The infamous lower body rebellioin of '05

[wordinista]

Right.  So... yeah.  Legs?  Kind of called in sick to day.  Ow.  Taking a break today; will resume masochistic torture  work-out tomorrow.

It's going to be a nice "writing day" I think.  I hope.  I've got some edits to make on Universal Truths, a few tweaks for the Mayu/Hatori smutfic, and... I'd really, really like to get a draft of OGAM 52 out to the betas.  It's about seven pages so far.  Hopefully I'll get something workable.  I want to finish the beast.  I really, really do. 

In other, completely unrelated news, I have learned a very nifty trick.

To back up a bit -- I have pretty common dreams.  You know -- falling, being chased, searching for the unfindable...  But last night I had a zombie dream.  It was pretty creepy, and ran very much like a horror flick.  As near as I could tell, I was in college again, and it was graduation, or homecoming, or something, and the houses on fraternity row were all decked out.  Cars were parked everywhere, and it was just a huge party.  I don't quite know when or how the first zombie showed up, but before you knew it, there were zombies everywhere.  People were getting bitten, and there was blood, and people I knew were turning all undead and... yeah.  It was a bad scene.  The very worst part of my dream was when teh boi insisted on saving his brother, who he didn't know had been bitten, and then said brother ... yeah, it was gross. And disturbing.

So, you can imagine that this was very much not fun to be dreaming.  But, for whatever reason, I wasn't jerking awake yet. 

Enter nifty trick.  (Coincidentally, the first time I did this was also during a zombie dream.)

In the dream, I decided that I was a vampire. 

Yes, yes, laugh it up.  IT WORKED.  The zombies were still stupid enough to chase me, but at least I could fight back. :)

Comments

[hyanan.livejournal.com]

:[ Vampire! Rawr!

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

I was totally bad-ass, too. ;)

[merith.livejournal.com]

it's almost like you watched too much buffy (or something)

taking charge of your dreams is a good thing. i can't remember the last truly upsetting dream i've had (good thing!), though i've have a few mildly not nice ones.

oh wow ... are you taking on too much at one time with your exercising? to make it sore in a mild discomfort is normal, but to make it hurt so much you're hobbling/stooped, it not good.

luck on the writing! i really enjoy those good writing days. they so rock

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

LOL! Is there such a thing as too much Buffy?

Nah, what I think is more likely is that... I remember coming to a point where I kind of "realized" it was a dream, and that the way things stood at that moment, I was going to be zombie-food. And rather than waking up, I decided to ... appropriate skills that would help me.

What I find amusing, now that I'm awake, is that I chose one undead thing over another. ;)

[katmorning.livejournal.com]

Seems logical to me. If it's going to be a monster movie dream, then you might as well go with something cool that can take on the zombies. Not that zombies are any great shakes as far as monsters go ... unless you're a slow-moving human.

It's called lucid dreaming, by the way. That's when you realize you're dreaming and can control the dream to some extent. *is full of useless facts*

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's pretty much the long and short of it. Except that they weren't very slow-moving zombies.

Lucid dreaming, eh? Huh. I've been doing that a LOT lately. It happened one other time (with a different zombie dream, that I can remember), and I can remember a handful of other times when I realized I was dreaming and could control it. Sometimes I'd realize I was dreaming, and in my attempt to control it I'd wake myself up. This tends only to happen with nightmares or those weird, weird dreams that make no sense.

[katmorning.livejournal.com]

Humans are slow moving in comparison to most monster. And have you watched zombie movies? They're very odd. Zombies shamble slowly whenever they're on screen. Obviously, the rigor mortis has kicked in something awful. But they're always right behind the terrified fleeing human. I suspect they break out into an Olympic sprint whenever the camera panns off them.

The more you do it, the more control you get and the longer you can stay asleep. Nightmares are a really good time to figure out how to do it.