Friday, October 5, 2007

Every night I dream that I'm...

A couple of years ago, I Googled the phrase "every night I dream that I'm travelling", to see if any other lost souls had dreams of perpetual motion. The search (in quotes) delivered no results, so I chopped a word from the end and searched again - this got twelve results. The combination of phrases appealed to me, so I carried on removing words and doing the search, with an idea of assembling the end product as a sort of found poem. The searches found ever-more results, so I reduced the number of phrases I kept each time to stop it achieving infinite length. Here is the 2005 version:


every night I dream that I'm...


Every night I dream that I'm driving a truck from Pittsburgh to New York.

every night I dream that I'm hemmoraging to death at the hospital again.

every night I dream that I'm smoking

Every night I dream that I'm pregnant

Every night I dream that I'm going home for Christmas instead of going to do fieldwork in Somalia

Every night I dream that I'm drifting further and further out to sea

Every night I dream that I'm being chased by chainsaw-wielding, PCP-addicted chimps

every night I dream that I'm standing on the side of a lake, or partially
submerged, watching somebody swim around

EVERY NIGHT I DREAM THAT I'M BACK IN FRANCE

every night I dream/That I'm/Saddled on that copper colored pony/With you
every night I dream that I'm at work, feels like I've already done a shift by time I get there and a few other people I work with have commented that they do too

every night i dream that i'm back down in folorida with the most amazing people i've ever met; and i finally feel some sort of relaxation and contentment go over me like a wave.



every night I dream that...


Every night I dream that I found him and then, Every day I wake up and I'm lonely
again

every night I dream that we are together in April, doing the
things we planned on doing

every night I dream that one day I will sleep in that
hotel

Every night I dream that his mother purchases an engagement ring

Every night I dream that football vanishes from the face of the earth taking all the pleb players with it, but every morning I wake up and discover it's still there :(

Every night I dream that my injuries just get worse and worse, and I am afraid
of going to sleep

every night, I dream that I either forget to feed you or leave you somewhere!

every night. I dream that they shoot at me and that I get hit by bullets: one in my thigh, one in my wrist, one in my head, one in my chest and then a fifth and a sixth and so on

Every night, i dream that i am falling in the middle of nowhere...

Every night I dream that I am writing The Lord of the Rings but I realize that
I am only Tolkien my sleep

every night I dream that I am infected

every night I dream that he starts to be able to talk


every night I dream

every night I dream, Together you and me, Look at us baby, look at us now.

Every night I dream the same dream Of getting older all the time I ask you now, what does this mean?

Every night I dream Liquid dreams, my liquid dreams

every night I dream Hope and pray and believe So happy that you're mine We'll
live in ecstacy The world for you and me

Every night I dream. One day my mom saw a snake,. She threw the rake.

every night I dream, I dream of you I'd like to run away and hide, but you're always there inside 'cause everywhere I dream, I dream of you

Every night I dream about extreme tragedies with my family and friends.

Every night I dream about you

Every night, I dream I dream of you.

every night I dream a little more in my mind every night I cry a little more in
my mind and I realize that holding on to clouds of dreams that are now gone


every night I...

Every night I lag out in Euless Tx.

“Every Night I Go Running” follows the regular exploits of a solitary runner on
his journey through a number of different settings and locations,

Every night I just want to go out, D get out of my head. E Everyday I want not
to get up,

Every Night I Fall

Every Night I Pray For The Bomb

Every night I ask Jesus to take me home.

Every night I flood my bed - I drench my couch with my tears

Every night I still cry

Every night, I think, Why did I throw it all away?


every night...

Every Night Italian

every night in the historic Ninth Square district in downtown New Haven, Connecticut

every night and it makes me sick

Every Night Is Mardi Gras!

every night and she always yells at him before going to bed alone

every night She’s mad that she ever loved him

Every Night, Josephine


every...

Every Rule in the Universe

Every Writer Should Know

'every second'

Every Child Matters

Every Generation

Every Day



I thought it would be interesting to do this again, and see how it had changed. If anything, I am even happier with this version.




every night I dream that I'm...


every night, I dream that I'm home with my family

Every night, I dream that I'm traveling to another city - Miami, Barcelona, Paris

Every night I dream that I’m ready to leave where I am

Every night I dream that I'm dead & I'm gonna kill everyone

Every night I dream that I'm pregnant

Every night I dream that I'm drifting further and further out to sea

Every night I dream that I'm in a certain place and a man sleeps with me but find myself in the morning in my bed

every night I dream that I'm standing on the side of a lake, or partially submerged, watching somebody swim around

Every night I dream that I'm being chased by chainsaw-wielding, PCP-addicted chimps.

every night i dream that I'm smoking and i wake up burnt its so weird

Every night I dream that I’m really from another planet and that I am here to study everything around me to report back

Every night I dream that I'm in exotic places with a swish digital camera and I snap and snap away, capturing beautiful images and longing for them to still exist when I awake


every night I dream that...

Every night I dream that you are taken away from me… erm, us, forever

Every night I dream that I found him and then, Every day I wake up and I'm lonely again Chorus: WHERE IS THE MAN? WHERE IS THE MAN?

every night I dream that I am living in the 1500's

every night I dream that my startup is acquired by Google

every night I dream that I am using some kind of computer where I simply wave my hands and manipulate the box

Every night I dream that I am Mario and I begin riding Yoshi buck naked, slapping gumbas and turtles with my parachute size ball sack!

Every night I dream that you want me back, but the sun rises and you never call.

every night, I dream that I either forget to feed you or leave you somewhere! Poor kid!

every night I dream that I am with him in the garden at Chiswick

every night I dream that somehow I am running into the leaders of our CLB [‘church left behind’]

every night I dream that he has come home and when I wake up and find it's only a dream it just breaks my heart.


every night I dream...

Every night I dream about extreme tragedies with my family and friends.

every night i dream, Together you and me
Look at us baby, Look at us now
Your like the flower bloom, The glowing of the moon
Will make it baby, Look at us now
For everyone believe, That we could never be
Look at us baby, Look at us now
now all the hurt is gone, I knew it all along
We make it baby, Look at us now

every night I dream about you

every night I dream about Ashgabat

every night I dream, Together you and me, Look at us baby, look at us now.

Every night I dream it, and it’s horrible

every night i dream together you and me Look at us baby look at us now Like the flower bloom The blooming of the moon We'll make it baby , look at us ...

Every night I dream I'm under you

every night I dream I'm under you All the smiling hands delivering all the ??? All of the smiling men with suede hands delivering with those pensions

every night, I dream of being chased, killed, isolated, uncared for, of evil spirits... etc


every night I...

Every night I save you

Every night I pray

every night I burn Every night I scream your name Every night I burn

every night I would awake as a girl

Every Night I Pray For The Bomb

Every night I fall Every night I fall into you Youve got me in a ? ? ? And I cant help but fall

Every Night I Go Running

Every Night I'm Yours

Every Night I Wake Up Screaming


every night...

"Every Night" is a song written by Paul McCartney while he was on holiday in Greece

Every Night: Music: Saturday Looks Good to Me by Saturday Looks Good to Me

Every Night Italian: 120 Simple, Delicious Recipes You Can Make in 45 Minutes or Less

every night and it makes me sick

Every night I just wanna go out, get out of my head Every day I dont want to get up, get out of my bed

Every night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children, known as night commuters, flow into town centres.

every night while he was manager of the team

every night of the week!


every...

Every child matters
Every child matters
Every generation online
Every action counts
Every car journey
Every 10 seconds
Every little thing

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