I first thought this was gonna be a post about how you realized you were dreaming. Upside: if you didn't notice at a glance, chances are you can play it off.

I think that might be on your end because I saw it just fine before you deleted it

This one comes to mind. It was used in the Jackie Chan movie Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, so that might be where you heard it before.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9s...

A whole people with blocked sinuses, clearly.

It is *infuriating* how physical exercise actually makes you feel better.
I only learned that I hate literally every sport besides dodgeball that we did in class some 20 years later, and that has been kind of emblematic of my attitude towards exercise.

In trying to find something I've read to recommend I also found out just how much scifi and horror I have. I barely have anything else; I wasn't even consciously aware of that.

The Dresden Files series of books would fit with the humor and fantasy. Urban fantasy (about wizard in modern day chicago), each novel is its own thing despite overarching plot.

I am so glad you are sharing your DnD shenanigans.

It's been a while since I read it, but my memory tells me that this exact thing, if a bit more clumsy, was described in Fahrenheit 451. I know it's gauche to compare things to the book, but this is almost a perfect match.