gah. I'm never taking a nap again ever.

[lagilman]

oh my cod, people. cold-med-driven naps are disorienting enough, but cold-med-driven dreams will seriously mess you up. I was in some kind of complex, and having to deal with seriously annoying people (actual people from my past life) and trying to sort things out while we were going up and down escalators and hallways in some random manner, and my friend Barbara and I were discussing a trip to Atlantic City so we could avoid the stupidity that was going to happen that weekend,

and then all of a sudden they'd brought in an orca (yes, and no I don't know why) into this huge tank that was being unveiled, and we were in the lower hallway (or I guess an upper hallway but it felt like a lower level) where for some reason the tank wall didn't go all the way to the ceiling and when they opened the screens as the orca was being dropped into the tank, there were all sorts of creatures being dunked in there with it and someone was yelling how something had gone wrong, and then there was this HUGE shadow, and water sploshed over the side, and seaweed and something that might have been a giant squid, as well as an orca that was about 5x the size of a normal orca, except you couldn't see details just those shadows that you knew were Wrong, and then everyone got soaked in an oversplash, and suddenly I was all alone and racing out of the hallway and -

Suddenly I was in a soaking wet uniform having to stand guard as a royal family I swear made of weebles (or at least, people with tightly-stretched pale skin and no actual body movement save wobbling forward)  was presented and went into this stadium-seating auditorium (all in red velvet, same as the uniforms) to see the orca unveiled and we were supposed to stand guard but I said the hell with this and went off in search of...something, but all the inner auditorium doors were shut so you couldn't see what was happening, and nobody was around, in that "but what happened to everyone?" way, then I woke up.

And I really kind of want chocolate and a blankie, right now.  Because it doesn't sound anywhere near as unnervingly weird as it was.

Comments

[girasole.livejournal.com]

I take Allegra-60 during allergy season. When I am lucky, I can get away with one 12-hour pill in a 24-hour period. (NEVER decongestant. It kills me.) My dreams start weird and after a month or two of this are so weird I fear for my sanity. By then, usually, I can stop. But antihistamines definitely do bizarre things to the psyche.

[lagilman]

I hate taking cold meds - even the no-doze ones tend to knock me out. But sometimes the alternatives are... unpleasant.

Right now, the sinus pressure is gone, yay. Soup and salad for dinner, and about half a gallon of apple juice during the day, plus tea. I iz hydrated....

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

There is something uniquely disquieting about dreams that mix the mundane and the really peculiar. Chocolate is a very good answer to them.

[lagilman]

It really was two different dreams, and somehow the orca connected them. How? That's a mystery....

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

For creativity that definitely beats the zombie attack dream I woke up with this morning. It seems I was clenching my jaw so hard I gave myself a toothache for the morning, though. Win?