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More Tweet Dreams

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  dreams    Posted date:  January 12, 2010  |  No comment


Based on what I’ve seen from my other online friends, I seem to dream more than the usual amount. I sometimes tweet about two, three, even four dreams a day over on Twitter.

I shared my Twitter dreams from October through December with you last week, and you can find my March through September tweet dreams, back to the beginning of my account, below.

Why am I collecting these all here today? Blame Patrick Nielsen Hayden. It’s all his fault. And if you don’t know what that means, you’ll just have to wait for my next LJ entry to find out!

September 2009

dreamt I was held hostage by Amy Poehler from Baby Mama and Woody Harrelson from Natural Born Killers. I escaped, but I can’t remember how. 7:58 AM Sep 28th, 2009

dreamt I was on a train with Paul Di Filippo, and when we looked out the window, instead of stars, the sky was filled with cherry tomatoes. 7:24 AM Sep 26th, 2009 from web

dreamt I played both tour guide and bodyguard to Vladimir Putin as we wandered a dealers room. He seemed particularly interested in artwork. 7:53 AM Sep 25th, 2009 from web

dreamt I stepped aboard a docked Lindblad cruise ship to ask someone a question only for it to take off with no announcement and me on it. 6:42 AM Sep 19th, 2009 from web

dreamt that Stan Lee and Marie Severin dropped by for a visit and ended up spending the night. Don’t worry–the guest room had double beds. 6:33 AM Sep 19th, 2009 from web

dreamt I woke in the Sovereign Media storeroom among mags which don’t really exist, including ones devoted to Doc Savage and Marvel Comics. 8:51 AM Sep 17th, 2009 from web

dreamt I was planning an exotic vacation with Chuck’s sister and jerk brother-in-law. I couldn’t have been planning it with Chuck and Sarah? 7:57 AM Sep 13th, 2009

dreamt I was on a lively creative writing panel with Nancy Kress during which I tweeted John Kessel about meeting for the pre-Hugos party. 7:07 AM Sep 12th, 2009

dreamt I saw Jack Williamson alive and walking into my local supermarket, but it didn’t seem odd at all so we didn’t bother to speak. 7:26 AM Sep 9th, 2009

dreamt I was at DC while a LeRoy Neiman portrait of Jim Steranko was unveiled. The weird thing? Paul Levitz was dressed like Green Lantern. 8:34 AM Sep 5th, 2009

dreamt it was Irene’s and my 33rd wedding anniversary. Hey! Hold it right there. I _didn’t_ dream it! It _is_ our 33rd wedding anniversary! 8:12 AM Sep 4th, 2009

dreamt I was 98 years old, and my doctor wanted to prescribe me antidepressants. “Doc,” I said. “I’m not depressed — I’m 98 years old!” 8:01 AM Sep 4th, 2009

August 2009

dreamt I was prepping my Jeep to enter in a road race held at Readercon. Arthur C. Clarke was there, though Paul Di Filippo called him Sam. 7:25 AM Aug 31st, 2009

dreamt I was chosen as a contestant on Survivor, but it turned out to be Survivor: The Office, and all I had to do was file and make copies. 9:04 AM Aug 29th, 2009

dreamt I attended a wake for an unidentified comics pro and bumped into Bob Dylan, who surprised me by knowing lots of detailed comics info. 8:02 AM Aug 25th, 2009

dreamt I’d bought a ’50s convertible and was happily driving until it started to rain, and I realized I’d never checked if the roof worked. 8:06 AM Aug 19th, 2009

dreamt I visited Harlan Ellison with Andy Duncan, bringing boxes of donuts. When Harlan didn’t like them, we said it was Brett Cox’s idea. 8:14 AM Aug 18th, 2009

dreamt I was walking the halls of DC Comics with Paul Kupperberg chatting about writing for House of Mystery again after three decades. 8:43 AM Aug 17th, 2009

dreamt I had moved back to NY and rented an apartment on the Upper West Side. As I walked north, the streets were as crowded as Comic-Con. 8:38 AM Aug 16th, 2009

dreamt I was in China and heard the Dalai Lama had died. I tried to light incense in his memory, but kept lighting my hair on fire instead. 8:28 AM Aug 16th, 2009

