Mostly Asleep?
I had two really weird dreams last night.
In the first one, I stuffed someone’s shot in basketball. The weird part? I was playing a sport. Haha j/k. The weird part is that I’m almost positive that I actually swung my real-world arm and hit my bed.
This was followed by a dream where I dropped something acidic on three spots of my hand. My brain insists that it was “about as acidic as capsaicin.” I have no clue how acidic capsaicin is. Also, pure capsaicin doesn’t look like the oil in my dream. Anyhow. The weird part was that I felt it on my real-world hand for what seems like a couple of hours. I was asleep so maybe my time-perception was off, but it lasted through several unrelated dreams…
I think those are the two weirdest dreams I’ve had and remembered since the one with the cartoon fish that ate my older brother or the ridiculous one with the Scooby-Doo meets Paper Mario styled monsters that were trying to find me, my friends and my family in some weird mansiony thing. Those dreams are like 6 years old or something though… dreams are weird.
Hey, I don’t think that capsaicin is all that acidic. What it actually does is activate a couple ion channels on nerves that usually get activated by heat or pain. Other than that I think it’s mostly innocuous. Quite a interesting natural hack, really.
Comment by Grant Hutchins — August 8, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
Yeah. I think it pretty much gets your nerves to report that it’s 40 C. But yeah… my dream was very clear on it being “about as acidic as capsaicin.” Making sense is clearly not a priority for me when I’m asleep.
Comment by boris — August 8, 2008 @ 3:29 pm