I Wake Up Screaming

Christopher Bonn Jonnes: Wake Up Dead, Salvo Press ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0966452054

PAPERBACK Good 0966452054 Editorial Reviews\nExcerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\nFrom Chapter 1 \n\nPaul Fontana stared at the old man. You want me to quit my job and move in with you so you can study my dreams? \n\nMonica Brooks sat next to her husband. She lifted her dress slightly to accommodate crossed legs. Paul stretched his peripheral vision to its limit as he watched her, still maintaining eye contact with her husband. If he could get his eyes to go different directions, he would do it now. Part of him wanted to get up and leave this weird scientist and his bizarre offer; take the money and go--but he was curious to hear more. A stronger part of him hoped this was some strange, marital sex game, an invitation to sleep with the wife and satisfy her in a way the old man could no longer do, that she'd singled him out after an exhaustive search of available men in the city. \n\nMason looked concerned. I realize this seems drastic, but you'd be forwarding science more than you can imagine, and paid well. \n\nBrooks, I don't give a damn about science, and if you think I'm going to quit my job and move in here for a few hundred dollars, you're wrong. \n\nPlease, he thought, now tell me I get the girl. \n\nI'm sorry if I gave the impression the amount would be so small. I'd pay you two thousand dollars per week for your participation. \n\nPaul's poker face fell to the floor. \n\nWhy me? he said, What's so important about my dreams? \n\nHow about that drink now? \n\nPaul nodded. \n\nMonica moved toward a glass liquor cabinet. What would you like, Paul? \n\nHe bit his tongue to keep screaming orgasm or sex on the beach from coming out. Scotch, please. \n\nShe pressed a drink into Paul's hand. Their fingers touched. It had been years since a woman affected him this way. \n\nBrooks leaned forward and became animated. Paul, have you ever experienced deja vu? \n\nSure, it's a chemical brain stimulation thing, right? \n\nBrooks shook his head with a knowing smile. What if I told you that it's real. The future does exist in the present, and every night each of us witnesses it in the deep state of non-REM sleep. Deja vu is nothing more than a leak from the subconscious mind to the conscious. You suddenly feel the sensation of memory, because you have been there--in your dreams. \n\nI'd say, 'In your dreams.' \n\nHow else can you explain clairvoyance or extrasensory perception? \n\nI don't try, Brooks, but I guarantee, a few ten-dollar words aren't going to convince me we're all dreaming up the future each night. I saw your name on those books there, so I know you don't have your head wedged too far, but dreaming the future? Come on. \n\nNot only do we dream the future, we can change it through a technique called lucid dreaming. Are you familiar with the term? \n\nSorry, I must have missed health class that day. \n\nLucid dreaming is the ability to become aware that you're dreaming--without waking up--and to control the dream; decide what should happen next, which in turn changes the future. \n\nAnd we're really descendants of apes and aliens, too, right? \n\nPaul, I've become a millionaire by applying my knowledge of the future to betting at the track and investing in the financial markets.\n\n\n\nNow Paul was interested. Can you teach me that? \n\nThere's no time. We must not be distracted from studying why you keep appearing in my dreams. \n\nWhat's the big deal? \n\nEach of your appearances in my dreams has resulted in my death. There was the car accident, then the plane crash, and on and on. In my non-REM dreams I see the future: I see my death. Each time, you are there. \n\nBut it doesn't happen. \n\nOnly because I see it coming and take steps to change it. Unfortunately, the dreams are becoming more frequent. It would appear that for whatever reason, you are the harbinger of my death. \n\nPaul shook his head. This is too weird to take seriously. \n\nYou'd better. Often you get killed too--plane crash, remember? \n\nWhat do you expect to find by studying me? \n\nA connection. My life is a living hell. Almost w

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Fisher, Steve;Matheson, Tim: I Wake Up Screaming, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House 1991 ISBN: 0679408029
0679408029 Very Good

Two cassettes, 3 hours playing time. Read by Tim Mattheson (Fletch, To be or Not To Be). Very good with minor shelfwear to box. Audio Book (Cassette) Book

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FISHER, STEVE: I WAKE UP SCREAMING, NY HANDI-BOOKS MYSTERIES 1944
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Fisher, Steve. I WAKE UP SCREAMING.
Laminated covers. Very vivid cover art. Spine lettering crisp and clear. Book is clean and tight. "Complete and unabridged". Mass market paperback version of 1941 work. Popular Library # 129.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 158 pp.

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