Insomnia can be a serious problem when you've got an alien parasite living in your head. For one thing, consciousness or semi-consciousness allows a kind of access that the dreaming mind blocks out. Sure, once you accept a parasite, you're going to have weird dreams. It's kind of how they communicate. You’ll have weird dreams and strange impulses ( Read more... )

Color me your darling child, color in the lines you want, and I'll be whatever you want or need. During the day and night and all the time that you are conscious. But you can't be conscious 25 hours a day, not like me, and so there will be times when you are not around to paint me whatever it is you want me. And what will I do then? Well, it's ( Read more... )

They hadn't thought it out when they got their yet-unborn daughter into the trials for gene therapy to provide a short sleeper. Who wouldn't want to sleep only four hours a night? Once she was born, they rapidly figured out the answer was, "Us!" By then it was too late, though, and they did love their daughter, despite her annoying habit of being ( Read more... )