"Dying's just another way to leave the ones you love."

[greygirlbeast]

I don't write about my dreams much anymore. Frankly, after I began..well...the new drugs, back in 2010, things got better. Dreamsickness became almost a phenomenon of the past. But Lamictal can cause vivid dreams, and when I have to increase my dose - as I have to do every now and then - I get vivid dreams. Crazy vivid, like the old days. Dreams

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[ulffriend]

As an undergrad I once did a long paper, liberally supported with quotes from the text, proving beyond shadow of a doubt that Edmund in Shakespeare's "King Lear" was actually driven to do all the awful things he did because he was unable to express his frustrated incestuous desire for his father. I did it all tongue in cheek, specifically to make the point that "scholars" can support just about any ridiculous thing that they please, but that it doesn't mean that the point has merit. Fortunately for me, my professor had a good sense of humor and got it. But you're right, and I rarely even read literary criticism any longer because most of it seems forced and overdone...I wonder if the continued popularity of the reader-response school is directly connected to the rise of helicopter moms and fashionable outrage....

I won't claim to remember having dreams that are that fascinating, but I've definitely wandered through more than one day feeling a bit like Alice through the looking glass, wondering if I was the dreamer or the dreamed. I haven't found a satisfactory answer for that question yet.