HAMMER: I had a dream last night.
ANVIL: Oh yeah? Tell me about it.
H: Well, I dreamed I had just been born into the world. And of course it was like the Big Bang occurring because of course, for me, there had been basically nothing.
A: Yeah.
H: But then all of a sudden, right, there was everything. So I was just busy being for the first time, and I realized all of a sudden that it wasn't the first time.
A: Oh?
H: I realized I'd been born before! And right then, I realized I could make a wish for my life, a single germinating wish that would expand as I grew.
A: Wow! This is a really deep dream.
H: Sure was, Anvil. I looked back over all my birth-wishes I'd made over all my past lives. I thought that I would wish for a million wishes--
A: Yeah, sure. And then what, you get to make a million wishes but don't really get any of them granted, right.
H: Heh, exactly. You've had this dream before, Anvil?
A: Something like that.
H: Well, yeah. I remembered that that wish never turns out too well. I thought that I would wish to have all my wishes granted--
A: Sure, and--
H: Don't you dare finish my sentence Anvil. I knew if I wished to have all my wishes granted, all my life I'd get all I wanted, and when I died I would really have learned nothing.
A: Right. There are a lot of bad wishes. So what did you wish for?
H: I think you'll like this, Anvil. I wished for the best wish I could think of - to my knowledge, one I had never made before. I wished to never want to wish for anything.
A: Wow! That's kind of brilliant, Hammer! What happened next?
H: I got my wish, and I died. Then I woke up.
