{"id":14238,"date":"2026-03-19T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:58:59","slug":"dreams-can-have-disturbing-ways-of-pointing-out-your-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14238","title":{"rendered":"Dreams Can Have Disturbing Ways Of Pointing Out Your Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new GP set me up with appointments with a neurologist and a CAT scan, to try and get to the bottom of why I&#8217;m tired all the time, slightly dizzy all the time, and have a hard time focusing on tasks for more than short bursts of concentration. She also wants me to schedule a sleep study. So naturally I keep ruminating about the results I might get, particularly regards the CAT scan and what the neurologist might tell me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 72, and I can feel myself losing it. But if I look at it logically I&#8217;m actually in pretty good shape for my age. I&#8217;ve outlived some of my classmates, but most of the one&#8217;s I&#8217;ve kept in touch with are still hanging in there. But anyone with the artistic nature I possess, plus a powerful imagination that I&#8217;ve daydreamed in since I was a kid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos_19-10.png\" width=\"975\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;can&#8217;t really help but ponder all the possible things a CAT scan might reveal, and what that might me for how much longer I have to live, and all the art projects I never got around to starting, let alone finishing.<\/p>\n<p>So it really doesn&#8217;t help when you wake up in the morning hearing your mom calling your name. Especially when she&#8217;s been dead for over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>(Panel above is from <a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\"><em>A Coming Out Story<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new GP set me up with appointments with a neurologist and a CAT scan, to try and get to the bottom of why I&#8217;m tired all the time, slightly dizzy all the time, and have a hard time focusing on tasks for more than short bursts of concentration. She also wants me to schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[306,120,157],"class_list":["post-14238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-creepy-dreams","tag-health","tag-the-old-man-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14241,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}