December 5, 2008
I dream I am in the car with my mother after a trip to the Vietnamese supermarket. As I ponder whether or not I will be able to make a right before the traffic light changes, I realize that I am looking down at the traffic light from approximately 30 yards up. Impossibly, my car is hovering in the air. I don’t know how it got there, and I don’t know how to operate it in hover mode. Then, in a Sean Connery voice, I say to my mother a line from The Untouchables: “If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!”

November 28, 2008
I dream I am in my large, newly remodeled bathroom contemplating how wonderful it is. Suddenly, my nemesis crawls out from behind a cabinet. He claims to have an official reason for having meetings in my bathroom, but I know he is there to harass me. I chase him, but he has a head start. As soon as I appear to be catching up, I find myself in a grassy field, and huge fences start to appear around the perimeter to restrain me. There is a gate guarded by a goat and a policewoman. In order to be allowed out, I have to promise the policewoman that I will sing a song for my mother at an upcoming holiday.

July 2, 1998
I dream I am in an office space, and I get a call from someone who doesn’t identify himself. He annoys me, but I don’t hang up because he is amusing and I think I must know him from somewhere. We discuss local theater. Then my mother comes in, and I ditch the caller to spend time with her. She pretends her visit is normal, but I realize that she’s visiting from beyond the grave. I tell her how much I appreciate her visit. When I leave, I thank an office worker and ask if she’s dead too, or if she’s simply an extra.

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