I forgot my keys three days in a row. Usually I can take such synchronicities to mean that I'm doing something wrong, but this time (as I've been doing everything perfectly, these days, with the exception of locking myself out of my house) I couldn't imagine what it could have been ( Read more... )

I dreamed last night that I was a young Freud. I was a prankster, a self-proclaimed comedian no one liked. As I grew older I became somber and disappointed, polite, well dressed, quiet, and correct. I was walking outdoors with myself, both of us Freud, of course, because this was a dream, and we are everyone in our dreams, when a lady's nightgown ( Read more... )

Recently, while sitting by the river where my cousin drowned, Meredith wished for a boat she could row. I wished her one powered by doom like that of the Lady of Shallot. Not immediate doom, of course. It would take her wherever she needed to go without rowing, with the understanding that, as everyone eventually dies, everything you do is carrying ( Read more... )

Meredith is right: there are some things that should be recorded. They are dreams, though. I apologize for only writing the things that no one wishes to read ( Read more... )

I fell asleep after coming too soft for trying for too long. And I dreamed it dirty, and graphic to a hard fault. I've only had two such dreams, now, and both were of people I'd never want to touch, and both sickened me. Usually these dreams could have been true, or fail. They are soft and lack sense, like dreams do. But these ones are reasoned, ( Read more... )

I am a registered socialist and organ donor, but my nipples are no longer pierced. This is a travesty. When naked, I feel, I look like a little girl. Real adults have metal in all of the right places, yes? They'd been there for five years. They'll still be there when I dream.


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i had dreams i felt. i'd needed an operation, and the doctors were too much like me at my cutting board. they took everything out to get to the things for which they were looking. after the operation i sometimes thought the immense pain in my torso was only the result of everything having been moved around so much, and at times because i thought ( Read more... )