«  about a year ago, i attended the guest of honor talk at i con, the israeli science fiction and fantasy convention. the speaker was neil gaiman, and his topic was dreams. with typical low-key irreverence, mr. gaiman sidestepped his assigned subject. nothing, he claimed, is quite so boring as actual dreams, in which the mind's processing centers, cut off from the senses and from higher reasoning, continue to churn and light up, producing certainties and causal leaps ("and suddenly it wasn't my high school gym teacher »