I would like to preface this note with the fact that I posed this question to a room full of friends, and found that they all laughed because they were on the same page I was. Therefore, I will posit it here...
Why is it, with all of the things that one could possibly do during moments of lucid dreaming, that time when we realize that we're asleep and we can control everything that happens, it always seems to be that the most frequent habits of people are to dream of sex or flying?
Not that I'm admitting to anything like this, of course. Certainly this is something OTHER people do, not me. <.< >.> But the question remains, if we are empowered with the equivalent of a holo deck to play on, we (me) don't dream of saving the world, winning the Nobel peace prize, journeying over Mars... it's all about base function.
I suppose you could argue that lucid dreaming is still dreaming, and therefore isn't subject to higher thought processes. I will have to go with that notion, to help salve my embarrassment with the situation. I will also have to note that I had a brief time of lucid dreaming where I was trying to drag a deceased friend back to life from the world of dreams, so -obviously- it lacks a bit of the capability for reason.
There are ways that you can improve your chances of lucid dreaming, and on occasion I am succumbed in to trying to do them. Writing down dreams, practicing looking at clocks when awake so it becomes a reflex in dream, et cetera. The trouble is that, every time I start doing so, I have to face the fact that I don't see what dramatic advancements or improvements I would be making in life by succeeding.
Other than the obvious tension-relieving properties of lucid dreaming. ;)
I made some resolutions last year and posted them to my LJ, hidden to just me. Think i kept any of them? Hmm.
I am without a phone, as mine has been sent off, but my new one hasn't arrived. Predictably, it is an iPhone. Isn't everyone iPhone these days?
2008 was a good year. By good, I mean there were no major tragedies. When did my definition of 'good' change? LOL. Really, it just felt like a year I coasted through. Is this what it is to get old, to just look back at a year and say 'no big deal'? Really, it was fine. Decent. Low-key. I suppose low-key is awesome in and of itself.
Question for you LJers: Do you use your journal to record things important to you, to vent, to keep friends up to date, or just to check up on others, more? I have been reading the posts of others and wondering why I'm not more inspired to post stuff. Is it because my life is even keel and there are no big events? Is it that I'm not lacking in creative outlets? Am i just lazy? I'm not sure, I just wanted some other opinions on why do we LJ.
I'd do that as a poll, but I'm too lazy to figure out how. hmm. Maybe it's a trend. ;)
You know, the fact that the high for the day doesn't even get UP to freezing? That might be a sign people shouldn't live here. Wow.
But dang is Anchorage beautiful. Even with all of my dislike of cold, I can't just stop and stare when I'm outside (and there's daylight) at the majesty and beauty of the mountains here. They are BREATHTAKING. I really just have to catch my breath in awe, every time. It's one of those things I look at and have to believe creation reflects the hand of the master Artist. Glorious.
I don't get to fly home until midnight Wednesday, so likely I'll be zonked on Thursday. The things I do for my job! It's a good thing I've got a lot of downtime after.
I had to scrape ice off of my rental car again this morning. At 10:30 am, the sun was just rising.
It makes me reflect on how different people can be, and yet there are such commonalities. This seems to be a theme I keep seeing come up in lots of areas of my life right now. You know, we're all just the same when you get right down to it, blood and breath here for but a brief span. The gulf between people is not so wide, no matter how it seems sometimes.
I'm really tired, these are dazed ramblings. Feel the love.
Somehow, I have drawn the straw of irony again, in that they send me to Alaska when it is cold. Next week I spend 3.5 days in Anchorage. I'm getting bored of Anchorage. I want to go up to Barrow or something.
What else is new and interesting?
Prepping for a guest over Thanksgiving, a number over our traditional midwinter thing. May be going to Hawaii for Christmas day and a couple after, since guests will be gone then. That's about the highlight of things.
Got Guitar Hero World Tour. Rocked out a lot with friends. Obnoxious fun.
My parents gave me 2 taxidermied pheasants they got at a garage sales. Lord forgive me, I like them. I'm becoming more eccentric. I'm becoming them.
Discount tickets on to certain Cirque shows in Vegas. Debating seeing Ka again. Saw it with Cyntia shortly before she died. Soo bittersweet.
Does anyone else find that they have all sorts of LJ posts they almost make, but never quite finish? This happens to me all the time. You'd think if there were one area of my life I wouldn't procrastinate in, it would be blogging. Hah. No. If only I could get ONE area together, I'm sure I could change the world! Or at least maybe keep myself organized .
Two, Happy Birthday tomorrow to sudrin . You'll know what I sent you, I expect. If not, that's okay too.
