Dream I attend an acting class and am paired up with Jodie Foster for an exercise in which we are instructed to “giggle like girls”. Jodie is, as you might expect, brilliant, but also a real delight to work with

Exciting news: Substack have been in touch to inform me that 16 people have viewed my post and none of them liked it

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Dream I am in Wales and get chatting in the chip shop with someone who turns out to be a holidaying GP. I mention my high blood pressure and he recommends “lying standing” (to manage not necessarily cure it)

I dreamed I git an MA from Cambridge University

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I was complemented on my sadness today

Knows his onions

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I woke up crying

Pothole nightmare on Elm Street

Dreamed I smoked a cigarette, lost my suit jacket and, after a failed attempt to break into the toilet of an airliner in flight, had my soul dissipated throughout the entire universe

Like a skeet only longer open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...

Done a park run (my first). Towards the end I was pleased actually to overtake someone, until I noticed the were wearing the tabard label: “Tail Walker”

Brilliant film!

Ah I had the actor’s dream last night darlings: I was in an unknown Shakespeare play (possibly his lost Cardenio?) in a high status role (a duke or king) and (in keeping with actor’s dream genre conventions) hadn’t learned my lines. I had the opening speech which made matters especially exposing

Dream that Hotel Reception this morning want to charge me £6 (or £8 with pickled onion) for the sandwich that was offered to me gratis the previous evening by my brother, who’s the assistant manager but is now off duty. Breakfast is included in my room package anyway so I tell Reception to forget it

Dream tweet/skeet fans (both of you) i’ve started some retrospective dream substackery open.substack.com/pub/craigbax...

Dreamed there was a beach and the North Sea and basalt cliffs at Waterbeach. And an elderly woman (who clamped her hand to my shoulder) needing my help to pick her way along the coastal path. She made me agree to come back and meet her here on the next bank holiday

I did a terrible thing in my dream last night. I’m too ashamed to record it here. But after I’d done it a giant flying turtle landed on the roof of our skyscraper top-floor apartment and I took some amazing video footage

Realising for the first time now that I’ve a bald pate how similar to a bald pate is the kneecap (a relatively hairless dome surrounded by haired foothills). I will enjoy their company now that there are three of us

Dreamed that the AirB&B we’d rented was being used as a veterinary surgery. The vet was surprised and annoyed to find us there but later mellowed and offered me the use of his spare suit-bag (which I politely declined; I felt this offended him). Later I lost an espadrille

Dream I’m parking and I can’t even park

Dream I’m acting as a relationship counsellor to work colleagues in the back of a New York taxi. I’m not so much offering advice as just listening to their tearful accounts of feeling under-appreciated etc. I’m quite good it it

Dreamed a paper hat was a portable radio and our cat Jim was an owl

Dreamed I went running through woods and alongside chalk streams and I could run really well

Dream we’re walking home late at night when we notice a broken downstairs window in one of the house on the lane. My companion thinks she can smell carbon monoxide. We call through the broken window. Two elderly Russian princesses are motionless in bed in that downstairs room. 1/2

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Dreamed I found an ingenious improvised (but ultimately ineffectual) guitar capo (made from magnets and paperclips) under my son’s bed. Later I saw a commercially manufactured one online for sale for £29

Dreamed I was supervising a student whose dissertation project was based around becoming and living as a puppet. At our pre-supervision meeting she slipped her wooden head on to demonstrate and I was amazed how emotional I felt just looking at her profoundly fixed expression

Unload. It’s unload.

I can’t think of that word you use when you take the clean things out of the dishwasher. Download? Upload? Disload? Something like that. Anyway I’m just going to do it. Who needs the actual words?

Dreamed I went with several fellow applicants for a second interview in Norwich for an admin job. I knew I was the weakest candidate but, fortunately for me, the venue for the interviews (a glass cube) was locked and flooded (the dark waters, already at the level of the desktops, still rising)

Felt like a very ‘off the shelf’ dream but I was running naked through city streets at night. It was raining and I was running fast as I could hoping to get home before anyone noticed I was naked. No one was noticing but, on the other hand, I wasn’t any closer to home by the time I awoke

Dreamed the guitar chords for Sunshine On Leith. Shame I don’t have a guitar with me to check if they’re correct. I doubt if they are though (too easy to be true - just the same ‘C’ shape in three locations on the fretboard)

Dream we go Christmas shopping in Northampton

I dreamed the intro to David Bowie’s Lazarus. It was definitely the intro to David Bowie’s Lazarus, and I recognised it as such in the dream

Dreamt a warbling flew into the house

For the first time in my recurring I’m driving but I can’t even drive dream, I’m driving and I can’t even drive an automatic

Dreamed I was in an improvathon with French revolutionary Camille Desmoulins. Despite being locked in a room together for what seemed like ages, we failed to come up with any material (comic or dramatic)

Dream I am offered some encouragement at work by a young colleague and the feeling grows in my that one day I may be promoted

Dream I visit a series of large concrete structures along the coast of Great Britain. Each construction represents a different person I have loved (Frances is the first; Sue the second) and so I am overcome with emotion as I approach a new structure and am in danger of falling into the sea

Zoological dreams last night involved rock-hopping ginger rodents and flying tortoises and a trick tank that makes it look like you’re presenting a nature show while waist-deep in a croc-infested river when you’re actually still in the studio

Happy ME Day everyone

OMG they’ve put me in charge of this for a live performance

Dream I play an A-ha vinyl record and am uncomfortable because no-one else really likes A-ha and also there is something wrong with the innermost track (a cover of Wings’ C Moon) which peters out on the first word of the first chorus

Have come to Evensong at Downing College. I told my folks earlier in a Zoom call that I would pray for them and they laughed (nervously, I thought)

I dreamed I threw away my Penguin History of World Ideas (because its cover got ripped) and immediately regretted it

Should I read this?

Dream I’m playing football with Erling Haaland. My job is to knock crosses into him in the box from the left wing but I’m struggling as I’m playing in wellington boots. Erling’s pretty understanding about it and, in fact, takes me to jumping practice after the match. This is very like trampolining