Comments | ajodasso: Dear brain, what's going on?

ajodasso

Dear brain, what's going on?

Nov 10, 2014 10:06

Is it that I don't have time to dream like this anymore on my normal day-job enforced schedule, whereas now that I'm back in space with no mandatory time constraints for a while, it's possible again? Last night, the scenario was one in which I was being pulled in to understudy the role of Nick in a Broadway stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby; it ( Read more... )

off the map, dreams, health, the great gatsby

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parrot_knight November 10 2014, 15:50:51 UTC

In recent weeks I've dreamed about having to learn the ropes as a new member of the House of Lords (I am not, but an old university friend is) and travelling to the US while flouting visa regulations (a potentially revealing detail) to see an old friend... so I empathise!

ajodasso November 11 2014, 02:27:07 UTC

I wish that flouting visa regulations were really so easy; I'd have been back in the UK before you could've blinked.

(I'm not doing well with that right now. I mean, I'm never doing well with it, any of it, but sometimes the pain's closer to the surface than I'd like it to be, and it's just my bad luck to have now be one of those times to boot.)

parrot_knight November 11 2014, 02:34:04 UTC

The annoying thing about that dream was that it mocked my many friends who are kept out of the UK by immigration rules. The obsession this country has with keeping people out who love it, I do not like; but I feel more and more alienated from mainstream political discussion here.

ajodasso November 11 2014, 20:01:37 UTC

It's a good thing I don't know the precise details of your dream, then; as if the surgery fallout weren't enough, I've been back in tears for 48 hours over the whole not-in-London-anymore-and-hating-it situation in which I've been stuck since 2012. Everything I squash down just so I can function day-to-day is coming out now that I'm stuck in the flat and in pain to begin with.

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arcadiaego November 10 2014, 22:06:02 UTC

I've been having weird dreams for the first time in ages too. Not sure why. :/

ajodasso November 11 2014, 02:29:57 UTC

Another friend of mine has remarked on recent atmospheric strangeness, too. I'm not sure what else to call it. There are days when I remember that nothing's seemed right for a very long time now, and I wonder

I just wonder.