STRANGE DREAMS: Reflecting on the Anatomy of Nightmares Why is it I dream of nuclear explosions in many cities? Why do masses of starving people appear in my sleep? Why do I hear mechanized mutants mulling over garbage? Why do toxic chemicals oozing from rotten flesh assault my nostrils? Why do so many cancer-infested corpses appear at night to me? Are these premonitions what might come to be? Can such horrors avoid becoming realities? Remembering mental ruminations product confabulations I release such fantasies. Tim: We should be careful of the visions we see – they have ways of coming true. Terri: I'm not sure the author really "wanted" to see this . . . there are many things we're probably better off not knowing. Tim: (raising his eyebrows) I'm not so sure. I think most of the nightmares we experience come from our own brutish ignorance. Kris: Well, what do you expect? In many ways we're remarkably primitive. ================================================================================= from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: A dystopian vision of one possible future - and a renunciation of it. KEYWORDS: future fantasies, dark visions, awful apparitions, hellish hallucinations Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2007 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Gifu, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/star.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/AmeriSong/thought.htm