July 9, 2010
I dream there is a gathering at my very mod home, and a friend of my mother’s who sees herself as a nature lover is playing too aggressively with a pet snake. The snake bites her in the mouth and leaves fangs in her tongue. We beg this woman to go to the emergency room, but she just pulls the fangs out of her tongue and goes on with her day. The snake is left without teeth, and it keeps trying to bite the head off of a chicken. The chicken seems to be enjoying having its head in the snake’s mouth and repeatedly pulling it out.

January 2, 2009
I dream Gail and I are on the bus to go to our old high school. We plan on attending classes even though we both graduated decades ago. When we get off the bus the reality of the situation gets to us and we chicken out. Instead, we take a walk through the neighborhood. We see a circus and go there instead.

March 23, 1994
I dream I am going to sleep at an opulent version of Gail’s house. Before I leave my father insists I bring food, so I pack half a chicken. A few minutes later, my father sneaks more chicken into my bag. I feel encumbered by the chicken, so that night after everyone in Gail’s house has gone to bed, I flush the chicken down the toilet. As I flush, the doorbell rings. There are three guys who want to sell me something. By the time I get back to the bathroom, Gail’s mother has rescued the chicken from the toilet and is planning meals. We have a banal conversation about how much we like chicken.

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