My most common dream construct is that I’m being chased. Being chased through houses, schools, terrorist attacks. I always wake up right as the capital T They are about to pounce. I jolt awake in bed, like in a movie, sitting up with a terrible, loud, intake of air. My wife will ask if I’m okay. I’ll tell her that I was having a horrible dream.

Were you being chased again? she’ll ask.

Yes, I will say.

Are you okay? she'll ask.

Yes, I will say.

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Mementos:

The Dreamer’s Dictionary by Stearn Robinson and Tom Corbett

The House With a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

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