One-sentence dream synopses

(My family will tell you that these are the most concise renderings of any dreams I have ever shared, ever, and you should be grateful the telling isn’t taking half an hour each over dinner. I read something in Carolyn Parkhurst’s Dogs of Babel that inspired the construction.)

I experienced clairvoyancy and escaped the Klansmen. I was lost in a blue, foreign airport. I was lost in a night-time shopping mall. I was lost in my friend’s giant estate house. I crawled up a tiny staircase and through a tiny door into a regular-sized room. I was wandering a department store with my father at Christmas. I impressed my ex-boyfriend with my intelligence or foresight. I could grow people in a filing cabinet. I was on the run but the bad guys shot me. Aliens or terrorists bombed my town. Giant ants walked on two legs in my backyard. My house caught fire and I saved the stereo. My best friend sat on a horse and looked down at me. I forgot the baby. A skunk clawed and clawed me. I took photos with a tiny Polaroid camera. I breastfed the baby. The South bombed New York. My Decemberists album came to life.

July 6, 2008 | Filed Under neuroses

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9 Responses to “One-sentence dream synopses”

Matt on July 6th, 2008 9:34 pm

I hope to God that Alicia reads this and says “Wow, that sounds like fun!”
Daily Breather on July 6th, 2008 9:58 pm

I was going to totally anaylze your entire life from your dreams…But then you said you grow people in a filing cabinet. That’s no dream. Weird.
Chair on July 7th, 2008 3:40 pm

I love the growing people in a filing cabinet part.
LiteralDan on July 8th, 2008 9:07 am

I could never get a dream description down that brief or focused. Maybe I should start writing them out so I can edit them down before boring my wife with my meandering recollections.

She might urge me to skip the second step altogether, but too bad for her— she’s the one who decided to marry me.
christinaheather'smaybesooni'lljustbechristina? on July 9th, 2008 12:08 pm

yes that is very brief. so brief that i felt like i was talking to myself. that sounds like a lot of fun, except for, well, obviously the non-fun sounding parts. i was always chased by robbers with black masks around their eyes in circles around my house. and sometimes they had tiny purple cars they could jump into and chase me with. maybe this is why i have an unexplainable fear of being chased? but i have nothing to explain my fear of whales.
christinaheather'smaybesooni'lljustbechristina? on July 9th, 2008 12:08 pm

oh, and in your outfits of the day you look like a paper doll with right leg bent and foot in second position ballerina style
Ada on July 11th, 2008 11:07 pm

“I impressed my ex-boyfriend with my intelligence or foresight”

- either one, doesn’t matter.
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