Stealing Forbidden Dreams. A Novel - Edward L. Alban

Maria Diaz, 26, intellectual and nerdy, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in Miami. She notes we sleep away a third of our lives. By age 60, we will have slept 20 years. She keeps logs of her dreams, connecting them to her real world, determined to rescue the lost time. After ten years, she connects the dots. e result is this novel which reveals the inner world of her id, libido, ego, imagination, memory, muses and oracles. Her Libido gets on her for still being a virgin. Her mathematics muse wants her to go for a PhD. Her literary muse wants her to change fields altogether. They would control her life, not just her dreams. The novel shows how her life awake interphases with her life asleep. It is set in 1999 and captures the zeitgeist of the end of an era and the blooming of a new millennium.