{"id":4703,"date":"2025-04-19T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:31:30","slug":"unaccustomed-lucidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4703","title":{"rendered":"unaccustomed lucidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often had dreams of futility, which I take to be a sign of depression.  For example: there are many scraps of paper on the floor, and I have to find a specific one, but I cannot read.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I had a mild one.  I had breakfast at an outdoor restaurant, chatted with the waiter, returned to where I parked my car; it was not there.  I later found it a block away, but blocked in by a parked truck.  I used my car key to unlock something that released a rope so that the truck (now a trailer) rolled down the street, bumping into another trailer which bumped a third before they all came to rest.  But now my car had vanished.  I thought, this is too absurd, I&#8217;m dreaming.  I sat on a bench and said, when I open my eyes that brick building yonder will be something else.  It did change but, before I could take in the new scene, something pulled my hair from behind; when I turned to see who or what, I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>Being aware of dreaming, however briefly, is new to me, or quite rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often had dreams of futility, which I take to be a sign of depression. For example: there are many scraps of paper on the floor, and I have to find a specific one, but I cannot read. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4704,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}