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-Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus quote: "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world."-

Coolest dream this week was the one in which I was in an apocalyptic wasteland riddled with dripping blue goo and vicious rats. No matter that the hallway full of bunkers looked suspiciously like the hall in my childhood home (but with more dripping goo), and in fact the princess leading the resistance (yes, I know, it's always a resistance in my dreams) lived in the bunker that lined up to exactly where my little brother's bedroom was located. My bunker was lined up exactly to the hall bathroom, and the really funny bit was that the shower and toilet were still there; however, the floor could be pulled up to reveal two tiny devices that enabled everyone in the resistance to have running water and electricity. They appeared to be just little clockwork machines with dozens of brass gears, but apparently anyone could grab them through their bunkers' floors and tune them up if they needed repair. So that was pretty awesome and futuristic. Also, partway through the dream I became a dwarf (not in the storyline, but just because these things happen in dreams) and helped the princess get a couple swords she needed. Or I would have if the dream had continued.

A Haiku Concerning My Current Favorite Food

Green meat in fruit form

A cream-cold flesh for summer

An avocado

Reality check. Busy, busy, busy.

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-The Amber Spyglass quote: "Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than judging right."-

Polyamory appears to be an odd recurring theme in my dreams. The real kicker is that at least one person in the "dream" relationship is always someone I would never give the time of day (not always the same person) in real life. Very weird.

This week I had another moment where I felt like the only adult that no longer believes in Santa Claus. As Stefan Molyneux puts it,

...the asylum that the child is now facing is that he lives in a world of insanity, and either he is sane but those around him are telling him or pretending to him that he is insane – which means that the asylum is composed of those around him – or, the asylum is actually that everyone else around him is sane, and that he’s the only member of this asylum.

Reality check.

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-Miss Manners quote: "You ask mosquitoes for permission before swatting them? And here Miss Manners thought she was considerate of others. However, your killing technique may need some refining."-

When there's a mistake that you make in real life that you also mess up in dreams, you know you have a problem. My problem? Accidentally filling in my birthdate with a "2xxx" year instead of the correct "1xxx" year (which would make me not even born yet, so at least people can figure it out pretty well). The really funny part was that I made that mistake in a dream the night leading up to when I had to fill out that particular form in real life, and proceeded to make the same mistake on the real-life form. So much for dreams being learning experiences.

Reality check. Are you incompetent? Yes? Then it's either a dream or real life.