Short on sleep, maybe
Aug. 22nd, 2010 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflydreamingIn the afternoon, I curled up with a book and ended up falling asleep after just a few pages in. Slept for six hours. I feel rested, not muddy-headed.
I dreamed about a very dark desert, with the sharp outlines of high mountains backlighted by the red remains of sunset. The sunset illuminated nothing else, and the desert floor was in the kind of dark were you literally cannot see your own hand. Because of the darkness, the stars were intense.
I was a little afraid of the black, and we -- there was someone else there, not a friend -- periodically turned on a small light at our feet, just to see where were. I had the impression of a road, that I could not see, and a large house mostly behind us.
It's never completely dark, in a city, and I am a city girl. The darkness of being away from city light pollution, such as when I've been camping, has always been at least disorienting. I guess this was on my mind because we had intended to go camping this month (rescheduled). If the night is clear and the stars are visible, their light dominates my vision without actually illuminating anything in a practical, see-where-you-are-going way. Think about that in contrast to moonlight.
Living on Capitol Hill, I almost never see stars anymore. That falls into the norm for my experience. I didn't see the Milky Way until I was about 18 or 19, not that I recall. When I was 12 and my class camped on Catalina Island, it was either still not dark enough or it was overcast, I can't recall which.
I dreamed about a very dark desert, with the sharp outlines of high mountains backlighted by the red remains of sunset. The sunset illuminated nothing else, and the desert floor was in the kind of dark were you literally cannot see your own hand. Because of the darkness, the stars were intense.
I was a little afraid of the black, and we -- there was someone else there, not a friend -- periodically turned on a small light at our feet, just to see where were. I had the impression of a road, that I could not see, and a large house mostly behind us.
It's never completely dark, in a city, and I am a city girl. The darkness of being away from city light pollution, such as when I've been camping, has always been at least disorienting. I guess this was on my mind because we had intended to go camping this month (rescheduled). If the night is clear and the stars are visible, their light dominates my vision without actually illuminating anything in a practical, see-where-you-are-going way. Think about that in contrast to moonlight.
Living on Capitol Hill, I almost never see stars anymore. That falls into the norm for my experience. I didn't see the Milky Way until I was about 18 or 19, not that I recall. When I was 12 and my class camped on Catalina Island, it was either still not dark enough or it was overcast, I can't recall which.