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-Zombie quote: "They just moan or run really fast."-

Winner of the Weird Dream of the Week Award: the one in which I somehow ended up in a polyandrous marriage.

As far as posting for today, I've had a bit of a tense week, so I'll fill you all in later.

Reality check.

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-Nonsensically misspelled quote: "...hearing there voice?"-

Dream wasabi, as it turns out, is delicious. I ate it plain in one of my dreams this week, and I couldn't stop -- quite addicting.

Much to the smirkage of my female friends, I happened to watch the 2005 Pride & Prejudice movie several times this week. They probably don't buy my explanation, of course, but I suspect my underlying reason for doing so is because Mr. Darcy (an INTJ to end all INTJ's) is so like me. This is consistent with my discomfort at the gushily romantic scenes -- I demand authenticity in movies, and some of that was fanservice -- and my enjoyment of the more awkward scenes instead.

Or it could be that I just like laughing at people, period, and the only reason that I especially liked Pride & Prejudice is because they made fools of themselves in authentic ways.

Reality check. If there's one thing that makes a movie, it is actors that know that if they can move their eyes convincingly, they need not flap their tongue.

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-Pi quote: "11.00100100001111110110101010001000100001011010001100001000110100110001011000110011000101000101110000000110111000001110011010001001010010000001001001110000010001000101001100111110011000111010000000010000010111011111010100110001110110001001110011011001000100101000101001010000010000111100110001110001101000000010011011101111011111001010100011001101100111100110100111010010000110001101100110000001010110000101001101101..."-

I had an extremely vivid dream that I was raising some kind of wispy-winged grasshopper-like thing. I never had a pet as a child (still haven't had one) so animals, to me, are frightening little things that move around a lot. I can still remember the feel of that dream insect struggling against my hand. Wigs me out just thinking about it.

I had planned to fill this post with a glorious, epic-length blank verse poem, but then remembered that today was Pi Day! Happy Pi Day everyone!

Reality check. Everyone, that is, who writes their dates in MM/DD format, that is.

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-Gmail quote: "Select: All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, Unstarred"-

I had a lot of particularly vivid dreams this week. I guess that's what happens when I make dreaming a priority again. Or it could just be that I had several late nights in a row followed by a few nights containing the proper amount of sleep, which would be similar to CAT. Unfortunately for you, my readers, they are all phenomenally boring when described in print (you know how sometimes you have a really vivid dream, then are all excited to tell someone, only to realize it was a vivid dream of eating cereal or something?). Probably the most interesting snippets to describe would be (1) the Tatewaki Kuno cameo -- I've obviously been watching too much Ranma 1/2 -- and (2) the dream where I ate a mint patty. As it turns out, in dreams, mint patties taste the way I always thought they SHOULD taste in real life, which is to say, delicious. I should try dream bacon sometime...

I still haven't had too many lucid dreams. I think my striving to attain lucidity is actually seeping backwards. Instead of going into dreams and realizing that they are not reality, I am going into reality and realizing how dreamlike it is. Probably the practitioners of dream yoga and the like would be pleased with this result, but I still would like to be able to control my dreams.

It's true there are those dreams (I had a lot of them this week) that are wild, spontaneous romps that my thinking mind couldn't possibly come up with on its own. But there are some dreams that are just heeking boring. It is those ones that I want to be able to change.

And oddly enough, they're the easiest ones for me to realize that I'm dreaming in -- my mind gets in the frame of reference of everyday life, which makes it easier to spot inconsistencies. When I'm on an adventure in a distant fantasy land, I forget my real self.

Reality check. Personally, I'd rather have adventures in distant fantasy lands than be mopping up Kool-Aid with my socks. Yes, my brain went to the trouble of dreaming that last night.