(went to sleep listening to Brian Eno’s Discreet Music) Pools of olive oil in my hands from giving someone (a large man) a massage, balancing on balls of my feet around edges of loft bed. Phone rings, so many rings that I can answer after wiping off my hands. It’s my chiropractor calling to straighten out some technicality re. my address in his files. He explained that he had to write that I’ll be at my temporary address for 10...

Mostly awareness of a landscape, a desert scape. I’m lying in a very arid environment curled around a giant fig. I stay that way for a long time. Later in the night, I was in a hypnagogic state. I became lucid and could see a swirl, an imagery noise space, with heads (only the head) emerging, coming in to focus. They were people I knew, talking to me, but saying mostly really mundane things, like my grandmother who reminded me that I needed to...

I remembered two dreams. 1. I was in the nature nature/desert with my mom and maybe somebody else. We are spending a few days. It is like a retreat. I am in the middle of nature, very dry and I observe the native plants (rosemary or thyme). Suddenly it is time to go to dinner. I go to my room to get changed for dinner. I enter my room, which is like a dorm that five or six people also share with me. Once inside my room, I go to my closet. Two...

I had several dreams throughout the course of the night, two of which were longer, more narrative dreams. The first took place mostly at night, in dodgy parts of town, a general air of seediness around the whole scene. In dingy, worn apartments, women were kept as sex slaves, maybe foreign women who’d been tricked there though that part wasn’t clear. My position seemed unclear, though I think I had recently arrived as one of the women...

Initially, it took me a while to fall asleep. The 5-HTP excited my system; I felt my heartbeat elevated and my mind was racing. Eventually, I began to drift off. Then I felt a pull, almost like when a car engine catches, a downward motion into the sleep state. As I felt that pull and moved into sleep, I saw a bright green flash. In the dream I then had, I was in the loft, lying in the bed in which I was actually laying, dreaming myself in my...

My girlfriend was helping me settle into her mermaid home. Beautifully vivid colors for all of this, sun-filtering through the kelp from above, and our home made of kelp woven airtight about air bubbles, creating rooms that ranged in size and dryness. She did a morning ritual that involved swimming in fast arcs in tight spirals around the kelp, and that woke up all the fish that weren’t nocturnal. She was teaching me which fish were OK to...