dreamt I was in a Mexican standoff with Chris Elliott and John Goodman, all of us armed with shotguns. (Is there a more PC word for that?) 8:23 AM Aug 16th, 2009

dreamt I was at a business meeting with Ari Gold at which he punched one of his underlings for pretending to cry instead of actually crying. 8:03 AM Aug 15th, 2009

dreamt I was with Neil Gaiman as he dressed for his wedding, while I helped clean his house for a party to be held there after the ceremony. 8:00 AM Aug 15th, 2009

dreamt I spent several days in jail, and while there, was visited by Cory Doctorow, who brought me a steampunk watch that spat electricity. 7:50 AM Aug 15th, 2009

dreamt I walked down Avenue P near Ocean Parkway with my dead grandmother, which I forgot until I found a scrawled middle-of-the-night note. 7:32 AM Aug 1st, 2009

dreamt I bought a ferret, which even in the dream I recognized was a terrible idea. All it did was spit chunks of granola at me and hiss. 6:46 AM Aug 1st, 2009

July 2009

dreamt I was at San Diego Comic-Con, and when I woke up … I was. Wow! Now only if this would occur with more personally rewarding dreams. 10:21 AM Jul 23rd, 2009

dreamt of Tony Isabella, an old friend not seen in years, without whom I’d never have gotten my job at Marvel:http://tinyurl.com/nu79c8 7:49 AM Jul 18th, 2009

was visited by Pat Cadigan in a dream. Perhaps the fact that she’s in Laramie instead of London let her sneak in?http://tinyurl.com/knt2dz 7:58 AM Jul 17th, 2009

dreamt I overheard Sovereign’s Carl Gnam arguing with Gahan Wilson over a column, which was odd, since Warren Lapine own Realms these days. 7:09 AM Jul 16th, 2009

dreamt I watched a documentary on Harlan. Not the real one, but one in which he had a son, shown growing older year by year in a montage. 6:37 AM Jul 14th, 2009

dreamt I was hanging out with Ed McMahon. When he got up to sing, I told him his singing brought tears to my eyes … and not in a good way. 6:10 AM Jul 2nd, 2009

dreamt I visited Dad at McGraw Hill like I used to, not at that boxy building on Sixth Avenue, but at the art deco beauty on 42nd Street. 5:48 AM Jul 1st, 2009

June 2009

dreamt I saw Will Eisner, and instead of shocked to see him alive, I was disappointed I had none of my Spirit books with me for him to sign. 8:01 AM Jun 30th, 2009

dreamt I was rescuing a hostage in the world of Life on Mars, teamed with Michael Imperioli. And my POV character? Why, I was Gretchen Mol! 6:59 AM Jun 29th, 2009

dreamt I was eating in a theme restaurant at which all the waiters were SNL cast members, and Clint Eastwood was eating at the next table. 7:34 AM Jun 28th, 2009

dreamt that my iPhone turned into an onion, and yet I still tried to make calls on it, peeling back layer after layer in search of a keypad. 7:16 AM Jun 22nd, 2009

dreamt I was in Australia and got the idea one early, misty morning to _walk_ directly to New Zealand to spend the afternoon. And I did it! 6:10 AM Jun 21st, 2009

dreamt I got to hang out privately with Harry Belafonte. He tried reading a story of mine, but stopped when he got to the dead zombie baby. 6:27 AM Jun 20th, 2009

dreamt I was singing Radames in Aida, and doing fine until I realized I was singing Radames in Aida. Once that happened, I forgot the words. 7:08 AM Jun 19th, 2009

dreamt I was a member of the SWAT team on the series Flashpoint, and Hugh Dillon’s kid was taken hostage on a college campus. We saved him. 6:40 AM Jun 18th, 2009

dreamt I came upon two beavers who seemed roadkill but were actually zombies. Hey, what kind of dreams do you expect? I’m at the Stokers! 10:50 AM Jun 12th, 2009

dreamt I bumped into Peter & Kathleen David in front of the Brooklyn Museum. Oddly, I was scuba diving in a dream-only fountain at the time. 8:24 AM Jun 7th, 2009

