I'm in an ancient market with stone-walled booths, roofed with modern tarps. Low sun, but still warm. The air's dry. Desert?

The market's not crowded, but diverse; mostly women, but not all strictly human. Outfits diverse, sexy, and heat-adapted. Flamboyant hats for shade. Short skirts and bikini tops. A gauze robe showing that tigirl's sexy stripes, a wrap skirt parting at the back so as not to bind that grinning wolf-girl's tail, a sari baring that human's tattooed belly...

There's my friend Mark! Not shopping; he tends a trade booth, right by the exit. We talk. But his aura troubles me; he's gleeful, bad-boy, as if he's getting away with something. What?

He shows me. When a warren of rabbit-people try to pass his booth to leave the market, he grabs and pets each girl passing within reach. They flinch, squirm and glare.

He laughs and tells me "these rabbit girls are irrationally phobic; I'm helping them get over it by seeing that a man's sexual predatory instinct is nothing to worry about. Sex isn't death!"

... or is he just blind? I keep forgetting other people don't see emotions directly, in the aura. But can he really not read rabbit body language and expressions? They're glaring daggers.

But they don't raise a fuss--guess it's just one more hassle from one more predatory jerk. This Arabian Nights furry fantasy clearly lacks a MeToo movement.

Then I realize... it's a dream. Yet I do not go lucid--not exactly. I don't realize it's MY dream. What I realize is... this is MARK's dream! I have no right to judge--the rabbits may be parts of him. It's his inner world; I'm trespassing.

But then... in the sexual sense, so is he.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Magical world, sexy outfits, furries: I saw an anime, "Negima?!" It had no canine, cat or rabbit people, but I've read the manga and know that later on Negi and friends do enter a magical world with furry people.
• Desert harassment: an Amnesty International report concluded Israeli treatment of Palestinians meets UN definitions of apartheid. So my dream shows gender apartheid--harassment meant to drive women out of the public sphere, as in Afghanistan.
• Mark a groper: due to his past abuse he isn't, but he IS my only friend who supports Trump... an open groper.
• Groping bunnies: years ago Mark told me of a dating-guidebook addressed to men: "Harness your hunting instincts, be a wolf and BITE THE BUNNY." The dream tests the hypothesis. Result: mad bunnies.
• Mark: is he my own repressed desire? But notice how I in the dream see the bunnies--they dress to be admired, but palpably want respect. The dream "I" follows neither the left's "explicit consent" OR Trumpian "grab 'em". Instead, dream-I just noticed what others feel! I think the dream's arguing for that, paying attention, rather than any rule.
• Sexual standards: Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers explored college sexual culture. What says consent--kissing & fondling, taking your clothes off, pulling out a condom? I expected a gulf between genders, but he found no consensus in either gender on any cues. Floundering with no rules! Asking explicit consent is a solution; but so is what the dream demands--just notice and respect obvious upset.
• Oh, and drink less! Gladwell also pointed out that in that notorious Stanford rape case they'd each had AT LEAST 8-9 drinks. Rape culture? No, that's a suicide cult.
• It's Mark's dream; I'm trespassing! May be literal--we've had parallel/shared dreams before, like Eyes in the Black Square. Sorry if you don't believe such dreams are possible. They are. Minds can be quantum-entangled just like any other particle-collections! I think the dream's making an analogy here between Mark's violation of this rabbit-girl's space and my apparent violation of his privacy. My invasion, if real, is inadvertent... but does that make it any less creepy?
• ACTION 1: ESP rubs people the wrong way. Live with it! Not like I have a choice.
• ACTION 2: Don't bite the bunny.

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