{"id":22102,"date":"2016-07-05T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22102"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:27:11","slug":"in-june-i-dreamt-of-stan-lee-don-draper-frank-sinatra-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/05\/in-june-i-dreamt-of-stan-lee-don-draper-frank-sinatra-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"In June, I dreamt of Stan Lee, Don Draper, Frank Sinatra, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dreams have been diminishing lately&#8212;I&#8217;m still trying to figure out why&#8212;but that&#8217;s not going to stop me from collecting the tweets I&#8217;ve been sharing about them. Whenever I don&#8217;t, I get asked about it, which means some of you care, so &#8230; here you go!<\/p>\n<p>Last month, I dreamt about Stan Lee, Don Draper, Frank Sinatra, Marie Severin, President Obama, and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>June 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I came upon one stuffed animal giving CPR to another, but it didn&#8217;t weird me out &#8212; because CANDY popped out with each compression! <em>Jun 30<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I tried to phone people to let them know my father had died, but because tech never works for me in dreams, no calls got through.  <em>Jun 29<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt I was setting up a new office with Don Draper, who was growing frustrated because I couldn&#8217;t decide where the furniture should go. <em> Jun 29<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IreneVartanoff\">@IreneVartanoff<\/a> and I managed to escape a cult compound, but when we returned and tried to steal back our possessions, were caught.  <em>Jun 28<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I took part in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeVirtuPhila\">@LeVirtuPhila<\/a>&#8216;s La Panarda, and became so stuffed I dozed off, and so slept through the desert courses. Noooooo!  <em>Jun 26<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt Stan Lee visited, and as we headed up to record a video, I thought, wow, he sure can take those stairs quick for a 93-year-old guy!  <em>Jun 25<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt a snake racing away from me transformed into a large alligator and then a HUGE dragon, like something animated by Ray Harryhausen.  <em>Jun 24<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was bitten by a zombie and begging my friends to take me out with a knife to the head before I turned. &#8220;Do it. Do it! DO IT!&#8221; <em> Jun 21<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianKeene\">@BrianKeene<\/a> showed up at a con with a long list of writers he demanded stop writing horror because they weren&#8217;t horrifying enough.  <em>Jun 21<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was on a panel at a con, and at the far end of the table sat &#8212; Frank Sinatra. He was argumentative, contradicting EVERYTHING.  <em>Jun 16<\/em> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt a woman kept wolves as pets. They broke free and tried to kill me. I had to kill one even though it was beautiful. And I was sad. <em> Jun 16<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I visited Marie Severin and discovered she was moving, and dragging a huge cart behind her. And she wouldn&#8217;t let me help her!  <em>Jun 15<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was recognized and asked for an autograph, handed a fountain pen and a newspaper &#8230; and all my signatures blurred into blotches.  <em>Jun 14<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was running through a nursing home looking for my mother, but kept finding people who ALMOST looked like her, confusing me.  <em>Jun 11<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was an <em>SNL<\/em> cast member who&#8217;d grown a huge beard during the break, and was debating whether to keep it for the season premiere.  <em>Jun 11<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I bought the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scalzi\">@scalzi<\/a>, about three elderly African American women who suddenly recall a traumatic otherworldly childhood event. <em> Jun 10<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I somehow shook Mike Huckabee&#8217;s hand, and he refused to let go. I couldn&#8217;t get away and ended up at an anti-Obama rally. Nightmare! <em> Jun 9<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was in a spy thriller, and the MacGuffin that had me chased was the original KFC recipe, which I&#8217;d stolen. I think I got away!  <em>Jun 9<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was in the Oval Office with President Obama discussing comic books, which makes sense &#8212; he IS a fan!  <em>Jun 5<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>I dreamt I was with a group of friends in India, and having so much trouble deciding where to eat I wondered whether we&#8217;d get to eat at ALL.  <em>Jun 5<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u2028I dreamt I was in the world of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>. I soon realized I was Scout, and I was growing weary of long, sermonizing speeches.  <em>Jun 1<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dreams have been diminishing lately&#8212;I&#8217;m still trying to figure out why&#8212;but that&#8217;s not going to stop me from collecting the tweets I&#8217;ve been sharing about them. Whenever I don&#8217;t, I get asked about it, which means some of you care, so &#8230; here you go! Last month, I dreamt about Stan Lee, Don Draper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-22102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22107,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}