We all have a dream.
For some it may be big: a trip to the moon or swimming with whale sharks.
Others might want to be Batman for the day or have their own robot butler.
But what if your aspirations are a bit humbler? What if you just want $50 to buy a hula hoop?
In this age of entitlement, no dream is too small, too big or too ridiculous. Just ask your Facebook friends for cash and let your imagination run wild. 
Online crowdfunding has allowed the public to pitch in for many worthy causes but it has also given birth to a slew of bizarre requests.
We looked at five of Australia's wackiest crowdfunding bids.
1. 'Show us your junk'
With sexting all the rage, Sydney artist Natalie Cheney decided the world was crying out for a better quality of dick pic. And why not have a funky phallus for every month of the year?
"I was sitting having ice-cream with my girlfriends on a Thursday night after dancing. Naturally, we ended up chatting about dick pics. Together we came up with the idea that there should be more creative dick pics," she wrote on Australian creative crowdfunding site Pozible.
"Like, if you are sending us a picture, show us you are fun, innovative and playful. But also show us your junk."
She had already created six images on her Tumblr blog Picus Dickus, dressing up penises as unicorns, squirrels and helicopters. Natalie asked for $447 to hire life models to complete the other six months of the year.
Twelve backers chipped in to raise $500. Natalie said the 2016 Picus Dickus calendar was the perfect Christmas gift. "Let's bring more penises to life, to the world, to everyone. Except maybe my grandma. I don't know how she'll feel about it."
2. 'Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards'
A Canberra man displayed rare insight by acknowledging that "funding a trip overseas on someone else's dime seems unreasonable and perhaps even selfish" while simultaneously attempting to crowdsource $1750 for spending money on his upcoming jaunt to New York with an old flame.
He wrote: "The opportunity has presented itself for me to spend two weeks in New York over the Christmas/New Year period, with my flights and accommodation paid for - all I need to do is figure out spending money, travel insurance, and a small buffer for emergencies.
"He has been generous enough to contribute his home for me to stay with him, and his own hard-earned money to pay for my flights - but I want to give back. Not only do I want to have a financially stress-free trip, I want to shout him dinner, buy him flowers, or cover a cab every so often."
His plea for his first "New Year's Kiss" inspired the princely contribution of $5.
3. Smoked Bacon Bourbon
A Melbourne bar tender raised $26,000 to make Smoked Bacon Bourbon Photo: Pozible
The World Health Organisation might have declared that bacon is up there with smoking as a cancer risk but Melbourne and Sydney bar owner Sven Almenning knew better.
All that was missing was alcohol. His goal was to raise $25,000 to create the first batch of Smoked Bacon Bourbon. Processed meat fans did not disappoint, with 213 people pitching in more than $26,000 to see this pig fly.
"Bacon & Whiskey? What's not to love?" he wrote in his Pozible pitch."We buy high-quality bourbon whiskey which we then 'wash' with 100 per cent Australian Smoked bacon. It's quite a laborious process which includes a rigorous filtration process before it's hand bottled, hand labelled and hand waxed. This is beyond small batch people!"
4. My Little Pony
It is perhaps a testament to the delightful eccentricity of our modern world that a bid for $10,000 to bring a My Little Pony convention to Melbourne more than doubled its target.
Following the huge success of Ponycon AU in Sydney, which attracted 1100 fans, the organisers wanted their next event to be a bigger and brighter pony fest.
They promised backers they would bring voice actors from the show to Australia, including 'Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy'. If they exceeded their goal they'd go for a second actor.
In the end, more than $25,000 was pledged by 177 backers, perhaps a reflection on the emergence of a social phenomenon known as "bronies" - teenage and adult fans of the kids show who love everything about the pastel-coloured toys.
In their funding plea video the organisers promised it would be the "best Ponycon yet."
5. The best of the rest
* A young woman has asked the world to help her "learn to adult" by paying off her $10,800 loan. "The long and short of it is, is that I owe allowance repayments that I was not given the chance to dispute or investigate, as the department sent the debt information to the wrong residential address for over a month. I would appreciate any help with, as I am learning how life can bite you in the ass the hard way," she wrote.
* A budding musician received a keyboard from his mum, a laptop from his sister and is now calling upon the rest of us to help him fund the software needed to create his dubstep mash-ups.
He's already using the pirated version but has had a crisis of conscience and wants to go straight - if not for the legitimacy than for the audio quality.
"My concern has been growing about getting in trouble for using illegally downloaded software. Music is my passion and I have been using outdated software for the last two years and do not currently have a job (although I am looking) and the software I need is pretty expensive so I was looking for some financial support from strangers," he wrote.