It just happened right now.

Here's what happened last night in real life:

I worked an evening shift, 5pm until around midnight. Nothing of note occurred. At the end of my shift I closed up and joined some friends downstairs for poker, but didn't really play and left after a few hands. On the bus home I bumped into another friend and we went for a few more drinks. I left him and returned home around 5am.

Now, I just had the following experience:

I finished work and the aforementioned friends invited me to a party. I went, with an old schoolfriend and we played poker for a while in a garden of elaborate decor. It was a tournament which I won, much to the annoyance of others, as all my hands were insanely good - if someone showed what would seem like a surefire winner, I had the only thing that would beat it.. I then had to leave as I'd promised my girlfriend I'd meet her, so left early in the morning, and started walking back with my friend, to her house. This was all pretty realistic, as in nothing in the dream happened that was out of the ordinary - it was like real life - which is weird in itself since my dreams usually contain at least one completely fantastical element. The only thing out of place here was that I was with a guy I haven't seen for a couple of years, and he was speaking French, but I understood him. I may even have been speaking French myself. But stranger things happen, right?

Anyways, on the way home we passed a house with an odd blue light in the upper window. We stopped and pondered over it for a while. There was a street sign on a pole outside the house so I decided to climb the pole and have a look. Now, the climb appeared to take a long, long time. Hours, during which I was constantly climbing. Eventually I reached the window, was briefly confused on looking in, as it appeared to be my own flat, but managed to climb inside. I remained confused as I wandered and wondered around this place, which was identical to my own place in every way. I started looking in all the cupboards in every room.

I then came and sat on my bed, after around ten minutes of wandering and it was then/now that I realised I'm awake and no longer dreaming. I've never been so disorientated.

I've slept walked before but never lucidly, and I've had dreams before where I thought I was awake, but unless under the influence of hallucinogenics I've never thought I was dreaming whilst awake. I'm kind of freaked out right now as I have no sensation of ever waking up so everything feels as if it actually happened just now, and the realisation that I'm awake was a real shock to the system.

Is this actually real, or still a dream?*

Cue The Twilight Zone music

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*(Of course I know I'm awake now, but wanted to end the story on a dramatic note, since I realise it's not that interesting really)

I took the liberty of transcribing the lyrics for all you Eddie Vedder fans:



ahaaaAAAAYYYEEYEAHHHHhhh
ahaaaAAAAYYYEEYEAHHHHhhh
ahhhaaaAAAYYYYEEEYEEAHHeehheeaahhnnnggaaaAHHH EEEEE

HEEEEEGGGHHHooooooo
TEEEEEEGGGHHHooooooooohh
heeeeEEEHGGGGHHHOOOOOOO oooooohhh

It's well tabloid yeah?

I used to love looking out for ludicrous headlines there, my all time favourite being 'Man Escapes From Stinky Drain' a couple of months ago.

Today is a more serious story. I'd like you all to bow your heads because:

'Paul O'Grady's dog Buster dies'

As of now, I'm back in the UK from 23rd Dec - 4th Jan, flying to and from Gatwick but spending the in between time in Grimsby. I'm considering switching my return flight though so I can have a couple days with mates in London.

Any of you gonna be around for a session early New Year? I know it's a long way off but as a foreigner I have to plan ahead.

I'm off to see them/her support Grizzly Bear in a bout an hour. I may ask her to be my girlfriend.

I fucking love this kind of stuff, particularly this song:



But I just discovered Dion is stiull performing and he and his band look like wankers:

It's Christmas shopping time (whilst I have cash to spare).

Where online can I get nice costume jewelery for under £20, that ships to the UK? I looked at eBay but there was way too much shit to trawl through.

It's for me ma.

OK, I often don't know which day it is, since I work irregular hours and don't get weekends off, and I pretty much never know what the date is, but I just discovered it's 2009. I've been signing all kinds of stuff with 2010 for as long as I can remember! How does anyone not know what year it is?!

I dropped a table on my little toe. It's not as painful as it looks.

You've probably all seen this but watch it again anyway: