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In a world with so much suffering, in a world where few are happy and many are troubled, how can I be so concerned about myself? The world needs you, needs your love and sympathy and generosity. This site formerly called "The End is Near." While I still believe that, the new title is a response to that belief. This site is monitored by the federal government.

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Tag: Dreams

Dream Journal

Dream Journal. This material is presented without copyright, for "fair use," whatever that is. Most recent dreams will appear first and the file will be reblogged whenever.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Uncopyrighted Material Leave a comment August 19, 2022August 27, 2022 4 Minutes

Getting “In-Shape,” and MSM Letting Us Down Bigtime

Diary 8/12 to 8/14/22: Cognitive fatigue; sex education; Hunter Killer DVD; dreams; Hemlock Club; Camus; Chris Hedges and the collapse of civilization; signing up for tour of a gym.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Doom, Dreams, End of the World, Environmental, Health, Hemlock Club, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment August 14, 2022 4 Minutes

Interrupted Dreams and Political Crapola

Diary 7/4 to 7/5/22: "Mr. Compromise"; Christian fascism; translator's choice; Bill Bryson; too many books; imminent mass extinction and Moby-Dick; blogging for ego; Chinese characters; Cinepassion.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Blogging, Book Reviews, Diary, Doom, Dreams, Internet links, Literature, Music, Politics, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 5 Minutes

Taoism, Sex, and Media Taboos

Diary 6/30 to 7/2/22: Typos; Nietzsche quote; testicle experiment; specializing journalists; Matt Taibbi quoted; Black Panthers; bingeing; blood pressure and nausea; the end of Highsmith diaries; Sharper Image; a day of labors; a dream.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Erectile dysfunction, Mature Adults Only, Politics, Quotes, Sex, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 2, 2022July 2, 2022 6 Minutes

RexMD Ripoff!

Diary 6/23/22: "Kayfabe" again; dream email; inspirational quotes; Weltschmerz; happy pills; the end; suspicious charge; happy ending.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Doom, Dreams, End of the World, Politics Leave a comment June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 6 Minutes

Waking Dreams and the Art of Natalie Belikova

Diary 6/14 to 6/16/22: Books; periodic table; happier as a chemist; women's ribs debunked; beet juice and ED; writing fiction; Natalie Belikova and her paintings; Power & Health on Link TV; two "waking dreams."

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Alan Carl Nicoll Art, Diary, Dreams, Erectile dysfunction Leave a comment June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 6 Minutes

An Optical Illusion and the Usual

Diary 6/2 to 6/3/22: Only in America; a dream (with pun) and a nightmare; Highsmith quotes; boys with guns; bad movie; writing dismay; masturbation in men; new optical illusion.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 4 Minutes

Highsmith Shows the Way to Writing Success

Diary 5/26 to 5/27/22: Body image; McGovern on nuclear war; peculiar dream; writing success; Graham Greene on Highsmith; pointless bus rides; school massacre; Family Guy.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, End of the World, Neuroscience, Novel in Progress, Novelist Notes, Politics, Quotes, The Writing Life 2 Comments May 27, 2022 5 Minutes

Thessaloniki, Jane Eyre, and Smoothies

Diary 5/24 to 5/26/22: Literary Curiosities; Liberty Valance; "I'd do well to..."; dreams; Jane Eyre binge; Venom: Let There Be Carnage; making smoothies.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Health, Movie Reviews, Recipes, Veganism Leave a comment May 26, 2022 5 Minutes

Buying Books and…Mckenna Grace?

Diary 5/16 to 5/17/22: The King's Speech; Ghostbusters Afterlife; psyllium again; religion books; more shelves? getting rid of Pathfinder; Russell Brand; a nightmare; typographical erorrs in history; Oliver La Farge.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Horror, Internet links, Literature, Movie Reviews, Music Leave a comment May 17, 2022May 27, 2022 6 Minutes

“Bans Off Our Bodies” and “Against Mysticism”

Diary 5/12 to 5/14/22: Protest planned in Bakersfield; empathy; dreamlets; "Charles Adolphus Spree"; fiction writing and contentment; Wittgenstein; WordPress stats; The World Needs Me; philosophy club?

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, End of the World, Fynn novel, Hemlock Club, Neuroscience, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Probation, Self-guidance, The Writing Life Leave a comment May 14, 2022 7 Minutes

Egyptology, Politics, a Change of Direction

Diary, 5/11 to 5/12/22: a call to action; Chomsky quotes; a mystery speech; where are they? A dream of mistakes; Hidden Tombs of Memphis book; politics or fiction? Fiction.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Ancient Egypt, Diary, Doom, Dreams, End of the World, Politics, The Writing Life Leave a comment May 12, 2022 5 Minutes

Flying Camels and Patricia Highsmith

Diary, 5/6 to 5/7/22: Multiple Scott Ritters; lunch with Pablo; breakfast smoothie; tangerine seeds bitter; fruit messiness; a dream of flying camels and playing catch; Highsmith quote.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Recipes Leave a comment May 7, 2022 5 Minutes

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    • 2020: The Worst Year of My Life
    • About
      • Finding Oliver
      • Ingratitude
      • Three Oldsters on Thanksgiving
      • I am Racist, a chapter of Kick Me
      • Thoughts About Seventeen Dead Children
      • Kick Me, Part 3: I am the World’s Worst Clown
    • Doom, Camus, and Breakfast
  • Fiction, Misc.
    • Hap: The Story So Far
    • Hap the Crystalwright: Part One
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Two
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Three
    • Enchanted House
    • NO-SEE-UM
    • Classical Music We’ll Never Hear
  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • A Cog in the Machine
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
    • Poetry Sketchbook
    • Amateur Haiku

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