Tour of the Dreamlands

I used some of my Christmas money to do something I can't normally justify--buy a brand-new copy of a book--and came back from StL with a copy of Gaiman's Endless Nights. Despite my best efforts to delay pleasure, I ended up consuming it before I had to go back to work last week. In fact, I made myself late to work reading it.

Reflecting on the spheres of the Endless, I find that I spend the most time in Dream's realm. That's never more true than over the holidays, where everything has a strangely trance-like quality. My routine is shot to hell and hypersocialisation in familiar but unaccustomed environments alternates with long periods of pleasant lethargy. Even a week away and I view my city with new eyes. The effect carries over for days until the daily grind wears it away bit by bit.

So how about a stupid new meme to keep us amused at work? I'm thinking of a variation of Exquisite Corpse where we use snatches of dreams. Given the nature of the medium, I don't think we even need to see the last sentence from the previous contributor, since continuity is really not an issue and the narration is always first-person (floating in and out of omniscience). Just start off with "Then..." and we'll piece it all together later. (Oh, and I encourage anonymous posting so that the bits are as uninhibitedly Freudian as possible.)

( My contribution behind a cut so as not to influence anyone. )