I study biochemistry because I don't really know what I want to do, and I love science, art, and theatre music. I wish to be invisible (so I can see and hear without being seen or heard), to possess telepathic and telekinetic abilities (to be able, at the other's consent, to speak through the mind) to be able to fly, and also take whatever I am touching flying with me (like a friend) to have an endless bank account, so I can start my own theatre company and not worry about living in a slum. I wish to make Alexandre love me again, to meet Robin Williams and Tori Amos, and to ask God, 'Why?

I think I am a distant relative of yours. My grandparents were the late Isidore and Ethel Pickover of Manhattan and then of the Bronx. I wish I could connect the family tree. I wish to find out if there are any relatives out there I do not know about. When I was growing up there were very few Pickovers. Now I find 26 Pickovers in the USA Telephone Guide in Netscape. I wish to find out if we are related.

I'm interested in Egyptology, fiction, animated cartoons, scuba diving, and occasional social interaction. I wish I could fight. I wish I could hear movement behind me. I wish I could scent out malevolence. I wish I could use any weapon I wanted, especially my hands. If I could, I would never have to wish for it again. And I could sleep.

I caught the tail end of the 60's, hitchhiked around the states, Mexico, and Canada. I spent three years in the service, 82nd Airborne Division. I am sixteen years in computer systems work, married with a sixteen-year-old son, and I have the bad habit of tilting at a lot of windmills. I am well read enough to know that man is certainly capable of dreaming of a perfect world and most probably unable to achieve it. My first thought is to not wish for the generic 'everybody getting along' or 'world peace', though both would be fine wishes. I wish that all children would be able to grow up well educated and unabused. I wish that honesty and truthfulness were genetic rather than environmental, and that these traits could be assumed

I am a first-year student of Information Systems at the Taranaki Polytechnic. Interests include programming and producing visual, auditory, and multimedia art. I enjoy Terry Pratchett's hilarious books including the Discworld series. I wish for a year's thrill-seeking adventures fully payed for. I wish for time to slow down for me so I can have the equivalent of 110 waking hours and the get-up-and-go to do what has to be got up and done. I wish for a private gym and trainer. I wish for a girlfriend with a great personality, a way of programming a computer much faster, a more powerful PC with video capture, a scanner, a sound room and decent software. I wish upon a star that those who wish loudest not interfere with the wishes of those who wish softest.

My interests include cheerleading, gymnastics, writing, acting, and modeling. I'm a very stubborn individual with an open heart, but a sensitive personality. My life is filled with problems and mishaps, and I'm usually depressed. I try to cover the pain that sears me, but tears continue to flow. I dream for recognition. My main wish is for the return of a lost love. His name is Robert. Throughout the year and 5 months that we were together, we gave each other the world, but one day the magic died. He too is only 16 years old and I understand his need to see others in his search for the right one. It has been over two months since our breakup, but I am still aching painfully. I cry myself to sleep with his hockey jersey in my arms and his pictures beside my bed and under my pillow. I beg that he learns how to trust me again and realizes that I never lied to him. My love for him will never end and I pray that God or some higher being will help and bring him back to me. I desperately need him and until I find his love again, I won't sleep peacefully. I hope that someone out there will answer my prayers and make my wish come true. For there is no other like Rob...

I am interested in Danish genealogy, science fiction, family, arts of all kinds, anthropology, family science, psychology, humor, and informally entertaining. I became a first-time grandmother this month, graduated with BS in Family Science in 1989, 19 years after high school graduation. I have worked as a outside-sales person, preschool owner and teacher, 5th grade teacher's assistant, farmer, video-store owner/manager, and secretary. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am a single parent for the last 5 years and for several years before that. (Brief stint at another marriage didn't work.) I wish for world peace and safety for all the world's children (from hunger, cold, neglect and abuse, but especially from war). I wish that my children and grandchildren grow up to be healthy, happy, contributing members of the human family. I wish for a soul-mate of a husband for me. I wish to have independent income so I could study what I wanted and make a contribution to the world. I wish for a modest, paid-for home, appliances and cars that always worked and never needed repair, three best friends within 15 miles of me, good health without exercise. I wish to overcome my phobia of water. I wish for food replicators such as those on Star Trek the Next Generation, for a complete end to pornography of all sorts (but especially child porn), swift (within 3 months) trials and prosecution of criminals, castration of convicted rapists, capital punishment for convicted murderers, severe, harsh, and long-lasting punishment for convicted child abusers, severe penalties for drunk driving, an end to government waste, and honesty, decency, and kindness everywhere to be more common than tulips in Holland on a spring day. I'd like to be stronger. I need to stand up for myself and my loved ones better. I wish I didn't need to sleep, so I could get more done, learn more, help others better. I wish for better health and for a society that wasn't so materialistic or that didn't worship youth to the exclusion of wisdom. I wish for better training (and higher priority on "doing it right the first time") in mate selection, so divorce would be extremely rare. I believe that the world would be a vastly better place if our children started out in secure environments. People are ultimately what matters most to me, and relationships are the primary subcategory

