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I think the neighbours must've been playing music last night, because it turned up in my dreams, and when I mentioned it to A, he said he'd been dreaming of music, too. I don't mind; it turned what was probably going to be a fairly average dream into a full-scale musical - and, being a musical, it had a happy ending, which is not the direction that dream was initially heading. I was a detective, looking for some woman who had been, we thought, murdered by her psychopath boyfriend. I was working undercover at a hotel where she'd been staying. The desk clerk had only spoken to this woman once, but there had been sparks between them, and he was very sad that she was probably dead. He started this song and dance number about how he'd have taken care of her, and never harmed her, and loved her, etc etc. We decided the case was closed, and I went out with my detective colleagues for a celebratory meal. But then I caught sight of the woman, who wasn't dead after all, and I successfully closed the case, and the desk clerk asked her out, and she said okay, and it all ended on a big musical number with them dancing.

...Also, alcohol gives me weird dreams. Sheesh. Drinking on a Monday night - baaaaad, I know, but I need something to help me cope with my first day back at work, and the day it finally decides to snow. My first reaction was, "Oh, bloody typical!" (Well, actually, my first reaction was, "Eeee, snow!" *rushes to window*. But my second reaction was dismay at the thought of my journey to work.)

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I've written an AMTDI ficlet, and you can't see it until the

dayofindulgence. But I've written something, woohoo! I might expand it, given that I've got, like, a month before I can post it. *writeswriteswrites* I swear it's just because I cut my nails, too.

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I need to delete some of my icons so I can add some more. *sadface*

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ETA: Oh, wow. Thanks to a recent post by

surreallis, I've come to a realisation: Office Dude is a random Sims character! He just wanders in, looking like he's been dressed by aliens, starts random conversations with people who don't know him and don't know what he's talking about, hangs around for too long, and then wanders off to do something else! IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE!

(Does this mean I'm a Sims character, too? That might also explain a few things.)

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Very cool dream.

Oddly enough, I used to have long, involved, plot-laden dreams, too. Then my doctor and I finally figured out I have sleep apnea and had spent the previous goodness knows how many years in REM sleep since I never could manage to make it into delta sleep.

I miss the dreams.

I don't miss falling asleep at stop signs. :-)

Huh... I have a lot of long, plotty dreams, and I seem to need a lot of sleep... Then again, it's probably just my weight and my vivid imagination. :)

I can see how you wouldn't miss falling asleep at stop signs. Yikes.

Um... do you snore?

I used to spend at least 24 hours every weekend sleeping. That's because I was never getting the actual sleep I needed, just hanging out in REM from the moment I closed my eyes until I staggered upright to eat or hit the bathroom.

With the CPAP, I sleep 7 or 8 hours at a stretch and am fine.

You might just want to look into this, since if you're suffering from apnea, it's a *really* good way to stroke out in your sleep and or damage your heart. If you've got decent insurance, it should cover a sleep study.

I snore a lot, so I'm told - sometimes badly, sometimes hardly at all. I certainly don't sleep 24 hours on the weekend, though - so if I do have it, I'd doubt it's severe. I usually find 10 hours of sleep is enough, 12 is nice, but I can get by during the week on less.

I like the idea of people studying my sleep, though. :) Well, when I next sign up to a doctor (I moved recently-ish, and haven't got around to it yet), I'll mention it. I haz National Health Service, hoorah.

YAY!! Do have it checked out. Even if you're not as sleep deprived as I was, it's not healthy at all. They often do sleep studies over two different nights. The first night, they'll see how you sleep unaided. The second night, if needed, they'll put you on a CPAP and adjust it until you're sleeping normally. Two hours after I went to sleep, they woke me up and said, "We need to put you on this now." :-) Then, six hours later, they woke me up to go home and the tech was all "Are you *OKAY*? You didn't *move* all night!"

They showed me the printouts of my study and during the first two hours, I didn't hit delta sleep at all and wavered between waking and REM. I stopped breathing something like 100 times every two minutes. Once they put me on the CPAP, I hit delta sleep immediately and never left it. :-) Man, I had NO idea what a good night's sleep felt like until then. It's been several years and I'm still not really used to feeling rested. I'd been sleep deprived for decades.

