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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2008-12-04 08:31 am
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I had a thought a minute ago, and it has left me, but in my efforts to think what it could possibly have been, I remembered that I had good [livejournal.com profile] yuletide ideas last night as I was drifting to sleep, did not get up to write any of them down because it was way too late, and (sure enough) forgot about them until just now.  So, yay vanished thought, whatever it was.

Weird dreams last night, where a bunch of us were in a band of, like, rebel freedom-fighters led by Clive Owen (or, you know, someone played by Clive Owen), and hiding in a sort of dorm or hostel where we were safe, but there were a lot of angry people, and we had to share a room with someone who had brought along a pet tiger, and I don't even know what.  There was text in the dream, that's for sure, like I was reading it (and seeing it) instead of experiencing it, which is unusual.  There was also some stuff about long snowy roads, and a couple of us from high school (self and a guy I haven't heard from since) thought we saw someone we knew (my friend J, whom I see every couple of years) and called to him, but he didn't turn, and we hurried to catch up with him, and I dropped my knitting bag, and it turned out not to be him at all, but a woman with a similar gait and haircut, and when I picked up my knitting bag the guy from my high school thought for a moment I was stealing something from the lady.

It was the kind of morning where I definitely had the sensation of swimming or climbing or crawling or clawing -- in any case, fighting -- my way up out of sleep.  Y'all ever feel that?

Anyway, coffee's on now.
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[identity profile] cereta.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the kind of morning where I definitely had the sensation of swimming or climbing or crawling or clawing my way up out of sleep. Y'all ever feel that?

More often than I'd like. Worse are the times when I dream about waking up over and over, sure each time that this one's real.

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, man, yes. I don't have that often, but it's the worst, you're right. Worst I ever had in that vein was a time one summer when I was working two jobs (waiting tables in two separate restaurants, yet, which I don't recommend to anyone ever): I dreamed I'd had the closing shift at one of them, and the people wouldn't leave, and we couldn't get the place closed, and I was there so late, and I was concerned because I was supposed to open at the other place (which of course wouldn't have cared so much that I'd been working late the night before), and I wasn't going to get any sleep, and I finally got home and it was only like an hour and a half before I had to leave again for the breakfast shift at the second place. With the result that when I woke up -- supposed to go in and work breakfast, mind you -- it was as if I'd only slept for an hour and a half. I've never felt more exhausted after a more-or-less full night's sleep.