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Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

Michael Dean
Michael Dean

Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

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Michael Dean
Michael Dean

Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

Riddles as lucid dream triggers

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I had a dream last night that involved several adventures with CansaFis Foote (who in this reality wore a backwards baseball hat). Most of them were trivial, like how he said he was going to order a Baha bowl but then told the waiter he wanted three tacos, and then I ate at all the chips when he went to the bathroom. Also his wife was some NYC executive who was about to become the president of my wife’s architecture company. But the best detail was when I saw a poster for the movie Point Break (1989), and I was inspecting it to see who the actors were. Was it Gary Busey and Anthony Keidis, like CansaFis insisted? Was this poster special for omitting the lead actor, Keanu Reeves? One way or another, this triggered lucidity, because we were sitting on a bench and I was describing how “I know we’re in a dream,” and “at any moment now, all of reality is going to wobble and collapse and I’m going to wake up” (as it usually does when I become lucid). But then nothing happened… Yet now I get it; I get why after asking CFF why Keanu Reeves wasn’t in his description of Point Break, he said, “because I’m dangerous.”