It's sort of like being the roadrunner when I'm being attacked, rather than a proper superhero. If someone shoots at me, their gun explodes, or they miraculously miss, or I deploy a shield of air. If someone fires a flamethrower at me, I casually raise my hand and deliver and elemental blast of ice destroying their machine. If someone attacks me, I levitate, or get super strength and punch their weapon to shards, or teleport them far away. If a dinosaur or other monster attacks me, it gets transformed into something harmless, like a pumpkin or a Keebler elf, or just shrinks to the size of my shoe.
Unlike with the roadrunner, most (2/3ish) magic solutions to my problems are caused by me having temporary super-powers, rather than environmental magic plus luck like how the roadrunner is able to run through a mural, or not be affected by gravity after running off a cliff. Assuming that he doesn't think "insubstantiability, on!" before running through a rock.
But my powers are temporary and minimal. I almost never (get to) fly, because most problems that could be solved with me being able to fly are solvable with the subjectively lesser powers of levitation, feather-fall, or super speed. Levitation is common. I can only remember one dream where I was able to magically fly, ever.
But my powers are temporary and minimal. I almost never (get to) fly, because most problems that could be solved with me being able to fly are solvable with the subjectively lesser powers of levitation, feather-fall, or super speed. Levitation is common. I can only remember one dream where I was able to magically fly, ever.
I feel for you. ;)
Hello LW,
There has been some interest around here about atypical mental phenomena such as synesthesia, blindsight, absence of mental images, and so on. There have also been sappy posts and requests for help. I'd like to discuss my personal quirks in the hopes that it is interesting and someone can help me.
I suffer from occasional hypnopompic sleep paralysis, which isn't uncommon. The unusual thing is that I remember my dreams every night, in extensive detail, usually several of them. Unfortunately, last night I vividly dreamt through what seemed like days' worth of having a severe hangover, all before I even woke up and had a real one, and it was a terrible experience. I'd like to be able to choose to drift into unconsciousness, as I occasionally do, to have a break from being mentally aware for such lengthy times spanning weeks.
Does anyone else have similar experiences? Has anyone read any scientific research on this subject? How do people not remember their dreams?