Owl-eyed

[sartorias]

I was JUST drifting off to sleep again last night when a quake struck. It was only a five, but fives can be precursors, and so I ripped out of bed to find out where it was, etc. Finally fell back to sleep at five for an hour, but that entire hour I was doing pre-writing, which is something that's been happening in, oh, about the last six months or

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[cmcmck]

And I thought we'd had a fun couple of days!

Glad you're safe!

[sartorias]

Oh, it was merely a roller. The big ones are the ones to dread.

[cmcmck]

Experienced a little'un in Italy once but that's my only experience.

[sartorias]

It'd be a lot scarier in the land of stone buildings.

[whswhs]

We felt that one down here in San Diego, too.

[sartorias]

Yeah, I think it was sharper down there. My daughter texted me.

[queenoftheskies]

The quake woke us up, too. Freaked out my bedroom cat and he stayed close and slept with me most of the night.

Amanda says there's a pretty nasty fault down where it happened. (Her minor is geology.)

Does the pre-writing keep you awake, too? Or is something that happens because you can't sleep? (Sometimes, when my brain is working on a story, it keeps me awake.)

[sartorias]

Yeah, the San Jacinto fault is indeed a nasty one.

I think it's both--though what is going on here is a dream state with actual images and scenes, and occasionally actual text. In the past, it's always been just images/scenes, you know, the internal movie.

[asakiyume]

Is prewriting when you work out stuff in your head, or do you do it on paper/on computer?

[sartorias]

It happens in a dream state. I remember it when I waken.

[starshipcat]

I read on one of the news sites that it was felt all over southern California. Out here, it's not unusual for a relatively mild tremor to be felt over great distances because we're on the continental shield -- the New Madrid (Missouri) "hard shock" of 1812 rang church bells in Boston and woke Thomas Jefferson in Monticello. But out there, the lithosphere is so broken up with faults that it usually damps out the vibrations fast.

I hope this is not a harbringer of something major. My youngest brother lives in San Jose.

[sartorias]

Yeah, a very seismically active area, too.