Very strange drug reaction
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elfsSo, I'm almost over this damn flu, I hope. I've been much better today. I have almost all of the energy I've been missing for the past week, no weird loss of body temperature integrity, no noticeable fever or explicit weakness. Hopefully, I'll be up to real human interaction in a couple of days.
For the past three days, however, something very odd has happened to me when I've slept. I've been having exceptionally vivid dreams, dreams that I remember. I never remember my dreams, and yet I've had three nights in a row that I recall one clearly. All three were straightforward narratives, too, one a very simple erotic dream involving Omaha, one was a slice-of-life scene with Omaha with no oddity or eroticsm to it whatsover, and the third was-- and this was really weird-- a vignette in which I was the POV character in a Journal Entry story (and no, not Shardik, but Darzi from the Peren & Darzi stories), and Darzi was dreaming about boinking the woman with whom he just had a mutual "let's just be friends" moment when last I wrote about him. It was the scene I'd planned on writing, only in monomaniacal first person and full color. Quite nifty, actually. Dreaming about dreaming about fucking. Hmm.
The only drug in common on all three days was dextromethorphan[?], 30mg, way under the typical dosage (200mg) needed to induce anything vaguely like the mild hallucinogenic effects described in the literature.
Just a weird thing to notice.
For the past three days, however, something very odd has happened to me when I've slept. I've been having exceptionally vivid dreams, dreams that I remember. I never remember my dreams, and yet I've had three nights in a row that I recall one clearly. All three were straightforward narratives, too, one a very simple erotic dream involving Omaha, one was a slice-of-life scene with Omaha with no oddity or eroticsm to it whatsover, and the third was-- and this was really weird-- a vignette in which I was the POV character in a Journal Entry story (and no, not Shardik, but Darzi from the Peren & Darzi stories), and Darzi was dreaming about boinking the woman with whom he just had a mutual "let's just be friends" moment when last I wrote about him. It was the scene I'd planned on writing, only in monomaniacal first person and full color. Quite nifty, actually. Dreaming about dreaming about fucking. Hmm.
The only drug in common on all three days was dextromethorphan[?], 30mg, way under the typical dosage (200mg) needed to induce anything vaguely like the mild hallucinogenic effects described in the literature.
Just a weird thing to notice.
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Date: 2007-10-21 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-21 05:31 am (UTC)I almost never remember my dreams. I am always jealous of people who can experience dreams, especially vivid dreams. Then again my wife dreams vividly and often and they are usually disturbing dreams. So, maybe it is a good thing I don't remember my dreams.
If you are having hallucinations are not good, so I've been told. Again I've never experienced any.
Good luck.
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Date: 2007-10-21 06:23 am (UTC)I also never remember my dreams, but all it takes is something like Benedryl to change that. Vivid and bizarre dreams that stay in my head, and sometimes repeat.
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Date: 2007-10-21 08:41 am (UTC)In fact, about a year and a half ago, I even had a few dreams set on Pendor, where I was a version of me who had walked through the Great Hall and become a red-furred, feline fem-taur, who did her utmost to stick around until (or after) the Last Day.
Vivid Dreams
Date: 2007-10-21 12:51 pm (UTC)Depression can also be an after-affect of some flu, although I tend to get depressed a day before the flu symptoms appear....my psychologist confirms this.
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Date: 2007-10-22 06:53 am (UTC)Glad to hear you're improving. One of my friends up here has been fighting a similar bug for a month now.
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Date: 2007-10-22 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-23 12:54 am (UTC){Hugs} and best wishes for getting well soon!