I had a dream tonight.

I was living in a house (I think it may have been the old house in Medford) with some people, and the girl who lived there had brought home some of these little pocket black holes. I don’t know what their actual intended purpose was, but she was proposing we use them to help clean up some of the garbage around the house. They were kept in these little white packets that were sort of like those silica gel packets, or maybe like moist towelette packets. Something like that. Anyway, I went up to my room to collect some of my trash. I assumed she was going to use them outside, because they are hazardous. Then suddenly she was in my room and threw up one of these portable black holes. It made a sort of ominous noise but not too loud. She hadn’t used one before, so it very nearly destroyed the house, but she managed to keep hold of it.

She started throwing some garbage in, and I shrugged and started doing so myself. But the pocket black holes only lasted so long, so it went away before I was done. Then someone else was talking about everyone chipping in three bucks or something for more, and I said “look, I can just use one of mine.” Apparently I had like six of them in my pocket. I’m not sure why. I had apparently never used one before, however, and when I set it down it started drifting to the ceiling. I managed to contain it, and when she glared at me I said, “Hey, you almost did it, too.”

We finished cleaning up, sending our garbage to be devoured by these little micro black holes. Finally, an environmentally friendly way to get rid of garbage!