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sleep paralysis

one half’s an arc the other a strobe ~ light becomes your coagulant signals and synapses firing off sparks ~ try open eyes but you can’t all bound together forming a dream ~ welded to the somnambulant

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Duke Beaufort

Date: 3/16/2025 5:34:00 PM

David, Sleep is an interesting phenomenon...we know certain things take place in the brain during this time. Dreams are a great indication of an aspect of the activity taking place while we "rest." You seem to be pointing out that we sometimes act as if asleep after waking. That's a strange situation to be in, but it likely does happen to some people. On the other hand, some cult members act as though they are asleep all the time. Smiles!!

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/17/2025 5:59:00 AM

Haha yes they do Duke, some people are extremely impressionable, we could also probably debate the process of brainwashing, and those most likely to be influenced, sleep paralysis is a real condition, but you have wisely pointed out a further interpretation I had in mind when writing, cheers David

I Am Anaya

Date: 3/5/2025 6:32:00 PM

He who looks outside, dreams He who looks inside, wakes up—Carl Jung He is my go to these day's. David, I haven't had sleep paralysis for quite a while, maybe other sleep disorders. New words are always welcomed. Great work! Cheers!

I Am Anaya
Date: 3/6/2025 12:02:00 PM

Lol. "If music be the food of love, play on" William Shakespeare, dig in! I get my fix as well. Today's music, anything like Floor Jansen, lead woman.

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/6/2025 11:34:00 AM

You’ve mentioned some real die hards, I still listen to metal, grunge, punk, and everything in between, once it has balls I’m in! Lol!

I Am Anaya
Date: 3/6/2025 9:35:00 AM

Sweating Bullets--Megadeth! Dave Mustaine, yep I was a huge metal head whilst my days in Arizona! Ministry, Metal Church, Sepultura, King Diamond, Pantara, love that song "Becoming God size" those were some days of yore!

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/6/2025 9:00:00 AM

Thanks Anaya, that’s a nice quote full of mindfulness, the netherworld between wakefulness and dream can be extremely disturbing, much worse than any nightmare, (hold my breath as I wish for death, please god wake me) One by Metallica! Cheers David

Lin Lane

Date: 3/5/2025 3:00:00 PM

These Monoku sound a titch dangerous, David, firing off sparks! If I'm going to dream, I'd prefer a pleasant one and not one that turns into a nightmare. Sleepwalking in a horror, I'd weld myself to some contraption and bleed to death before my blood would coagulate. I'm being silly... my apologies.

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/6/2025 9:09:00 AM

That’s the weird part Lin you’re never really awake in the first place, it’s a subconscious state inside an unconscious dream, you must wait til it passes to become fully conscious, I know! you don’t really want to go there :)

Lin Lane
Date: 3/6/2025 3:12:00 AM

I'm happy to say I've never suffered from such a condition. Sounds very scary, and how in the heck is anyone supposed to be calm enough to go back to sleep?

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/5/2025 3:38:00 PM

Heya Lin, thanks for tackling this subconscious one, the worse part of sleep paralysis is thinking you’re awake yet still somehow feel welded to the bed, and unable to move, mind goes into overdrive, you must go fully back to sleep in order to wake up properly, cheers David

Di11y Da11y

Date: 3/4/2025 9:31:00 PM

Unfortunately I have the gift of being able to leap out of bed during sleep (bizarrely, just imagining myself as Inigo Montoya saying "on guard" from the Princess Bride lol). There's the split second where reality and the dream are merged, and the darkness can reinforce the image (and will utilise a sliver of light within). Love your word choices :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 3/5/2025 1:36:00 AM

I have felt this phenomenon in the past Dilly, you feel awake just paralysed, not necessarily in fear, rather as if welded to the bed, no doubt somewhere on the cusp of waking in a dream within a dream, feels like an eternity, but I do like your interpretation of it only lasting a split second in reality, cheers David