Monthly Archives: August 1999
Restless Brain Syndrome
Have you ever had a lucid dream? It’s when you dream and you know you’re dreaming. Sometimes you’re trapped in the dream and you think you’re awake. Other times you can control the dream and do whatever you want. I used to have a lot of those dreams. I used to have what I once [...]
Sony Music
I was in Sony Music in my sleep last night. I’ve never been to Sony Music before. But I finally got to go there, and it was huge. We needed a security card for every single door we went through. They didn’t have any elevators, but they had escalators for all the floors. The escalators [...]
Nightmares
As a teenager, a friend of mine – let’s call her Amanda Amaretto – had repetitive nightmares of running from an unseen assailant. Always she would be just a few steps ahead of him, and as she ran she dreamed that he was stabbing her in the back. She would wake with a violent pain [...]
Insomnia
I’m lying on the sofa. The sofa smells like a bad dog. It’s 6.30 am in the morning. There’s a reason for this madness. I couldn’t sleep. Around six I gave up trying and thought I might as well get up, since if I went to sleep now I wouldn’t get to sleep tonight, or [...]
The best years of my life
Birch Switch Secondary Comprehensive*. I hate this school. I was here for seven long years, from the age of eleven to the age of eighteen. In 1987, the year that I arrived, the former headmaster, a gentle, liberal-minded fellow by the name of Mr Doberman, was replaced by Mr Wizbit, a tall, thin, darkly bearded [...]
The function of sport
Sport is one of those human activities that, like art, is completely and utterly without a purpose. The difference between sport and art, is, that at least art can appeal to the intellect. Sport is about entertainment. Like watching a crucifixion, it brings out the worst in people. Sport began with the Greeks and Romans. [...]
