:: bachelor's notepad. ::

:: Saturday, April 19, 2008 ::

18th april 2008.

part 1

it was a very cramped staircase, sort of like a square with the middle part empty, but there were like bars surrounding the stairs so that nobody would fall in. so it's basically 4 x what i drew, top view is. top view.

so the stairs were pretty narrow, but as i was going up there was this woman trying to bring a huge blanket down, or a quilt. and she was asking if she could go down, cos you had to squeeze if there were 2 pple walking in different directions. and she asked if her blanket was fine to bring down, cos it was very troublesome to bring it down due to the lack of space.

and i said "oh yea we never disallow anyone from bringing their stuff down."



part 2.

i was lowering a blanket through the bars of the stairs into the middle empty portion to someone who was below, and doing it very slowly bit by bit in case it all fell.

part 3.

there was a tickertape timer, and the tape went round and round in rectangles. i collected them once the ticker pin punched a hole through the tape.

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:: kiathy. 9:41 pm [+] ::
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i wish.

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Research: Remembering dreams may indicate creativity

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

People who are creative, imaginative and prone to fantasy are more likely to have vivid dreams at night and to remember them when they wake up, University of Iowa research shows.

David Watson, a professor of psychology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says the more bizarre a dream was, the more likely his subjects were to remember it. Dream recall varied widely, with a few participants remembering a dream every night and others never remembering a dream throughout the three-month study. On average, participants recalled dreams three or four days per week.

He found that neither sleep quality nor length of sleep was associated with dream recall, although students who maintained inconsistent bedtime schedules tended to report slightly more sleep- and dream-related experiences. There also was a slight tendency for "evening people" to remember more of their dreams.

Most significantly, Mr. Watson found individuals who are prone to absorption, imaginativeness, daydreaming and fantasizing are particularly likely to remember their dreams.

"There is a fundamental continuity between how people experience the world during the day and at night," he says. "People who are prone to daydreaming and fantasy have less of a barrier between states of sleep and wakefulness and seem to more easily pass between them."

This study, which appears in the May 2003 issue of the journal "Personality and Individual Differences," represents the largest and most comprehensive analysis of individual differences in dream recall to date. Mr. Watson asked 193 college students to record each morning for 14 weeks what time they woke up, what time they had gone to bed the previous night, whether they had consumed alcohol or caffeine within four hours of bedtime, and whether they remembered any dreams upon waking.

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:: kiathy. 1:38 am [+] ::
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only read if you're patient. random dreams, no storyline.

kiathy. says (1:25 AM):
i had another weird dream last night but i can't really piece it together
joyce says (1:25 AM):
haha
joyce says (1:25 AM):
power.
kiathy. says (1:25 AM):
im trying to find out why i can remmeber all my dreams
kiathy. says (1:25 AM):
last night i dreamt i was in a tv show or sth
kiathy. says (1:25 AM):
or some ktv
kiathy. says (1:25 AM):
i was part of aband
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
and the funny thing was, there were 2 bands playing side by side
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
one band was acoustic, one band was full band
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
so i went to sing with the acoustic band
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
i also dreamt there was a cartoon characer talking to me
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
like mickey mouse
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
that was in another scene alr.
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
then i dreamt i went to buy these pants at a shop
kiathy. says (1:26 AM):
i went to try them on
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
in the end i tried on both pairs of same size
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
i dono why
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
and i messed them up
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
one was old and one was new
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
but i managed to figure out the old one was torn at the knee
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
so i took the new one
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
and my brother went to cut his hair
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
and my dad said 'ok call him then ask him go home to bathe first'
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
and so i did
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
then he very stupidly said 'huh if i go home bathe then yr friends how.'
kiathy. says (1:27 AM):
i think the friends were like, jiakai and co. i dreamt i was at a paris metro.
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
then i angrily said 'ask them to go with u lah stupid'
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
and then yaa shit we were at a metro
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
it wasn'tin paris
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
there was vanessa and jiakai and i think even you
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
and then the map was
kiathy. writes (1:28 AM):

kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
we walked to the stop
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
where we were supposed to go
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
meet some other pple
kiathy. says (1:28 AM):
then it was like 'see it's so near we didn't even have to take the train'
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
oh it's cos we had to change trains at that particular stop to go to our next destination
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
then i suggested just walking
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
then after that we saw the map, as drawn above
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
and we decided we couldn't walk to our next destination
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
cos it was like 'near to jurong' or something
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
ok
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
end of dream.
joyce says (1:29 AM):
um ok
joyce says (1:29 AM):
thanks.
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
should i post this
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
do u understand me?
joyce says (1:29 AM):
no
joyce says (1:29 AM):
no
joyce says (1:29 AM):
hahha
kiathy. says (1:29 AM):
shit
joyce says (1:30 AM):
its just v random stuff right?
joyce says (1:30 AM):
hahaa
joyce says (1:30 AM):
no storyline
kiathy. says (1:30 AM):
ya

