Mall

July 18, 2008
I dream I work in a fancy mall/office in northern New Jersey where many duplicate pieces of magic apparatus are used for clerical purposes. A ne’er-do-well dressed as a lawyer follows me to my home office through the mall/town, and I can’t shake him. He follows me inside and tries to look at all my papers and sit at my desk. I insist that he show me his lawyer ID, and he reaches into his crotch and pulls out a pair of socks.

June 21, 2008
I dream I am at a shopping mall looking for a birthday present for my mother, and I wander into a performing area with jugglers, stilt walkers, and tumblers. My wife, Gail, is walking around naked in the same area. Two performers choose me and Gail at random and drag us into a hallway. One performer acts menacing. He wants to strap Gail into a prop electric chair and perform a version of Milgram’s obedience experiment. He doesn’t realize that A) I know Gail and B) I know the experiment, so I am cavalier. As profanely as possible I tell him how much I am going to enjoy torturing Gail. After a minute or two of cursing it dawns on me that this situation might be real.

October 4, 1995
I dream I am at a shopping mall and two of my teeth fall out. I hurry to the Strand bookstore in New York, in the back of which there is a dentist. By the time I arrive, several teeth have fallen out in a big clump and the dentist tells me it’ll cost $2,500 to sew them back into my head. There are several gangsters in the office, and instead of the usual anesthesia I drink a glass of clear liquid. The dentist gets me on a table and sticks his finger down my throat while a buxom nurse stands nearby to divert me.