{"id":63,"date":"2006-07-24T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2006\/07\/24\/a-midsummer-nights-dream\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:48:12","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2006\/07\/24\/a-midsummer-nights-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"a midsummer night&#8217;s dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a67'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">&nbsp; My first memories of tonight&#8217;s dreams are very indistinct&#8211;something about a man who cheats on his wife using hi-tech. <br \/>\n&nbsp; Then I&#8217;m kissing &#8230; someone who sporadically reads this<br \/>\ndreamlog. She grows and shrinks before my eyes, rather like Dr. Hank<br \/>\nPym, although not by as many orders of magnitude.<br \/>\n&nbsp; Then I&#8217;m running through a public place that is crowded (but<br \/>\nobviously not enough to preclude running). At one point, I realize my<br \/>\ncourse will bring me within strinking distance of a tall, thin, dark<br \/>\nman. On a perverse impulse, without slowing at all, I reach out and<br \/>\nstrike his jaw. Before I go too far, I look back and see him standing<br \/>\nstill, nursing his jaw. I feel guilty and go over to him to apologise<br \/>\nand ask if I can do anything for him to make it up to him. He assures<br \/>\nme he is okay, flashing a smile that shows his teeth intact. But he<br \/>\nwants to take me up on my offer to do something for him: he asks me to<br \/>\naccompany him to Oslo immediately. I object that it would be<br \/>\ninconsiderate to leave without giving my parents any notice but he<br \/>\ninsists it will be okay. I feel somewhat put upon but agree to go<br \/>\nalong. Somehow we board a flight&#8211;I don&#8217;t recall any trip to the<br \/>\nairport. En route, my companion&#8217;s manner becomes unpleasant. He leaves<br \/>\nit unclear whether we are actually heading to Oslo or to Praga. After a<br \/>\nsurprisingly short flight, we land at an unidentified destination. We<br \/>\nsit down at a small shop\/caf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My first memories of tonight&#8217;s dreams are very indistinct&#8211;something about a man who cheats on his wife using hi-tech. &nbsp; Then I&#8217;m kissing &#8230; someone who sporadically reads this dreamlog. She grows and shrinks before my eyes, rather like Dr. Hank Pym, although not by as many orders of magnitude. &nbsp; Then I&#8217;m running [&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-63","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\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}