dreamt about Irene this morning, which wasn’t unusual, but I’m still not sure why they were _these_ dreams:http://tinyurl.com/qdvfkj 7:20 AM Jun 5th, 2009

dreamt I bumped into Neal Adams in an urban park, and as basketball players moved around us, we sat and discussed the old days of ACBA. 8:31 AM Jun 4th, 2009

dreamt I returned home to find that Irene had gotten a crewcut, which looked good with the many tattoos she was also sporting in the dream. 8:33 AM Jun 3rd, 2009

dreamt I was moving into a NY apartment, all the while thinking, “Why am I here? I don’t want to be here. What’s happening to my plants?” 7:32 AM Jun 1st, 2009

May 2009

dreamt I was Rescue Me’s Tommy Gavin, telling some guy who was dating my wife that he’d better treat her right. It wasn’t pretty. 7:17 AM May 31st, 2009

dreamt I bumped into Bill Shunn and showed him my iPhone apps, which were all pet-related (so not me), but they were boring, so I stopped. 7:40 AM May 30th, 2009

dreamt I was writing a story about a lizard writing a novel, but my university professors insisted it be metaphorical rather than literal. 7:55 AM May 28th, 2009

dreamt I wandered Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway and Avenue P, which I haven’t seen in decades, complaining about architectural changes. But why? 8:38 AM May 21st, 2009

was visited by Harlan Ellison in every one of my dreams last night, proof I spent too much time yesterday watching Dreams With Sharp Teerh. 7:51 AM May 9th, 2009

April 2009

also dreamt that I said I’d decide what my characters’ favorite TV shows were–and then use none of that information in the story itself. 7:28 AM Apr 23rd, 2009

showed Ellen Datlow and Greer Gilman in dream how I learned who my characters were by going shopping and figuring out what they would buy. 7:24 AM Apr 23rd, 2009

dreamt that as my father and I packed for our flight home from Japan (a place we’d never visited in life), we paused to eat strawberries. 7:37 AM Apr 22nd, 2009

dreamt that my son (now 23) and I rode a train, only he was a baby. As he fell asleep on my chest, I fell asleep as well. People cooed. 7:05 AM Apr 20th, 2009

dreamt that I was stretched out on a kingsized bed in a convention hotel room laying waste to a rack of ribs with Mark Evanier and Len Wein. 7:34 AM Apr 14th, 2009

dreamt I wandered a con hotel restaurant. Ate with Gardner Dozois, John Kessel and Carol Pinchefsky, not a trio I ever dined with awake. 8:40 AM Apr 12th, 2009

dreamt that I shared a cubicle with SCI FI employees Randy Giudice and Shara Zoll, and I was about to head out to pick up Chinese. 6:54 AM Apr 4th, 2009

dreamt I worked at Patty Hewes’ law firm, which if you watch Damages you know is not good. Was dressed like her in drag for a TV appearance. 8:22 AM Apr 3rd, 2009

was not visited by Tom Disch in dream. My only dream with a SF hook had me hanging at the apartment of former fanzine publisher Roger Ebert. 8:08 AM Apr 3rd, 2009

March 2009

dreamt I was buying a chili dog from a street vendor. Looked over to see Obama doing the same. Tried to speak to him but became incoherent. 7:25 AM Mar 31st, 2009

dreamt this morning I shot a deer, had no idea what to do with it, and went looking for neighbors in smoky restaurants for dressing advice. 8:43 AM Mar 30th, 2009

dreamt Dad was alive. No surprise at seeing him, no memory he’d just died in January. We were waking to catch a plane home from China. Nice. 7:48 AM Mar 26th, 2009

dreamt that while Jackie O was sunning herself in my front yard, someone tried to kill her with a box of exploding galleys. But I saved her. 7:35 AM Mar 21st, 2009

dreamt the first sentence of the next scene of the short story I’ve been yammering about over the past week or so. Thank you, subconscious! 8:29 AM Mar 15th, 2009

dreamt I saw Cory Doctorow, who wore a hat made of a giant yellow rubber duckie. Frustrated because I couldn’t get my iPhone camera to work! 7:05 AM Mar 14th, 2009





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