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Category Archives: Dreams

The Light Knife

My sleeping habits have been all but regular lately. I woke in the wee hours of the morning to the blaring of a hungry cat, stumbled downstairs and spooned some mash into his bowl. Crawling back into bed, I couldn’t return to sleep right away; through the fuzzy lens of my near-sightedness, I noticed a strange shape of light on my ceiling. The light from the street lamps, or possibly the moon, streamed in between my blinds in such a way as to project a kitchen-knife above my head. When I finally did get back to the business of sleeping, the knife of light managed to work its way into my subconscious.

So, karenology’s got more issues than Time magazine

(Can you tell I have been wanting to use that line forever? I didn’t call my blog “bad metaphor” for nothin’.) Had a dream that I was at a fancy-ish dinner party last night. A bunch of hot shot professors in tweedy leather-patches-at the elbows jackets, dress suits and scowls on their faces. The first [...]

Bear Park

I dreamt last night that I was on a bus. I believe the Bus Driving Ogre, as we call her, was driving (she is a real person, named as such because of her typically surly demeanor and lack of hesitation to leave people behind, or plow through slower pedestrians). We passed through an open gate [...]

The Escaping Professor, The Pothounds

When I’m as busy as I have been, my bedtime gets pushed later and later, and conversely, the little sleep that I do get is usually fitful and unfulfilling. You’d think I’d conk out as soon as I hit the pillow, but no, gotta toss and turn and bump into both the boy and the [...]