Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight from these dreams: I was watching a weather report from some news station, and the weather reporter was talking about an upcoming "padromal" storm that hadn't been seen by anyone alive today; it was something akin to a total solar eclipse—a rare natural event that would only be witnessed once in everyone's lifetime. Strangely, I think I might've been conflating that made-up word with a real word: prodromal. So this event, whatever it was, could've been speaking to an onset of some kind of attack or disease. Even stranger, the weather reporter had that professional tone and cadence one would see of a typical television news reporter. The sense of calmness he had in describing what would be essentially a rare natural disaster was perhaps the most unsettling part of the dream. Then, I had to…
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