Archive for the 'dreams' Category

Fragment: going to work, early

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Yesterday is chasing me down the island, south, into today Last night’s ill-advised late dinner turned into a series of IEDs as I drove towards morning and dreams of guilt and frustration woke me, head aching, long before the hissing alarm but the two bellows I left breathing in the bedroom are still facing the [...]

I hate losing things, but I love finding them.

Friday, August 8th, 2008

As a kid, I spent a lot of years in constant motion between my divorced parents’ houses. I was never particularly good at keeping track of belongings — maybe because I had twice as many places any single object could be? — and for whatever reason, a recurring bad-dream theme was losing small, personal things. [...]

Extraterrestrial Pretexting

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Slept a little fitfully last night. Woke this morning out of a dream in which (mostly) benevolent and unbelievably powerful aliens arrive on Earth and do little things like reroute rivers, create playgrounds where there were none before, and give everyone on the planet an iPhone. Most of their astounding feats happen during the night: [...]

What I learned in a dream this morning

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

If you’re living on the Moon and you’re approached by Gary Coleman who tries to teach you about the impermanence and flexibility of the rules of the visible world — very much like Laurence Fishburn’s character in The Matrix did for Keanu Reeves’ “Neo” — you should listen. Because if you listen carefully and practice [...]

Dude, it’s 4:20 …

Monday, June 11th, 2007

… 4:20 a.m., that is. For the last week, I’ve (mostly) been going to bed sometime between 11 and midnight, and (mostly) been rolling over awake to look at the clock between 4:13 and 4:50 a.m., having just woken out of some odd dream. (Today: an old coworker falls into the city reservoir, we rescue [...]