Abruptly, a kettle starts whistling. That puzzles me, because our stove just can't boil water too fast--the kettle whines and chirps quite a while before the full howl. Besides, someone always takes it off right away, since the shriek's annoying--but the kettle I hear whistles on & on!

I KNOW our kettle doesn't behave like that, so I nearly go lucid--but don't quite ask "could I be dreaming that kettle? Am I still asleep?"

Instead, I assume I'm half awake, having forgotten I'm a guest in someone else's house, hearing someone ELSE'S strange, abrupt kettle.

I wake. Wrong! I'm in my bed, in my house, deep in the night. Dead silence.

HOURS LATER

In the morning, I'm re-awakened by... just such an abrupt, uncharacteristic whistle. Hear my housemates talking--one silences the kettle as quickly as it came on!

I still don't know how they managed that abrupt blast. Never before or since.

DECADES LATER

Why tell such a brief, unexciting dream? Well, when I first edited the World Dream Bank I was biased toward epic, exotic dreams--I favored fully developed stories showing dreamwork was more magical, beautiful and fun than people think.

But now I'm going through old journals and finding a lot of apparently predictive & telepathic dreams like this--short, often plotless, seemingly ordinary, but evidence that the waking world is rather more magical than people think!

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