CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (December 2, 2012)

I dreamt that I was still teaching but that I was getting eager to retire because of troubles at my university. Namely, ever more students, as well as some among the faculty, had close encounters with extraterrestrials. For better or worse, nothing of the sort ever happened to me. The number of people affected was so large that the whole thing was kept as a secret. By and by, it became an epidemic. Although I was annoyed with the secrecy, many people needed extensive psychiatric care, which complicated the situation in many ways. I, too, kept mum about it. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I could not remember what I was teaching. If it were design of human settlements in space, the extraterrestrial connection would make some sense. Hoping that I would enjoy a close encounter during the night, I went to sleep again. Thus I was disappointed in the morning. No extraterrestrials for me!