August 25, 2006
I dream I am with my father in some combination of Vegas, Niagara Falls, and a theme park. We go to see the Penn and Teller show in a futuristic auditorium, which suddenly divides itself into 8 or 10 separate areas. A young woman I don’t know who seems to be sweet on me is sitting in front of me and I dribble chewed up peanuts into her hair. My dad would like a soda, but all they have are expensive beverages in souvenir glasses with umbrellas. I commiserate with the girl’s mother and reminisce about the good old days in Vegas when you sat at a dime slot machine and buxom women served free drinks.

June 25, 1998
I dream I am at a casino playing the quarter slots, and whenever I win a few coins, I get sexually aroused. Furthermore, the machine displays pornographic images. On the one hand, I’m a little self-conscious about the people who walk and play nearby, since I don’t know if their machines are similarly equipped. On the other hand, I am enjoying myself too much to stop. I keep feeding in quarters, but I never hit the jackpot.

June 25, 1994
I dream I am in New York to see a Broadway show, but I wind up gambling instead. I go to the last casino on Broadway, which is two blocks from Penn Station near Macy’s. Unfortunately, instead of slot machines they have strange gambling versions of arcade games, such as Pac-Man and Skee-Ball, and I lose ten dollars in quarters. I decide to try a skuzzier casino. On the way there, a suspicious-looking guy starts following me. I see he has a knife. I escape to the “Slots-O-Fun,” a grungy casino about the size of a Pizza Hut.

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