The Moth King

You ever have one of those dreams where you're on the verge of waking, but you're asleep -just- enough so that whatever is happening in reality mixes in with your dream, or maybe your dream state affects your waking logic? That happened to me this morning.

I was lying there in bed and something began to repeatedly brush my arm. In my barely-conscious head I immediately "figured out" it was a moth. Normally something like this would freak me out, but instead I reassured myself, with the utmost of confidence, when I "remembered", "Good thing I'm the Moth King".

You know, because having domain over those fluttery insects makes me unaffected to them flittering all over my arm at 7 in the morning!

Everything was okay now, right? I needn't lose any sleep over a silly little moth! I think there was even a part of me that felt real smug over the fact I was the only one who didn't have to worry about this problem, being the Moth King and all.

Then, all at once, the conscious part of my brain seemed to string together reality and I realized that I -wasn't- the Moth King, it -wasn't- okay that there was a moth flying around my arm, and that, holy crap!, there's a moth in my room!

I then proceeded to jump up and freak out, wiping imaginary moth residue off my arms and frantically trying to locate this persistent bug. It was then, at the point where I was mostly awake now, that I realized that the cotton sticking out of my blanket was the culprit all along, rubbing my arm as I moved in bed, and there was never any moth.

Just as I was about to fall back asleep I had a final thought pass through my head. Wondering to myself in bewilderment I asked, "The Moth King??"

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The Heist

I just had a dream where I pulled a big heist, but all my subordinates turned on me and cut me out of the deal. To get back at them (while I was still there) I poured grape juice all over the money, essentially ruining it and forcing them to abandon it. Little did they know that it was all natural grape juice and it would easily wash out!

Yeah, I don't know.

Oh, and the female member of the team turned around in the end, so I probably got the girl as well.

Just So You Know...

Paralysis of the Eyes

If you're completely paralyzed, do you still have control over your eyelids? I would think the obvious answer is no--paralysis is paralysis. If that's true, do your tear ducts just continually run because you can't blink?

If you've ever tried keeping your eyes open for too long, whether for a staring contest, for fun or a challenge (I don't know anyone who does that, really), or for any reason, you'll find your eyes start to water up after a while because they're getting too dry. (There's a highly scientific way to explain this, but this time you just get Adrian-logic.)

So if you are paralyzed and you don't have control over your eyelids and say, you're in the hospital, do they have to wipe your eyes every so often? Do they just keep your eyes closed?

If I had to take a guess on this whole thing I would say you'd still have control over your eyelids, despite being paralyzed. I would kind of think your eyelids are wired into the same kind of stuff that your body has to have, like heart and lungs and stuff.