He has worked on the shortest proof of Bell's theorem, is an author of such books as Quantum Reality, and is a poet and researcher (quantum tantra). "I would like a pair of quantum goggles that reveal the world 'as she really is'. I would like a job exploring nature at the deepest level of engagement possible for a being of my composition and culture. I would like to perceive a new form of beauty in the next 15 minutes. I would like to experience a new and unimaginable pleasure sometime today. I would like to learn a new secret before the sun goes down. I would like a direct, high-bandwidth connection to the universe's source of creativity (de Muse). I would like to be able to speak and understand a thousand languages. I would like a thousand new senses a thousand new desires. I would like to achieve unexcelled sexual union tonight with a being of my choice. I would like to experience deep religious ecstasy before Christmas. I would like to be profoundly surprised.

I am a full-time student preparing to transfer into Mansfield University's Sociology/Anthropology program. My interests are Frida Kahlo's artwork, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, dancing, painting, and the sculpture of Camille Claudel. I wish for: a cure for AIDS, safe and accessible abortions, being allowed to choose without added pressures, a complete end to the Religious Right of America, illegalization of fundamental Christianity, complete, intelligent sex education in our schools, a good job waiting for me when I graduate college (teaching Anthropology at a University), being able to travel every summer, children, meeting and being able to have just one conversation with Dr. Carl Sagan, an end to the fighting between myself and my fiancee, just one more day with my grandmother who died two years ago, hearing my father say 'I love you,' and, finally, I wish to get my pilot's license.

I take care of my father who has Alzheimer's, a husband who is a workaholic, and 6 cats, 2 dogs, and a huge house, and I play with the Internet and computer games. I wish to find a cure for Alzheimer's before I lose my father to this disease for which there is no hope at the present. I wish to have a car of my own, to return to college to study medicine and have a job outside my home after my father has passed on. I wish to be able to talk to my mother again. I wish to learn just enough in my life to be happy and show other that the happiness is from within and not from 'things' or other people.

I am interested in linguistics, theoretical physics, engineering, science fiction, Torah (Bible and commentaries), comparative religions, Judaism, Christianity, telecommunications, computers, and ethnology. I wish Israel's government be restructured into a Jewish Monarchy whose ruler is subject to Jewish Law and whose policy is tolerance and compassion towards other human beings as per Jewish Law. I also wish that people would recognize that they are more important than their ideas, their possessions, or their societies—just as in Jewish Law; that they are considered of great importance to G-d and should also be to each other. I also wish economics would just go away like some bad dream and every person would be free to grow to their full potential, not stifled by the mindless economic needs of a mindless and soul-less organization. Finally, I wish people could be endowed with such knowledge of their own self-worth that they would not feel the need to hate or derogate others.

I work as an emergency medical technician and am interested in theatre and music. About a year ago, a good friend of mine froze to death while on a trip to the French Alps. If I had a wish, I would go back in time and make sure that he does not go on such a trip. I would wish for his life back, and I would wish to take away the suffering that he experienced

I am a Math/English major, campus newspaper editor, former cleaning lady, bad typist, and all around cool person. I love to read, play the violin badly, and hate to dance. I intend to be a mathematics professor and publish mathematics books. Be careful, you might get what you wish for. I'm wishing I was either completely alone or very safely and securely attached. I wish my boyfriend had a libido, that I didn't hate my Calculus professor, that I didn't dread going home for Thanksgiving so much, that my term paper about social interactions in barbershops was written and was good. I wish my sister was happier at home alone now, that my mother wasn't so overbearing, that I actually liked my psychology class and that there would be world peace. I wish I didn't have a two-and-a-half hour drive home with people I didn't really like, that I wasn't such a wimp when I wanted something, that I'd done my math homework last night, and that I had gone out and goofed off with Pete before we left for Thanksgiving break. I'm wishing that everything would work out okay... and you know what? Something tells me that it will

