I dreamt about a long table that was full of all sorts of empty bottles. Someone was sitting across the table but I couldn’t make out his face - the bottlenecks blocked the view. “Did we drink all that?” - was my thought.

I felt a drilling pain in my leg. The leg numbly ached and woke me up. When that happens, you’re supposed to reach for your toes with your hand. This helps to get relief sooner. Yet I was too lazy to reach for anything and preferred handling the pain a bit longer instead of doing that.

That day the sun seemed to be pulling on my nerves on purpose. It felt like it was beaming at my eyes even when I was looking in a different direction. An empty plastic water bottle was by my bedside. Another one was beside it. And then one more. “Why am I drinking so much water? Am I diabetic? Diabetic people drink more water, don’t they?” - I was thinking while staring at the plastic. At breakfast I wanted to pour olive oil over my porridge but the oil bottle was empty.

At noon me and Natasha went outside to take out the trash. We were talking about significant actions as we walked. Caught myself thinking of so many good stories but hardly any of them contained any action. The whole surrounding life holds little action. Is this how it’s supposed to be? Either that, or I’m just confused… I wanted to add that life without action is like an empty bottle, however, this is obviously exaggerated rubbish! “These people have had an eventful weekend”, - I said, looking at a mountain of empty bottles inside the glass container. We added some of our own to that.

In the evening I was thinking that I’m way too keen on pointless stories. Take Gustave Flaubert. He dreamt of writing about the Great Nothing. I think that all my stories are about the same thing. Even though I actually want to write about Great Something, as always, what we get in the end is not what we expected.

Falling asleep, I thought that the bottles aren’t really empty since there’s air in them. “Why am I thinking this? What is this thought about?”, - I said out loud. I decided not to think at all rather than to think about nonsense. I managed not to think for around ten seconds. And then, eventually, I drowsed. Thank God.