My dreams are an integral part of each 24 hour cycle. I don't view them in a voyeuristic sense, I see them as direct experience. They are lived, not watched like TV. ~~ Nick Bantock

Monday, March 17, 2003:

There was a jack-o'lantern that had a lightbulb inside it, and the jack-o'lantern was somehow able to speak and think; the lightbulb burned out and I was going to replace it. I told the jack-o'lantern: "I think I'll go ahead and replace the bulb, you've got a few days left, I think," meaning that there was time to replace the bulb to give him a few more days, he wouldn't rot before then.

Then, when I put the new bulb in, it wouldn't come on, and I nearly panicked, but I jiggled it a few times, and it came on.

On the way to work this morning, after the dream, I heard a story about a hundred-year-old light bulb in a fire station; they moved the firestation and had to move the bulb, and at first it wouldn't come on, but they jiggled the switch and it came on.