I love animals, music, and writing poetry. I wish that no one in the world ever intentionally hurts anyone else, because people are continually hurting other people… If I wished for eternal happiness for everyone, then no one would probably ever know they were happy because they wouldn't know sadness either. I also wish that all of Richard Bach's theories were true, because his world seems like a nice place to be. Finally, I wish for all the money I'd ever want because as much as I'd like to think that I'm not materialistic, I want to travel to California

I install Intel PC's and was a college drop-out with a grade point average (GPA) of 0.625. I am single with interests including: science, computers, military history, numerical algorithms, fractal geometry, symbolic processing, music-classical pipe organs, and graphics ray- tracing. I wish the rest of my life could resemble my life at 5 years of age. In other words, employment would require no more time and effort than that expended by a kindergartener learning to read, make art, and play with one's classmates. I wish our income can provide us with the adult equivalent of always having a quarter available when the Good Humor ice-cream man comes around. The best and most productive academic research is very like play.

I like dance, the Internet, furry animals, and pretty boys, and I hate professional sports. I wish for my dad to acquire the necessary self- knowledge to become a happier person. All his relationships are built on half-truths and mistrust, and he goes through life searching for another affair that will make life worth living. He is the saddest person I know, and I am afraid that someday soon he will just give up and take his leave of this earth that has been such a disappointment to him. I miss him; I love him; I want the weight off his shoulders before it breaks him. I want to become the best I can be in this world. I want to have a life's work that fits me like a glove, so I can leave the world a little better than I found it. (And I was born during the Nixon years, so maybe that's not setting the bar too high.) I wish for peace on earth, a little more love and acceptance, and a little less hate

I am an analyst for a McGraw-Hill subsidiary called Datapro Information Services. We study the telecommunications and IT industry with respect to market, vendor technology and industrial strategy dynamics. I specialize in the multimedia and Internet technologies. I also have a company dealing with counter allergy products. My personal interest is the study of business practices and management philosophies. While my job and interest tends to be forward looking, my personal taste tends to be somewhat retrospective in nature. For example, I have preference for Chinese opera, old jazz, and ancient music. I wish for a continued perfect love life. Claire and I enjoy each others' company, humor, pain, fear. and love. Any little conflict ends with compromise and an increase in mutual understanding and more love. I wish the same for all relationships in the world. Yet, conflict is not something I want to wish away. Differences make for a more exciting and varied world. Resolution in peace, harmony, mutual understanding, and respect is what is crucial. Finally I wish that while everybody goes about accomplishing his/her wishes, dreams and goals, they should be enjoying the process. People spend their time aiming at an end. Yet the targets can change and be changed. It's too bad you don't enjoy every stage of your life. You only had one childhood, youth, teenage, adulthood, middle-age, and old age, and you shouldn't miss the joys of those stages. I also wish peace for everyone, peace of mind

I like computers, and spend most of my time on the Internet chatting on IRC. I enjoy going out with friends and anything that gets me away from work. I wish for someone to be there for me and love me for me. I wish for this because I am all alone where I live. No one really cares about me. I have friends, but I want something more that just a social relationship.

I live for the outdoors and love all four seasons. I enjoy: horseback riding, hiking, painting, sketching, writing, reading, mountain biking, camping, singing, and most of all walking at night. I love all animals and have a dove, a canary, a finch, a Siamese Fighting fish, and two hamsters. I would have more animals if it were possible. I work at the university's library. Wishing is good because it gives you something for which to go on living. Even if the wish is ludicrous and could never happen you can always dream. I wish that I could keep that wonderful refreshing feeling I get when I take a night walk or climb a mountain. I wish that everything made sense to me. I wish that we weren't born to work. I wish we could all go out and discover the beauty of the world within—in gardening, poetry, running, or painting all day long. I wish that everybody could find a way to make a living doing what they like to do so that they would not become sour. I wish I could figure out what I want to study to become.

I love Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics and also have an extremely creative side because I sing, play the piano, have been doing ballet for 14 years, and love to perform in theater. I wish I knew what people thought of me. For example, do "my friends" really like me or do they just say they do to be nice? I also wish that I knew what I look like. Is the image I see in the mirror completely distorted? How do other people view my physical self? Do they think I'm skinny or healthy or fat? Will they lie because they know me? (I became mildly anorexic throughout my ballet training.) I'll never know for sure if my image is distorted or not. I don't wish for material things because I really don't want or need them. I'd rather be able to say on my dying day that I was happy and fulfilled. The only way that is possible is through love and doing what makes me happy - dancing, singing, and acting.