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T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. Posted Jul 11, 2008
Shona runs in her sleep and I've gotten up, drunk a cup of tea, which my mom had given me and then lain back down again. My mom told me about that as apparently I had a conversation with her which made absolutely no sense.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 11, 2008
While I was a student, I once woke up with such a start that I kneed myself in the chest , and reaching out to switch off my alarm, I slammed my hand down not on the off switch but rather on my glasses, artfully removing both lenses from the frames.
Then - I fell back asleep.
I woke up again let us say 20 minutes later, wondering why my chest hurt so much and then when I put my glasses on, why I couldn't see.
Slowly a vague dream-like memory came back of events eariler that morning began to surface from my unconscious and realising then what had happened to my glasses I began the hunt, half-blinded remember, for my *transparent* lenses which were somewhere on the floor.
By the time I arrived at breakfast, I was feeling fully flustered and discombobulated with life in general and all in favour of ging back to bed for a bit.
I tried to explain what had transpired to my friends, who much as I suspect this post will similarly achieve, greeted my story with hoots ridicule mounting to disbelief.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jul 11, 2008
Knowing just how it is when you can't find your glasses, it made me laugh.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 11, 2008
makes me remember when i had round 'john lennon-glasses' way back then and woke up and could hardly see a thing
the very same morning i went to the eye doctor who examined me thoroughly and couldn't find anything wrong
well, nothing more wrong than usual...
then he checked my glasses an found that they had turned some 90 degrees in their frames, because (as i already explained, didn't i?) they were completely circular...
- your optician even made marks on the glasses so you could see how to have them right, he explained
- big deal, i answered. - when i don't wear them i can't see those marks
(haven't had round glasses since...)
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artisticJouissance Posted Jul 11, 2008
What if your mind was trying to release tensions you have but are not sure or aware of.
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KB Posted Jul 11, 2008
I think non-glassians like me often underestimate the inconveniences spec wearers face every day. If I needed glasses, I'd probably be constantly sitting on them, leaving them on trains and scratching them.
Not to mention them steaming up every time you come in from the cold!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 11, 2008
To explain I have for some time favoured glasses with fewer and fewer amount of frame.
Currently I have 'frameless' specs - no more parallel bars obscuring my vision - however at the time of the anecdote, I was on a kind of design which used a sort of under-wire system the lens was held in place by a wire running inside of a groove which ran around the rim of the lens.
The point of the unnecessarily detailed description is that if sufficient pressure was applied to the frame, it was possible for the lens to spring out, catapulted by the tension in the wire from which they were suspended.
A similar tale, this time involving alcohol, was the time when having had a very enjoyable night out, which would have successfully ended if I could have negotiated the front door made it up the stairs and into bed.
However this plan faltered at the first hurdle: having managed to insert my key into the lock, I rotated my wrist 90 degrees to the right and simultaneously turned with my head and body with it. Result was that I fell over as I turned my key and my head landed on the concrete steps that led up to the building, I lost both my lenses adding to my already blurred vision.
And that time it was dark too.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 12, 2008
so now we are dividing the population of the into glassians and non-glassians?
well, i've heard worse
i was born a glassian. well, almost. can't remember not having been one. and about forgetting where i put the glasses, falling asleep wearing glasses, coming in from the cold and all that - yes, i remember
but having worn them for over 50 years now i am so used to it that i seldom have any problems any more. lightweight frames, lightweight plastic glasses (that even turn dark as it gets brighter) have made life easier over the years
but just this summer i fell from my bike and lost my glasses in the woods. had not my friends been there with me i would prolly still crawl around searching for my glasses with my hands
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Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. Posted Jul 12, 2008
I have two pairs of glasses, one for normal use and 'reading' glasses. I rarely use the reading glasses unless I'm a reading a book. For newspapers, letters etc I just plonk my normal glasses on my head. The number of times I've consequently wander around the house looking for them in varying states of is many
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 12, 2008
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 17, 2008
I had a dream so annoying the other night that I dreamed my alarm clock was ringing and woke myself up in self-defence
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Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break Posted Jul 17, 2008
Dreaming about the alarm clock is dangerous - I've managed to get out of bed, get dressed and go down for breakfast before realising it's still only 5.30am, and my alarm won't be going off for another hour!!
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 17, 2008
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Susanne - if it ain't broke, break it! Posted Jul 17, 2008
Not long ago I had a nightmare which made me wake up laughing . I can't remember what it was about, but I think I must have been pretty scared, and laughing was an over-reaction .
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 17, 2008
Well, did you ever wake up
With them bullfrogs on your mind?
Well, did you ever wake up
With them bullfrogs on your mind?
You wake up laughing,
Laughing just to keep from crying.
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mitsuoshii Posted Jul 17, 2008
I remember waking up with a big smile on my face feeling really cheered up. I love that feeling...
When it comes to laugh - everybody tells me that I laugh when I'm asleep, even if the next morning I don't remember having any funny dream.
I can be so loud I wake the other person but strangely I never wake myself up... Maybe it's a different kind of snoring?
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 18, 2008
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- 21: aka Bel - A87832164 (Jul 11, 2008)
- 22: T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly. (Jul 11, 2008)
- 23: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jul 11, 2008)
- 24: aka Bel - A87832164 (Jul 11, 2008)
- 25: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jul 11, 2008)
- 26: artisticJouissance (Jul 11, 2008)
- 27: KB (Jul 11, 2008)
- 28: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Jul 11, 2008)
- 29: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jul 12, 2008)
- 30: Magwitch - My name is Mags and I am funky. (Jul 12, 2008)
- 31: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jul 12, 2008)
- 32: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jul 17, 2008)
- 33: Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break (Jul 17, 2008)
- 34: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jul 17, 2008)
- 35: Susanne - if it ain't broke, break it! (Jul 17, 2008)
- 36: Malabarista - now with added pony (Jul 17, 2008)
- 37: mitsuoshii (Jul 17, 2008)
- 38: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Jul 18, 2008)
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