Oh, the things we write in that place between sleep and awakening!
I fell asleep without turning off the computer, woke up sometime in the night with a story concept, and before shutting down the computer, typed this onto a notepad file:
We whom the world think lost...
have no desire to be found.
I suspect this has something to do with Anino, but I am not actually certain.
I'm sure it was a sane thought because I had the presence of mind to open notepad.
The reason I suspect this had something to do with Anino is that I had just watched three straight DVDs of Batman The Animated Series (Volume 2 to be exact). And Batman and Neil Gaiman always sent my brain into the world of Anino.
So, yeah, the thought makes some sense after all. Hehehe.
Those of you I've told my "pumpkin" story to know that the same cannot be said about about my "pumpkin" dream.
For the benefit of those who do not know that story:
I once fell asleep thinking about the nature of poverty and the solutions this generation might be able to come up with to combat it. (Yes, thinking things like that just before sleeping is a regular thing for me...) This was in my college years, when I had just started the practice of never sleeping without a nearby pad of paper and a pen.
Apparently I succeeded at letting the topic enter my subconscious so I could problematize it in my sleep. I know because I woke up in the middle of the night, knowing my subconscious had just come up with an insight that should be recorded.
I did, of course. I reached out for the paper and pen and scribbled what I could of the "solution" in my head.
Satisfied that I would not be able to squeeze anything more out of the thought, I went back to sleep.
Expounding on what I had written, I was sure, was a task that could be done the following day.
I woke up the following day and, excited, looked at the scribble:
Pumpkins are slow.
Sigh. My subconscious may not be very effective at problem solving, after all.
