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torakowalski:
List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.
Except I don't tag people, so I shall skip that bit - but if you do decide to do your 7, I'd love to know.
1. When I am very tired and just about to drift off to sleep, I hallucinate. It happens all the bloody time, and I can seriously understand why people ended up believing in ghosts or aliens or whatever if they were doing the same thing. I have seen spiders as big as my head next to my pillow, purple spiky aliens sitting upside down on the ceiling, random dark things swooping down from the top of the bookshelf... half the time it startles me back into being fully awake again, and a quarter of the time it startles me awake and then makes me turn on the light because it was so real I have to check that whatever it was isn't there after all. (But most of the time it doesn't freak me out at all.)
2. I have two tattoos, one on my right ribs (abstract) and one on the ball of my left shoulder (Chinese dragon), both black. This tends to surprise people because apparently I am not the type of person anyone would assume has one tattoo, let alone two. But I wanted one since I was a child and the first (ribs) was a graduation present to myself. Hurt like a bitch because the top of it is just on the bottom of my ribcage - I whited out halfway through (partly from being all keyed up about it) and had to stick my head between my knees - but the guy gave me a lollipop and the endorphin rush afterwards was something else. The second I got because I was moving cities after 6 years and I wanted the balance of having one on each side of me anyway. And that one barely hurt at all.
3. I can't sleep without earplugs in. Legacy of both my parents snoring like thunder. I also can't sleep sitting up which is a total pain in the arse on long flights, and I was always the last to sleep on sleepovers or school camps. And people going 'oh, I can sleep anywhere' make me want to strangle them! It's not fair!
4. Being small (4'11" and 42kg), the one thing that can get me to react instinctively with extreme violence is someone picking me up off the floor without permission. For some reason, children/teenagers/students think when someone is small it equals an invitation for them to do this (this has been confirmed by the experience of other small people I know). I always thought someone doing that to me was an invitation to cause them severe pain. Fortunately for everyone, this is something that hasn't happened since I joined the adult world!
5. I am a bit OCD about setting alarm clocks - I usually have to check mine is set and that the time is right several times before I go to bed, even when I haven't changed it all week. I also hate being late for things.
6. Before I learned to drive, when I got very stressed I would dream about having to drive on the motorway even though in the dream I still couldn't drive. Now that I can drive, I seem to dream about trying to fly planes with no idea how instead. Goodness only knows what I would start to have stress dreams about if I learned how to fly...
7. I nearly always have a song going in my head. At the moment it is the theme tune from the cartoon Henry's Cat. No idea why *shrugs* But I get earwormed really easily which can be very irritating if it is a song I don't like because that'll be me for days.
torakowalski:List 7 habits/quirks/facts.
- Tag 7 people to do the same.
- Don't tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag 'whoever wants to do it'.
Except I don't tag people, so I shall skip that bit - but if you do decide to do your 7, I'd love to know.
1. When I am very tired and just about to drift off to sleep, I hallucinate. It happens all the bloody time, and I can seriously understand why people ended up believing in ghosts or aliens or whatever if they were doing the same thing. I have seen spiders as big as my head next to my pillow, purple spiky aliens sitting upside down on the ceiling, random dark things swooping down from the top of the bookshelf... half the time it startles me back into being fully awake again, and a quarter of the time it startles me awake and then makes me turn on the light because it was so real I have to check that whatever it was isn't there after all. (But most of the time it doesn't freak me out at all.)
2. I have two tattoos, one on my right ribs (abstract) and one on the ball of my left shoulder (Chinese dragon), both black. This tends to surprise people because apparently I am not the type of person anyone would assume has one tattoo, let alone two. But I wanted one since I was a child and the first (ribs) was a graduation present to myself. Hurt like a bitch because the top of it is just on the bottom of my ribcage - I whited out halfway through (partly from being all keyed up about it) and had to stick my head between my knees - but the guy gave me a lollipop and the endorphin rush afterwards was something else. The second I got because I was moving cities after 6 years and I wanted the balance of having one on each side of me anyway. And that one barely hurt at all.
3. I can't sleep without earplugs in. Legacy of both my parents snoring like thunder. I also can't sleep sitting up which is a total pain in the arse on long flights, and I was always the last to sleep on sleepovers or school camps. And people going 'oh, I can sleep anywhere' make me want to strangle them! It's not fair!
4. Being small (4'11" and 42kg), the one thing that can get me to react instinctively with extreme violence is someone picking me up off the floor without permission. For some reason, children/teenagers/students think when someone is small it equals an invitation for them to do this (this has been confirmed by the experience of other small people I know). I always thought someone doing that to me was an invitation to cause them severe pain. Fortunately for everyone, this is something that hasn't happened since I joined the adult world!
5. I am a bit OCD about setting alarm clocks - I usually have to check mine is set and that the time is right several times before I go to bed, even when I haven't changed it all week. I also hate being late for things.
6. Before I learned to drive, when I got very stressed I would dream about having to drive on the motorway even though in the dream I still couldn't drive. Now that I can drive, I seem to dream about trying to fly planes with no idea how instead. Goodness only knows what I would start to have stress dreams about if I learned how to fly...
7. I nearly always have a song going in my head. At the moment it is the theme tune from the cartoon Henry's Cat. No idea why *shrugs* But I get earwormed really easily which can be very irritating if it is a song I don't like because that'll be me for days.
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Date: 2010-02-06 11:43 pm (UTC)Ha, you and me both. My father is like that - it's the most frustrating thing in the world. Not only can he sleep anywhere, he can fall asleep within two minutes anywhere. AAAARGH.
Goodness only knows what I would start to have stress dreams about if I learned how to fly...
Spaceships? :D
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Date: 2010-02-06 11:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-07 02:56 pm (UTC)AAAARGH from me as well! I know various people like that too, and I so wish I was one of them.
Dreaming about flying spaceships would be cool - except in these dreams I would inevitably be crashing the spaceship somehow. So then I could panic about decompression as well as hitting stuff...
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Date: 2010-02-07 02:58 pm (UTC)OMG, me too! WHY DO WE DO THIS, WHY? It is so stupid, because I know it hasn't changed since I last look but for some reason a little part of my brain can't help going 'but it might have'.
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Date: 2010-02-08 11:06 am (UTC)YOU AND ME BOTH OMG.
It's so unfair! Why didn't my father pass on the "fall asleep immediately" gene to me?!