Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The entirety of an entry by siderea, 2005-08-29:

Observation: So often people get into confused discussions of "How are good and bad defined?" when really they mean "How are good and bad determined?"

Dreams of television soundstages and hotels and snakes. A sitcom. But I wasn't sure which bits were scripted and which bits weren't supposed to happen (pretty much everything regarding a snake was a detail I didn't think was scripted, except when another character did something so sitcom-stupid that it made me think the snakes were part of it after all), nor certain which bits were being filmed and when I was supposed to be in-character. Red-orange-yellow snakes coming up out of the shower drain, translucent around the edges so I wasn't sure whether they were snakes or worms -- platyhelminthes from hell, with the colours of their birthplace and a third of a meter long? -- but I was scared to get close enough to see whether they had scales. Woke up six or seven times and fell back asleep and back into same or similar dream, sommetimes replaying a section with or without variations, sometimes jumping to a different point in the story. Mostly forgotten by the time I pulled myself completely awake except for the images of the snakes in the bathwater, trying to keep my feet away from them, the fear, anniemal being in the dream and eventually getting a snake to her to identify (yes a snake, no not poisonous in one take of that scene, oops deadly poisonous in a different take of that scene), and Stereotypical Dumb Guy stock character dumping a plastic tub of snakes and water in the hotel hallway instead of out in the parking lot ... and watching four or five snakes streaming away from us and vanishing around corners.

Definitely not the coral snakes someone on my friendslist dreamed about recently. Something else, which probably doesn't exist (but I'm half tempted to blow the morning Googling pictures of water snakes just in case I can find a snake that looks sort of similar except for the translucent effect ... hmm ... unless that was a translucent fin instead of translucent body -- eels of red and orange and yellow instead of snakes?)

I feel as though I've gotten a lot less sleep than the clock says.