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  Motor vehicles seem to have become a constant in my dreams. I say this on the basis of  last night’s dream as well as other recent dreams, too dimly remembered to transcribe. Unusual responsibilities seem to be a motif of tonight’s.<\/P>
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  I’m not sure I even recall the correct sequence of this dream. One possible starting point: I’m in Israel and a youth, who is my friend in the dream, entrusts me with the task of returning a large SUV he’s borrowed or rented. I believe there’s some purpose to the use of this vehicle that I’m sympathetic to, but I’ve forgotten what it is. Entering this vehicle is like immersing myself in a different kind of space, a feeling I could perhaps compare to being alone in a dark, well-made chapel.  The interior is very dark, with only the small bright light from the dashboard interrupting the darkness. Curiously, there is no perceptible outside; the windows seem opaque, yet I have no trouble navigating. <\/P>
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  At another point, before or after the SUV sojourn, I’m in something like an apartment building, except there’s no obvious separation between one apartment and the next; they’re all continuous. Danny, the bibulous, feckless superintendent of the building I live in in waking life, lives there. In the dream, he’s crippled and new flaws have joined his half-closed eye and the purple marks on his face. Frustratingly, that is all I remember about my visit to this building, yet I’m certain that seeing Danny wasn’t my purpose in going there. <\/P>
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  Finally, in the last dream sequence, Hugh, my boss in waking life, is asking me to choose unknown candidates for an unknown post. I go along with this for some time. I remember going to a separate room and removing my Egyptian-patterned rings for some purpose involved in appearing to discharge this obligation. However, I finally admit to Hugh that I don’t know the people he’s trying to choose among and can’t make an informed decision. He takes this in stride and hands me their dossiers. Reading them, I realize that what is being selected is a new police chief. This is a curious contrast to another recent dream, almost completely unremembered, in which Hugh is cast as a drug dealer and I am also working for him. In that dream, this job apparently gets me in the line of fire: Grim is a rival drug dealer. He shows up at Hugh’s headquarters in a trenchcoat and the ridiculous cowboy getup he wears in waking life and casts a rose with a prominent thorn at me.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Motor vehicles seem to have become a constant in my dreams. I say this on the basis of  last night’s dream as well as other recent dreams, too dimly remembered to transcribe. Unusual responsibilities seem to be a motif of tonight’s.   I’m not sure I even recall the correct sequence of this dream. One […]<\/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-32","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\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}