I know our assignment was to dream and in this area I have been lacking. But this was too good not to share. The other day while on campus I ran into my friend Ehson. He is a scientist for NASA who builds satellites to put into orbit. I greeted him with the friendliest hello I could think of, "Thou mangled onion-eyed death token". With this he gave me a look of confusion and a chuckle. I proceeded to tell him our assignment to use these putdowns in the real world. Success. I asked him how his trip to Dubai was, having spent the last week there at a convention, and what he told me was worth well over a sixpence a day. While he was there, he had major pains in his shoulder and needed to see a doctor. I can only assume the doctor goes by the name "Puck". His shoulder was out of socket, however, with a few painful tugs, his shoulder was back in its rightful place. For the pain, "Puck"gave Ehson morphine, which is known to put its users in a vivid dream state. He did not dream of love, for he was not given the juices from the flower "love-in-idleness", however he dreamed he had control of a flame thrower. He, with a giant pack on his back, shot flames twenty feet long from left to right burning everything in sight. He told me this laughing the entire time not knowing I was thinking only of this class. This dream was crystal clear yet had no truth. This did not happen but it seemed lifelike to him.  He had been given a potion from a trickster.
  Jan Kott, in The Bottom Translation, refers to Puck as a trickster, in this case, the doctor. She says, "The trickster is the most invariable, universal, and constant mythic character in the folklore of all peoples. As a mediator between gods and men--the bottom and the top--the trickster is a special broker: he both deceives the gods and cheats men. The trickster is the personification of mobility and changeability and transcends all boundaries, overthrowing all hierarchies. He turns everything upside-down. Within this world gone mad, a new order emerges from chaos, and life's continuity is renewed"(Kott 82). For Ehson, this doctor had very well turned his life upside down by giving him a potion to clarify and manipulate his dream while at the same time restoring order by healing his pain. The healer becomes the trickster, the trickster becomes the healer.