And because I apparently haven't posted enough tonight

[annathepiper]

I passingly mentioned differences in my sleep and dream cycles in my arm status report post, but this warrants a separate post just because I like to note surreal dreams that I have. And I've had two this week. I don't know if this is a consequence of my healing enough to be able to sleep better (and therefore have longer and better opportunities for dream cycles), having enough of a cold that I've had to take Nyquil at night to sleep, or both.

The first of these dreams seemed to have as its beginning concept mamishka agreeing to give me a lift to work. We got lost on the way, which isn't all that unusual in dream context; what struck me after waking as DEFINITELY weird was that we wound up in Mt. Sterling.

In KENTUCKY.

Mt. Sterling is where solarbird's and my friend Archie Harper lives, and Archie even made a cameo in the dream. He amiably gave Meems and me directions -- to get back to Lexington, which is apparently where I wanted to get in the dream, despite the fact that Mimi was supposed to be giving me a ride TO WORK.

Now, that part by itself was only moderately weird. The dream got REALLY weird, though, as the whole situation seemed to merge with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Riley and Spike mysteriously joined us on our journey, and although I retained an awareness of her as 'Mimi', Meems seemed to merge with Buffy as Riley was obviously 'with' her. Spike wasn't necessarily 'with' me, but in true Spike fashion seemed to mostly be there to hang around on the periphery of the group and make smartassed remarks.

Things got extra special weird when we got sidetracked into something that seemed to be a tiny circus/carnival. I remember a tent full of creatures/entities who seemed bent on hypnotizing us and making us stay there with them forever.


Dream #2 was this morning. Not surprisingly, it involved Russell Crowe. But upholding my personal tradition of having weird-assed dreams about my personal idols, my brain was not content to throw me a scenario of attending a TOFOG concert. Instead, I got a sequence of disjointed little mini-scenes.

There was one where Russell more or less collapsed into my lap, right there on the stage. I don't know how I got onto the stage vs. being in the audience, and nor do I remember the audience as an actual presence during this part. But I definitely had the sense of 'stage'. What I remember about this part, mostly, was me gently telling Russell that there were people out there waiting for him to sing.

And he didn't quite look at me, with a sort of depressed and self-deprecating expression, and asked something to the effect of why he should inflict himself on them.

Another decidedly odd visual involved the six Grunts coming out onto the stage in what looked like... I don't know if 'glee club' is the right concept here, but that's what I thought of with the guys all wearing these old-timey frat-boy sorts of sweaters and doing this sort of coordinated dance-and-chant thing to introduce themselves to the audience. The sweaters had their names or nicknames; I remember Russell's said "Cutie". And he was suddenly short-haired and clean-cut a la A Beautiful Mind, as opposed to the long and shaggy blonde hair look he's got going on these days -- which, I might add, I recollect him having in the less weird portions of the dream that were more akin to a simple concert sort of setting.

And the thing is, I didn't take any Nyquil before going to bed last night, so all weirdness in this one is entirely MY OWN FAULT.