Images: A Christmas tree falling down, then Arnold Schwarzenegger’s blue-painted face. Arnold is waiting for a woman in a bedroom, & the woman is blonde. She is sliding down a hallway on the hardwood floor like a curling rock, about the speed of a curling rock, upon her naked oiled up belly, right through the door & into the room. It may be Arnold himself that slides her. She is not harmed, nor does she mind being slid down the hallway— it is a ritual.

(Arnold S. appeared in two dreams in early 2009: the one above, & another, not included here, wherein he waits patiently for his Japanese translator to finish being a guest on a panel show that is set on a rooftop of a big city skyscraper. I don’t know why he showed up in two dreams in one month—I haven’t seen “Twins” in over a decade. Perhaps he’s my spirit animal.)