was in dire need of a coffee. Now her subconscious has put me on questionable terms with HR.
Em: Keeping in mind I have known him for a few years, we are good friends first and co-workers second and he and I regularly have conversations that would be deemed illegal in several countries.
Dave: Wait that makes it sound like we sacrifice virgins to our Pagan Gods….
Em and Dave. It’s not the moment she told him, but we imagine it looked a little like this.
Em: His reaction was not the one I was expecting. He was slightly aghast and by aghast I mean he clutched his pearls and crossed himself while uttering the holy trinities name.
Dave: Hey I don’t wear pearls Em. Especially not with today’s outfit, it just wouldn’t match girlfriend.
Em: He was genuinely offended.
He recoiled in fact.
He also said things involving the words “gross” “unattractive” and “gross”.
Dave: Em’s taken a bit of poetic licence with this. I simply said that because of our platonic relationship it would be unusual…..in a gross fashion.
Em: So then I was offended that he was offended.
Is it possibly the underlying sexual tension I have invented between the two of us to pass the time DOESN’T EXIST?!
Dave: Wow.
Em: Did I cross some sort of line? Is it not OK to tell your mate you had an AO (Shout out to 90′s TV guidelines y’all! Woot woot!) dream about them?
Dave: We’ve crossed a line, it’s awkward. Like hearing flatulence while sitting with your Nan and nothing gets said awkward. Wait….so was I any good…?
Em Rusciano is the host of Mamamia Today on Austereo (which you should be tuning into at 3pm every weekday on the Today Network) and regularly appears on Network Ten’s ’The Project’. You should follow her on Twitter here and take a look at her website here. You can listen to podcasts of Mamamia today here.
Tell us: Have you ever had a sex dream about a colleague? What should Em have done? Spilled the details or simply stayed quiet?
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34 Comments so far
Yes when I meet Nathan Fillion I will tell him about my sex dream about him. To be fair I had been watching a lot of Firefly.
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Is it only me or does anyone else feel slightly uncomfortable with this whole scenario?
Isnt Em married? So not only is she having sex dreams about her co worker but she publically broadcasts it. I wouldn`t be doing that to my husband, there has got to be an element of embarrassment on his part.
As others have said also it is just not appropriate to be telling co workers that …. sexual harrassment guidelines & all
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Surely if you told a colleague that you had a dream about having sex with them you’d be up on some type of sexual harrassment charge, wouldn’t you ?
I have had that type of dream and I have kept my mouth firmly shut.
Honestly, I can’t believe that anyone would be making such a suggestion as this in these unltra-PC times ! I don’t know, but perhaps the suggestion is would a woman tell a male colleague about having such a dream ? Certainly a male making the comment to a female would result in a massive workplace S***storm.
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I had a dream I kissed Michael Tunn (from Vidiot and TripleJ) the other night.
I think I’m sick……
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Wow, your subconscious has a LONG memory! Haven’t seen or heard of him in decades, but he used to be everywhere. And then Dylan Lewis…
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You could only get away with telling a workmate that you dreamed about having sex with them if you’re female. Imagine if a bloke did this to a woman at work?
You’d be up in arms about it, and baying for blood.
So no, it’s not ok, and it’s not ok because of the double standard that is applied.
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I totally agree Anon, it’s weird when a friend tells you they had a sex dream about you, but overall, it’s harmless. But if it was a male workmate, there would be a huge outcry from most women.
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One of my best male friends told me he had a sex dream about me, and that it was “The best sex he’d ever had”. He continued to elaborate about how fantastic, amazing, passionate and beautiful it had been. He eventually broke up with his girlfriend because he said said my name, instead of hers one night. For some reason I’ve felt guilty about that for ages now. I should probably preface this story, because while he is my best friend, I did have a huge crush on him and him telling me this was just, so awkwardly terrifying (on so many different levels). I did not know how to react. We’ve remained best friends, but sometimes it’s still a little awkward, and since he told me, I can’t stop thinking about having sex with him. Now he’s got a new girlfriend. Seriously, your mind just works overtime.
Never, ever, ever tell a person you’ve had a sex dream about them. Never!
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Hmmm – shouldn’t you two be together? It sounds like it to me. :S
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Hey Anonymous, your right, I want to be with him. But, I don’t really know how to make a move as he’s my best friend, who also happens to have a girlfriend…That’s scary, uncharted territory for this inexperienced nerd girl!
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It was me that wrote that (sorry didn’t put my username in)
Wait until they part ways (sooner or later) then let him know how you feel and why. What you have now is basically a ‘no’ anyway because you’ve not told or expressed it to him. No chance of making that a yes if you keep it to yourself.
