Ricochet Dreams
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Apr 2, 2011 at 4:35am
I mean that title literally. I can't be the only one who falls asleep and has complicated dreams involving Hezbollah, Putin, the seating chart for a NATO roundtable and someone who at first I thought was my mother, telling me I needed to be more careful to remember where I leave my keys, but who turned out to be Diane Ellis?
I mean, we all have dreams like that, don't we?
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Jul '10
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Umm.... Yeah.... Sure....
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Jimmy, according to your profile, you have imaginary bull sessions with Nicolae Ceausescu, Anwar Sadat, Menachen Begin and Idi Amin, all of whom you affectionately refer to as "The Village People"'--and you're intimating that you don't know what I'm talking about?
Jun '10
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Your dreams of Putin and seating charts for NATO are very quaint, Claire. I personally have God visit me regularly to get my advise. I tell him what to do and in a few days come here to Ricochet to discuss the results. Now that the cat's out of the bag, ya'all know who to blame. Just kidding, of course. But seriously...you ever dream you are running naked down the street waving at all your best friends, shouting Eureka? Never have I.
Jul '10
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Actually, the other night I dreamt of a rainbow. I followed the rainbow to the end of the horizon, keeping My eye on the glow from the pot of gold at the end.
It turned out to be Lileks in a yellow spandex tank top.
Dec '10
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"Lileks in a yellow spandex tank top"....there's a visual for you.
Claire,
It's often said different foods affect your sleeping habits. Please take my advise and lay off the Tostitos and Twinkes before you go to bed!
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Johannes Allert: "Lileks in a yellow spandex tank top"....there's a visual for you.
Claire,
It's often said different foods affect your sleeping habits. Please take my advise and lay off the Tostitos and Twinkes before you go to bed! · Apr 2 at 5:03am
Tostitos--not sure whether they're for sale in Istanbul, maybe at a store like Carrefour. Doritos--yes! Twinkies--not only have I never seen them, but oddly enough, not long ago, a puzzled Turkish friend asked me about them. He had seen a reference to them in the movies or maybe on the Internet. "What's a Tavinkie?" He asked. It took a few rounds of clarification before I understood just what he was getting at.
Now where do you start answering that question? I mean, "It's a kind of cake" just doesn't really explain all you need to know, does it?
Aug '10
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I'm surprised at the ridicule people are laying on you, Claire. It's unworthy of this august publication. Many people are incapable of abstract thought, and aren't creative; perhaps they don't dream at all.
Our consciousness is capable of soaring at high altitude if we choose to use it that way. There are risks, sure, as described by the Greeks in the tale of Icarus. But if we remain earthbound, we miss out and may never discover the point and purpose of our existence.
I have the kinds of dreams you do, Claire. Salvador Dali (who created the image you show above) has been a favorite of mine since childhood. Picasso's Guernica (created when the Nazis aided Franco and destroyed that town) is an image equally applicable to our day.
May '10
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Andrea Ryan made me fill out credit applications before boarding a flight once. I was like, "come on, you know me, I'm gonna miss my flight" and she was all "sorry, no exceptions."
A total waste of a dream. She didn't even get out from behind the desk.
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You're sweet, River. Honestly, I thought they were laughing with me, not at me.
But if they were laughing at me, I will have them arrested, tried and sent to a re-educaton camp. Was anyone laughing at me? Confession now. I will not be mocked! You'd better not have been laughing at me, everyone. There are no Tavinkies in a re-education camp, you know.
May '10
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I have dreams like that, too. Very intense ones that leave me exhausted when I wake up. Sometimes I look around and have to reorient myself with where I am and what day it is. And then I get bummed that all those wonderful people I just met and interacted with don't actually exist.
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The weirdness of dreaming really is something we tend just to brush over. It's just profoundly mysterious--for some part of the day, we live in a different reality that almost always seems as convincing as the non-dreaming reality, and as logical, too. If only you could get somewhere with that observation (beyond radical skepticism).
