edit: I guess its not really MY apartment yet, but it will be!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
My New Apartment Part 1
Okay, so all I really have is the outside of the building, but what do you want!/ I haven't signed the lease yet.
edit: I guess its not really MY apartment yet, but it will be!
edit: I guess its not really MY apartment yet, but it will be!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Sleep Paralysis and Nightmares, oh my!
I think I may be watching a bit too much Battlestar Galactica (amazing show) because that kind of science fiction seems to be creeping into my dreams.
For some reason or another, my dream found me in space or at least my mind's approximation of space (I've never been). I was on a spaceship of some kind and was being given a tour by a man in a suit. He walked by various plants and other things from earth and explained that his alien civilization could produce anything humans could, but better (sounds cylon to me). This went on for a while, until we came to plant that looked like a peacock tail, with long branches. As I looked at the peacock tree the eyes began to move and then the leaves. The man in the suit then ran up to me and began to talk quietly. I could not understand what he was saying, but everything suddenly went black and I could feel the breath of his voice against my eye and feel his presence. I was now out of the dream but was unable to wake myself. I felt like I was being squeezed so hard that I could neither breath nor move. I tried to speak but nothing came out, it felt as if the nerve impulses just wouldn't rouse my dead body. Finally as I felt I was trying to scream at the top of my lungs, I was finally able to mutter something and snap myself out of it.
Needless to say, I was quite disturbed by this dream and did a little research online (I wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon) about what had just happened to me. Apparently what I experienced is commonly known as sleep paralysis - my mind was awake but my body was not. I was stuck in the kind of sleep during which your body paralyzes the major skeletal muscles so you don't act out your dreams. The effect is that you feel locked in. People who experience sleep paralysis often report auditory and visual hallucinations as well as feeling a presence of something or someone else in the room with them. I'm guessing this is what actually happens to people who think they've been abducted and paralyzed by aliens (with or without probing). This probably relates to the old hag urban legend, during which an old (evil) woman will sit on your chest while you sleep and try to steal your essence. Creepy stuff, but utterly explainable.
After I got back to sleep, I promptly had another nightmare, although this time without any paralysis. This nightmare centered around an alien race of parasites that continually adapted as to be invincible to attack. They began infecting humans and household appliances and attacking humanity. I don't remember this dream as well, but I don't think it was as scary anyway. What the heck is going on in my head this week?
For some reason or another, my dream found me in space or at least my mind's approximation of space (I've never been). I was on a spaceship of some kind and was being given a tour by a man in a suit. He walked by various plants and other things from earth and explained that his alien civilization could produce anything humans could, but better (sounds cylon to me). This went on for a while, until we came to plant that looked like a peacock tail, with long branches. As I looked at the peacock tree the eyes began to move and then the leaves. The man in the suit then ran up to me and began to talk quietly. I could not understand what he was saying, but everything suddenly went black and I could feel the breath of his voice against my eye and feel his presence. I was now out of the dream but was unable to wake myself. I felt like I was being squeezed so hard that I could neither breath nor move. I tried to speak but nothing came out, it felt as if the nerve impulses just wouldn't rouse my dead body. Finally as I felt I was trying to scream at the top of my lungs, I was finally able to mutter something and snap myself out of it.
Needless to say, I was quite disturbed by this dream and did a little research online (I wasn't going back to sleep anytime soon) about what had just happened to me. Apparently what I experienced is commonly known as sleep paralysis - my mind was awake but my body was not. I was stuck in the kind of sleep during which your body paralyzes the major skeletal muscles so you don't act out your dreams. The effect is that you feel locked in. People who experience sleep paralysis often report auditory and visual hallucinations as well as feeling a presence of something or someone else in the room with them. I'm guessing this is what actually happens to people who think they've been abducted and paralyzed by aliens (with or without probing). This probably relates to the old hag urban legend, during which an old (evil) woman will sit on your chest while you sleep and try to steal your essence. Creepy stuff, but utterly explainable.
After I got back to sleep, I promptly had another nightmare, although this time without any paralysis. This nightmare centered around an alien race of parasites that continually adapted as to be invincible to attack. They began infecting humans and household appliances and attacking humanity. I don't remember this dream as well, but I don't think it was as scary anyway. What the heck is going on in my head this week?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Plans for the summer
I'll keep it short and sweet, my plans for this summer are as follows:
1. Find an apartment, because I needs living space.
2. Med School forms. I have quite literally, millions of forms to fill out.
3. Get my apocalypse research on Zombies published in an academic journal. Why? Because it'd be an amazing opportunity and because I'd get to brag about it. That's why.
4. Blog more. Self explanatory, I need to buy a camera so I can photo blog, I rather like photo blogging.
5. Enjoy myself. I've been pretty down recently, I'm going to have fun and enjoy myself this summer, I've worked hard and deserve it. Also, come august, I'll be MIA due to school.
6. Bike. I haven't really been able to bike that much as of yet and I intend to bike more. Not the most exciting plan to write out, but I look forward to it anyway.
7. Make music. I always considered myself a musical person and find it frustrating I can't express myself in a more musical way, lets fix this.
8. Hang out with you lovely people. Yes, you!
Here's to a summer I refuse to waste.
1. Find an apartment, because I needs living space.
2. Med School forms. I have quite literally, millions of forms to fill out.
3. Get my apocalypse research on Zombies published in an academic journal. Why? Because it'd be an amazing opportunity and because I'd get to brag about it. That's why.
4. Blog more. Self explanatory, I need to buy a camera so I can photo blog, I rather like photo blogging.
5. Enjoy myself. I've been pretty down recently, I'm going to have fun and enjoy myself this summer, I've worked hard and deserve it. Also, come august, I'll be MIA due to school.
6. Bike. I haven't really been able to bike that much as of yet and I intend to bike more. Not the most exciting plan to write out, but I look forward to it anyway.
7. Make music. I always considered myself a musical person and find it frustrating I can't express myself in a more musical way, lets fix this.
8. Hang out with you lovely people. Yes, you!
Here's to a summer I refuse to waste.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Quick Emoness
Did you ever read something that someone tried to encode (like a conversation or w/e) but you figured out exactly who it was and what was being said? And it hurts you in a place you didn't know could still be hurt? Yeah.
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