De somniis

[darcydodo]

Sometimes I can't understand why I wake up too early. This time it's perfectly self-explanatory, but I don't know why this happens. I was dreaming about things too akin to real life, things that I needed to verify were real by checking my e-mail. Which, of course, kept being accurate in the dream, but I knew at the same time I was dreaming. I thought monanotlisa had e-mailed me to tell me I got the solo, or at least that three of the four people had already voted for me, and she was the only one left to vote. (For some reason in the dream she was one of the people deciding. There's also not actually four people deciding. Well, maybe there are.) I also thought that Ainsley had e-mailed me her blog address, so I wanted to check my e-mail so that I could open a webbrowser and look at the damn thing. For whatever reason, I couldn't open a browser in this dream-state. I think there were other things too, but I've now forgotten what. Anyway, this has led to much less sleep than I would like, especially as it dragged on for over two hours; I know this because I woke up briefly at 6-something and was like, no, can't deal, must sleep, and then I woke up again at 8-something, and I'm fairly sure this was going through my head the entire time, like a broken record.

Oh, an earlier, less-real dream included elemy getting contact lenses and for some reason needing me to wear them part of the time. This may have derived from my conversation last night with Misha about soft vs. gas permeable contact lenses; I'm not sure. I can't help but wonder if at also might not have derived from my eyes feeling all dry and mildly irritated. I remember it being a strange dream, and it involved a monster of some sort that I think was maybe an animated cardboard cutout, and a maze/labyrinth of some description, and possibly a Frankenstein-ish sub-plot of a Buffy episode that had been entirely cut from an F/X rerun, and me being confused as to why I remembered all these bits that weren't in. Oh, and an e-mail that I'd gotten from Thrud that was a forward (he always sends me forwards) which was basically talking about a new tattoo that j4 had gotten, and me thinking, wow, that's like 20 degrees of separation in this e-mail, and going and posting a comment on j4's lj. And doing a headstand (I really doubt that I can, any more) while wearing only a shirt, 'cause I didn't realize I was only wearing a shirt. Yes, there were people around, but they didn't mind too much. Were these all the same dream? Hard to say.

OK, memories coming back... I also wrote something on my hand in the dream, something about spazatron... *thinks hard* Oh, I can't remember. It was two words, and one was "Spazatron." And I kept having lots of trouble writing it. So this was evidently another dream; I was at his house for some party, and there were chips and dip and pitas with falafels and other things, and hummus. Young-Mee showed up, I remember that. And there was something, possibly connected to this dream 'cause I have the feeling there was a segue, about birds, including pelicans and snowy owls; but the pelicans were actually more like seals than pelicans. And they looked very strange, some of them. Possibly because pelicans don't actually look like seals. But some of them were a bit odd even for seals. I can't remember what the hell I was doing regarding the birds; I think it was something science-y or identifying-y. But yeah, I think this might have led into the spazatron dream.

(I was going to friends-lock this entry, but I realized there was nothing incriminating. Except possibly the lack of pants [in any sense of the word]. So I decided I wouldn't.)

Comments

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

my ability to sleep seems to have moved away simultaneously with compilerbitch moving away. and two weeks later has not been regained.. but when i went to see her i fell asleep at 10pm and was out cold until 10.15am, when she had been up for hours and fiddling with her puter.

also sleeping less tends to be associated with more manic activity and with eating less.. is that the same for everyone?