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Guess I’m lucky they can see me in 2026.

I’m tired, dawg. 😞

The other night, I hit my head really hard on the edge of a countertop.

I tried to go to urgent care, but it was closed, and the deductible & copay to go to the ER would have been super expensive, so I toughed it out and self-monitored at home.

That night, I noticed that I was actually able to visualize scenarios. It was super weird. There wasn’t a ton of detail, and the visuals were kind of dim, but they were deliberate. (As opposed to the hallucinations that I sometimes get with sleep paralysis, which are not deliberate.)

When I woke up the next day, I couldn’t do it any more. 😞

I thought it might be worth mentioning in case it’s relevant to anyone studying aphantasia.

Seems like none of them are open 24 hours anymore.

Just bumped my head really hard and was hoping to get checked for a concussion, but the place in Bergenfield closes at midnight now.

Google says my only option at this hour is an emergency room, and I’d really rather not pay ~$9k just to be told that I need an ice pack and some Tylenol. 😞

Honestly, fuck this goddamn disgrace of a healthcare system…

So, this has happened to me a couple of times.

I’ll be in a particularly vivid lucid dream, but then someone will tell me I’m actually in the hospital, dying.

The first time it happened, someone told me I’d been in a car wreck. Then I had a super realistic false awakening in a hospital room, where I couldn’t speak or move. Then I went back to the “lucid” dream. Someone told me, see? I was in the hospital, and I could die at any minute, so just enjoy everything in the lucid dream. I spent what felt like several years in a lucid dream, building an alternate life, thinking I was dying in my waking life. The lucid dream became my primary life. I felt weirdly devastated when I woke up.

Then to

Dad has been visiting for about a week.

I don’t have cable. Fox News isn’t going to happen.

Today I casually asked if he’d like to watch the news. “Sure. I don’t know what’s going on these days.” He seemed pretty enthusiastic to catch up on current events.

So I put on PBS News Hour.

We got maaaaaybe ten minutes into the show. Saw a segment with Iran updates (spoiler: the war is still going!) then part of a segment about Trump allowing Turkey to buy F-35s.

He shifted uncomfortably, then tried to change the subject.

“This isn’t very interesting, maybe something else is on?”

I’m not sure whether it was the content that bothered him, or the fact that nobody was screaming and trying to sel

I tend to be a skeptic, but I’ve had some weirdly specific/vivid dreams that seemed to predict future events, or closely mirror past/present events that I’d had no other conscious knowledge of.

A handful of them happened back when I was in high school, but they largely dropped off during college.

Since then, I’ve only been having 1 every few years or so… but in the last few weeks, it’s happened twice. 😶

Last night, I had a very vivid dream about being in a plane coming in for a landing, then hitting a highway light pole.

I just happened across this story on Reddit, it happened this afternoon at my local airport: https://abc7ny.com/amp/post/united-flight-strikes-light-pole-landing-newark-

I have some Skarpo chairs on my deck. I really like them, except for the fact that they tend to go flying whenever there’s wind. 😅

Does anyone have any tips for keeping them in place on a deck?

The methods I’ve used to weigh down other chairs don’t seem to work for the Skarpos because of the shape. (I’d prefer to avoid drilling into them, if possible.)

I’m thinking I might just have to stack them when they aren’t in use, but I know they can be super difficult to separate.

(My dad is watching it in the other room and I can hear it, but I refuse to go in and actually watch it because it would piss me off too much. 💀)