For the last twenty years, movies depicting a dire, post-apocalyptic future have grown increasingly common. It’s easy to forget there was a time not long ago when people held hopeful visions of the future ahead. …

Seven years ago, I spent a month in the wilderness. I had little more than a few changes of clothes, two tarps and a journal. I didn’t even have my cellphone. I didn’t use the journal to reflect or to document what I’d seen as much as I had planned…

A Lucid Dream 6 — I’m in my high school. I’m sitting in a back room talking with an old acquaintance. We’re no longer high school students and we both understand that. It’s not really an interaction I want to be having and I get the impression that he feels the same way. …

The road ahead stretched out into the horizon and the clouds above were a stormy black. It was only two in the afternoon but the sky continued to darken so forbiddingly that it was beginning to look more like twilight. Thunder droned off in the distance and lightning illuminated the…

I’ve never considered myself to be a normal thinker. But I had never identified as neurodivergent either. It wasn’t until recently that I’d even given the idea of neurodivergence much thought. A few months ago, I met a woman who said to me that she was neurodivergent. At first, I…

Summer is in the air and the smell of petrichor wafts upward from the dampened street that leads me toward Camp Anglewood. It’s Friday and there’s a palpable sense of foreboding in the air. It’s Games Day. My nerves heighten as I walk through the front gate. As I walk…

There was a stunning sort of finality to that day’s sunset. Ocean was all that could be seen in any direction. As the sun sank beneath the horizon it cast rays of light that stretched for miles. “It’s the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen,” said Kit robotically. …

I wake up with the sense that I’ve lost something huge. It’s nothing I can put words to. I can hardly even conjure the faintest image. I just remember realizing that I was dreaming and recognizing that there were four figures that seemed almost to hover around me in space…

Do you Dream of Cellphones? — A few years ago, I heard it stated that it was impossible for us to process screens within our dreams at all. But this is not my experience. It’s hard for me to believe that something that’s so much a part of our waking life could somehow be missing from…