Freud in the House

I was sitting and joking with a bunch of friends when my therapist passed by me with a client. He was dressed as a priest with long, flowing black robes and a big silver crucifix hanging from his neck. He turned and gave me a little private smile, perhaps meaning "Indeed, my attire is quite hilarious."

He again turned before closing the door to his office behind him, and said so the whole group could hear, "But, what is she REALLY thinking?" I shot back an extremely witty but now forgotten remark and somehow remained healthily unfazed.

Sin City

I was feeding my dog food that contained lots of small, dark red chilis. While I was measuring out the food (I had forgotten to feed him all day), my mom told me that my dog could say "Vegas". Apparently, the dog hated Vegas.

[It's not that I haven't been dreaming. It's that my computer destroyed itself in a quite mythical fashion.]

Korva Coleman

I was on an airplane seated next to Korva Coleman. She was blonde and 50ish, and was asking me if she should go through with reporting a story on NPR that was being censored by the male higher-ups. I told her to go for it.

[I woke up on my 4 am departure Houston to La Guardia flight this morning confused about where Ms. Colvin was.]

I look just like Buddy Holly

I was thinking about crazy, crazy Rivers Cuomo from Weezer.
What a very exciting dream.

The Last Day Again

It was again my last day of medical school. My last patient, an older grey-haired lady, was waiting in the room with her sister. They were holding many thick medical charts and were drawing diagrams and charts on a blackboard about her disease.

I came into the room to learn that the patient had a deletion on the short arm of chromosome 15 and this was affecting her blood, or something. I had no idea what was going on. I just said hello, tried to be nice, and left the room. I walked down a fire escape and starting jumping around because it was my last day of medical school!

The Ultimate Bagel Snob

I went to a bagel store and desperately wanted a poppy seed bagel. I had to walk along cobblestone roads and narrow alleys to get there. The line was long inside the cramped, dusty store, and I ended up ordering a caraway bagel.

The woman behind the counter inflated the bagel with air so that the skin was paper-thin, and then she examined its texture carefully. She checked the symmetry of the bagel and noted if any abnormalities in shape were distorting its roundness. She decided that the bagel was too asymmetric and that I couldn't buy it. I was starving, and asked if I could at least have a piece. She sliced off a piece of thin skin for me and said with distain, "If you wanted just any bagel, you should have gone to another bagel store."

More W

George W had assembled thousands of people in a stadium on some national holiday. We were all watching him speak a la religious revival about his plans for the future of our country. Then, three planes sequentially hit and destroyed three tall buildings just outside the assembly area. We rushed out, fueled with the realization that this was all a setup by W to increase his power and reinforce his decision to bomb other countries for no reason.

He wouldn't let us out of the stadium without walking down a long narrow gangplank. If we fell of the plank, we would lose our residency spots for next year and would have to join the armed services. I was so angry and focused on getting out of the building that I pushed Aaron aside to get across, and he fell off the gangplank. He yelled at me for forcing him to lose his residency spot, and I jumped off too because I felt so guilty.

Pemphigus

I was sitting with Denice during lunch hour in the dermatologist's office. I looked down at my hands and realized that I had pemphigus. It was spreading up my arms and onto my stomach.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I was walking down Central Park West, and since I had forgotten to tell my brother I was coming to New York City, rented a room in a fleabag motel for $100. I was talking to my brother on my cell phone to coordinate meeting him the next day when a huge earthquake struck.

Dust blew up in the motel room as the walls shook and I waited for the building to collapse. When it didn't, I left the building to find that we were being attacked by LATIN AMERICA. Apparently George W had provoked some Latin American country and they had attacked New York City in response. Missiles were flying and a cloud of black smoke was settling over midtown. Several buildings had been destroyed and there was chaos outside. Everyone started walking north, seeming kind of blasé about it all.

Lentigo Maligna

I discovered a huge lentigo maligna on my lip. I was glad I caught it. Unfortunately, I was not looking forward to having a huge chunk of my lip surgically removed.

More Rashes and Product Placement

After disobeying a serious directive of some kind, I got a horrible beet red sunburn all over my face, shoulders, and back. Someone important was very angry at me. Luckily, I knew that I could treat my rash with Eucerin lotion. [Will these rash dreams continue after my dermatology rotation is over? Only time will tell.]

Oh, Margie!

So I had this dream that I was watching the Simpsons. There was a whole scene where Marge Simpson was enjoying herself. Sexually.

I was glad to wake up and realize that my shock that this kind of cartoon sex was not being censored was no longer necessary. Now, I'm not usually one for censorship, but in this case, I am.

A Tetanus Birthday

My birthday party began at around 10 pm, but no one showed up until 3 am. There was much partying all night, but the next day I couldn't remember the motley crew that attended. Luckily, someone had started a web site organized by name of attendee where people were posting digital pictures. Some people, including Christian's friend Bill, were posting little edited movies filmed during the party. Finally, Bill had caught our friend Abdullah kissing a guy on videotape.

The party was all good and fun, but the next morning, we realized that someone had put tetanus in the keg. Instead of the trismus and muscle spasticity commonly seen with tetanus infection, we all woke up with this diffuse rash of tiny red bumps.

Swinging London

I was going to London with my mom. In the airport, I realized that not only had I forgotten my passport, I had forgotten to book tickets to London and instead was only flying to La Guardia in New York.

The thing is, I swear I had this dream about a month ago, except that somehow I got on the plane.