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:: kiathy. 1:30 am [+] ::
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last night i sat on top of a giant fish as my team and i went on an adventure. once again we were out to hunt for some people/things. upon reaching the enemies' hide out we went in only to find all of them asleep. so we set up shop and weirdly enough one of our weapons were playing cards, a la gambit from x-men. so i helped 'gambit' arrange his cards out, and they had to be arranged in blackjack, i.e. an ace and a ten/royalcard before they'd carry any explosive charge. but in the deck of cards there were alot of aces and tens, so we had alot of explosives.

once we started firing i realised i didn't have ammo in my rifle. it was an ak 47 or something, someone else threw me a cartridge that couldn't fit my rifle. then i went around to the back of the room and asked everyone else for ammo, but everyone had like 1 or 2 shots left. they said 'we didn't go and buy wad.'

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:: kiathy. 8:33 pm [+] ::
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rain rain rain rain rain.

:: kiathy. 5:07 pm [+] ::
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eating nutella out of a bottle is so going to make me slimmer.

:: kiathy. 4:57 pm [+] ::
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through it all, the songs remain the same all these years.

:: kiathy. 12:12 am [+] ::
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just for the record,

i tremendously enjoyed my exchange in barcelona.

and stop asking me why i'm back so early already.

:: kiathy. 10:55 pm [+] ::
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i've been home nearly a week, and it's pretty unreal to think this same day last week i was on the plane home from barcelona.

my life has flashed past me this past year.

april in london.

may back home.

june in la/nyc.

july back home.

august school started.

december crazy, good christmas.

january - april barcelona.

and i'm home again, april 2008.

of course it always takes a little suffering/pain to have me in such a pensive mood. but i do think alot all the time anyway, i suppose just not as dark or moody when i'm in a happier mood. which is pretty obvious.

i'm going to be fine in 3 days.

:: kiathy. 5:41 pm [+] ::
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my blog posts are now akin to that of a primary school composition titled 'my dreams'.

nä says (2:44 AM):
with pri sch illustration

:: kiathy. 2:44 am [+] ::
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i can't remember much of it, but last night i dreamt that someone opened fire at me with a machine gun and totally tried to kill me. thing was i didn't die, but i felt an ache in my body. and i didn't dare move my body cos i knew it'd hurt.

then the guy who fired on me. i wonder if he was my friend. there were 2 guys. they said ok lets go take a walk. and so i gingerly moved my body, looking down at it and thinking that no, i'm not removing my shirt because there're bullets in my body and i don't think i want to see it bleeding. yea and i remember the pain and ache from moving.

another dream was equally bad. to cut a long story short, i received a call along the lines of 'i still love you.' which even in my dream, i didn't believe. well it ended up well, but it was only a dream. i woke up thinking and cursing 'ha ha, very funny, thank You.'

i think i am really. mentally. stressed.

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:: kiathy. 2:03 am [+] ::
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back in singapore.

it was really weird being back. the instinct in barcelona was to turn my head towards where english/singlish was heard from. and i've brought that back with me so it's pretty frustrating turning your head umpteen times only to realise that yes, EVERYONE HERE SPOKE ENGLISH/SINGLISH.

upon touchdown my only feeling was 'when can i do a next long trip overseas, perhaps an overseas internship?' no idea why, but im feeling the call of nyc, although i pretty dislike that place. but getting an internship there is no small task so.

finished the book 1984 by george orwell. pretty good read, and Blink by malcolm gladwell too.

i can't stop sneezing, guess the dust has settled in my room. too much of it. bah.

:: kiathy. 3:36 am [+] ::
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i dreamt i was watching a love story unfold. there was a mute girl and 2 guys. one of the guys was this tall person, the other guy was a bad guy who'd just come out from prison and the girl looked like fann wong. the scene unfolded this way, mr ex-convict met the mute girl and they fell in love, but i think they'd met each other earlier, because in the mute girl's thoughts (which i could hear) she said to herself when she met him that 'from the first time i saw you i fell in love with you i don't know why.' (ala love actually, the portugese girl and the author guy when she spoke in portugese about how happy she was everyday seeing him) and the ex-con said 'well i know you only have good things to say but they can't be heard, but i don't know why too i decided to change once i entered prison, whether it was for you.'

and then they slept together and the next morning the tall guy wanted to punch the ex-con, who was his friend. he wanted to punch him cos of the mute girl, but the girl shielded the ex-con and said 'i have a crush on him AND anyway you cheated on HIM too.'

this is really queer because it'd mean the 2 guys were gays. but in my dreams if i remember rightly, they were best buds. i had thought DURING MY DREAM that she meant that she and the tall guy were together, and the tall guy had cheated on HER anyway so she could cheat on him to go with the ex-con, but the phrase 'anyway you cheated on HIM too.' suggested otherwise.

:: kiathy. 2:59 am [+] ::
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