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I awoke this morning to riotous thunder. There were explosions bursting over the building as if we were being strafed. I was confused at first not sure if it were a thunderstorm or the apocalypse, and not being sure which one I would prefer. Getting up, I noticed the clock said 5 AM. I was parched and on the way to the kitchen was startled by a ( Read more... )

I had apocalyptic dreams the other night. New York City was chaos. It seemed mostly deserted, and law and order had broken down. People were scrounging for resources, food, weapons, shelter - and though it was a violent dream I felt the calm I have in my recurring zombie dreams - in fact, it was a lot like a zombie dream, except no zombies - But ( Read more... )

I dreamt I was a in a great dining hall and it was at like some run down old "inn", you know where like I'd imagine the local Rotary to have a function, and it was full of black people eating. I came in when they were 3/4s of the way through their poorly catered meal and had to use the remaining food from people's plates to make some kind of hero ( Read more... )

The best part about being as sick as I have been for the last 2 ½ days are the lucid fever dreams and the wonder and confusion of waking from them to look at the clock and see that at most 10 minutes have passed while I wandered the dreamworld for what seemed much longer ( Read more... )

What is sleep?

For a long time I have said that my two least favorite things to do in life were going to bed and waking up.

Going to Sleep: I have rarely suffered from actual insomnia, but I still always feel this odd pressure to perform when I get under the covers to slip off to that strange state of consciousness. Since I know I want to sleep ( Read more... )

Bizarre and fractured dream, but a couple of the elements of it I can trace back to events of the last few days.

( It began with me. . . )

So, in last night's dream, Zooey and I were living in this apartment that was a mix of the apartment my family lived in the the Red Hook projects back in the mid-80's and the apartment my grandma lived in in Sunset Park in the 70's ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt it was election time ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt. . . that my ex-girlfriend Linda moved to NYC and was my friends Henry and Sarah's roommate. In the dream, she and I had gotten back together - but I could not remember the conditions under which it had happened, but even though for the majority of the dream we were lying in bed together (the first thing I remember of the dream ( Read more... )