list of items from a recurring dream:
a map, tattooed on my right arm, directly below the shoulder
another map tattooed on the inside of my right thigh, and yet another on my calf
a post-earthquake landscape, in which Portland is underwater (whether that makes any kind of sense, I don't know, but that's how it was in the dream)
one pack of cigarettes
an underwater cave, strangely not filled with water (something to do with air pressure, as explained in the dream)
one soggy notebook filled with code (that I was deciphering)
one GPS tracking device
one loaded gun (which never went off)
one geographer (who could read above maps, and who drew another one on my back)
one syringe filled with heroin
one helicopter
the earthquake was not natural. Al Queda had figured out how to control plate tectonics. San Francisco was on fire. Los Angeles was sinking into the sea. Donald Rumsfeld was on the radio, warning of more earthquakes on the way. No one questioned this.