We ate veggie corn dogs the night before and it made us both have restless sleep. In the early morning hours I woke up four times from dreams, all of them troubled but none of them as upsetting as they probably should have been...
1. Nuke. Something had happened to seattle the day before but nobody seemed to know what yet. So i went back in time 24 hours and flew high above the city, and I could see that someone had launched an ICBM at it, but not from another country, from somewhere within the US. I took off my jacket, which was itself a nuclear interceptor anti-missile missile, and I fired it off at the incoming nuke. I had only one chance to get this right, to detonate my nuke in order to stop the other one coming down from orbit, but I missed and the missile warhead flew past me, like 100 feet away and down into Puget Sound. But it didn't explode... I realized that it was going to do something else, it wasn't a nuke but something weirder and time-delayed and now I had to go find out what it was now. I couldn't give up yet...
2. Werewolf. I was a werewolf in an abandoned house and the moon seemed brighter and hotter than the sun. It hurt to see it or feel it, and I started changing but I was pushed out of my body like a spirit when it happened. I stood there like a ghost, seeing everything in third-person-- unsual for me-- but I couldn't really look directly at my changed body. I could only hear what it was doing out of my sight and see the wreckage it was leaving behind.
3. Sofaboat. Me and my sisters had been sailing in the Atlantic on a fishing boat with an old grizzly cap'n but a storm tore the boat apart and we were all floating adrift on a single sofa trying to stay optimistic and alive. The cap'n thought he knew which way land was. We were somewhere between England and the Azores, but we all started kicking and paddling to make some headway even though the storm was still all around us.
4. Single. I was dining at a Japanese restaurant on their patio and a couple was at the next table trying to make the waitress understand something, something about the girl's hair, and I was able to speak some japanese so I helped translate. Then they asked me if I had a girlfriend-- why was I dining alone?-- and I realized that I couldn't really remember having had a girlfriend in a very long time, perhaps years. There was a girl I'd been seeing recently, nothing seriou, but somehow I hadn't talked to her in a few weeks. Why hadn't it occurred to me to ask her if she wanted to come to this dinner with me? I didn't know. I was surprised at how much time had gone by that I was single; it sort of depressed me. I was poking at the bento box items-- there was something about them but I don't remember what now. Then the owner lady asked if I wanted dessert and said I should go into the kitchen and pick something out. When I went in there it was more like a bathroom counter for a woman-- combs and hair clips and a jar of some strange style of japanese tampons. I was confused at this point so I walked in their zen garden and then I eventually remembered that I was not single after all: I had a wife and we had a new baby and I was supposed to be sending out birth announcements! But I wasn't sure if I should tell any of my exes or not... not that I knew where any of them were or how to get in touch with them if I wanted to, or whether they even wanted to hear from me...