in my head
Got the flu on Halloween! You know when you get that fevery, prickly skin feeling that makes any item of clothing you may be wearing feel like burlap? Luckily the worst of it was over within 12 hours. But somehow, this thing is sticking around long enough to make me feel sufficiently fine to host a party and talk my voice completely hoarse within a matter of hours. Now, when I try to talk, my voice alternates between whisper and croak every 2 seconds. Not cute.
I've been doing a lot of lucid dreaming lately, perhaps due to the disruption of my normal sleep cycles. An article I read recently described one useful test for determining whether it's a dream: Just look in a mirror, and if you're dreaming, the article claims, you probably won't see a proper reflection. Turns out that in my dreams, I can see myself in mirrors, so this is not a reliable test. Thus far, my most reliable dream-test involves jumping up in the air, and trying to foil the effects of gravity by swimming upward. 99% of the time, I can slow my fall to the ground enough to realize "It's a dream!" Then, I'm free to explore.
One drawback of this dreaming style is, now that I have control over myself, I have trouble controlling what the other characters do. It seems that I can make them appear, but they're soooo boring. I want to be able to make them DO stuff.
I've been doing a lot of lucid dreaming lately, perhaps due to the disruption of my normal sleep cycles. An article I read recently described one useful test for determining whether it's a dream: Just look in a mirror, and if you're dreaming, the article claims, you probably won't see a proper reflection. Turns out that in my dreams, I can see myself in mirrors, so this is not a reliable test. Thus far, my most reliable dream-test involves jumping up in the air, and trying to foil the effects of gravity by swimming upward. 99% of the time, I can slow my fall to the ground enough to realize "It's a dream!" Then, I'm free to explore.
One drawback of this dreaming style is, now that I have control over myself, I have trouble controlling what the other characters do. It seems that I can make them appear, but they're soooo boring. I want to be able to make them DO stuff.