AHH! Spiders!

[raybear]

Today I've been working working working. And spent half my lunch hour writing the novel and it's spilled over into non-lunch hour territory, but I'm still working simultaneously. If only I could do that all the time, but frankly, I have a headache. The good news is, as I've said, I'm working. And eating peanut M&M's.

Last night I had a waking nightmare that woke MelRo and induced her own waking nightmare. Here's what I think happened.

I'm sleeping when I feel something tickle my face. It could have been dog hair or free-floating dust or possibly MelRo's hair. The ticklish and icky feeling causes me to wake up and I see this thin-legged spidery thing which I later called a grandaddy long legs but it was actually more reminiscent of the metal spidery thing in Matrix. I saw it wriggling above MelRo's face and I think my adrenalin caused me to grip her tightly and/or make a noise (though I don't remember doing either). This caused her to wake up suddenly and start screaming. Not blood-curdling high pitched -- closer to Homer Simpson a la night terrors (e.g. AHH! Cobras!). Her screaming confirmed that the creature was real and not a dream so I started to really freak out and bury my face to protect myself from getting bitten. I saw the creature start to rise up towards the ceiling (further evidence in my mind that it was spider). MelRo asked what that was -- apparently she saw something too when she work, some strange configuration of lines. However, Sophie was only 2 feet away from us and didn't seem to noticing anything out of the ordinary. And I didn't seen anything on the ceiling. I managed to fall back asleep but only after turning over and burying my face in the pillow so I didn't have to feel it biting me if it returned.

Um, scary. Very scary.

In other news, and I'm not normally this self-congratulatory, but, my favorite line of the day comes from my own writing.

I looked at myself in that toaster and realized that I might have a lot of problems in my life but some of them can be solved easily with a trip to the drugstore.

Maybe it's just that it is apropos.

Comments

[riotdrake.livejournal.com]

one of my ex's used to have night terrors - they were so f'in scary. she would be having a nightmare which would wake her up, but when she woke up, she would still be semi-sleeping and still in the nightmare, so she would "see" things in the room & scream. which would get me to screaming. ugh. i hated those. and once, last summer, bonnie & i both woke up screaming one night after hearing some sort of nose. we think it was probably our dog knocking into something in the houe (or something), but it freaked one of us out enough to scream, which got the other one screaming. it was scary, just to be that frightened even if it was over nothing, really.

[limenal.livejournal.com]

she would be having a nightmare which would wake her up, but when she woke up, she would still be semi-sleeping and still in the nightmare, so she would "see" things in the room & scream.

I've actually done that before too - a few months ago, I saw rats in the bedroom and had to wake Ray up because I didn't know what to do about them. Then they weren't really there. It sucked.

[gotmce99.livejournal.com]

You've got a lot of really sweet sentences in that novel...a couple times I've thought about mentioning soem of my favorites, but there would be too many!

marg

[raybear.livejournal.com]

hey margaret -- i just got this comment today. i guess LJ is delayed.

anyway, i just wanted to say thank you for your compliment!