[UA] Dreams (was Introduction)

[David M Jacobs]

At 07:54 PM 24/02/2003 -0800, jon at joncapps.com wrote:

>Also, I had lots of odd dreams/trips while on heavy pain killers after my
>liver/kidney transplant last summer (third liver transplant).

I almost died of liver failure as a child.  I'm still trying to kill the 
thing <reaches for another beer>.

Ahem... How -- if I'm not intruding -- did you get to be on your fourth 
liver?  Those things regenerate pretty quickly from what I've heard.

>I had one
>in which I entered a comic similar to a previous poster.  Superman was
>going through a dimensional gate, and I entered the comic and followed him
>through.  Think of a long rainbow-ringed tunnel of parachute material.  I
>had to crawl through it, and after about five minutes I got claustrophobic
>and had to crawl backwards to get out.

Every so often, I get drwning dreams, where I'm underwater and sucking 
fluid into my lungs, yet I'm curiously unworried about this.  Then again, I 
also dream of snowdrifts, with Einsturzende Neubauten's "Wuste" playing in 
the background.  I've never had a claustrophobic dream AFAIK, and I only 
had a "no-trousers" dream once when I was 7.

>Another time, I was drifting in and out of sleep while watching Law and
>Order.  They were investigating a murder in a hotel room.  When I was
>asleep, the door to my hospital room's bathroom led to the hotel room in
>the show.

I had a similar dream, only I was watching the "Boring" episode of the 
Young Ones.  When I woke up, I was sure that there was a fairy kingdom 
buried somewhere outside my bedroom window.  I wanted to climb out my 
window and dig it up.  Then I remembered that I lived three floors up...



David M Jacobs
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

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