This is a total tangent to your actual post, but I'm pretty sure one of my dreams last night was one of yours, missent to me by accident! It was in black and white, and took the form of 1950s-style educational newsreels teaching the general public about different occupations, starring the same actor playing the same character in all of them. Except in one he's a plumber, in another he's a teacher, etc, showing the viewer how the job is done.

But there was also a frame story in the films, in the form of little clips at the beginning and end to provide some continuity for the viewer that dealt with his "normal" life, and apparently the frame story was that he was experiencing some kind of timeslip/dimension slip thing in which he was finding himself in alternate realities (sort of quantum leap style, I guess?) in which he was in these various occupations (the one where he's a plumber! the one where he's a salesman!) while back home, he had a wife and a best friend and a dog, and the wife and best friend were trying to get him back. I also recall that on the meta level of the dream, there was a small fandom surrounding these films that was based around the OT3 and focused on the wife and best friend trying to find a way to stop him from sideslipping to these alternate realities all the time.

The entire styling of it all seemed very you.