I am working in an office in an older building at a federal facility. Several guys also work in offices along the same hallway. I am reviewing a report about groundwater contamination. I am ready to send my comments to the author and mention it to my coworker. He states that he has already sent the response for our office. I say something like “When were you going to tell me?” I am irritated because I feel that I have wasted my time,...

I follow a woman into the front door of my building. I’m concerned because I think she’s barging into my apartment, but then it turns out to be someone else’s apartment. There’s a dinner party going on. My friends and I (some of the people at the Oneironauticum and some other people) sit at the table and start eating the food. There’s fried potatoes and greens. We’re not exactly welcome, since we’re consuming their meal, but then...

On Monday, July 27, Dreamers Polly, Elizabeth, Kat, Emily, Amanda, Coco, and yours truly, Jennifer, gathered at Elizabeth’s beautiful house perched high on a hill with sweeping views of Marin. We spent some time talking about the phases of sleep and the kinds of dreaming that happens in different dream states. People sleep in cycles of approximately 90 minutes (it varies individually), usually five or six cycles a night. The phase of slipping...

For the July Oneironauticum, we’ll be working with Kava kava, a root traditionally used among Pacific Ocean island cultures. Also known as Piper Methysticum (Piper is Latin for “pepper”; methysticum, Greek for “intoxicating”), kava is known as a sleep aid that relaxes the mind without dulling mental clarity. Kava displays both euphoric and narcotic qualities, and is often used to socially cohere groups of...

Big swashbuckling scene, three musketeer looking guys with long hair and mustaches jumping around fighting pirates with swords. The pirates were real bad guys, gristled and dirty with bad teeth, but they were really good with the swords and it looked like maybe they would win. I knew that if they won then everyone else on the ship would be killed. Then my grandmother came out of the cabin and started bustling around and every body sort of...

In my dream, I visited a landscape version of Hollywood that I’ve been building and visiting for the past 4 or 5 months. I much prefer the dreamscape to the real hollywood now. I discovered that certain, if not all, buildings are lego-based, meaning they can be picked up by some god-sized hand and set down and snapped in place in a different part of the city, thus rendering useless the dependence on such structures as bearing-providing...