Last night the stoopidhead apple repair people told me they hadn't even gotten the part to fix my computer in yet, so this morning I caved and "bought" a loaner laptop to use until they fix mine or decide they won't be able to get the part and give me a new one. (Yay for having six months left on Apple Care).

Good god, is Lilly cute.

How was your trip, Kat?

How are the kitties, Aurelia? I hope you can work something out with Housing.

It's raining here, but I have a three day weekend to loll about and now internet access, so I am not sure I care.

Lily adorable. Plei gorgeous and relaxed. Sigh... Makes babies look like the best idea in the entire world. Just as it should be for those that have them.

Tiny Bag End. REALLY impressive!

Remembering dreams is a sign that one is not completing a REM cycle, isn't it?

So if you're sleeping properly and fully, you shouldn't remember your dreams? That just creeps me out. I have enough emotional difficulty being haunted by the size and emptiness of the universe and the question of death and what comes after; if, on top of that, I should properly and healthily be completely erasing the life my mind lives for a full third of the tiny scrap of time I've got here -- no, just fuck that. Also, brrr.

::goes out to drink eleventy billion cups of coffee::

today=sitting in comfy chair with kitties watching tv.

What msbelle said, plus internet.

Not that I missed it, or am addicted, or anything.

For me, it's gonna be comfy chair, knitting, and DVDs.

What? So it's not good to remember... I look forward to them sometimes.

I'm about to go out and run errands. After I eat, for the first time today. I've cleaned the apartment, so that's good. I haven't decluttered, but that can wait. I seriously need to do a monster declutter around here.

Still up: laundry, manicure, grocery shop, targetshop.

I think, actually, that waking up out of a dead (stages 3-4) sleep is interrupting the sleep cycle -- night terrors, or the really sludgified brain of the shocked-out-of-the-deep.

When you sleep, you go way down deep, then slowly surface, in a 4-stage cycle several times per night. Remembering your dreams is just a sign of your dream cycle occurring in a relatively shallow state of sleep: the upper levels of stage 1, right up close to wakefulness. Lots of people wake up twice or thrice a night (yours truly), and that's reasonably normal, as long as they get enough deep sleep in between wakings-up.

When you say than an exhausted person slept without dreaming, that's usually literally true: the person is charging up on stage 4 sleep, and dreaming is sort of bells-and-whistles compared to that.

Is now the time to bring up the (incredibly rare) prion disease Familial Fatal Insomnia? It's been proved that lack of sleep can be fatal in humans, although the way the disease progresses it's not a "300 hours without sleep!" thing so much as less and less sleep every night for many months, till secondary illnesses and insanity kick in.