I stopped breathing something like 100 times every two minutes.

YOWCH. That's... not good.

And that, my friend, is sleep apnea. Most folks who have it have obstructive sleep apnea where either there's extra tissue of some kind in the airway or the soft palate relaxes too much and closes the airway during sleep. This causes the sufferer to wake, though usually, not enough to be conscious of it. It's a constant cycle of sleep, stop breathing, wake, sleep, stop breathing, and so on. The result is you're never asleep long enough to get to the desired level of sleep long enough for the the body to do it's housekeeping. All a CPAP does is increase the air pressure in the airway to keep the obstruction at bay and let the patient sleep normally. They're absurdly easy to get used to.

A small percentage of suffers have central sleep apnea which is, I believe, a neurological problem and I think it's far harder to treat.

And while there are those who find losing weight solves their problem, when I look back, I was suffering when I weighed 130 pounds (my 'optimum' weight, according to the charts). It just got worse as I got heavier.

lol interesting dreams you've got ^_~

Heh, thanks. I keep myself entertained. :D

Hee. I'm sorry about the snow--well, sorry about the traffic problems the snow causes.

Sims Dude! hee.

Eh, what we got was merely a light dusting of snow, so it wasn't really terrible - just slippery. I wore big boots, and all was well. :)

He's so totally a Sims Dude. One of the random ones who just turn up. *has gained entire knowledge of Sims through people posting screencaps of their fandom Sims*

The only experience with Sims I have over you is that my roommates play it and I occassionally watch for a couple of minutes. :-)

Hee. A keeps threatening to get it, but I figure neither of us needs to spend any more time on the computer than we already do.

We didn't get snow, just horrible black ice on my driveway that sent me skidding into my car bonnet when I went to defrost the windowscreen. My back *just* got better, tahnks, I don't need it screwing up again!

Also, somebody (perhaps me, I'm not sure) has removed the scraper from my car so when I couldn't get the ice off with the de-icer I had to hunt around the house to find something to scrape with. Ended up in the garage and used the little plastic thing that comes with the lawn mower to clean it. Lol. I hate winter.

Yay Day Of Indulgence! Sooo much fun! :D

"I haz National Health Service, hoorah."

Heh, it's not often you see those words in a sentence together! *g*

Eep - take care, that black ice is dangerous stuff! As, obviously, you know... Roll on summer.

Heh, it's not often you see those words in a sentence together! *g*

Nope - but it's a damn sight better than NO National Health Service. (And they're currently providing me with employment, so I'm all for them. *g*)

Hehe! Me too! I'm always happy when they pay me, although the bastards took too much tax this time around. First payslip back, I knew they'd screw it up. NHS payroll/personnel depts suck! Lol.

What job do you do? :)

Oh, a mere temp, doing office admin - I'm not permanently with the NHS (for which, I have to admit, phew).

And here's me trying to get a permanent contract...lol! Admin for the NHS can be hard. I used to work in Medical Records and it got a bit crazy at times! I work in a Pharmacy Dept now.

Dude, if only you could actually record your dreams. You could make millions!! ;)

I am so impressed you have your Day of Indulgence fic already laid out. Me? I'm still working on my ficathon piece due FRIDAY. Hm. I should probably get on that.

(You seemed pretty real to me, for a Sims character, but it might explain your ability to listen to me jabber for so long. Hmm.)

Heh. Ohhhh, I wish I could record my dreams - although mostly they don't actually finish. I was resisting waking up for this one - I was determined to see how it turned out. *g*

Well, I was struck by the desire to write, and I finished off something I'd started a while ago. It's under 900 words, so the actual writeage didn't take long.

Maybe you're a Sim, too... ;)

OH man, if only you could control office guy like a Sims character. You could make him go away anytime you wished!

Or make out with other random characters!

I'd be an evil god.

You have way better dreams than I do! And a musical!

Hee - I blame my neighbours. *g*

Thing is, I thought it was a musical... but I don't actually remember any of the songs...

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