11-03-2025, 10:14 PM
Since they told me I have diabetes, every year around Halloween, I spend a week eating nothing but junk food, and that makes me feel strange new ways. Also, I've been drinking tea day and night which seems to be affecting my short-term memory. When people talk to me, I often forget what they say before they finish talking. And while I've always spent hours in hypnagogic states, I now am in them much of the night. There's a pressure in my head, and my dreams are happening while my eyes are opened and I'm seeing the dark, and there are shapes and colors talking for hours at a time in languages I understand through sensations rather than words. I always have laid in bed when I wake up until all the voices and images stop, now, that can go on and on and on and on, if I don't get up.
There is a voice that is like listening to an audio book, and it can sing good and says all kinds of things more interesting than the people who talk to me when I go out and see people; for me, anyway.
The last few years, I keep a strict diet and exercise; and to make the holidays holy again, I eat madly only during that time of year. That way I enjoy food more, and I get to look forward to excess and fever dreams which are like interactive horror movies or simply fever dreams.
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My inquiry was/is about the effect (or lack of such) of substances on writing practice, and I don’t see a clear reference to that in your reply. Could you clarify?
There is a voice that is like listening to an audio book, and it can sing good and says all kinds of things more interesting than the people who talk to me when I go out and see people; for me, anyway.
The last few years, I keep a strict diet and exercise; and to make the holidays holy again, I eat madly only during that time of year. That way I enjoy food more, and I get to look forward to excess and fever dreams which are like interactive horror movies or simply fever dreams.
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My inquiry was/is about the effect (or lack of such) of substances on writing practice, and I don’t see a clear reference to that in your reply. Could you clarify?