Dreams
Dream diary, 7/10/15: Walking the line
This was an extremely pleasant dream: I ran into lots of people I know and like, and got to enjoy looking at many interesting objects.
Dream Diary, 2/24/15: God
I was really embarrassed at having been so certain that God didn’t exist, and at first was very apologetic to him about it. But he was cool with it. In fact, he insisted very firmly that even though he existed, it was important that I remain an atheist — and not just an atheist but an atheist activist. It wasn’t at all clear why, though. Dream-reasons.
I woke up at first still feeling embarrassed about how wrong I’d been, and feeling very confused about why God wanted me to be an atheist. Once I started realizing it was a dream, I was mostly baffled at my dream-logic, and was still trying to figure out why my dream-God wanted me to be an atheist.
Dream diary, 3/5/12: Atheist extreme motorcycling
I dreamed that a trick motorcycle rider sponsored by the Daylight Atheism blog had become very successful, and that atheism had been getting a surge of interest from the world of extreme sports.
Dream diary, 1/18/12: The blood test for books
I dreamed that the government had created new medical technology where they could test your blood and find out what books you’d been reading. I was upset about the invasion of privacy this represented, but mostly I was embarrassed and annoyed that my recent reading list hadn’t been serious enough and had so much escapist junk on it, and now everyone would know.
Dream diary, 1/11/12: Christopher Hitchens at Tufts
I dreamed that Christopher Hitchens was teaching philosophy at Tufts, and that I had moved across the country to take his classes. I liked his first class — but most of the dream was taken up with frustration and annoyance at having to live in a dorm again, getting lost on a confusing campus, and vague bafflement at myself for having decided to become an undergrad again.
I woke up remembering that Christopher Hitchens was dead, and wondering if my dream-brain had been mixing him up with Daniel Dennett.
Dream Diary, 10/29/11: The Sociology of Atheist Leadership
I dreamed that a sociologist was analyzing the effectiveness of atheist leaders and writers, and was correlating this effectiveness with two factors: where they lived, and how much they paid in mortgage or rent. I ranked very high on this sociologist’s effectiveness scale, but was nevertheless outraged by this analysis, because (a) the two factors were clearly not independent but were closely linked, and (b) the whole thing seemed patently ridiculous.
Starring Now in Jen McCreight's Zombie Dream…
I have a starring role in Jen McCreight’s dream!
Okay, fine. A starring role as a clueless, self-involved dolt who’s too dim to know that she’s being kidnapped or that a zombie apocalypse is upon us. Still.
Dream diary, 10/13/11: The Atheist Comedian Conference and Pizza Party
I dreamed that Ingrid and I were hosting an atheist conference in our house, with a line-up combining famous atheist writers and atheist stand-up comedians, and with an informal pizza party in our basement at the dinner break. I was enjoying hanging out with Richard Dawkins, but was irritated that the vegetarian pizza all got eaten before I got any.
I woke up thinking, “Wait a minute. We don’t have a basement.”