I had this dream about race and gender. I am like an advisor or social worker, a white woman, visiting a black family. There is a white neighbor, an old man who intimidates and bullies. I receive a severe tongue lashing from this guy who slams doors at me. I turn around to the family I am visiting and say, "When he sees my black boyfriend, he'll turn white." They all laugh hysterically, but with a certain amount of fear. The youngest son has a pageboy haircut and looks a lot like a girl. He is worried about getting into a good college. I say, I get you're really only pretending not to know things, that secretly you know everything and you get all As. The whole family is concurring and he is looking more and more like a girl. He has a frightened, very serious look. I wake up.

But the thing is, I thought I typed all that already, but when I searched for it on my screen, it was gone, and I have a feeling that I dreamed that I typed it because I have the feeling I have just woken up in my chair....