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[godream]

I think I've said this before, but: when I remember dreams (rare), this is generally how it happens.

I remember having been in some situation that was crystal-clear and perfectly logical at the time -- some variant of a situation from life or that might potentially happen in life, sometimes with strange variations like people being there who really have no business being present, like friends from college walking around my old (now destroyed) high school building. Usually as I think about it more the details get blurrier around the edges, like watching a vhs tape over and over till the picture goes bad. Often it's a pretty mundane situation, or at least all the components are mundane; rarely are there strong emotions involved -- the closest to that is sometimes there's a sense of urgency, something I need to do (which again makes total sense in the dream, of course) lest some dire consequence occur -- and then I wake up still with that goal in mind, and much later figure out that I only needed to do that in the dream, it definitely doesn't need to go on the real-life to-dos.

Had one last night that was particularly out of the ordinary though. There was a building-up situation, as usual, but it didn't stall incomplete the way such things usually do in my dreams -- the something-that-needed-to-happen happened, and someone else did it in spite of how convinced I was that if I didn't do it it wouldn't get done (yes, I am convinced of stuff like this in dreams too, raise your hand if you're surprised). Which resulted in this change from the status quo (which happened hilariously fast, but as always made perfect sense at the time) which I was actually really happy about -- and remembering being really happy in a dream is something that actually almost never happens for me.

Insert psychological analysis here, I guess: maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me to let up and quit stressing out. Unfortunately I fear it's wrong right now (most of my current problems are a result of my own incompetence, although I suppose maybe not the particular one I was dreaming about).


For those of you who don't read boingboing, this is pretty amazingly cool: quicktime video of various interesting stuff involving a water bubble in zero gravity. (Water bubbles rolling around the inside of an air bubble inside a bigger water bubble!)

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[beat-the-beaver.livejournal.com]

Alison, do you need girly chat?

[blueeverglades.livejournal.com]

We should have conference girly chat hour.