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How the OW. Really.
Dec. 6th, 2009 10:21 pmHad a dream the other day, I don't remember much of the specifics. Something about a species that starts out humanoid, but through a combination of psionics and bioengineering combines with certain other species (as chosen by the individual as they age) and eventually becomes rather non-humanoid.
Anyway. In the dream, some sort of interstellar future-like thing, I got involved with a group of humans who had picked up/learned the psionics (made possible due to some kind of peculiar radiation in that planetary system, and only that system) and I elected to try out the merging thing. Except it was chosen that a squirrel-like thing was to be attached to my arm. After a few minutes, the squirrel jumped onto my forearm, and the arteries and veins in my arm started turning very visibly purple going up to the shoulder and down to the hand. And it HURT.
I don't typically feel actual pain in my dreams* but this really hurt, like a combination of A: my arm being on fire; B: scratching my arm lightly all over and then pouring rubbing alcohol on it; and C: like going from totally numb due to lack of circulation to full feeling in seconds.
This feeling didn't wake me up but kept going for quite a while.
Anyway, the dream went on (something about a small scale war between them and humans and traitors and suspicion of humans who'd attempted or made several of these merges, blah blah blah. Inconclusive dream)but when I woke up what really made me wonder was the pain in my arm while I slept.
*Except the ones that induced actual physical action while I slept; such as the ones where I dreamed someone was strangling me, and I clawed at their arms as they gripped tighter only to wake up to me clawing at my own throat.**
**Just one reason I take the saying "You are your own worst enemy" quite literally.
Anyway. In the dream, some sort of interstellar future-like thing, I got involved with a group of humans who had picked up/learned the psionics (made possible due to some kind of peculiar radiation in that planetary system, and only that system) and I elected to try out the merging thing. Except it was chosen that a squirrel-like thing was to be attached to my arm. After a few minutes, the squirrel jumped onto my forearm, and the arteries and veins in my arm started turning very visibly purple going up to the shoulder and down to the hand. And it HURT.
I don't typically feel actual pain in my dreams* but this really hurt, like a combination of A: my arm being on fire; B: scratching my arm lightly all over and then pouring rubbing alcohol on it; and C: like going from totally numb due to lack of circulation to full feeling in seconds.
This feeling didn't wake me up but kept going for quite a while.
Anyway, the dream went on (something about a small scale war between them and humans and traitors and suspicion of humans who'd attempted or made several of these merges, blah blah blah. Inconclusive dream)but when I woke up what really made me wonder was the pain in my arm while I slept.
*Except the ones that induced actual physical action while I slept; such as the ones where I dreamed someone was strangling me, and I clawed at their arms as they gripped tighter only to wake up to me clawing at my own throat.**
**Just one reason I take the saying "You are your own worst enemy" quite literally.