Sensory underload

The first thing you notice is the noise.
But it's not noise like you know.
It's so different you can't think of it as noise.
It's just not....proper.

The darkness isn't complete yet you don't open your eyes to alleviate the blackness because, for a while at least, you know that would do more harm then good. And besides, it's so much more fun in the dark!

All around you is a warmth so akin to your skin it feels as though it too doesn't exist, yet only one subtle movement will instantly remind you that its there.

There is no scent.
No sound.
No taste.
No touch.
No sight.
You're totally deprived of your senses.
Vulnerable, yet you feel secure and safe.

For a moment you just hang there perfectly.

But then the need to breath harries you,violently shakes your lungs till you have to give in and come back up out of the bath water gasping, head capped in white frothy bubbles.

Again!!

Sick in the Bed

Oh dear! 4 days in and I still have lively coughing and a voice that has gone south for the winter! (Mind I can talk, I just sound like maybe I've been rather badly concealing the fact that I'm a teenage boy who's voice has finally bRoKeN...)

You never, ever appreciate your health quite so much as when you're sick! Suddenly you remember romping through meadows (a classic one with green, green grass and little wee dandelions all about - let's do this right), taking in deep lungfuls of air without then coughing and hacking them up, breathing through your nose without sounding like a blocked loo pipe...
Such magical moments!

And now you sit, huddled in a ball of sniffly misery, and wonder if life will ever be that way again? Or if you're doomed to spend an eternity with a body that does the Rumba each time you try breath in and a nose that runs so much it holds a record in the 100m dash!

You then compliment yourself on you're talent for extreme melodrama!

So to everyone out there who's a little under the weather and not up to 100% on the fuel gauge, here's to a speedy recovery! For ALL of us!!
*COUGH!*

You like, I like

Isn't it strange how some people can love, adore, worship something and others will just look confused, pull faces or say, with a barely concealed sneer, "No. Thank. You."
We're all human and wired up pretty much the same way, but boy oh boy can we like different things!

Like I love brussel sprouts, always have! As a kid that marked me as queer (odd not gay but you knew that so quit snickering) and as an adult it's still something people find odd. I can't imagine why, they taste so yummy!

But then I find there are people out there who love avocados! I kid you not! Something I don't even see as a food source and they're chomping it down on bread or as guacamole and they don't even grimace when they do! Oh how the mind boggles! How can you do that to your tastebuds? Have you no shame?!

I always wonder to what purpose that is though? Why do some like x and others like y and a few twisted individuals form the cult of z?

Sure you could say it's environmental issues, genetic swerves, how you were brought up or that traumatic event with the Vaseline when you were 12, but my question is more, why do humans vary so much? A survival trait? A natural quirk? Boredom till someone says, "Oh bob, lets try eat the cat!"

I suspect it's because the 'Powers That Be' enjoy being entertained! Us humans are a quirky lot! I suspect if I was a deity I could watch us people for millennia! (Then get bored, wipe us out and bring back the dinosaurs! T-Rex, Raaawr!!!)

Well I guess I don't mind. If you're love of avos keeps you from eating all the things I want, or your love of blue means I get to buy the last green scarf, well then hey, all's well that ends well!
*shoves plate of avo slices as far from her as humanly possible*

To choose to choose

So of course, after yesterdays hail / sleet / snow, I am some what nervous about going outside. Freezing my digits off has never been a hobby of mine! (Passing interest maybe but no, not a hobby!)

Right now it's the urge to walk and go outside and see the world and stretch my muscles and have some human interaction where a face and not a screen answers back to me
VS
Stay home, stay warm, munch too much, chat on the computer and did I mention STAY WARM?!

It's quite the epic struggle! There's pros and cons for both sides and each are willing to fight dirty to win!

What would you do in my place? <--- And then I'll just pick the other choice because being contrary is most enjoyable as well!

In the land of Nod

Why do we dream?? Place your answer in the form of a question and no longer then 50 words!

Seriously though, I know it's something to do with our brains random firing of synapses because we're asleep and either it's clearing it's self out or is just bored or some such. I just wonder what gets it all going and why some dreams make a spooky lot of sense and others are just mumbo-jumbo. How some really do seem to tell the future and others let you know how you'd react if you suddenly turned into a giant omelet. (I'd be pretty good except if I had Green peppers in...)

Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. They've not been able to say exactly why we dream either, though they speculate a lot and draw a decent salary each month.

Last night I was dreaming I was a character in Buffy the Vampire slayer and I was getting advice on treating werewolf bites. (Somewhere along the lines of "tough luck you're so screwed!!") It was terribly entertaining and it was rather annoying when my body insisted we get up before the alarm went off. (I put the most annoying music I could find as my alarm on my cell. Come tiredness, come illness, come being dead, I WILL get up before that horrid noise goes off! *wipes froth from mouth*)

I dream in colour. (someone once told me you dream in black and white, but I suspect they were the sort who also believe goldfish have 7 second memories and that if you put milk outside it's fairies and not feral cats that drink it and leave fur floating.)

I always wonder if comatose people dream? Do they live long, long drawn out dreams? Or bits and pieces of scattered dreams? Or do they blank out and wake up 50 years later feeling a bit stiff and wondering where the long flowing white beard came from? (especially if they're female...)

My dreams tend to stick to the Sci-fi / fantasy / real life with a twist genre. I've had barely one or two prophetic dreams and if I've had an erotic dream, I wasn't there to see it! (I also seldom dream of fruit, hamsters or socks which just goes to show how wacky our brains can be!)

What did you dream last night?

True story 101

Don't you hate it when you get out of the bath and try to put your undies on only to find you put them on inside out?
So you try pull them off without the bathmat sliding out from underneath your feet and then they get all rolled up and bunchy and you suddenly understand why "getting your knickers in a knot" would be such a bad thing!
And then you're clutching the side of the bathtub because that mat is seriously unstable and trying to 'swish and flick!' your undies unraveled, which then do, eventually, in their own sweet time, and then you have to get them back on again only you're losing your balance because you're kinda cold now and more then a tad bit naked, so you shimmy into them as best as possible praying not to fall over or slip and conk your head, because you know, the bathroom door is locked and who knows how long it will be before someone notices you're missing and you're busy drowning in a pool of your own juices and then they have to get the door chopped down by husky firemen who will get to see you in a condition you were last in the day you were born and all they while you're there knowing that this is one thing you'll never be able to explain to the paramedics...

Momentus

Isn't there that all over delicious feeling when you keep thinking the day is Monday only to be joyfully reminded over and over that no, it's Wednesday!! Aaaaah!! I so often get it muddled up the other way round! >_<
I think today is filled with extra positive potential just because of that!
Off to make some memories!!!