‘The Vampire Squid Can Swim Extremely Fast for a Gelatinous Animal’
March 18, 2008
Sometimes I forget that there is such a thing as the vampire squid, but then I remember.
If you want to read accounts of other people’s dreams — and who doesn’t? — there’s the World Dream Bank. Most of the dreams appear to have been dreamt by one person, the site’s owner, and most of those that weren’t dreamt by him appear to have been dreamt by friends of his. Some dreams include interpretive notes by the dreamer. Some include artwork. It is a strange site; I think I’m glad it’s there.
If you want more dreams and less apparatus, there’s also another online dream bank.
Someday I might write a story incorporating all the organisms with my favorite scientific names. Naturally Vampyroteuthis infernalis, the vampire squid, is among them. Also among them are the two species of tiny pudu deer: the Southern Pudu, Pudu pudu, and the Northern Pudu, Pudu mephistopheles.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am
After your readers are done looking at my wolf-shirt, I might also advise them to check out the dream website Canadian author Sheila Heti has created, where people can log dreams they’ve had about the presidential candidates Clinton, Obama, or McCain:
http://www.metaphysicalpoll.com/about.html