From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Subject: Re: ...what dreams may come?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:25:12 GMT
Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God

In article <27942@castle.ed.ac.uk~ fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:

>I've come across a strange new problem: Injuries sustained whilst
>sleeping. I wake up, my side hurts, and it feels like there's a huge
>bruise there for a couple of days.

	Sheesh! When I first read this article, I thought to myself,
"How in the heck could you get hurt in bed?" Quickly, I added a "while
sleeping!" onto the end of it. I mean, there you are surrounded by such
dangerous implements of destruction as the pillow and the blanket. I
realize that you could kill someone with these simple items, but it
would take a lot more effort than I am usually willing to put in whilst
sleeping.
	Fast forward to this morning. The evil alarm, who never forgets
to wake me up at 5am, no matter how much I wish it would, goes off. I
roll over to turn it off. Somewhere in the middle of rolling over, I
suffered the greatest pain I have ever experienced. On reflection, it
was not that it was so painful, but more that it was took me completely
by surprise. I was, finally, able to struggle to my night table and
turn the damed alarm off.
	Then I remembered, I had been in the middle of a very violent
dream. The kind of dream where the world was threatened by some evil 
madman. In this case, it was the evil kickboxing guy from _Bloodsport_,
and it was my duty to beat the crap of of him. Which, in this dream, I
did so with great gusto. However, I do remember right before I woke
up, one of his evil henchmen snuck up behind me and hit me in the
back with a 2x4. His efforts were rewarded with a roundhouse kick
to the throat. Now, I think I am awake(if I'm not awake, then I
just dreaming that I am posting this and no one will see it anyway) 
and my back is killing me. I have had this kind of dream before, in
fact, I think I've had this exact dream before, without doing any
kind of injury to myself.
	So the question is, what in the hell is going on here? Are
there little dream gremlins living under my bed, who have ESP and
sneak out to do me injury? It seems that this has happened to at
least one person, Mike, in the past. Is it just us? Have I joined
an exclusive club of people who can not sleep safely? Must I
forever more sleep on a special "safety" mattress to prevent grievous
harm from coming to my person? Or will it be enough to get some
bug spray and exterminate those damned gremlins? Maybe those
people who claim to be kidnapped by aliens for are not loopy.

ObUnrelatedPeeve: There is a minimum security prison south of
here near the town of Los Lunas. Two guys escaped from there
when they walked away from where they were supposed to be 
working. When I say minimum security, I really mean no security.
These guys were outside of the prison grounds, unsupervised and
just walked off. Silly me, but I thought that the whole point
of having a "prison" was to keep the inmates from walking away.
The news folks said that this was the 10th time this has 
happened this year.

Unrelated!Peeve: Flannel boxer shorts.

-- 
Chris Baldwin                | Once again, Russ has saved the day through the 
baldwin@carina.unm.edu       | proper use of high explosives.  
                             |		 -Dan Sorenson
"Is it just a coincidence that aliens always choose to abduct stupid people?"