Three, I finally am starting to upload my ENORMOUS BACKLOG of pictures that I never posted. I've realized a bit of frustration with my lack of picture-taking ability in this. GRR! GRR! So I suppose I'll need to, you know, get my act together and learn something. Why can't Digital SLR cameras be SMALLER? What small camera has awesome ability to control details like that? I'm stuck with this frustration that I want something easy to travel with, but kickass in picture-taking. Help! (that's probably going out to sudrin , unless there are any other picture fanatics who read this). It's endlessly frustrating to think a picture is perfect, in focus, and then look at it on the computer in its appropriate size and find blur.
It's been a while, hasn't it? For those who wondered if I'm still alive and kicking... I'm still alive and kicking! Nothing too significant to report about life in general. My brother in Hawaii was bitten by a Mediterranean Recluse (brown recluse, just the version that lives down there) right above his heart, nearly died, has huge hole in his chest. Scary. I laugh sort of now, because dang, how bizarro would it have been for him to die because of a SPIDER BITE?!?!?!?! My family has some shit luck. Or maybe it's really good, since he's alive and enduring.
My dad has actually started using PayPal, that's sort of amazing too .
Today, I cried because I am a bad fish owner. We have a tank with three fish in it, and I just was lame ass and didn't take care of it. So finally I brought them back to the store. I cried, I'm blue. But at least they are where they will be taken care of. Pink (our mean silver fish with pink fins) jumped out of the pitcher as I was moving him, and flopped on the floor. I had to catch him and put him into the transportation container (a huge pot!), and I thought he was dead at first. Wow, was I about to be a wreck. But, they're off, farewell fish, I miss you already. We'll make a terrarium now, or something.
Disney in six weeks or so. Woo. That's about it, all that's happening here.
This is the season of visitors and work madness. One friend just arrived from England, and another who is really one of my favorite people to just hang with flew in from Chicago, so we've been having fun. Next week is the 2008 Crossroads gather, so it will be madness. Madness, I say!
Then June is the month of insane travel. Every week I'm headed somewhere for work. Alaska, Oregon/Seattle, Texas, California, yada yada. It'll be a full, full month. I was thinking back to when I used to travel all week, every week in consulting, and realizing that I'm just glum about the prospect of being gone so much. Still, the travel perks are good.
Not much of interest in life to report. Jacqueline's trying to set me up with someone. Matt and Julie are perpetually Matt and Julie-ish. Summer is here and swimming pool time. I'm glad Jacq and Dan have one. Trying to figure out what to do with our back yard. Hot tub, swimming pool with some waterfall fixture, palm trees. That's about as far as I've gotten in my head. Fire pit. Something.
Side note: I'm so sick of cat fur, of Kitty deciding to jump up on counters and eat food as he gets senile. Is it evil to look forward to having less cats, even if it means something fatal has to actually happen for that to be the case? Clearly I'm not a cat person unless it's a short hair who doesn't shed a lot and knows not to get on counters.
Other side note: Doctor Who is mainly rocking this season.
I wanted to let everyone out there know that I have conclusive proof that God exists.
Monday I had to fly to San Francisco for a day trip. My departing flight left at 6 am, so my alarm was set for 3:15 am. (get ready by 4, get to airport by 4:45, get on plane). I tried to get to bed early so that I'd hopefully be coherent in SF. Well, about 3:00 am I wake up and check my alarm, deciding to push it back about 20 min. I find out then that I never turned the alarm on . I only luckily and with happenstance woke up at 3 am in the morning so that I could get up in time. THAT is SURELY divine intervention, because if I'm up at 3, it's because I've not slept yet.
See? Total proof. Be amazed. ;)
On a totally different note, I was at Interop this week, this lovely IT conference that seems to be the much-faded inheritor to Comdex. It was only marginally better than pulling out my fingernails and dipping my hands in lemonade.
That's about all the news from the front, so to speak. Hope everyone is well and enjoying their stupid economic stimulus crud. Color me jealous.
2008 is thundering along, almost too fast to keep up. It's probably that it's the Year of Fiscal Responsibility*, so everything is going from one goal to the next in a countdown. It makes it pass so much faster.
But what has been happening? Not much, really. I had a brief vacation to visit some friends, I have achieved ultimate slacker status at work, I had to ditch out on a family vacation to Hawaii (for the best, likely), and that's about it.
Really, this may be the most boring journal entry anyone's seen from me in a while, but I wanted to let everyone know I'm alive, things are going well, and life is good. Oh, I did sob at the series finale of Torchwood.
Blessings to all of you out there, friends old and new. :) Sorry I've not been posting, just things are smooooth.
* Year of Fiscal Responsibility - a year of restraining my normally crazy wayward fiscal irresponsibility so that I'm not trapped in any debt except the house. I think as a nation we're all way too indebted, and it's scary. I remember in college an older, "wiser" friend of mine told me to get a credit card and not worry when it was maxed, just pay the monthly minimum and get a new one. How do we survive like this?!?!?!? So I'm done. Never again.
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