“What do you call a nightmare about paper?”/“A bad ream.”

A nightmare is a bad dream; a nightmare about paper might be “a bad ream.” “Awful nightmare last night. I dreamt I’d dropped precisely 500 sheets of A4 paper everywhere. Just a really bad ream” was posted on Twitter on April 14, 2010.
 
A riddle was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on October 18, 2017:
 
Q: What do you call a nightmare about paper?
A: A bad ream.
 
       
Twitter
Chris Goldson‏
@chrisgoldson
Awful nightmare last night. I dreamt I’d dropped precisely 500 sheets of A4 paper everywhere. Just a really bad ream.
5:54 PM - 14 Apr 2010
 
Twitter
Simon Spooner‏
@Nuncio2
I was worried that I’d have recurring nightmares about all 40 packs of paper being spoiled, but in the end it was just one bad ream #1pun
7:02 AM - 10 Feb 2014
 
Twitter
Simon Spooner‏
@Nuncio2
I was worried about having a nightmare that all 40 packs of paper were spoiled, but in the end it was just a bad ream
#dailypun #paper
5:29 AM - 18 Feb 2015
 
Twitter
A flashy jargon‏
@JasonFarghaly
Thought it was going to be a nightmare in the paper factory when the production line broke down! Turns out it was just a bad ream #dailypun
8:33 AM - 18 Feb 2015
 
Reddit—3amjokes
What do you call a nightmare about paper? self.3amjokes
Submitted October 18, 2017 by nawbreau
A bad ream!
 
Twitter
3AM‏
@3AM_Jokes
What do you call a nightmare about paper?... A bad ream!
12:14 AM - 18 Oct 2017
 
Twitter
LOL Tweets™‏
@lolmgco
What do you call a nightmare about paper?
A bad ream!
12:34 AM - 18 Oct 2017