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[craggy]

nope, you're right, some non-jam things do not contain sugar. FACTS!

[Russell H]

Facts do not contain sugar.

[David Meadows]

Though quite a lot of them are sweet and bad for you.

[Christian U]

Jesus, Mike. Do keep a diary of those dreams, just in case David Cronenberg wants to go back to making proper Cronenberg films again at some point and needs some ideas.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Our second oldest prince Friso was buried in an avalanche a couple of days ago, and now it's become apparent that it's not very likely he'll ever wake up from his coma.

Really sad...I do like our royal family, and they've already gone through difficult times these last few years.

[Johnny Henning]

Our second oldest prince Friso was buried in an avalanche a couple of days ago, and now it's become apparent that it's not very likely he'll ever wake up from his coma.

Really sad...I do like our royal family, and they've already gone through difficult times these last few years.

Was he alone at the time?

It must be something like when one of the princes in the Thai royal family was killed in the Tsunami. That was a serious time of mourning. Also, he was autistic, so everyone already felt an excessive amount of sympathy for him.

[Mike]

Was he alone at the time?

It must be something like when one of the princes in the Thai royal family was killed in the Tsunami. That was a serious time of mourning. Also, he was autistic, so everyone already felt an excessive amount of sympathy for him.

What constitutes an 'excessive' amount of sympathy?

[Arjan Dirkse]

Well its not different whan when it would happen to any other person of course...but he is a public and well liked person, so that creates a bond.

[garjones]

What constitutes an 'excessive' amount of sympathy?

Anything involving the Thai royal family, where they lock you up if you don't regard them as divine and infallible.

Which is not the case in the Netherlands of course.

[Arjan Dirkse]

Anything involving the Thai royal family, where they lock you up if you don't regard them as divine and infallible.

Which is not the case in the Netherlands of course.

That's true. We get brain implants that explode when we think any negative thoughts about the Dutch royal family.

[Steve Sensible]

I wonder what the Danish royal family will do to this guy then...

[Arjan Dirkse]

That ceiling must be quite something if it's more interesting than the Royal boobies.

[Youri Zoutman]

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[Ulf Imwiehe]

Sweet!!!

[Mike]

Your nasty hypnogogia/dreams usually seem to be bug-related.

Has this always been the case? Did this increase with your year in Australia?

Oh, no, not at all - they vary hugely. Some of them recur over and over - I get the alien albino technospiders quite a lot - but the variety is enormous. What they do share tends to be the sensations of overwhelming terror, crushing, constriction, total paralysis, the intensely buzzing pressure from deep inside my head the takes my eyeballs pop and my head feel like it's exploding, and the sensations of my skin being flayed and poked and prodded.

In the last week or so I've had the bone hive with the swarm of bees, had my head held in a bowl of water by a burglar until I drowned, been impaled through the chest with a rusty sword, had God appear at the end of my bed and tell me the world is about to end while crushing me in an invisible fist, and had the tin soldiers with the broken faces dissect me piece by painful piece and then feed me my own spleen, liver and heart while they sing nursery rhymes.

Experiences do influence them - I woke up the other night to discover a funnel web spider rearing itself up on my chest with venom dripping from its fangs and hissing, before plunging into me and making my whole body arc with electric pain - but being in Australia didn't change the whole tenor of them, no.

Something that makes me sad though is that I'm fairly sure my niece has inherited the genetic predisposition to the same sleep phenomena that I get.

[Christian U]

Do you ever have pleasant hypnagogic dreams, by the way?

[Mike]

Yes.

[Christian U]

That pleasant, eh? Well, that seems like fair compensation for tin soldiers feeding you your organs.

Edited by Christian U, 25 February 2012 - 05:45 PM.

[Mike]

The icchy ones outnumber the more pleasant ones by a wide margin. But, yes, academically they're a fascinating physiological phenomenon.

On an unrelated note: my wee sister has sourced a supply of Creamola Foam. I am addicted all over again.

[craggy]

creamola foam! crrrrreeaamoooollllaaaaaaghghgh!