Brains are so cool.
Or when they are trying to take over the world, just like they do every night.
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Jul 18, 2005 2:17:25 pm PDT #910 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Susan W. - Jul 18, 2005 2:19:01 pm PDT #911 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've also heard you can't die in dreams. But I have.
I always wake up before I hit the ground. And all my near-death dream experiences have been the kind where you would hit the ground--no dying peacefully of old age or of a lingering illness. Dream me gets shot or tumbles off precipices.
I don't think I've ever dreamed about reading, which is odd, given how much I read in waking life, but I know I'm literate in my dreams--I read signs and such.
Scrappy - Jul 18, 2005 2:21:51 pm PDT #912 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Last night my BF turned to me in his sleep and patted my shoulder and said "My girlfriend is beautiful." I was very touched, although I did ask this morning if he was dreaming about Heidi Klum or something, just to double check.
Ginger - Jul 18, 2005 2:24:45 pm PDT #913 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Okay, Plei, or Ginger, do either of you have anything approaching a photographic memory?
I remember large chunks of what I've read and if I've seen something, I have a pretty good mental picture of it. That's why my bookshelves drive other people crazy. I don't have a system; I have memory. I don't think it's really at the level of eidetic, though. On the other hand, I don't remember things I hear very well, which is why I take notes even if I have no intention of referring to them later.
ChiKat - Jul 18, 2005 2:26:22 pm PDT #914 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
no dying peacefully of old age or of a lingering illness.
Me, neither. The most vivid death dream I've had I was walking to a friend's house and got jumped. I was mugged and my throat was slit with a knife. I remember watching the mugger rifle through my clothes looking for cash--I only had a couple of bucks on me. I felt really sad for him that he felt like he needed money so badly that he'd kill an innocent person for it.
erikaj - Jul 18, 2005 2:27:31 pm PDT #915 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I think my memory is, or can be, but I still forget stuff sometimes, so motivation must be part of it.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 18, 2005 2:30:16 pm PDT #916 of 10002
What is even happening?
That's why my bookshelves drive other people crazy. I don't have a system; I have memory.Hee! This is my filing system for most things, and it works for me. When an organized system works for me, it still works, because I remember where I put it, not because I'm using the usual cues like oh say, the alphabet, or numbers.
Jesse - Jul 18, 2005 2:35:34 pm PDT #917 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Last night my BF turned to me in his sleep and patted my shoulder and said "My girlfriend is beautiful."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we call him the WBB.
On the other hand, I don't remember things I hear very well, which is why I take notes even if I have no intention of referring to them later.
Me too! Just the act of writing something down makes me remember it much better than hearing it or reading it.
Kathy A - Jul 18, 2005 2:43:38 pm PDT #918 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My brain is very strange--I only clearly remember about four dreams I've ever had, but one of them was dreamt during kindergarten (or thereabouts). I still vividly remember that one because of some of its more surreal aspects (giant generic Mom and Dad and Baby Girl, clutching a giant Teddy Bear, peeking around the door at me, and then I turn over and the bedroom has become a massive ballroom lit only by moonlight coming in through a wall of French doors, filled with adults in fancy 1970-era evening wear, all milling about chatting with drinks in their hands). I might recall a dream if I wake up in the middle of it and repeat the details out loud to myself, but even then the details are lost within minutes.
As to book/media shelf organization, I keep my paperback romances in author alphabetical order (with series and trilogies shelved in release order), and all nonfiction organized by subject matter (history has tons of subsections). The unread books are in a separate case just split up by fiction or nonfiction. The media is organized by type of film (comedy, action, sci-fi, doc), and the music is organized by type and then by artist (soundtracks/cast recordings are organized by name of the film/play). Yes, I am rather anal about these things--the library work comes to the forefront on my shelves.
Theodosia - Jul 18, 2005 2:49:27 pm PDT #919 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I've dreamed reading comic books and Sunday comics (remember the For Better or Worse bizarro dream I had a couple weeks ago?) as well as visiting art galleries. And I do have a very strong visual memory....