This dream seems to be telling me that, in the end, there is no safe way to enact the retrograde circulation that makes the unconscious conscious: I am trying to escape from a woman who frightens me. The idea is to find my way home, to safety, by a kind of circular movement that runs […]

This dream focuses on the laboratory preparation of a strange “hybrid phenomenon”: I need to pick up an order on a university campus and I’m in a big hurry. I’m looking for short-cuts, trying to use my guile to get the job done quickly. I attempt to convince a cop to let me park my […]

The theme of death, resurrection, and wholeness suggests itself to me in the dream that follows: After teaching my classes at the college, I am on my way home. I’d been told I might experience some delays, but it is smooth sailing as I drive eastward toward the Verrazano Bridge. Then, nearing the bridge, I […]

Scene I A woman says to me very affectionately, “Come lie down with me, sleep with me.” I don’t want to do it, I really don’t. I feel guilty about this. The woman is dying. She is my mother. Scene II I am in my parents’ bedroom and they are sleeping. I am trying to […]

I am enrolled in some kind of academic course, and am reading the instructor’s response to a paper I’ve written. The teacher indicates that my work reaches the quality of “Master Carnobis.” Apparently this means that the caliber of the work far surpasses what is expected for a course at that level. I start rereading […]

just how much of the present text remains driven by the ulterior motives of my own insular ego. Is this multi-layered electronic book not still part of my lifelong effort to call attention to myself by performing impressive feats of creative intellect, even achieving the “impossible” in the endeavor? My dream of January 26, 2010 […]