{"id":24,"date":"2003-11-13T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/13\/the-first-dreams\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T18:33:40","slug":"the-first-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2003\/11\/13\/the-first-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; I recall two dreams I dreamt this week. The first finds me in<br \/>\nthe locker room of a gym. (There are&nbsp;baskets lined up on<br \/>\nshelves&nbsp;like the ones in&nbsp;the locker room outside Autrey<br \/>\nCourt; in no other respect does it resemble any particular locker room<br \/>\nI remember from waking life.) There&#8217;s a red-faced, unkempt, stocky<br \/>\nmiddle aged man in another segment of this large locker room. I<br \/>\ndiscover, perhaps I am informed (although I don&#8217;t remember by who) that<br \/>\nhe has wronged me in some way. I go over and remonstrate with him. He&#8217;s<br \/>\nquite unapologetic and rude. It is decided (I don&#8217;t remember how,<br \/>\nwhether by ourselves or in consultation with anyone else) to settle the<br \/>\nmatter through trial by combat&#8211;a plain locker room fistfight. The<br \/>\nterms are that the loser will be transformed into a dog. We trade blows<br \/>\nand I prevail very quickly and decisively. The lout is stretched out on<br \/>\nthe floor when I exit the locker room. So far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In due course, however, I return&#8230; somewhere. I&#8217;m not sure<br \/>\nif it&#8217;s to the locker room where the fistfight took place but, in any<br \/>\ncase, in the dream it&#8217;s somewhere familiar where I am often. When I get<br \/>\nthere, I find something unusual and unexpected: a black mastiff wearing<br \/>\na rather abject expression. It lunges at me as soon as it catches sight<br \/>\nof me, sinking its fangs into my calf. Someone is at hand to lend<br \/>\nsuccor&#8211;it may be one or more members of my family. With some<br \/>\ndifficulty, our combined efforts release me from the beast&#8217;s jaws. My<br \/>\ntroubles don&#8217;t end there but I remember nothing specific about what<br \/>\nensues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; The second dream is far less distinct&#8211;only snippets by now.<br \/>\nI am at a get-together hosted by Fred, a studious fellow philosophy<br \/>\nmajor whom I saw often in college but seldom crossed word with. Perhaps<br \/>\nhe is being f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I recall two dreams I dreamt this week. The first finds me in the locker room of a gym. (There are&nbsp;baskets lined up on shelves&nbsp;like the ones in&nbsp;the locker room outside Autrey Court; in no other respect does it resemble any particular locker room I remember from waking life.) There&#8217;s a red-faced, unkempt, stocky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}