(August 15, 2011 at 1:12 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: You have to share a dream, Oro!
Well, I have one that is very strange but also very funny, in a way. It really demonstrates lucid dreams, which are different from ordinary dreams. Most people don't know this but when you are dreaming, your body becomes essentially paralyzed. I'm sure a lot of you have had dreams where you were very frightened and wanted to cry out and was frozen in fear. That is because when you dream, you lose most voluntary control over your body.
Okay, back to my dream. Let me set this up a little. I was doing some environmental remediation work in Owensboro, Kentucky about 20 years ago with a co-worker, and we were staying in a nearby hotel, sharing the room to save money. Unfortunately, my co-worker, a rather large dude, was the loudest snorer I've ever met before or since. I have always been a light sleeper to begin with, so staying in this room with this guy was friggin awful. I ended up getting a room to myself the next day.
Anyway, that night, I tossed and turned, and occasionally woke the guy up to get him to roll over in his bed, but even that didn't help. I lay there for hours with a pillow over my head, when I suddenly heard a noise (dreaming of course, and not realizing that I had fallen asleep), and looked down at my feet to see this little squirrel that was wearing those tiny wire-framed glasses. The glasses made him look oriental, which was weird. I tried to kick him off but I couldn't move my feet, which caused me to start to panic. The damned thing then crawled up and sat on my chest, and smiled while pivoting his head back and forth and waving a finger at me. At that point I tried to scream but of course could not. I finally came fully awake and yelled, which startled my co-worker so badly that he almost fell out of bed.
Yeah, I know, weird. Probably even stranger is that most of my most vivid dreams have always involved animals; but it is probably because I've raised a lot of different animals (but never a squirrel) and been around them most of my life.
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
