Two Dreams

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I tried half a teaspoon of Pentobarbital with lemonade today. At first I wondered why it wasn’t working. Then I stood up and I couldn’t walk straight so I got into bed. I woke up 17 hours later (I fell out of bed a couple of times) and I was hungry so I got something to eat. I was still heavily intoxicated and drowsy so I went back to bed.

I dreamed that I lived in a city enclosed by platinum panels forming a dome. Outside was a red, post-apocalyptic wasteland. There was a hole at the top of the dome?the only exit to the city.  There was a legend that if you could climb to the the top, you could make three wishes and all would come true. I decided to climb to the top and somebody came after me. He was a stranger to me. We never got to the top. We fell straight down but somehow we landed outside the dome, unhurt. I used three wishes to get us both back inside the city. It should have taken only two. Maybe after I wished myself back inside, I couldn’t make another wish from within the city. Or maybe I didn’t need another wish because I already had everything I wanted.