Tag: dreams

  • What If I Won the Lottery?

    Not long ago, I overheard a group of kids talking about what they would do if they won the lottery. Yes, people, I was eavesdropping. Don’t judge me. It’s their fault for talking so damn loudly. Besides, at my age, sometimes you don’t even have to try to listen. Conversations just find their way into…

  • The Secret Lives of Monkey Mitty

    There’s something wonderfully undignified about a nap. You can be a fully grown, functioning adult with responsibilities, obligations, and a perfectly reasonable schedule, and yet the moment your body decides it’s had enough, all of that gets overruled. The body calls the meeting, declares an emergency, and sends you to bed without consulting management. Some…

  • Déjà Vu, Dreams and Variants

    Do you ever wonder why we experience déjà vu? Why we have such vivid dreams and sometimes they feel so familiar? What if they are the experiences of our variants from other timelines? As crazy as that sounds, it’s technically not far fetched… I mean Marvel has basically laid out the structure for that possibility… …

  • A Writers’ Room with No Showrunner and Infinite Coffee

    I sometimes wonder if our dreams are just a carbon-based, innate AI running a late-night Netflix marathon in our skulls. Think about it: all day long, your brain collects data—faces, fears, half-heard conversations, that embarrassing thing you did in seventh grade—and then, at night, it’s like, “Great. Let’s remix all this into a cinematic experience.”…