May '10
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Kennedy Smith: Andrea Ryan made me fill out credit applications before boarding a flight once. I was like, "come on, you know me, I'm gonna miss my flight" and she was all "sorry, no exceptions."
A total waste of a dream. She didn't even get out from behind the desk. · Apr 2 at 6:10am
I remember you telling that in Ursula's post about dreams. But, I insist I would have let you pass. What's a government job for if you can't exercise a little corrupt nepotism?
I had a dream once that Peter Robinson picked me up at the airport. For some reason, I had my big fluff ball dog with me (before the damn groomer shaved him into a hideous rat). The rest just got more bizarre and I woke up completely weirded out. But, I have to say, Peter was a complete gentleman standing in the bathroom holding my dog for me while I cleaned up dog vomit. I was so embarrassed.
Sep '10
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I go in and out of periods of having intense, body-remembering dreams, most of which occur if I wake up and then go back to sleep for a bit. They tend to proceed more along the lines of M.C. Escher than Dali but nonetheless leave sensations that are very real though strange. (I find myself saying to my dreaming self, no, this isn't a dream, when it is!) One such dream did involve Richochet. It was back when Claire was in the States and was planning on meeting up with folks for drinks in California. In my dream, I'm trying to get into Fisherman's Wharf, seeing Claire and Peter and Rob and numerous others laughing at a big table, but sea gulls keep taking my ticket ... unlike the scene, the interpretation is obvious and very mundane.
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Your subconscious thinks of me as bossy. Great.
I have very vivid dreams too. The night before last I dreamed that a friend was here to visit me, and she had a "package" delivered in the middle of the day which turned out to be a bag the size of a golf ball full of cocaine. I was horrified and frightened that this would attract some unpleasant house guests, and I hid the package. Shortly thereafter, 6 or 7 heavily armed narcoterrorists arrived at my door demanding the package. The rest of my dream I spent trying to figure out a way to negotiate a scenario in which the narcos got the package and my family and friend kept our lives. I woke up when I deemed that was not possible.
I assume I had that dream after several weeks of reading Roque Nuevo's "dispatches from the drug war."
May '10
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Or maybe caring and maternal? :-)
May '10
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Andrea Ryan
I had a dream once that Peter Robinson picked me up at the airport. For some reason, I had my big fluff ball dog with me (before the damn groomer shaved him into a hideous rat). The rest just got more bizarre and I woke up completely weirded out. But, I have to say, Peter was a complete gentleman standing in the bathroom holding my dog for me while I cleaned up dog vomit. I was so embarrassed.
I had the same dream, only Sajak was there and asked me to wait on cleaning the vomit while he looked for his missing vowels.
My dreams are epic adventures that stretch forever. No Ricochet involvement so far. But I did once have a dream in which my schoolmates were forced to play dodgeball in a concentration camp and I led a daring escape in a bus. In hindsight, it was clearly a political metaphor.
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What are you saying about my mother, Diane?
Anyway, truth is, everyone, if it weren't for Diane, this place would be a mess. She's not bossy at all, but she's more organized than the rest of Ricochet put together. Which is, actually, kind of like my mother. But in a good way.
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I had a dream once about recording the legal podcast and not being able to get anything more than one word answers out of Richard Epstein... so the frontiers of imagination truly are endless.
Edited on Apr 2, 2011 at 9:33amJun '10
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I'm of the school that thinks dreams are random thoughts, as in meaningless random thoughts.
Mar '11
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I'm an insomniac law student with less than two weeks until finals, so on the rare occasions that I DO sleep you can imagine how restful my dreams are. My recent dreams have been:
- I show up to a final wearing a my best suit and tie... everyone else is naked... and speaking Klingon.
- I've finished law school and the character and fitness board are mad at me because of my overdue library books and I have to attend a hearing. The panel is Qaddafi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Bashar al-Assad and they are not happy with my reading Ricochet and Instapundit. James Lileks, despite being completely unqualified, is my advocate. He keeps throwing copies of Encounter Books broadsides at them.
I may need to start drinking before bed....