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Those dreams

23:20 / 17.03.07

you know those dreams where you wake up and your not quite sure if you were dreaming, where dream reality and wishes get blurred!

23:42 / 17.03.07

I've got no idea what your personal circumstances are like, cliffchuff, and I don't suppose it matters, really.

It's a bad scene though, man.

Really, it is.

00:17 / 18.03.07

I've had the alarm go off, got up, got ready for work, left and then heard the alarm go off and realise I've got to go through the getting up process for real. Getting out of bed twice really doesn't start the day too well.

00:22 / 18.03.07

Though I suppose you've at least had a practice run, sos you can leave the real getting out of bed till the very last second.

00:36 / 18.03.07

I never have a problem finding my keys in the dream version which is a little irritating.

01:09 / 18.03.07

Once in college, after an all-night study marathon, I kept falling asleep during one of my final exams and dreaming that I finished it. I was the last person in the room, but I did eventually stay awake long enough to finish the exam for real.

Another time, I fell asleep at the orthodontist while waiting for the bracket cement to dry, and I dreamt that I woke up late at night, still in the orthodontist's office, and everyone had gone. Waking up felt really weird.

This sort of thing happens less often now that I've started actually sleeping all at once at night, instead of at odd moments during the day.

01:26 / 18.03.07

I used to wake up convinced that I'd discovered a hole in my tooth, or had one missing. This happens less now. Apparently that imagery is common in stressful circumstances, but who knows

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:28 / 18.03.07

I love Barbelith to bits, but I am SO not sharing my dreams.

Not for my sake, you understand. For yours.

All Acting Regiment

11:59 / 18.03.07

I dreamed I was a man - a man with a mission. Turned up on the jungle island in a Dhow. Took me and my guns and crates of ammunition on land. There was a temple by the beach. Hot, flat rocks. The insects were beggining to bite already. You couldn't see more than five paces on either side, the jungle was so thick. When I set the equipment down the priest came out and put the fat of a jaguar on my forehead and the fangs of a jaguar on a necklace round my neck.

"Are you ready," he said, "For the finest game?"

"I'm ready," I replied.

He clapped me on the shoulder. I watched them leave - leave the island, not to return for a month. For a moment I considered what a lesser man might feel - fear, probably, weakness. And then I was off - into the interior.

I walked for days. No sign. Then - up there on a crag - a flash. Then gone. Like a mote of dust - a man without my training most likely wouldn't have seen it, wouldn't have known if he had - but I knew.

When I got to the river I had to crawl below a fallen trunk. Just as I ducked, I heard it - a whisper - a man without my training wouldn't have known it, but I knew.

I knew.

lord henry strikes back

22:00 / 20.03.07

Last week, after (possibly foolishly) watching all fourteen episodes of Firefly in two days, I had a dream in which I created another (perhaps lost) episode. It was good. Witty, well edited, a couple of gun fights, a space battle, everything that you could want. For those of you who have seen the series (what there is of it) it was sort of a reprise to the one where they save the whore house.

Anyway, when I woke up, this new (not real) episode just slotted into my memory with the real ones. I've skipped through all of the episodes and this one isn't there. None-the-less, it feels pretty real to me.

It's not the first time that this has happened either (though it's always been whatever I'm into at the time: Star Trek, Superman comics, that sort of thing). I think it's cool even though it acts a proof that I'm a total geek.

Just thought I'd share that.

00:28 / 21.03.07

I had an jack-hammer sounding off outside meld with a dream I had this morning. Some guy was fencing for a fight and somehow got a hold of both of my legs. I woke up as I kicked him in the face and saw my cat, who was originally on the corner of the bed, looking all sorts of pissed at me on the floor.

I apparently side-kicked a roommate in the stomach while in a deep sleep as well... beware of martial artists as they sleep!

01:20 / 21.03.07

About 3 years after finishing highschool I had a dream where I was confronting one of the bullies that used to give me shit on the bus (I was confronting him on the bus, that is).

In the dream I was getting ready to fight him, and I was shoving him with both arms. Right at that moment I woke up and I was sorta sitting over my g/f-at-the-time shoving her down into the bed. The funniest bit was that I realised what I was doing almost straight away and went straight from the shove into a hug and started apologising...