Eye Dream (NB. I was completely unable to think of a decent title for this post)

[davidn]

Disturbing dreams never really seem that disturbing until you wake up. I don't mean the blatantly frightening ones, like the ones involving Matey bubble bath bottles coming to life, or the String Owls, or the ones that I got the night after watching "Blink". Just the ones that play out a horrifying situation quite normally as if it were part of your real life. This one isn't quite as incredible as the malfunctioning strawberry, but it stayed in my head for longer.

To cut a long story short, then, my eye fell out. Strangely, all these kinds of dreams happen in the setting of my parents' house, and in this scenario, I had been aware of a cramping up in my right eye for a while. I went into the downstairs bathroom and looked in the mirror to see it pointing down too far, so I reached up, put my thumb in and slowly rotated it back to the right place (which is unusual enough, as I have a thing about eyes and can't touch them at all in real life). I couldn't get it to point in the right direction no matter how much I fiddled with it, and eventually my sight in it began to fade. I wandered through to the kitchen, where it eventually came loose, fell down into my mouth somehow, and I spat it out into my hand.

Surprisingly calm at the sight of my own eye, I noticed that it was a slightly spiked white ball (entirely white, no pupil or iris at all). The optic nerve coming out of the back consisted of six wires, which were colour-coded red, black and yellow, and they were bound together neatly with a series of plastic cable ties - suggesting that my head is far better physically laid out than mentally.

I can't really remember much more about it, apart from then going outside into the back garden to see if there was anyone around who could drive me to hospital. But I've been tentatively touching my right eye all day today to check if it's still there, taking care not to knock it out of place by accident.

(Warning: This post contained disturbing imagery and you shouldn't have read it)

Comments

[diarytypething.livejournal.com]

I've had disturbing eye dreams like that. The worst was the one where I spent ages trying to take my contact lens out, then realised that it hadn't actually been in and I was trying to take a layer off my eyeball.

Matey bubblebath bottles were creepy things. It was something about the eyes.

[davidn]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that about those bottles - largely thanks to them I'm still quite uneasy around anything inanimate with a face, including portraits, magazine covers, and evil statues who come to life and kill you when you're not looking.

I seem to remember Dave Vinton tried to do the same thing with the contact lens when he was drunk, only in real life.

[yemminie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is still creeped out by Blink.

Although I just watched that clip you linked to, and seeing the Doctor's explanation again made me think of one question. Ok, so he says "you can't kill a stone" or something to that effect. But what if you knock the statue over or smash off its arm or its head or something. Can it come after you in pieces? Does it pull itself back together when you turn away? Suddenly, it doesn't seem quite so sinister, because now I have Monty Pythonesque visions of an armless, legless angel going on about biting people's ankles. I guess I'm going to have to start defacing statues just to be safe.

[davidn]

It does seem a bit of a weakness that you could just hit it with a sledgehammer while it's immobile. Someone also raised the question of what would happen if it froze while it was halfway down a flight of stairs.