The following excerpts are from a dream I had in the early hours of March 6, 2020. At the time, nothing was happening in waking life that provided context for the dream or matched its intensity. But that changed exactly one week later.

On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black EMT in Louisville, KY, is murdered in her home by police in plain-clothes serving a no-knock warrant in the middle of the night. Her boyfriend opens fire on the unannounced intruders who ram through the fro...