{"id":3141,"date":"2025-09-21T19:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2025-09-23T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:09:22","slug":"the-faneuil-coaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3141","title":{"rendered":"the faneuil coaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Incredibly vivid dream last night.  It was the first time I can recall, ever, sobbing my eyes out in a dream and feeling my face for streaked tears upon waking.  I sent myself a shorthand version of it on my phone, but let me see if I can flesh it out some more.  I won&#8217;t be able to do it justice, not by a long shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in Boston, and the whole dream was centered around a long, long slide down the crook in a series of grassy hills.  I remember some kind of aerial survey beforehand, where I recognized the slide path by the difference in grass textures.  It was like a long, twisty, single-person rollercoaster.  I drove on a narrow, winding road to the top in order to start the slide, but for some reason, I couldn&#8217;t start at the very top, so I had to enter using an opening in the track a certain ways down.  The slide was <em>inside<\/em> the hill at this point, and I had to maneuver through small openings to gain access, at one point having to completely turn around and back through the small door.  I vividly remember thinking of Alice in Wonderland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The horrific part of the dream started here, where I was given what amounted to a living cat hand puppet:  Just a head, and kind of a fabric &#8220;cape&#8221; coming off the neck, and I was supposed to hold onto this all the way down the slide.  I remember asking if the cat was alive, and I was told yes, it was, but that it didn&#8217;t have long, and would die shortly.  This was (obviously) heart-rending, and I cried, great wrenching sobs that were mirrored by a nameless other in my dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I woke up and felt my face.  I looked around and saw Draco on the pillow next to mine, and Odin occupying the other side of the pillow my head was on.  I petted them both and felt very grateful it was only a dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredibly vivid dream last night. It was the first time I can recall, ever, sobbing my eyes out in a dream and feeling my face for streaked tears upon waking. I sent myself a shorthand version of it on my phone, but let me see if I can flesh it out some more. I won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3141\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}