Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Lucid Dream

Had a stand out lucid dream last night.

I woke up about 2am and was awake for about an hour or so then I fell asleep again.

There was some lead-up to the lucid aspect. The lucid aspect started as I was standing outside of a building with a friend I have not had contact with for about ten years. We each entered separate doors to the building.

On entering I found myself in a tight, steep staircase. I noticed that the walls were old and yellowed and pitted. At that point I realized that I was dreaming. When I came to the top of the stairwell I entered a very close room whose walls were all covered with the sorts of doors that are on very old refrigerators, that have the thick metal latches on the side. The room had an air of being very old and somewhat dilapidated though I distinctly felt that I was not afriad and, somewhat strangely, had the distinct feeling that 'there was no one else around'.

I spent some time looking around the room. In one corner there was a box or bucket filled with tiny book. I didn't (or couldn't) read any of them, but felt like my purpose there was to get as many of those books as I could. I stuffed a few handfuls of the tiny books into my pockets.

I wandered around a bit more, and came to one more room that was filled with scale models of various things.  I was able to pick up one of them, something like a tank, and look at it very closely. There was a light in the room and I had to turn the model in order to see it clearly. The level of clarity and detail on the model was unusually high for a dream. I then walked into a hallway at which point everything turned black and I had a sensation of weightlessness which lasted for a few seconds at which I woke up in my bed.

Friday, October 16, 2020

Kind review of 'Gallaher Calls'

This kind tweet review of my story 'Gallaher Calls' by @robop_style:

"Two siblings pursue Totality through art; they have no contact with the world outside their mansion aside from the disgusting lawyer Gallaher. Evenson rewrites Edwin Mullhouse in a fever dream brought on by reading too much Straub. Excellent"

'Gallaher Calls' is included in Dim Shores Presents #1