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[porphyry]

1. The other day A. called out from the back-seat of the car, "I wish they would stop all those weird noises!" "There is nothing weird about Brahms," I told him, imagining he meant the stereo, but he said nothing to that and a moment later came, "And I wish they would stop all those weird voices talking to me all the time!"

"When do you these voices talk to you?" I asked, somewhat alarmed.

"In the morning."

"You mean when you are waking up? You must mean dreams."

"No, I'm not asleep. Its at night and in the morning when I am lying in bed."

"Well, it is a kind of dream. You think you're awake, but you're not. You're between dreaming and waking." I could not resist telling him these are hypnogogic states, but even to him I am sure that made no impression.


2. Here is A.'s latest toy:



(don't ask me why he's not nude)

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[benicek.livejournal.com]

What vivid hallucinations! You descriptions make my hair stand on end.

I've seen pain killers do some strange things to patients. I remember one bloke had a birthday and his family brought him a helium balloon and tied it to the end of the bed for him, which he liked. Then we gave him some pain killers (I forget which) and ten minutes later he thought the balloon was his daughter and was trying to introduce me to her.