Banish with laughter
Mar. 3rd, 2014 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThis morning I had one of those dreams where you wake up and wake up and wake up. Only, bits of dream kept following me out. And since I'd started out dreaming there was a demon, this was an epically not good thing.
So first I dreamed a bible and trying to pray the lord's prayer, and that didn't work out so great, the bible kind of lit on fire.
Then I dreamed mantras and prayer beads, and that didn't work neither, it kept popping up in the next waking with like skinless heads and blood bats and really creepy stuff even by my standards.
So then I thought, banish with laughter.
Only I keep on waking up in my own bed unable to move and staring at a skinless laughing demon head with carnivore teeth, so, you know, it is difficult to find something to laugh at. Only then I realise, it's trying so hard. I keep going, it keeps going, I wake up another layer, it follows, it seems like a lot of work. And there's this little dripping anatomical blood bat flapping around, and it just strikes me, like, rodent, running and running and getting nowhere. Demon is being totally hamster wheel.
So I point at it and like draw a circle where the little wheel would be, and suddenly instead of omg demon bat in my face it's more like demon bat goes round round round round round. And boom, laughter. ... slightly strained laughter. ... possibly a bit desperate. But still, laughter.
And that is when I woke up and stayed awake.
... you know, probably awake. If I am not currently awake I have thus far dreamt about 5 episodes of Battlestar Galactica I'd never seen before, and I'm not usually that coherent, so, awake.
But I kind of feel sorry for demons now. Like, they're big scary dudes, okay, I get that. But the whole skinless and dripping thing doesn't leave much room for self expression. Like, fashion statements are limited, and body modification is kind of reduced to what bits of body they bring with them this time. And then there's the work, which must get repetitive, because there's only so many ways to run away screaming. So the whole demon gig just doesn't seem like it would be very fulfilling.
... so now I'm kind of thinking of designing a more humane demon habitat where the stupid wheel isn't the most interesting thing they could be doing. Maybe putting a zen stone garden outside. Putting some nice music on. Make sure they've got stuff to read. Maybe get them some therapy, cause something isn't working if that's the thing they feel like doing with their day.
... I'm pretty sure this is not the state of mind the demon was trying for.
So first I dreamed a bible and trying to pray the lord's prayer, and that didn't work out so great, the bible kind of lit on fire.
Then I dreamed mantras and prayer beads, and that didn't work neither, it kept popping up in the next waking with like skinless heads and blood bats and really creepy stuff even by my standards.
So then I thought, banish with laughter.
Only I keep on waking up in my own bed unable to move and staring at a skinless laughing demon head with carnivore teeth, so, you know, it is difficult to find something to laugh at. Only then I realise, it's trying so hard. I keep going, it keeps going, I wake up another layer, it follows, it seems like a lot of work. And there's this little dripping anatomical blood bat flapping around, and it just strikes me, like, rodent, running and running and getting nowhere. Demon is being totally hamster wheel.
So I point at it and like draw a circle where the little wheel would be, and suddenly instead of omg demon bat in my face it's more like demon bat goes round round round round round. And boom, laughter. ... slightly strained laughter. ... possibly a bit desperate. But still, laughter.
And that is when I woke up and stayed awake.
... you know, probably awake. If I am not currently awake I have thus far dreamt about 5 episodes of Battlestar Galactica I'd never seen before, and I'm not usually that coherent, so, awake.
But I kind of feel sorry for demons now. Like, they're big scary dudes, okay, I get that. But the whole skinless and dripping thing doesn't leave much room for self expression. Like, fashion statements are limited, and body modification is kind of reduced to what bits of body they bring with them this time. And then there's the work, which must get repetitive, because there's only so many ways to run away screaming. So the whole demon gig just doesn't seem like it would be very fulfilling.
... so now I'm kind of thinking of designing a more humane demon habitat where the stupid wheel isn't the most interesting thing they could be doing. Maybe putting a zen stone garden outside. Putting some nice music on. Make sure they've got stuff to read. Maybe get them some therapy, cause something isn't working if that's the thing they feel like doing with their day.
... I'm pretty sure this is not the state of mind the demon was trying for.
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Date: 2014-03-14 10:31 pm (UTC)