"Six weird things about me" meme

[calime]

Six weird things about me from sparklebutch (that's what you get for going to read your friends journal in good faith - tagged, I mean), and because I also got tagged by dodger_winslow :

You start with "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write about their 6 weird habits/things as well as include these instructions. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names.

Let me tell you, it wasn't easy, 'cause weirdness is just in the mind of the beholder. I just hope I found things that'd be considered more universally weird, opposed to things that are just weird by the standards of one group of people or another *grins*.

• I like milk vegetable soup – the kind where you make soup with fresh carrots and peas and potatoes and cabbage, and then add milk before bringing it to boil the last time.
• I cannot hit the tune while singing, though I can hear when I (or someone else) is singing off-key.
• Since something that happened when I was 18, I kind of lost my ability to cry in frustrating situations - on the other hand, I cry almost always when listening to beautiful music (opera is guaranteed to make me cry). And I miss the ability to cry the hurt out, so I tend to use music, or movies, or literature to help me do that, when I feel the need.
• I tend to read, write and think (and also talk, sometimes) in a language that is not native to me, at least as much, or sometimes even more than in my native language, though I do not have a spouse or a parent who’d be a speaker of that other language (English), nor really any pressing need to communicate in English other than that I like it.
• I tend to get weird flashes of information sometimes, usually of a situation defined by sensory factors – light slanting just so, someone standing just there, saying just that sentence – and some time in the future, I find myself in the exact same situation. Those glimpses are never long nor particularly informative, only moments torn out of the picture. I hate them, actually. Probably because they scare me :)
• I usually have interesting, vivid dreams when I’m not too tired. That was even more true when I was a child, and at that time I was genuinely afraid of getting lost in a dream and not finding my way back. But I was also curious and very much loved the fact that I could dream. So, every night before going to sleep, I used to imagine a long thin chain from my ankle to the leg of my bed that would keep me anchored and help me to get back.

Because I'm lazy, and sleepy, and not at all innovative tonight, I'll go by the default route and say: you, reading this, consider yourself tagged. Yes, I mean you.

Comments

[calime]

Oh, there are nightmares among the dreams, sure. They're nice and coloured and vivid too...I've been beheaded on a block in my sweet dreams (accompanied by assorted sensory input, like the soundtrack, and the smell of blood, shit and sweat, culminating with the the impact of the axe), and been repeatedly chased by interesting things like walking sceletons (that was a childhood favourite) or crawled along in the dark amongst poisonous snakes with my tongue cut out...but they're interesting, too, and since I figured out that the best way of dealing with them is to view them as my own personal horror movies, I kind of like them. Even when they feature me desperately running along the clinic corridors searching for something and knowing that somewhere's my patient needing that something:)
I used to dream more when I was younger, and I miss it :) Even the nightmares are welcome, to a certain extent.

[dodger-winslow.livejournal.com]

I would love to have some dreams scattered amongst the nightmares, but that doesn't seem to be the way it works inside my skull. I've never had a nightmare of the sort you have though. The way you describe them, I can see where you'd find them interesting, and even fun to a degree. My nightmares are of a different animal, and fun is never a word I would use to describe them.