What Dreams May Come

"Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. "You don't pick them; they pick you."—John IrvingDreams and their dark counterparts, nightmares, are always with us. They change in aspect, joy and horror, throughout our lives. As a child of the Cold War, I vividly remember doing "duck and cover" drills in the hallways of my elementary school, and being chided by a teacher for not covering my neck properly to protect it from the flash of the A-bomb. W