Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.

Oz ,'Beneath You'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

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.


JZ - Jan 14, 2006 10:30:19 am PST #9864 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

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::


msbelle - Jan 14, 2006 10:36:16 am PST #9865 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

today=sitting in comfy chair with kitties watching tv.


Lee - Jan 14, 2006 10:38:44 am PST #9866 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

What msbelle said, plus internet.

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


Anne W. - Jan 14, 2006 10:40:20 am PST #9867 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

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


erikaj - Jan 14, 2006 10:40:59 am PST #9868 of 10002
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)

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


sarameg - Jan 14, 2006 10:44:31 am PST #9869 of 10002

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.


Nutty - Jan 14, 2006 10:46:22 am PST #9870 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

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.


Jesse - Jan 14, 2006 10:47:36 am PST #9871 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm going with sofa, tv, and pizza I just got delivered. I faked that I ordered in just in case my suitcase got here when I was out (stupid airline), but really it's because I'm lazy.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 14, 2006 10:48:32 am PST #9872 of 10002
What is even happening?

Lilly is too cute.


sarameg - Jan 14, 2006 10:54:10 am PST #9873 of 10002

The killing whoozit picture cracks me up every time.

Can you use that dermaglue and then put makeup over it? Someone got between gravity and a cat and is now sporting a slash under my eye. It was a very close call.