the only thing that counts is that I won't sleep

[truepenny]

Woke up at quarter of four from the first nightmare I've ever had in the form of literary criticism.

Thank goodness the internet never sleeps.

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[larryhammer]

Are you willing to be a little more explicit about how it was in the form of literary criticism? (If you're even able to, for that matter. I've never yet managed to explain the anxiety dream that was in FORTRAN, beyond that phrase.)

---L.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The dream was a lit crit analysis of a horror story. Only, it also was the horror story. I'm not sure if that clarifies anything, but it's the best I can do.

[larryhammer]

Given how layers of dreams conflate, sliding up and down the layers of inclusive meta,* I sort of see what you're saying.

* For a while, I had dreams where there were the various personages, who were being played by other people, but who *really* were a third set. I think sometimes there was also a fourth set who the characters represented, but that may have been another way of stating the third set.

---L.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I had one the other day that involved bad things happening not to me but to Lord Peter Wimsey. And Bunter.

Which may possibly illustrate the difference between reader brain and writer brain.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

May I just pop in here to say that I'm sure there are an awful lot of people out there who would appreciate knowing exactly what the bad things were that happened to Peter and Bunter? Myself, naturally, included.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Sorry but I don't actually remember! I think there were Villains involved, though - I mean, it wasn't just falling into a bog or being on a dangerous cross-Atlantic flight or anything like that.