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The internet is full of lies. I made a typo when I wrote that line so it read 'The internet is full o flies'. It's probably not far off the truth, if you connect headphones to your co-ax or telephone line you can hear them buzzing away. Really you can, either that or it's someone gathering information about you and your habits and they're using the flies as spies. Why am I rambling about flies, I'm not entirely sure. I'm in a rambly-follow-my-thoughts kind of mood today.
I could write about how I re-discovered cheese on toast a few of weeks ago but that's not very interesting, though it is funny how you can manage to forget about the existance of some things? I haven't forgotten about LJ, I do forget about it first thing when I walk into work, when my brain should be working and have vaguely entertaining ideas for posts.
That all reminds me of sleep, and I was cleaning up my hard drive last night. Earlier this week I reinstalled XP with Server 2008, hoping use it as a decent workstation O/S like Vista without crappy Aero and a far superior back end. This went wrong when the internet lied to me about an 'activation' tool, that ended up not working. So I went back to XP and thought I really must start clearing up the files on my hard drive and ditch some of the crap. I came across a while pile of PDF files I'd grabbed about a year ago and had never read about Lucid Dreaming. So I went through a few of them last night.
So before bedtime I told myself I was going to have dreams and lots of them, I was also going to remember them AND I was going to become lucid at one point. Believe it or not all of this worked. It worked very well too. I can also place where events in reality placed themselves into the dream world which I find vaguely amusing.
The first one I rememeber was being stuck in a train at Haymarket and having to sleep on it until the morning (I got stuck on a train in Haymarket tunnel for over half an hour last week) and the face of my watch had fallen off leaving the strap and a couple of tiny hands but no mechanism, just spinning round. (This week my amethyst pendant that I usually wear had became detached somewhere on the way to work last week and it hasn't appeared). I'm sure I was supposed to be going to do something like meeting someone or going to work but I have no idea what.
The next one had me in a car with loads of other very slow moving cars all going down through some quite open woods to a beach, the cars were twos, but I remember turning to whoever was driving and saying let's just turn round and go. As some horror film type massacre was going to happen (must've been that film trailer I saw on TV last night). At this point I realised I was lucid, however this lasted all of a couple of minutes, forgot I was lucid and the dream continued with me getting out of the car and running up an incline and the having no power being my punch when trying to hit the freaky nasty bloke who was following me in the face.
The dream drifted into another seperate dream with my chasing someone I don't know, round lamposts in a street next to the sea (no idea where), in some form of children's game. (I was playing CounterStrike Source earlier, the movement, etc was very similar in places). Also a couple of my rats Minstrel and Lucy on the loose. I seemed to have the power to wave my hand at doors, windows and curtains and they would open. Then more of my rats seemed to appear under a living room scene, but in the street, and then loads of baby rats appeared too. With me thinking, oh dear, I can't look after ALL of these!
All fun, weird and quite enjoyable. I forgot what fun dreams are when you can rememeber them!
I could write about how I re-discovered cheese on toast a few of weeks ago but that's not very interesting, though it is funny how you can manage to forget about the existance of some things? I haven't forgotten about LJ, I do forget about it first thing when I walk into work, when my brain should be working and have vaguely entertaining ideas for posts.
That all reminds me of sleep, and I was cleaning up my hard drive last night. Earlier this week I reinstalled XP with Server 2008, hoping use it as a decent workstation O/S like Vista without crappy Aero and a far superior back end. This went wrong when the internet lied to me about an 'activation' tool, that ended up not working. So I went back to XP and thought I really must start clearing up the files on my hard drive and ditch some of the crap. I came across a while pile of PDF files I'd grabbed about a year ago and had never read about Lucid Dreaming. So I went through a few of them last night.
So before bedtime I told myself I was going to have dreams and lots of them, I was also going to remember them AND I was going to become lucid at one point. Believe it or not all of this worked. It worked very well too. I can also place where events in reality placed themselves into the dream world which I find vaguely amusing.
The first one I rememeber was being stuck in a train at Haymarket and having to sleep on it until the morning (I got stuck on a train in Haymarket tunnel for over half an hour last week) and the face of my watch had fallen off leaving the strap and a couple of tiny hands but no mechanism, just spinning round. (This week my amethyst pendant that I usually wear had became detached somewhere on the way to work last week and it hasn't appeared). I'm sure I was supposed to be going to do something like meeting someone or going to work but I have no idea what.
The next one had me in a car with loads of other very slow moving cars all going down through some quite open woods to a beach, the cars were twos, but I remember turning to whoever was driving and saying let's just turn round and go. As some horror film type massacre was going to happen (must've been that film trailer I saw on TV last night). At this point I realised I was lucid, however this lasted all of a couple of minutes, forgot I was lucid and the dream continued with me getting out of the car and running up an incline and the having no power being my punch when trying to hit the freaky nasty bloke who was following me in the face.
The dream drifted into another seperate dream with my chasing someone I don't know, round lamposts in a street next to the sea (no idea where), in some form of children's game. (I was playing CounterStrike Source earlier, the movement, etc was very similar in places). Also a couple of my rats Minstrel and Lucy on the loose. I seemed to have the power to wave my hand at doors, windows and curtains and they would open. Then more of my rats seemed to appear under a living room scene, but in the street, and then loads of baby rats appeared too. With me thinking, oh dear, I can't look after ALL of these!
All fun, weird and quite enjoyable. I forgot what fun dreams are when you can rememeber them!