9/8/05

Words from the waking world: Dreams have been too wispy lately. I wake lightly, remembering the dream but before full consciousness, thoughts stir and the dreams evaporate. There have been many dreams but upon waking they are gone. Often I catch glimpses of them but never enough to reconstruct something worth relating.

I am in a workshop repairing electronic equipment. Everyone around me is performing intricate operations on live patients. Each person is operating on a single patient, one-on-one, and each operator is focused solely on the person they are operating on. I alone can look around and see what each of them is doing. I know that I should be doing similar operations on humans, not working on electronics, but no one has assigned me a specific patient.

There is a strong sense that my patient will be arriving soon and to be ready, I must complete this mechanical work. I would like to hurry through the electronics but I realize that to get to the "fun" work (operating on humans), I must responsibly complete the task I am currently working on. I carefully proceed with the electronics while anticipating the opportunity to do some real work.