I think you should take a chance at the right time, otherwise if you don’t then you KNOW there’s zero chance his next GF will be you.
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Ooh I wouldn’t mind having a sexy dream about Dave Thornton, lucky you Em!
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Purely out of interest…..how much shit would I be in if I made the same comment about Em ?
Lots or LOTS ?
I find the article inappropriate.
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I think it’s only awkward if u make it awkward. If u just laugh about it I think it’s fine. Oh and who hasn’t had a sexy time dream about Dave lol.
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I rarely tell anyone about my dreams, sexual or not. They would think I was a nut job.
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When I was in year 8, a classmate told me he’d had a wet dream about me. Noice.
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i would be flattered! i think it would only be uncomfortable if the other person had previously had the same kind of dream also… maybe that’s dave’s problem??
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I am six months pregnant and feeling unbelievably horny 24 hours a day, not that my husband minds, although I think he is feeling a bit like a sex slave at the moment, it is good to turn the tables on him for once ; )
Anyway back on topic, although my husband fulfils my every desire on the sexy front I am having weird sex dreams about the strangest people, men and women, people I have never even had the slightest stirrings for are turning up in my dreams. Even random strangers, sometimes even gross old random strangers, the bus driver? I guess if I did start telling people I had a sex dream about them I would be alienating whole communities at the moment. Best to keep this to myself and the Mamamia community.
& who knew this was a pregnancy symptom, sure beats morning sickness.
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My theory would suggest you are having a boy
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Your theory would be correct : )
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God, I would never tell someone about a sexy dream I had about them. Waaaay too awkward – even more if you are platonic friends with them! What were you thinking
The thing is, if a guy I spent a lot of time with and got along really with told me he had a sexy dream about me I would definitely think he had a crush on me.
A few years ago I had recurring VERY sexy dreams about a guy I was spending a lot of time with in a creative collaborative way. It was bizarre. He was (well, ‘is’ – he still survives!) pretty cute and we really bonded with our sense of humour. Now that I think about it, I reckon the crush developed before the sexy dreams. Regardless the first dream (and it was FULL ON caught me really off guard and I felt mortified (I was pregnant with my first child to my then and current partner). Then the dreams kept a-coming and I started to look forward to them and developed a major crush. The thought of telling him…oh god. No way!!! Then again, our relationship was relatively superficial so there would never have been an opportunity to tell him.
I have to say I love my sexy dreams. Recently I had one about Obama. He’s actually featured a few times and he’s always so lovely and nice. Actually they are more romantic and nothing actually happens in the dream. It’s all flirting and anticipation. I also used to have recurring and very heavy dreams about Benecio Del Toro! He was really out of the blue as I didn’t even really know who he was until I started dreaming about him!
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No, but last night I was about to have an affair with a Rutger Hauer look alike. We met in a giant shopping complex and he was seducing me. I remember looking on his finger to see if he was single. He had a silver wedding band on.
I have had crushes on work colleagues, bosses, teachers but they were very innocent.
Usually it’s celebrities.
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Gosh I love sex dreams..had one recently about the commando (from biggest loser).. Needless to say it was HOT!
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I reckon it’s fine to tell ya mates about it I have been in situations where one of my best mates told me they had a sexy dream with me in it and I was quite flattered lol theres nothing wrong with it
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I could only WISH someone would dream about me and tell me about it … at length!
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No, you don’t tell them, but if your dreams are as vivid as mine, by God it makes seeing them fun/awkward for a while afterwards.
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I agree…it’s GREAT!
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totally agree!!
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“Have you ever had a sex dream about a colleague?”
Well, one time, when I was working with Clooney ….
(j/k)
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“…so was I any good..?” Love it.
I had a dream like this about a friend recently. Thing was I wasn’t very good because half way through the act he got bored and looked away. Wouldn’t tell him about the dream, no, but I do think the dream was indicative of my perception of being a bore or bad in bed, or both.
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No. it just makes things awkward. Not boasting, but I have had several women tell me they have had blue dreams about me, with the follow up that they do not want it for real. One was even a lesbian (that was weird). I ended up doing some research on the net and from what I could work out it is really about trust and not sex. In that you have absolute trust in the person you are dreaming about. It is just manifested in your dreams as sex as that is when a woman is most vunerable.
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That makes a lot of sense. What a fun way of discovering you trust someone
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I have had many ‘sexy time’ dreams about friends, male and female. I have always told them, its only a dream. If the dreams are about someone you are not that close to, its probably not a good idea to share as they may take it the wrong way. My friends have always found it amusing
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i had a sexy dream about a friends husband. we are all good friends and that night had all hung out together. i reckon it was cos he was the last person i saw that night. i told the both of them and we had a really big laugh about it. thankfully it didnt make things awkward lol
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