I have been sleeping badly, in recent days.
On Sunday, I woke up too early but then took a mid-morning nap. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. When it works, I often have very strange dreams.
I was on an amusement park ride, a kind of swinging thing, where you swing in parabolic patterns, I guess. Moments of freefall at the ends of the swing arcs. And it was indoors, and I was on the ride alone – no one else was there. But there was no sense that I was trapped, exactly. It's just what I was doing. And somebody was reading some bit of philosophy-type text, over a low-quality loudspeaker. I was having a hard time understanding it, as I swung down… up, to the top of an arc, feeling the pit of my stomach drop… and down… whoosh, and up again. Like that.
Not much of a plot – but that was the dream. Quite vivid, anyway.
Work is really feeling demanding, lately. We have our annual hagwon talent show coming up, which involves extra prep.
[daily log: walking, 6.5km]
If you ever find a swing that travels a parabolic path, let me know. I would be curious to try it. I presume it would convey a feeling of flying higher due to the increasingly tight radius. Unfortunately, I only know that kind that travels an arc of a circle.