In my last dream before waking, I stumbled across a movie or tv episode, from the late '70s or early '80s -- it had that I, Claudius look of the designer doing their best on a low budget, and mostly succeeding. The plot involved a minor official in Edo Japan who oversteps his authority to save a mysterious woman from execution, only to realize she' ( Read more... )

I was in Australia, where the ocean had a skin on it - I knew somehow that this phenomenon had to do with temperature differences between the layers of water, causing the surface tension to be far greater than it normally would be, so that it was possible to body-surf without getting wet ( Read more... )

A lot of dreams, veering from epic (The cosmos in danger! How do you evacuate the populations of entire galaxies?) to mundane (student life, baking, Elvis impersonators, a costumer who was perpetually stoned on paint fumes).

Just before waking I dreamt I was reading, or trying to read, a book called something like The Immortal and the Undying ( Read more... )

This dream, without actually involving any false awakenings, contained nested narratives. In the first, I am part of a small group, led by a Cadfael-like monk, investigating a witch who is menacing a village, or possibly a monastery. Our level of technology is late-medieval, but hers is roughly eighteenth-century. When we enter a flooded room ( ( Read more... )

"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was."

Following the events of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a maidservant cleans up. Some young men (Oxbridge versions of the rude mechanicals?) have been on a boating trip (there were a lot of ( Read more... )

Lots of dreams last night, most of them hard to describe. Events always loop in my dreams, as though even in the dream I'm thinking about them and re-running them. I don't know what that says about how my mind works.

1. A hipster couple's relationship turns strained after he tells her he shot Hello Kitty. I don't know if he meant the Hello Kitty, ( Read more... )

My brother and some of his friends had purchased a run-down cottage and spent the previous summer renovating it, with surprising success. I and some others decided to try doing the same, and located a nice small property near a lake. However the nearest town was a slightly ribald place whose local economy seemed to be based on holding political ( Read more... )

Early 20th-century gangsters were meeting up in some kind of dive. One of them actually was played by James Cagney. They were handing around a small, beribboned wreath -- letters on the ribbons spelt out the names of the members of the gang, but intertwined, the names were encoded. A blonde woman, the wife or girlfriend of one of the gangsters, ( Read more... )

As usual, busy and confused, but I recall a biography of some couple from the early twentieth century; then it began getting into odd and interesting period details -- apparently there used to be a fad, pre-WWI, among adolescent girls for dressing up as bats/airplanes and flying about in formation. While looking for more information on this I found ( Read more... )

Wish I could remember more of the queer-feminist-steampunk-pirate animated Disney movie I dreamt last night, because it was terrific.