Sunny Sleepy Saturday Afternoon.

I woke up with the most intense headache this morning. I have no idea where it came from, but luckily it went away at around noon or so. Either since I started reading up about lucid dreaming I've started to have the strangest dreams. I can also remember them really vividly. I think this is a good sign, one article I read said to keep a log of all the dreams you have; that way you can begin to differentiate between reality and dreams. They also said to question everything whether in a dream or awake, just to get into the habit of questioning whether your dream is real. By that they mean if you hear a dripping tap, ask yourself where it's coming from, how it got there and can it be stopped, if you go through that process and find their is no logical answer then you're dreaming haha. Imagine being able to take complete control of your dreams and be able to go adventures and bend the laws of reality.
Anyway my dream last night consisted of me sitting in the back seat of a moving car. There was someone next to me and someone driving but I couldn't see who they were, they were people but I couldn't focus on their faces. The car then turned a sharp corner and the person sitting next to me lent over and opened up my door and proceeded to push me out onto the street. I slowly fell from the car and then hit my back hard on the road. That was followed with that feeling you get when you wake up after falling in a dream, expect I didn't wake up, I was suddenly back in that same car and in a minute I was pushed out again. This went on and on in an almost endless cycle.

After doing some assessment work this morning I explored our upstairs bookshelf again. I can't believe I haven't properly done this before, there are so many interesting books just sitting there. I found 3 or 4 collections of poetry and number of other "classic" novels. I'm pretty excited to read them, I might start on a few really soon. I'm reading A Clockwork Orange at the moment. I reallyreally enjoy it but I think I might put it on hold for a tiny bit just to explore some other options. It gets a bit bleak at times and I just finished reading an incredibly bleak book (Nineteen Eighty-Four) and I'm mentally hungry for some fresh scenery. I'll still read Clockwork quite regularly though, it'll be my tea time book, warming my mind up for the main course and then perhaps a dessert novel as well. I think Macbeth shall be at the top of that list, I've been in a massive Shakespeare mood as of late.

Right now I'm watching the third and final Lord of the Rings movie; The Return of the King. I'm not going to lie to you Mr Blogspot, I love this film series, like really love it. I've always been a sucker for fantasy and Peter Jackson is an amazing director. He has the most superb eye for detail I've ever seen. Every single scene is beautifully lit and each landscape and set holds so much atmosphere. The story itself is great as well, I've always enjoy Tolkein's story telling abilities. I suppose that makes me some kind of gigantic nerd? Well I'm going to embrace it! Yes I'm a geek and I'm proud! :P One shouldn't have to hide one's interests from the world. Fantasy gets such a bad rap, why is it that it's so universally hated? It's imaginative, well written and gernally captivating, yet the single mention of anything along those lines ends in cries of "nerd! geek! yuck!" and it's discarded straight away. As if you wouldn't want to run around a beautiful green forest, slaying orcs and other nasty creatures and then retiring to a small clearing to prepare dinner and sit around gazing at the stars?! What about people who watch only comendy movies? Why aren't they pigeoned hole'd and stereotyped?! We have nerds, jocks and preps, how abouts jesters as well? "Ewwww you're watching "insert comendy movie here"! You're such a jester!".

Of course the latter half of that last paragraph was written with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek haha XD I'm not going to start up a collation for the "Universal acceptance and fair treatment of all nerds, geeks, dorks and dweebs" and I don't think the fantasy genre is that disrespected :P


The spooky city of the dead, Minas Morgul


Everyone's favourite Ent, Treebeard.