I dream my bay window faces west not east. And the view's strange. On the curb below me, a large dog's found a snake and is worrying it. Head in its jaws. The snake's tail writhes around its attacker but can't get a choking grip; the dog won't give up.

As I focus on the fight, I realize that's no dog--why'd I think that? Four legs, yeah, but... BAT WINGS? It's a griffin! Leaps into the air and flies off. Looks bigger too--horse-size now? Or was I hypnotized to ignore it? As the spell erodes, I start to see its real size--big as a car now. That's no griffin--it's a dragon!

Its prey grew too--now it's a gila monster a full yard long, biting its attacker's long jaw. Wait, gila bites are poison! But the dragon seems immune. Tosses it and snatches the lizard midair, like a juggler. Gobbles it down. Dragon snack.

The dragon dives into a small cloud like a fist punching a pillow. Emerges just seconds later. Either that gila bit the dragon from inside and the dragon choked it back up, or the dragon found a second fat lizard in the cloud--and this lizard, though wingless too, can levitate. Flees the dragon across the sky...

Snapping at the lizard, in hot pursuit, and grown to van-size now at least, the dragon dives back toward my house. I fear it'll smash my window in. Oddly, I'm not scared I'll be hurt--but I do worry I'll have to explain the damage, and won't be believed. That denial-spell is strong!

Even now, if I glance away I re-minimize the dragon's size and doubt it's more than a dog. "I just exaggerate." Look again. Yep, just a dog. A flying scaly dog as big as a truck.

Riiiight. That's some ignorability spell!

Whose?

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Minimize a big thing: American news ignored huge events in North Africa (I saw it only on French news). Sudan's dictator Omar al-Bashir is out! Despite stiff competition, surely the worst leader in the world--he led wars killing at least 2.5 million people. Darfur, South Sudan, the Boko Haram kidnappers in Nigeria, Islamic State terrorists all over North Africa, ivory smuggling as far south as the Congo...
• Fat poisonous desert lizard: Yep, Bashir all right! Poisoned all he touched.
• Dragon we're brainwashed to see as a mere dog: not so clear, but I suspect it's people power; in the end it wasn't an invasion that ousted Bashir but a consensus of distrust--and disgust.
• Mid-air fight: my housemate was watching an awful Flash Gordon movie; I peeked in, saw hawkmen battle gunmen. Dunno why they fought, since both were, before all else, woodenmen. Worst acting ever...
• ACTION: well... watch for such media-spells. Not quite blindness--not even denial or lying, exactly. Just... profoundly convincing trivialization. When it's big. And just outside your window.

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