Poor old Nolan was having vivid dreams. They were not nice. In them people he knew were always dying. He told his doctor about the dreams and she waved her hand in the air and said, “For goodness sake, they’re just dreams, so get on with it.”
Nolan was not satisfied with the response. He searched online and purchased a book on how to interpret dreams. It should arrive in the mail next Thursday.
In the meantime he went to see a clairvoyant. She too said not to worry. Things you dream never happen. If you dream of something and it happens you’re a dead duck. Those were her exact words; you’re a goner if what you dream comes true; you’re dead; you might as well order your coffin.
Last night, Nolan dreamt that he’d ordered a book online about how to interpret dreams, and it would arrive in the mail next Thursday.
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Weave a Web 
Poor old Nolan – is this what is called a Catch-22?
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A bit of a dreamer!
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It’s either catch 22, Pauline, or déja vu. Anyone who believes what Clair Voyant says, deserves whatever he gets. I think he’ll get a book on Thursday, dead or alive.
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A few years back…. a group of high school students I taught were having a boozy party and having a séance. The séance told them that they would get expelled from school. They were expelled – for the alcohol, but they associated it with the séance… and one of the girls in the group went bonkers for quite a few months.
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Superstition is very powerful…. I do not think medication is any better; it satisfies societal norms so the anxious person doesn’t bother people, but it doesn’t take the devil away….
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Speaking of which…. and in reference to the comments on the poetry page… Schoenberg was obsessed with Friday 13th, and became stressed as the day went on. He died one minute before a Friday 13th ended.
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SEE!!!!
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Nolan needs some medication. And to stop being so anxious about change. Of course, the meds might take care of that…
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It’s nothing that a pill won’t cure!
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🙂 🙂
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Confused. The clairvoyant said that if his dream came about, he would be a dead duck, but he dreamed about something he had already initiated and knew the inevitable outcome; surely that makes it a memory, not a dream.
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I was too stressed to analyse it… I mean HE was too stressed to analyse it.
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Did Nolan know he was a duck?
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Surely the answer is to cancel the order or refuse delivery. Hey presto. A new lease of life. I believe in Amazon’s returns policy there is a paragraph about ‘returns due to dream fulfillment issues’. Read the small print carefully. I’m sure he will be just fine.
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But if he cancels, how will he know if he’s going to die or not?
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Oh we will die for sure. But not from book delivery syndrome. The uncertainty is killing me, said Nolan.
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Now that’s true!
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Dream as though you’ll live forever haha
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There’s a thought!
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Well I should quote him properly https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/lines-of-the-day-jamesdean/
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Sometimes, the line between dreams and life is blurry indeed.
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And sometimes it’s hard to wake up.
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