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Lore 291: Dream Come True

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Aaron Mahnke

True Crime, Ghost, Folklore, Legends, Supernatural, Paranormal, Lore, Monsters, Myth, History, Spooky

4.6 β€’ 46.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We often use the phrase β€œdream come true” to describe wonderful things you envision for our lives. But looking at the folklore behind it, there might be a darker, more complicated nightmare at work.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by GennaRose Nethercott, research by Cassandra de Alba, and music by Chad Lawson.

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0:00.0

In the dream, Arsony was attending a great feast.

0:12.9

The table was laden with dishes and delicacies, breads and meats and bubbling libations,

0:19.2

a spread, fit for a king. But most royal of all,

0:23.6

well, that would be the main course, a food known only as the king's hand.

0:28.8

Now, the king's hand was no dish known to the waking world. It existed only in Arsonie's dream,

0:34.8

and when the 28-year-old awoke, he became haunted by the idea

0:38.8

of bringing this subconscious culinary creation to life, which, unfortunately, is exactly what he did.

0:46.9

And I say unfortunately, because the king's hand of Arsenae's dream feast just so happened to be

0:52.9

a hollow, hand-shaped Eminem cookie stuffed

0:56.0

with a Greek salad. Through a series of increasingly deranged viral tweets, Arsena documented his

1:03.4

journey to create a real-life king's hand. Did he have baking experience? Well, not particularly.

1:10.1

Did his friends and family approve of this venture?

1:13.0

Definitely not. But that didn't stop him from creating a silicone hand-shaped mold,

1:18.3

pressing cookie dough into the crevices, and ultimately filling the entire accursed concoction

1:23.5

with lettuce, olives, and feta cheese. He said,

1:27.9

It's hard for me to tell you how King's Hand tasted.

1:31.7

I dreamed it up in my dreams, so when I bit into it, it was very rewarding.

1:36.6

I was like, oh my God, I'm eating my dream food.

1:39.6

If another person were to bite into King's Hand, they would barf.

1:43.6

I don't know. And look, the world of

1:46.7

dreams is a mysterious one. Sometimes our visions make sense. Sometimes they don't. But no matter

1:53.4

how strange or nightmarish, we can usually reassure ourselves not to worry because dreams aren't

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