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Have You lot Ever Had A Dream Similar This? refers to a viral video taken from a 1999 dwelling videotape of a boy fumbling over a sentence about dreaming which ends up being completely incoherent, starting the sentence with "take you e'er had a dream" and ending with "y'all desire him to do you and so much y'all could do annihilation." The video went viral in 2011, becoming a archetype in the years since where it's been used in diverse remixes and other memes. In mid-2021, Dream Kid's identity was finally revealed two decades later to be a man named Joe Cirkiel later on an interview with YouTuber Wavywebsurf.

Origin

On July 15th, 1999, Turner Archetype Movies released Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales,^[1] a primarily animated home-video special consisting of readings of bedtime stories like Goodnight Moon, and featuring narration from Susan Sarandon. The video contains a number of interviews with children about dreams. On January 24th, 2011, YouTuber^[5] lololark uploaded a compilation of the interviews, gaining over 181,000 views in x years. At the end of the video is a blooper in which a boy in a red shirt attempts to say something about dreams, just stumbles over the sentence, making it completely breathless (shown below). They also uploaded the isolated clip to their channel,^[4] garnering over 1.7 one thousand thousand views in the same span of fourth dimension.

On June 2nd, 2011, YouTuber^[3] mrblueangeldood uploaded the isolated prune of the boy fumbling his judgement, titled "Have you e'er had a dream like this?" The clip went viral, gaining over 67 million views in 10 years (shown below).

Have you e'er had a dream that yous, um, yous had, your, you- y'all could, y'all'll do, you- y'all wants, y'all, you could do then, you- you'll do, yous could- you, you want, you want him to do yous so much you lot could practice annihilation?

Spread

The video was shared across social media countless times over the course of the next few weeks, leading to its viral success. For example, on June 4th, BuzzFeed^[2] shared the video, and on June 7th, the Tosh.0 web log^[3] then shared the video.

The viral success of the prune inspired video edits and remixes, primarily on YouTube. On April 2nd, 2012, YouTuber^[vi] harvestsun uploaded a video in which the dream kid's face up is placed over Martin Luther King'south during his famous "I Accept A Dream" speech, garnering over 500,000 views in nine years (shown below, left). On May 11th, 2013, YouTuber^[7] ItsDrewsif uploaded a metal remix of the video, garnering over five meg views in eight years (shown below, correct).

Hercules Theory

On October 26th, 2015, Redditor u/TeaBoneJones posted a theory to /r/FanTheories^[8] in which he suggests that the kid in the video is trying to quote a line from the 1997 Disney animated film Hercules where Hercules says, "Haven't you ever had a dream? Something you lot wanted so bad you'd do anything?" (shown beneath.) Although unconfirmed, the post gained over 900 upvotes in five years. On August 18th, 2021 Know Your Meme published and interview with the kid confirming the Hercules theory.^[15]

Continuing Popularity

The video has remained a staple of internet memes and culture since going viral in 2011, with new, successful variations nevertheless popping upwards nearly a decade subsequently.

On September 19th, 2016, Redditor u/Chriscftb97 posted an image to /r/funny^[12] taken from a yearbook showing a graduate who quoted the video (shown below). The image was besides posted to /r/continuityporn^[13] that day by a now-deleted user with the title "[Accept you Ever had a dream kid] Kid from famous meme uses his stutter as yearbook quote," however, it is unconfirmed if this is actually the same kid from the video (shown below).

Yearbook quote Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you'll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you'll do, you could- you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

On June 14th, 2019, musician Charles Cornell posted a video playing the keyboard along with the video to Instagram^[ten] and YouTube,^[11] garnering over 496,000 views on the former and two.4 million on the latter in roughly 2 years (shown below).

On May 8th, 2020, YouTuber^[9] Schmoyoho released an original remix to the video, garnering over 1.4 million views in under a twelvemonth (shown below).

Identity

After decades of mystery, the identity of Dream Kid was eventually discovered. On July 28th, 2021, YouTuber^[14] Wavywebsurf uploaded a video titled "I FOUND THE DREAM KID," which caused 272,000 views in two weeks (shown below). The video explains how he came into contact with Dream Kid later a prior video on his channel covered the meme. A man named Joseph Cirkiel, the Dream Kid himself, so reached out and confirmed his identity in an interview with Wavy.