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I had a dream that I was hanging out in a friend's college dorm and he had a lot of VHS tapes that he really treasured. I bit into one of them, hard, so the plastic splintered and shattered and the videotape started unspooling and unwinding. I kept biting and chewing, and swallowing the tape.

When it was about a quarter consumed, I tucked it beneath my body and grabbed another. I ate several of his tapes this way, burying them under my body. Then I stood up and tried to act normal.

I walked out of the room, plagued with guilt, and I was gonna buy him a new TV to apologize. I asked him if he could use a new one and he said yeah, I asked him what size and he said "1080p by 1080i" and I tried to explain that wasn't a thing.

Outside, I realized I was in Florida. I caught a ride in the back of a black pickup with a guy and his daughter who were taking trash to the dump. The girl had Down's syndrome. I headed back into town from the dump and wandered into a mall - a big mall with an indoor tropical rain forest.

There were big frogs on some of the leaves. Big weird frogs that looked like Wallace Shawn. I greeted one of them and it yawned in a friendly manner. I said hi again and it yawned again. I placed my shoulder down by the leaf and he climbed up onto my head agreeably. I now had Frog Helmet.

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A woman who saw me frowned. She leaned in and plucked a piece of videotape out of the corner of my mouth. I could still feel the other shards, embedded in my tongue. The frog was heavy. I looked up and realized it wasn't a frog. It was a cat. And then I woke up.