PORCH PONDERINGS

To Sleep - Perchance to Dream

PROMPT May 7th

In your entry today, write about dreams. Do you dream often, or do you rarely remember your dreams? What is the strangest or most memorable dream you have ever had?



I do dream. But rarely remember them.

I do know that you dream in REM sleep. Rapid Eye Movement sleep. One has at least five levels of sleep. Level five is REM. And not having dreams can mean not getting decent sleep. At least that is my non-medical theory.

I found this interesting article.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/284378#causes

It renewed my knowledge. As we know, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. When I had my sleep study done last year, I was reassured my sleep was normal. So I guess I did spend some time in each of the levels mentioned in the article.

Nightmares, now those are no more than scary dreams. A living nightmare is coming up soon for me. I’ve seen two grasshoppers. Lord have mercy. It’s too early for them! I had hoped our -30° nights had killed them. But perhaps we needed more than a night or two. We needed a winter like Montana had in 1886-87. The temperatures plummeted below zero around Christmas that year. -37° for days on end. It started storming and didn’t let up for at least a month. Thousands of free range cattle perished. It was said there were no potatoes to be had anywhere, flour was $7 a sack, green wood was $20 a cord: that’s wood that won’t burn. Annual wages back in Ohio in that era were about $100-200.

My rants about those evil hoppers was all over WDC last year. We did buy some poison bait. The battle plans are being drawn. Soon we’ll deploy chemical warfare.

So, Hoppers V2. Coming soon to the internet.






















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