![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Hammers and Saws and Drilling Into My Head
As a combined result of my continual inability to get to sleep before 2 am, and my neighbours' deck-construction starting around 8:30 am every morning this week, I am insanely sleep-deprived right now. And by 'insanely' I do not mean 'intensely' but rather 'in the manner of a person who is not sane'. That is, I am having weird paranoias, like the paranoia that if I go to sleep I will have a frightening dream about being chased by giant fish.
This is not wholly unfounded; at least three different times (possibly many more), I have had nightmares about being chased/eaten by giant fish. In one of these, it was a frightening, toothy, pike-like fish, but the other two were simply giant versions of normally harmless fish. In one I was being chased around and around a small pond by a humongous goldfish or carp; the other is sort of hazy but I remember being pursued by an even-larger-than-life sunfish-like fish.
And because I have been thinking about it (and I have no self control) I have been reading the wikipedia page about sunfish. (Sidenote: baby sunfish are adorable!) So, as I say, the worry is not wholly unfounded. But it is a bit silly. As is the mental image of giant versions of otherwise harmless fish as a personification of the malevolent forces and dangers of the Great Unknown, in my dreams.
This is not wholly unfounded; at least three different times (possibly many more), I have had nightmares about being chased/eaten by giant fish. In one of these, it was a frightening, toothy, pike-like fish, but the other two were simply giant versions of normally harmless fish. In one I was being chased around and around a small pond by a humongous goldfish or carp; the other is sort of hazy but I remember being pursued by an even-larger-than-life sunfish-like fish.
And because I have been thinking about it (and I have no self control) I have been reading the wikipedia page about sunfish. (Sidenote: baby sunfish are adorable!) So, as I say, the worry is not wholly unfounded. But it is a bit silly. As is the mental image of giant versions of otherwise harmless fish as a personification of the malevolent forces and dangers of the Great Unknown, in my dreams.
no subject
Much sympathy. And hugs.