Do any of you ever have atheist dreams?
I don't mean atheist dreams, as in, "dreams and hopes for a better, more atheist- friendly world." I mean atheist dreams, as in, "I dreamed that Christopher Hitchens was trying to sell me life insurance," or, "I dreamed that the ghost of Thomas Aquinas appeared at my dinner table and told me it was okay to be an atheist."
No, those aren't real dreams. I made them up. But I did have a real one a little while back. I was waiting in line with a group of friends to see Richard Dawkins read at a bookstore. But I'd won a contest, and the prize was that Richard Dawkins stood in line with us and hung out with us while we waited for the bookstore to open. He was a surprisingly good sport about it, and was good company, but we were all a little star- struck and didn't quite know what to say to him. (I woke up feeling slightly baffled by the recursion conundrum of Richard Dawkins waiting in line to see himself read.)
I forgot to log it in the dream diary at the time. But it's stuck with me, and it's made me ponder the degree to which atheism and the atheist movement have entered my subconscious. (I have other atheist dreams, too, usually about blogging or reading other atheist blogs. Most of them aren't that interesting -- although I'm still tickled by the one about atheist plumbing -- but I have them fairly often.)
And I was wondering: Does this happen to anyone else? Do any of the atheists reading this blog -- or any of the non-atheists, for that matter -- ever dream about atheism? If so, what do you dream about? When did it start? And how do you feel about it? (My atheist dreams make me feel a little bit nerdy, but in a good way.) I personally find it slightly odd to dream about something so abstract -- to dream about the non-existence of something, essentially -- and I'm curious if this is a widespread phenomenon or not.
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