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Discuss Amongst Yourselves - August 21, 2006

I feel like a sack of hammers today. After getting back from Sudbury (more on that later), I spent the afternoon and evening reading Armada submissions—which must have bled into my subconscious because I had awful nightmares last night. The first and worst had me on some kind of prison work program. I was in the back of a van with three other prisoners, on our way to go pick up garbage at the side of the highway or something, and this creepy fucker kept threatening me with a shiv he’d snuck on board. When I wouldn’t go along with… certain ideas he had, he cut my Achilles tendon. I woke up right afterward, totally freaked out. About an hour later I finally managed to drift off again, and ended up in a kind of War of the Worlds scenario. Not nearly as scary, that one, but it was super-long and totally exhausting.

So, dreams. What are you dreaming about these days? Or are you even dreaming at all?

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Anonymous said…
That was me with the shiv.
Anonymous said…
With all the stuff going on in my life these days, my brain has no excess energy for dreams. I feel like I lie down at night (or early morning) and then wake up two seconds later to start all over again.

Man, I am exhausted.
Anonymous said…
Courtney: word.

M Hand: Beatrix. Sorry. This dream didn't involve a gang of squirrels inhabiting an in-utero forest, speaking a variant of English without any vowels (sqrls), and running a sort of pre-partum seminar for fetuses, would it?

Lambchop: Give me that, you little shit!
Anonymous said…
Dude.
I have so many it's ridiculous.

I had some strange ones when we were camping, one in particular involved you an me driving around the country in a golf cart trying to set some odd land speed record.

I wish I was kidding.
Rebecca said…
I had a dream last night that my former office partner, who ended up having to take my longest, most gruelling road trip when I left, had to take a later flight back to Sudbury and ended up not being able to go to a wedding he's supposed to go to in London. I felt guilty enough when he was assigned the trip, and I woke up feeling even worse.

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