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Clusters and dreams

This morning at 4:00, I was awoken by a cluster. I stumbled off to my oxygen bottle and sucked away for 20 minutes until the pain went away. It should have been gone in 10. That did not bode well. I made my way back to bed and was awoken an hour later by another cluster.

Daily doubles suck. Daily doubles this close together are brutal. I know from experience that another dose of oxygen so soon after the first will do absolutely nothing. So I immediately went for my Imitrex needle.

The Imitrex did its magic and the pain melted away. It also jacked the bizzare factor of my dreams into the stratosphere. Galadrial, magic keys, fireplaces, lifeguarding, deep unlit pools with strange machinery, kids drowning, babies in rain gutters. My dreams are typically filled with strange images, but this was bizzare even by dream standards.

What was particularly disturbing was how difficult it was to distinguish between dream and reality when I woke up. I was utterly baffled to find myself in bed instead of on a roof looking at babies in rain gutters. And it took minutes to get my bearings and for my head to stop thinking that bedrooms were strange and babies in gutters were perfectly normal.

When Spark took his morning nap, I took one too (having gotten little sleep during the night), and I had more bizzare dreams and the same difficulty straightening out my head when I woke up.

My spirits have been high, but I've been a little off the whole day now.