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[azurelunatic]

I suppose it might be like knowing you were born missing a limb or two. You have two arms and two legs, and so does everyone around, but you can remember what it was like to have four arms, in your dreams, and you wake up and you only have the two.

And everybody around you has no idea what you're missing...

Some days you pretend you had only two arms. No one who sees you will know the difference.

Except, maybe, some of the other people who should have had four arms see you, and maybe they say, "You know, you might be missing a limb or two; have you ever noticed that?"


And it's so obvious to you, and they point it out like it should have been obvious, and you should have seen it, only they know you might think them crazy to have said anything...

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[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

?? ^_^

[azurelunatic]

Actually, this spun off of your comment that I should realize how much Darkside meant to me.

I use the other two arms all the time, even though no one can see them. Sometimes people point them out to me, that I have them...

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I've never even entertained the possibility of having more than 2 arms.

[azurelunatic]

I was looking around for an example of an important, not-easily-missed body part, and I suppose the aliens in the book I'd been reading mixed with the idea of a certain set of deities.

I've never considered myself to be missing any physical body parts, though I used to have a large number of flying dreams, where it was like swimming through the air... lately, sometimes when I dream, I have wings... but those are new.

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

I used to have flying dreams; I can understand that. ^_^

[azurelunatic]

Flying dreams are fun.

These days, I have a habit of going astral with the wings... while astrally visiting old ladies in the hospital.