Dreams

On The Appreciation of Dreams

Recent science shows that dreams begin with random firing of neurons while our eyes, darting about behind their skin curtains, look for something to grab.

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A circus elephant has gone rogue and seized hostages, one of which is me.

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I dreamed that I was rising from bed and walking down the hall. I practiced each step before I took...

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Every night in a cathedral built at the apex of a steep natural ziggurat, a priest who lives in the...

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I am back in college and heading for the dining hall at Claremont Men's College (as it was known at...

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During the last hour or two of my sleep, I wandered through endless waiting rooms.

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I am to guard "the baby"....

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I rarely comment on dreams, but this one seems to tell a truth.

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I dreamed that I went to visit myself in the future.

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During one of the many naps I took yesterday, I dreamed that I was renting rooms in a house without windows to my friends.

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I dreamed that I was in San Bernardino, living the life I might have had if I had not gone...

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I'm sitting in a writing group. It's a large group, mostly if not all men, led by a spindly, beak-nosed...

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I found myself dreaming that I either owned or played a key part in an organization which trapped and enslaved...

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I'm living with my parents because Lynn is off at school somewhere. Either up north or back east, I don't...

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It's been awhile, hasn't it? Lynn and I find ourselves in a place where the skeletons rise out of the...

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I'm walking down Highland Avenue in San Bernardino, much as it used to be and more like it should be...

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Someone used the word "turkey" in an article or on a news broadcast. It was all over the news. Centrist...

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We were keeping elephants in our backyard. One of them was getting very naughty. The bad elephant's name was Phyllis....

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A very long and complicated dream of which I can only remember fragments: A neighbor has a room -- more...

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Lynn and I are sleeping in an abandoned car on a roof top. I go downstairs. My brother is coming...

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A variation on a dream that I keep having. I'm in school and I'm flunking out because I haven't been...

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"The nice thing about chocolate Easter bunnies," he says, "is that they can break into a million pieces and you still can eat every bit."

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I'm working in a company, some Silicon Valley place where the high-ranking men wear silver-gray tailored suits that they wear...

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Something loose in the mind: I'm walking with many others in the future. The next stage of evolution has happened:...

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My relatives led by my cousin Steve are planning some event that includes me as a person of honor. I'm...

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This is one of those "movie dreams" where I am not an actual character, but watching. A secret agent has...

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Lynn and I are helping a fortyish woman who has seldom been outside of her house. Many years ago, she...

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From a few days ago, a dream that haunts me. I'm in the Air Force, a member of an academy...

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I'm walking down the street, out of a factory and past several places where I used to work, including a...

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I'm getting on the freeway, driving to see my brother. The ramp is unusually long and it runs alongside the...

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In the waking world, a Santa Ana blows. It rattles the electric blue tarps which were laid on the roof...

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We've moved into our mother's house it seems, but she isn't there. We're still keeping the cats and a broad...

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I am in a cemetery taking photographs. My father accompanies me. I have to lay on my back to photograph...

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Sometimes I have dreams inside of dreams, that occur to me as I break out of sleep into levels of...

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I'm riding in a car with Tom Cruise who is angry with me. He says that my cel phone is...

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Does he keep us all in a Grand Central Station locker like the aliens that K has in Men in Black II?

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Everyone in the family is out of work. My mother is making me and everyone else (including at least one...

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This is actually from yesterday. I've gone back to Durham, North Carolina with Lynn. We are at The Book Exchange...

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Some family member hands me a long, white envelope filled with silver Kennedy half dollars. I go to a place...

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I dreamed that the last jerk I worked for was in my house. He walked up and taunted me. I...

Two Dreams

I woke up between genders....

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Curious man-beasts with the heads of moles and mice stand next to them: a voiceover tells me that the Dukes loved moles and mice.

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One of the dogs is pregnant.

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I rush down and find myself next to a gigantic moose without antlers. It must be twelve or more feet at the shoulders.

Half Asleep

What heir species will mine our remains and not recognize them as the deposits of an intelligence?

Two Dreams
1. I am riding a train that is part of a tour I am taking with other people. The back...

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I attend some kind of depressive support group. There's a woman who has to leave early because she has to...

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A very confused dream, like a refrigerator randomly stuffed with all kinds of food, some wrapped, some half unwrapped, some...

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Lynn goes out into the back yard of some house we are living in to bring in all our cats...

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I am a witness to a peculiar kind of play, with many scenes that happen in different places, all at...

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I am a clone named Daniel Kinkaid, a reincarnation of myself who has been brought to life so that...

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I go for a walk around a marsh along the edge of a low, white city to ponder a...

To Sleep, Mischance to Dream

Dreams are a crazy salad of all kinds of things.

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I'm hiking in a national park, one by a large lake or the sea. I'm alone. The trail I'm on...

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The prison stood in the middle of the city, a gigantic skyscraper that covered a whole block with no windows....

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When I woke from my afternoon nap, the sun was shining through the Venetian blinds. It scored me with long...