Benjamin Gayle

Dreams of Twenty Benjamin Gayle

This book is a collection of dreams that I recorded during the year of 2020. I have been recording dreams for years, but 2020 was different. The Covid-19 pandemic brought new stresses and anxieties on multiple levels. There was a constant underlying fear of getting sick. There were fluctuations in product availability on grocery store shelves. I had to continue to work, and even work overtime, on an open factory floor where social and physical distancing were impossible and most workers refused to wear masks. I didn't sleep as well or as much, and what dreams came were difficult to hold onto long enough to record, resulting in more and longer gaps and shorter reports. I define dream as that which I experience in the state of sleeping consciousness: I go to bed, fall asleep (I hope), and dream (often). What I write down is whatever I can remember when I wake, whatever I can drag back across to waking consciousness. These are not stories that I have purposefully created - I dreamed all of it. Each entry is my objective attempt to describe what I experienced in the dream, and no more.